I mean, the complexity isn’t in the intro, it’s in the second go of the progression immediately following what David played, with everything built on top of it. The video isn’t titled “90 most complex…” but maybe the usage of “greatest” is a bit off, but that’s probably for the algorithm. 90 more instantly recognizable piano intros? But then, who are they recognizable to? Anyway. Carry on.
@@DavidBennettPiano I Was Hoping You were Gonna Do Tenth Ave. Freezout by Bruce Springsteen You Were Doing Thunder Road 😂 I Was Waiting for That LOL!!
Not to sound like I'm obsessed with Billy Joel, but half of his catalog has piano intros at least as good as some of the ones you played. Just a few for thought: Miami 2017, Captain Jack, Summer Highland Falls, Streetlife Serenader, The Stranger, Vienna, Just the Way You Are, New York State of Mind, etc, etc.
yes yes yes! absolutely! im obsessed with billy joel too and im so glad you included less known ones like summer highland falls (my favorite of his) and streetlife serenader!
A few more to consider: Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills Rock The Casbah - The Clash Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos Down Among The Dead Men - Flash and The Pan (and also "Hey St Peter", but just for the piano playing & wonderful bright tone in general)
There are millions of songs out there. But sometimes it only takes a few notes and the whole characteristic atmosphere of a whole song is there. Your putting all those intros side by side has shown me many more qualities of composing. And I was espacially surprised by the quality of John Lennon.
I can understand why you left it out as I noticed you played A Night At The Opera songs back-to-back, but the over 1 minute piano intro to Death On Two Legs is legendary in my mind and perhaps my favourite piano intro of all time.
Early Queen is full of great piano intros. I personally love Flick of the Wrist and Nevermore. Also in David's defense, "iconic" doesn't just mean good. It also has to be very famous.
@@beback_ I can play both of those on the piano as well actually. And I understand that he wasn't going to put DOTL in the video, not only because it's not as well-known, but because it's also over a minute long which would break up the rhythm of the video.
@@charlieruisseau2476 but that's just it - I've always had very eclectic tastes and listen to just about anything (with the possible exception of rap/hip hop!). I think my problem is that, having grown up in the 50s and 60s, I've lost interest in music to some extent in more recent times, it seems so unoriginal and uninspiring. At least the stuff you hear on the radio, etc is - there is still some good stuff around, but it's hard to find.
After 'Karma Police' I thought, OK, that's it for me, that was the last truly memorable bit. Then 'Lose yourself' stood out, which was kind of amazing to me 😅. That's an underrated intro right there. Good pick.
Nice work. A song for guy - Elton John, Piano man - Billy Joel, Tubular bells - Mike Oldfield, Against all odds - Phil Collins, Great gig in the sky - Pink Floyd, Dream on - Aerosmith.
Great video! Here’s some of my favorites that were left out: Amsterdam- Coldplay 2002 Codex- Radiohead 2011 Starlight- Muse 2006 La Rittournelle- Sebastian Tellier 2004 Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz 2000 Panavision- The Smile 2020 Avril 14th- Aphex Twin Everything’s Not Lost- Coldplay 2000 Neighborhood #1 Tunnels- Arcade Fire 2004
Tori Amos- Precious Things, Winter, Silent All These Years / Jackson Browne- Doctor My Eyes/ Joni Mitchell- Woodstock( her original version from 1970 on piano) / Ray Charles- Hit The Road Jack
Boomtown Rats I Don't Like Mondays totally iconic intro! Also The Elephants Graveyard by the Rats has a great piano intro too, courtesy of Johnnie Fingers.
Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy |Goodbye Girl - David Gates | Livin’ in a World (They Didn’t Make) - Janet Jackson | Old Coyote Town - Don Williams |Lord is it Mine • Asylum - Supertramp | When I Could Come Home to You - Steve Wariner | Same Old Lang Syne • Sweet Magnolia • To the Morning • Run for the Roses - Dan Fogelberg
Genesis - One for the Vine/Many Too Many C418 - Sweden Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Take a Pebble The Kinks - Denmark Street/Nothing to Say/David Watts Moby - In My Heart/18 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Soft Trees Break the Fall Aphex Twin - Avril 14th Steven Wilson - First Regret/3 Years Older Nils Frahm - Forever Changeless Porcupine Tree - Sentimental/Piano Lessons Yes - Awaken Frank Zappa - Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man Kate Bush - Room for the Life And your Thom Yorke fix... The Smile - Open the Floodgates
I don't know about greatness of piano intros but i always found those by twenty one pilots particularly fascinating. Especially some pieces from self-titled album feature some beautiful piano intros like "implicit demand for proof", "trapdoor", "addict with a pen" or "air catcher". Some pieces from other albums alao come to mind like "car radio", "goner" or "truce"
I think you should include Tori Amos here or even analyse her piano playing in a separate video!! Brilliant pianist she is, besides being an amazing singer and songwriter :D
As far as piano intros, a couple of Cat Stevens songs come to mind--Morning Has Broken and Sitting. These two songs, as soon as I hear the intro I am already hooked. Keep up the great content, DB!
