10 Best Classic Rock Intros Of The 1980s
2. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses
The opening track from the album that turned G'N'R into the biggest band in the world for a few years. As with every great intro, it is all about building anticipation and tension to the point where, just as it almost feels like too much, the tension breaks as the band kick in.
The interplay between guitarists Slash and Izzy, the sound of sirens howling like wolves, the bass accents - everything is perfectly judged. Thirty seconds in, the main riff takes over to seal the deal. The only thing needed after that is a killer vocal from one of the charismatic figures in rock.
Enter one Axl Rose.
'Appetite For Destruction' is crammed full of monumental songs with fantastically realised intros - 'Paradise City' and 'Sweet Child O' Mine', two other singles pulled from the album are perhaps the best known.
Fans are generally agreed that the band never quite hit the same heights again after this album, with the patchy 'Use Your Illusion' albums diluting the great song quotient over two albums when one killer record would have sufficed.