This reminds me of just how much I enjoy piano based popular music. I've had a lot of these songs on heavy rotation at some point in my life. Hoppípolla is the only one that gave me chills, and considering how many times I've heard it over the years, that's pretty special.
Queen's Night at the Opera is the most underrated album of all time. Rolling Stones ragazine says it's #128. They're off by 118. Thank you for playing those 4 in a row! Seaside Rendezvous doesn't make me just listen; it makes me want to time travel to whatever decade that song is set in. A few missing songs that I would have liked to hear: Good Golly Miss Molly--Little Richard In the Summertime--Mungo Jerry Saturday in the Park--Chicago Riders on the Storm--The Doors, or Light my Fire--The Doors Clap For the Wolfman--Burton Cummings (The Guess Who) Bat Out of Hell--Meatloaf (not exactly a piano alone, but most of the melody is the piano)
The Rolling Stone Magazine makes no secret of the fact that they hate Queen. They also rank Bob Dylan as being a better singer that Freddie mercury. lol
They are all amazing intros. Here are my top three major modal ones!! 1. “My Immortal” - Evanescence Is it only me or is this one in a Sonata Form as entirely??? It’s my favorite key & it’s dominant!!! 2. “What I’ve Done” - LP 3. 9 Crimes - Damian Rice
I knew it! I knew before watching this video, my favorite Ben Folds Five song will be on this list! I'm so happy you did include BRICK! (@12:25). Thanks and rock on!🥰🤗
Great! Now for the next one: Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me, Tom Waits - Johnsburg Illinois, and I'm sure Procol Harum must have several, at least Grand Hotel.
“Epitaph” - Judas Priest. “Year of the Cat” - Al Stewart. “Fire in the Hole” - Steely Dan. “Something to Believe In” - Poison. “The Luckiest” - Ben Folds. “Boston” - Augustana. “Haven’t Met You Yet” - Michael Buble. “One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces” - Ben Folds Five.
I don’t know if I’m finally beginning to realize that I’m no longer youthful as I close in on 40, or if there is legitimacy to the idea that from 2000 onward, intricacies in harmony for popular music composition just careens off a cliff in short order. There were so many interesting and haunting themes from the 1960’s through 2000 that are truly timeless. From 2000 to today, they seem to be so much fewer and far between. That’s about the time I discovered other types of worldly music that scratched that itch, though have never received their just due. It feels like a direct commentary to the artistic side of the general population declining over the decades, where satisfaction through melody has intrinsic correlation to a broader STEM focus in modern education, wrote memorization taking precedence over creative thinking and expression, and an overall decline in the mental capacity of the average person in relation to anything requiring a deeper focus to obtain that release of dopamine and serotonin. Goldfish brain as a result of a failed education system, paired with a social media addiction.
You’re not imagining it. The decline in harmonic complexity in charting popular music over time isn’t just a subjective impression, it’s measurable. You can’t scientifically prove that music is “good” or “bad”, but harmonic complexity it objectively demonstrable, and the studies have shown the clear trend towards less and less complexity, on average, over time.
Yeah, it's stark, at least as far as popular music goes. A lot of it has to do I'm sure with radios recognizing that music was becoming extremely diverse and available, so the popular stuff had to play it extremely safe. There's still tons of great piano riffs with incredible harmonic complexity during that time period, but it didn't get a lot of radio play. You could take like, 90% of Ben Folds catalogue alone for incredible intros during that time. Landed, Jesusland, The Luckiest, Doc Pomus, Saskia Hamilton, etc. But yeah that's off the mainstream now. It ruined popular music, but I'm so glad the internet makes the good complex stuff readily available.
Beautifully played and nice to hear a real hammer and strings piano. Brighton electric has the best acoustics of any rehearsal room in the city. Want to listen to a playlist of these songs now.
If you want suggestions for another video, I’ve got some. Way more than I should. Like twenty-something of them: Roses - OutKast Backstreets - Bruce Springsteen I’m Dancing In The Show Tonight - Ween Just A Friend - Biz Markie The Load Out - Jackson Browne The Pretender - Jackson Browne Mariners Apartment Complex - Lana Del Rey White Dress - Lana Del Rey Bring It On Home To Me - Sam Cooke Levon - Elton John Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Tom Waits Ol’ 55 - Tom Waits Oliver’s Army - Elvis Costello Let’s Spend The Night Together - Rolling Stones Without You - Mariah Carey Hero - Mariah Carey Greatest Man Who Ever Lived - Weezer We’ve Got Tonight - Kenny Rogers Caravan - Van Morrison The Song Is Over - The Who Love Reign O’er Me - The Who Some Things Last A Long Time - Daniel Johnston Ballad Of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper Meet The Grahams - Kendrick Lamar
If you ever do another list: Across the Sea - Weezer Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp Death on Two Legs - Queen Life in a Glasshouse - Radiohead Leave the Door Open - Silk Sonic Aja - Steely Dan Sail On Sailor - The Beach Boys Nobody Home - Pink Floyd Jealousy - Queen High Hopes - Pink Floyd Don't Go Near the Water - The Beach Boys The March of the Black Queen - Queen You and I - Queen Codex - Radiohead Haunt You Every Day - Weezer The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis The Stranger - Billy Joel The Greatest Man That Ever Lived - Weezer A Trick of the Tail - Genesis Let Me Entertain You - Queen Longtime Sunshine - Weezer The Back Seat of My Car - Paul McCartney Watching the Wheels - John Lennon Isn't It A Pity - George Harrison I'm the Greatest - Ringo Starr Jacked Up - Weezer Mad Man Moon - Genesis Spectre - Radiohead Futari - Tatsuro Yamashita Cat Food - King Crimson Silly Love Songs - Wings Come and Get It - Badfinger Wild Honey - The Beach Boys Last Flowers - Radiohead You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone - The Beach Boys All This is That - The Beach Boys Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Oasis
I would like to see Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. That intro is the epitome of prog keyboard. I loved that you put Lady Stardust, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five, and the Night at the Opera ones! All of those are favorites of mine. Also, there was Karma Police but no Sexy Sadie lol
Wow! 12/10 video! I remember requesting Come Sail Away by Styx in an early video. Thank you for performing that as well as the other songs that deserve to be included. You string them along so well. You are a professional my friend. Always get excited to see these types of videos from you! Keep going!!
Excellent playing! As for songs that stand out to me, I tend to listen to a lot of prog, so the songs I'd suggest might not be as iconic to the general audience, but here's a few anyway. Dream Theater - Space-Dye Vest (1994) Dream Theater - About to Crash (2002) (Technically part of a longer song but it's a separate track so I count it) Frost* - Hyperventillate (2006) (If the noodly piano stuff over soundscapes for the first minute doesn't count, the proper intro after that still should, if Bohemian Rhapsody counts I'd say this does too.) Haken - Atlas Stone (2013) Haken - In Memoriam (2013) (A two for one deal from the same album!) I'm sure there's others to include if those can make the cut but that's what I remember at the moment.
What a great collection. I know there’s many more songs that could be included. But I want to thank you for introducing me to stuff I hadn’t heard before.
Great video! Especially loved that you included Virtual Insanity, one of my favorites. Whenever you do the next one, I’d love to see Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear’s intro included.
I'm saying this with absolute respect and appreciation for you and the content you make, it really is fabulous. So this is just an offer of feedback, not criticism, and I don't usually like to see things through the prism of race. But this does feel that it doesn't do justice to the countless incredible Black artists in the history of popular music! I know that won't have been deliberate and perhaps this list just reflects your personal taste, but the suggestions below could be used in another piano intro videos: Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Ray Charles - Mess Around Bill Withers - Lean on Me Sister Sledge - We Are Family Outkast - Roses Bobby Womack - Dayglo Reflection Stevie Wonder - Ribbon In The Sky Ashanti - Foolish
If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys. I had to go back and listed to see if maybe I had missed hearing it, since surely it belongs on this list. Iconic! 😊
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21:38. This one is my favorite. All of those complex harmonies bring a tear to my eye 😢
😂
Next we need The Reason by Hoobastank
That inspired me, too. Proof that it will never be too late to learn and play piano.
I mean, the complexity isn’t in the intro, it’s in the second go of the progression immediately following what David played, with everything built on top of it.
The video isn’t titled “90 most complex…” but maybe the usage of “greatest” is a bit off, but that’s probably for the algorithm.
90 more instantly recognizable piano intros? But then, who are they recognizable to?
Anyway. Carry on.
@@DavidBennettPiano I Was Hoping You were Gonna Do Tenth Ave. Freezout by Bruce Springsteen You Were Doing Thunder Road 😂 I Was Waiting for That LOL!!
Not to sound like I'm obsessed with Billy Joel, but half of his catalog has piano intros at least as good as some of the ones you played. Just a few for thought: Miami 2017, Captain Jack, Summer Highland Falls, Streetlife Serenader, The Stranger, Vienna, Just the Way You Are, New York State of Mind, etc, etc.
yes yes yes! absolutely! im obsessed with billy joel too and im so glad you included less known ones like summer highland falls (my favorite of his) and streetlife serenader!
and just to add a few more, tomorrow is today, souvenir, everybody has a dream, and james are all great ones!
Ummm Billy Joel is a piano player...in other breaking news, there are a lot of guitar solos on Eric Clapton and Van Halen songs....
Summer, Highland Falls
@@pulsarlights2825 strange comment considering the video is specifically talking about what people perceive to be the best piano intros
Woke up, fell out of bed and listened while having my coffee. You just made my day David, thanks !
Did you make your way upstairs and have a smoke?
@@markp1549 Listened to David and went into a dream instead.
did somebody speak and you fell into a dream?
Did you drag a comb across your head?
Dear, have you read the news today?
Thanks for giving the Chopin a little more air than the rest
He didn't do anything any choppin' on that one! I'll see myself out.
5:20 Chopin prelude no.20(but not original 😭)
Agreed. It was deserving of every lovely moment.
A few more to consider:
Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills
Rock The Casbah - The Clash
Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp
Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
Down Among The Dead Men - Flash and The Pan (and also "Hey St Peter", but just for the piano playing & wonderful bright tone in general)
Lots of great piano intros from Breakfast in America
@@beback_I was wondering where they were!
Yes to Music Box Dancer!
I like this partially because I enjoy hearing you play, but also because I discover new songs through it - and shows me where my blindspots are.
Please do a whole episode of playing Every Little thing she does is magic-its gorgeous!
There are millions of songs out there. But sometimes it only takes a few notes and the whole characteristic atmosphere of a whole song is there. Your putting all those intros side by side has shown me many more qualities of composing. And I was espacially surprised by the quality of John Lennon.
Joni Mitchell's Blue is such a timelessly beautiful and heartrending song.
The whole album is genius.
I can understand why you left it out as I noticed you played A Night At The Opera songs back-to-back, but the over 1 minute piano intro to Death On Two Legs is legendary in my mind and perhaps my favourite piano intro of all time.
Yh me too. Loved the other queen deep cuts but that would’ve been better
You have a point there 💯
Seven seas of rhye has to be mine. the fact that Freddie played it on one hand is still crazy to me.
Early Queen is full of great piano intros. I personally love Flick of the Wrist and Nevermore.
Also in David's defense, "iconic" doesn't just mean good. It also has to be very famous.
@@beback_ I can play both of those on the piano as well actually. And I understand that he wasn't going to put DOTL in the video, not only because it's not as well-known, but because it's also over a minute long which would break up the rhythm of the video.
Great job, everybody’s commenting what you should have done but I just think you did an amazing job performing! Nicely done David!
This 😊
I started off so well... Somewhat of a shock how few of those I even knew. What on earth have I been listening to for the last 70 years?!
mRNA shots may make you tone def
@@pulsarlights2825 What dose that have to do with anything, how did you know he got the shot.
P.S. I despise the shots.
Some of these songs are obscure leaving out other more famous ones
Maybe listening only to the most current things may have left dark spots in your culture, brain and veins?
@@charlieruisseau2476 but that's just it - I've always had very eclectic tastes and listen to just about anything (with the possible exception of rap/hip hop!). I think my problem is that, having grown up in the 50s and 60s, I've lost interest in music to some extent in more recent times, it seems so unoriginal and uninspiring. At least the stuff you hear on the radio, etc is - there is still some good stuff around, but it's hard to find.
That Yamaha sounds great David. Really compliments your playing.
Glad you like it!
@@DavidBennettPiano Sounds excellent mate. Any idea what the micing set-up was. Really captured the extra height of that U3.
Great job, Paul was a pretty good pianist..didn't realise
He wasn´t, as he himself would admit. You don´t need to be a good pianist to play most of these songs. Paul of course was a brilliant composer though.
@@comedyriff5231 I think being a good musician is about having good ideas. Maybe technically he's not great but his ideas are great
Are you guys talking about Mr McCartney? He is/isn't, ain't dead yet lol
Also, Bruce Hornsby And The Range’s “The Way It Is” has a beautiful piano intro.
i think that was in his first one.
@@zimmejoc it was definitely in the first one. Dave hasn't left much at all for us ordinary folk. 🤣
@13:35 the intro to "This Year's Love" punches me hard every time I hear it, and I hear it A LOT. Delighted to hear it here.
It's a great song
After 'Karma Police' I thought, OK, that's it for me, that was the last truly memorable bit. Then 'Lose yourself' stood out, which was kind of amazing to me 😅. That's an underrated intro right there. Good pick.
For a minute there, you Lost Yourself?
Back to Black (2006) though
Was looking out for my personal favourite - 'Year Of The Cat' (love those maj7ths).
Also, 'Walking in Memphis'..
i also came here to comment about year of the cat! it's ridiculous how underrated al stewart is, he's a genius
they were both in the 1st part !
Did not know that Mick Ronson played, in addition to guitars, these iconic piano phases for Bowie and Reed, too.
he also arranged the strings section for songs like 'Life On Mars?' too!
Mick Ronson was an incredible musician that rarely gets recognition he deserves
Holy moly, I thought you were talking about Mark Ronson for a bit there.
Nice work. A song for guy - Elton John, Piano man - Billy Joel, Tubular bells - Mike Oldfield, Against all odds - Phil Collins, Great gig in the sky - Pink Floyd, Dream on - Aerosmith.
Piano Man, Tubular Bells and The Great Gig already were in the "80 greatest intros"
Thanks for including Runaway, I now know I can play one of the greatest piano intros!
So glad 1985 made it - I rarely see this fantastic song discussed! Nice work and EXCELLENT piano tone! 🕺
Great video!
Here’s some of my favorites that were left out:
Amsterdam- Coldplay 2002
Codex- Radiohead 2011
Starlight- Muse 2006
La Rittournelle- Sebastian Tellier 2004
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz 2000
Panavision- The Smile 2020
Avril 14th- Aphex Twin
Everything’s Not Lost- Coldplay 2000
Neighborhood #1 Tunnels- Arcade Fire 2004
Because Radiohead and Coldplay were clearly underrepresented.
@@kenaitchison7712 I mean to be fair they are probably the two most famous piano heavy bands out there, so there's a lot of good stuff.
Tori Amos- Precious Things, Winter, Silent All These Years / Jackson Browne- Doctor My Eyes/ Joni Mitchell- Woodstock( her original version from 1970 on piano) / Ray Charles- Hit The Road Jack
Boomtown Rats I Don't Like Mondays totally iconic intro! Also The Elephants Graveyard by the Rats has a great piano intro too, courtesy of Johnnie Fingers.
Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy |Goodbye Girl - David Gates |
Livin’ in a World (They Didn’t Make) - Janet Jackson |
Old Coyote Town - Don Williams |Lord is it Mine • Asylum - Supertramp |
When I Could Come Home to You - Steve Wariner |
Same Old Lang Syne • Sweet Magnolia • To the Morning • Run for the Roses - Dan Fogelberg
David’s whole vibe changed when he started playing Karma Police lol
I didn't think he'd stop, and I didn't want him to
I don't want to sound bias or anything but Queen's Seaside Rendezvous sounded so exquisite. I swear it did 💖. Great piano playing skills David.
So good, David. Please make a Spotify playlist of all of these great piano intros. The world deserves to hear these before they die.
they will never die
Genesis - One for the Vine/Many Too Many
C418 - Sweden
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Take a Pebble
The Kinks - Denmark Street/Nothing to Say/David Watts
Moby - In My Heart/18
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Soft Trees Break the Fall
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
Steven Wilson - First Regret/3 Years Older
Nils Frahm - Forever Changeless
Porcupine Tree - Sentimental/Piano Lessons
Yes - Awaken
Frank Zappa - Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown
The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man
Kate Bush - Room for the Life
And your Thom Yorke fix...
The Smile - Open the Floodgates
I don't know about greatness of piano intros but i always found those by twenty one pilots particularly fascinating. Especially some pieces from self-titled album feature some beautiful piano intros like "implicit demand for proof", "trapdoor", "addict with a pen" or "air catcher". Some pieces from other albums alao come to mind like "car radio", "goner" or "truce"
Nobody Does It Better is really iconic!
You mean the song Radiohead covered?
@@jackthesmoltangerine the one from the 1977 James Bond Movie "The Spy who loved me".
@@airplanes.001 yeah, radiohead covered it
I think you should include Tori Amos here or even analyse her piano playing in a separate video!! Brilliant pianist she is, besides being an amazing singer and songwriter :D
I was so pleased that you included Could it be magic, I was waiting for that one in the first video
I love that one 😊
As far as piano intros, a couple of Cat Stevens songs come to mind--Morning Has Broken and Sitting. These two songs, as soon as I hear the intro I am already hooked. Keep up the great content, DB!
Played by none other that the genius Rick Wakeman
I Think I See the Light has to be my favorite, butI’m biased bc I love it
McCoy Tyner, my favorite pianist of all time.
another honorable mention piano intro from 1967: She's a Rainbow by the Rolling Stones.
He did that on either the original "80 Intros" or the "55 EP Intros!"
Love his intro so much on My Favorite Things
This reminds me of just how much I enjoy piano based popular music. I've had a lot of these songs on heavy rotation at some point in my life. Hoppípolla is the only one that gave me chills, and considering how many times I've heard it over the years, that's pretty special.
I'm not here to complain about what is or isn't on here. This was fantastic. Love your vids, bro.
Thanks! 😊😊
Lady Grinning Soul is amazing...
and on another note, I think Nicky Hopkins literally elevated every song he played on.
This was the highlight of our night, David. Thank you so much for the thoughtful compilation.
there is no better reason to learn piano ...good work, David!!
"A Night At The Opera" is one of my favourite albums ever, and its four(!) entries here has to be one of the reasons why. Freddie was a genius.
Queen's Night at the Opera is the most underrated album of all time. Rolling Stones ragazine says it's #128. They're off by 118. Thank you for playing those 4 in a row! Seaside Rendezvous doesn't make me just listen; it makes me want to time travel to whatever decade that song is set in.
A few missing songs that I would have liked to hear:
Good Golly Miss Molly--Little Richard
In the Summertime--Mungo Jerry
Saturday in the Park--Chicago
Riders on the Storm--The Doors, or Light my Fire--The Doors
Clap For the Wolfman--Burton Cummings (The Guess Who)
Bat Out of Hell--Meatloaf (not exactly a piano alone, but most of the melody is the piano)
The Rolling Stone Magazine makes no secret of the fact that they hate Queen. They also rank Bob Dylan as being a better singer that Freddie mercury. lol
Always enjoy your eclectic taste in music.. There's so much great music out there from all genres and decades.
Lovely to see you playing a piano with real strings and actions instead of the digital one. 👍👍🎹🎼🎶🎶😘
They are all amazing intros.
Here are my top three major modal ones!!
1. “My Immortal” - Evanescence
Is it only me or is this one in a Sonata Form as entirely???
It’s my favorite key & it’s dominant!!!
2. “What I’ve Done” - LP
3. 9 Crimes - Damian Rice
I knew it! I knew before watching this video, my favorite Ben Folds Five song will be on this list! I'm so happy you did include BRICK! (@12:25). Thanks and rock on!🥰🤗
Great! Now for the next one: Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me, Tom Waits - Johnsburg Illinois, and I'm sure Procol Harum must have several, at least Grand Hotel.
"Sing" is such a great pick ! I love its simplicity and I think the song on itself is one of the best shoegaze songs of all time !
The nostalgia you waking up with some of these intros! Well played as always David!👏
“Epitaph” - Judas Priest.
“Year of the Cat” - Al Stewart.
“Fire in the Hole” - Steely Dan.
“Something to Believe In” - Poison.
“The Luckiest” - Ben Folds.
“Boston” - Augustana.
“Haven’t Met You Yet” - Michael Buble.
“One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces” - Ben Folds Five.
Boston by Augustana 💯
Excellent! I'm personally a fan of the intros to Hey Bulldog and Martha My Dear, too.
17:57 thanks for including this, it’s a great piano intro that doesn’t get much love in these kinds of things
Thank you for reminding me of so many songs I’d forgotten to revisit.
What an amazing sounding piano!
Its nice to see the piano open gives a better idea on the timing of strikes
Good stuff, inspirational! :)
The ABBA's intros are so memorable!
Absolutely! ♥
I don’t know if I’m finally beginning to realize that I’m no longer youthful as I close in on 40, or if there is legitimacy to the idea that from 2000 onward, intricacies in harmony for popular music composition just careens off a cliff in short order. There were so many interesting and haunting themes from the 1960’s through 2000 that are truly timeless. From 2000 to today, they seem to be so much fewer and far between. That’s about the time I discovered other types of worldly music that scratched that itch, though have never received their just due. It feels like a direct commentary to the artistic side of the general population declining over the decades, where satisfaction through melody has intrinsic correlation to a broader STEM focus in modern education, wrote memorization taking precedence over creative thinking and expression, and an overall decline in the mental capacity of the average person in relation to anything requiring a deeper focus to obtain that release of dopamine and serotonin. Goldfish brain as a result of a failed education system, paired with a social media addiction.
You said it right. My little brother is in his 20's and he can tell the difference in music then and now. Sad
You’re not imagining it. The decline in harmonic complexity in charting popular music over time isn’t just a subjective impression, it’s measurable. You can’t scientifically prove that music is “good” or “bad”, but harmonic complexity it objectively demonstrable, and the studies have shown the clear trend towards less and less complexity, on average, over time.
Yeah, it's stark, at least as far as popular music goes. A lot of it has to do I'm sure with radios recognizing that music was becoming extremely diverse and available, so the popular stuff had to play it extremely safe. There's still tons of great piano riffs with incredible harmonic complexity during that time period, but it didn't get a lot of radio play. You could take like, 90% of Ben Folds catalogue alone for incredible intros during that time. Landed, Jesusland, The Luckiest, Doc Pomus, Saskia Hamilton, etc.
But yeah that's off the mainstream now. It ruined popular music, but I'm so glad the internet makes the good complex stuff readily available.
Exactly right, just ask Rick Beato
Beautifully played and nice to hear a real hammer and strings piano. Brighton electric has the best acoustics of any rehearsal room in the city. Want to listen to a playlist of these songs now.
If you want suggestions for another video, I’ve got some. Way more than I should. Like twenty-something of them:
Roses - OutKast
Backstreets - Bruce Springsteen
I’m Dancing In The Show Tonight - Ween
Just A Friend - Biz Markie
The Load Out - Jackson Browne
The Pretender - Jackson Browne
Mariners Apartment Complex - Lana Del Rey
White Dress - Lana Del Rey
Bring It On Home To Me - Sam Cooke
Levon - Elton John
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Tom Waits
Ol’ 55 - Tom Waits
Oliver’s Army - Elvis Costello
Let’s Spend The Night Together - Rolling Stones
Without You - Mariah Carey
Hero - Mariah Carey
Greatest Man Who Ever Lived - Weezer
We’ve Got Tonight - Kenny Rogers
Caravan - Van Morrison
The Song Is Over - The Who
Love Reign O’er Me - The Who
Some Things Last A Long Time - Daniel Johnston
Ballad Of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper
Meet The Grahams - Kendrick Lamar
Great to see Mick Ronson in there - and in a piano intros video!
hoppípolla just hits on another level... especially once that bass kicks in. mega.
Yeah that was one of my favourites to play!!
Takk is my favorite Sigur Ros album
Was really pleased he snuck that one in. Amazing intro
I've heard many of these songs countless times but this was the only one that gave me instant chills.
First off, fantastic video. Boy the 60s and 70s talent shadows the rest.
John Lennon´s piano intro for Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da is creative.
If you ever do another list:
Across the Sea - Weezer
Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
Death on Two Legs - Queen
Life in a Glasshouse - Radiohead
Leave the Door Open - Silk Sonic
Aja - Steely Dan
Sail On Sailor - The Beach Boys
Nobody Home - Pink Floyd
Jealousy - Queen
High Hopes - Pink Floyd
Don't Go Near the Water - The Beach Boys
The March of the Black Queen - Queen
You and I - Queen
Codex - Radiohead
Haunt You Every Day - Weezer
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
The Stranger - Billy Joel
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived - Weezer
A Trick of the Tail - Genesis
Let Me Entertain You - Queen
Longtime Sunshine - Weezer
The Back Seat of My Car - Paul McCartney
Watching the Wheels - John Lennon
Isn't It A Pity - George Harrison
I'm the Greatest - Ringo Starr
Jacked Up - Weezer
Mad Man Moon - Genesis
Spectre - Radiohead
Futari - Tatsuro Yamashita
Cat Food - King Crimson
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Come and Get It - Badfinger
Wild Honey - The Beach Boys
Last Flowers - Radiohead
You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone - The Beach Boys
All This is That - The Beach Boys
Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Oasis
Your taste is exquisite 💯
love the genesis suggestions! i’d also add Firth of Fifth and That’s All
@@spleensthecat1704 The former was already on the first, and the latter was on the electric piano intros.
@@antoniojoserunez4165 oops, i thought this was a different youtuber 🥸
This is so entertaining. I wrote down a few dozen that I will make a point to learn now. The tone on that piano is gorgeous
I would like to see Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. That intro is the epitome of prog keyboard.
I loved that you put Lady Stardust, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five, and the Night at the Opera ones! All of those are favorites of mine.
Also, there was Karma Police but no Sexy Sadie lol
“Tarkus” is amazing, but it’s not a piano song.
Some other great piano intros:
The Smile - Pana-vision
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
Muse - The 2nd Law: Isolated System
Wow! 12/10 video! I remember requesting Come Sail Away by Styx in an early video. Thank you for performing that as well as the other songs that deserve to be included. You string them along so well. You are a professional my friend. Always get excited to see these types of videos from you! Keep going!!
Excellent playing! As for songs that stand out to me, I tend to listen to a lot of prog, so the songs I'd suggest might not be as iconic to the general audience, but here's a few anyway.
Dream Theater - Space-Dye Vest (1994)
Dream Theater - About to Crash (2002) (Technically part of a longer song but it's a separate track so I count it)
Frost* - Hyperventillate (2006) (If the noodly piano stuff over soundscapes for the first minute doesn't count, the proper intro after that still should, if Bohemian Rhapsody counts I'd say this does too.)
Haken - Atlas Stone (2013)
Haken - In Memoriam (2013) (A two for one deal from the same album!)
I'm sure there's others to include if those can make the cut but that's what I remember at the moment.
Don't Stop Me Now (Queen)
Apologize (OneRepublic)
Where Is The Love (Black Eyed Peas)
Take On Me
I'm Still Standing
Out Of Touch
A Sky Full Of Stars
So many of my favorite and foundational songs of my life.
Do you think you will ever cover the i-VII-VI chord progression in minor? I'd love to hear more songs that use it and your opinion on it.
Gorgeous work. Wonderful piano.
Thanks!
Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis 😊
Nightswimming is just about the only song (non-simplified) that I can play on the piano.
In my top ten all time faves
12:32 jamiroquai is my faovirte band
What a great collection. I know there’s many more songs that could be included. But I want to thank you for introducing me to stuff I hadn’t heard before.
I haven’t got to the end of the video yet but Roses by OutKast has such a cool piano intro!
Great vid so far 👍🏼
fantastic!!! beautiful.
This is great! I would love to see Light Years by The National included in the following video!
Vanessa Carlton - "A Thousand Miles" deserve to be on your list I think :)
He already played it in his first intro medley 😊
Superb effort! Thanks for compiling this!!!
The winner takes it all by ABBA is one of the best!
Omg A Night at the Opera praise ahhhh I love it
Great video! Especially loved that you included Virtual Insanity, one of my favorites. Whenever you do the next one, I’d love to see Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear’s intro included.
Great work David. How could you remember all the songs in the right order?
Incredible feat if done in one take
I'm guessing there is a big whiteboard just out of the camera's view :-)
I'm saying this with absolute respect and appreciation for you and the content you make, it really is fabulous.
So this is just an offer of feedback, not criticism, and I don't usually like to see things through the prism of race.
But this does feel that it doesn't do justice to the countless incredible Black artists in the history of popular music! I know that won't have been deliberate and perhaps this list just reflects your personal taste, but the suggestions below could be used in another piano intro videos:
Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
Ray Charles - Mess Around
Bill Withers - Lean on Me
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Outkast - Roses
Bobby Womack - Dayglo Reflection
Stevie Wonder - Ribbon In The Sky
Ashanti - Foolish
Those intros to "Trouble" by Coldplay and "Hoppípolla" by Sigur Rós gave me goosebumps. ❤
Folks mock Coldplay, but he is a damned good piano player.
@klaxoncow So many good Coldplay piano intros, the amount of times I can listen to the Amsterdam piano line is innumerable
Great to see Roxette’s “Listen To Your Heart”. Please add “Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)” into the next one!
Thanks David, you've introduced me to quite a few great songs I haven't heard before.
Head Over Heals by Tears For Fears and I Don't Like Mondays by Boomtown Rats are both iconic 80s intros too - should be on the next one 😊
I really enjoyed this, David!
Thanks!
This was very well done, David. Thanks!
i really appreciate because you put all intro songs based on timeline, thanks
Love your channel. Very inspiring vids.🙂
If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys. I had to go back and listed to see if maybe I had missed hearing it, since surely it belongs on this list. Iconic! 😊
Yes. Her music is timeless. So good, he included in his first video of piano intros.
thanks! Your channel is a super help! Im trying to record 1000 famous songs so I can learn different styles and this helped me with a few more!
That's a nice looking piano. The playing is swell too!
Thank you very much!