Songs you know on the first note

[Archae]

I mean, songs you recognize from the first 1-3 notes.

Like "Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles or "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix.

[kikiek]

1. I recognize many songs by the 1st 1-3 notes. One of those odd things

people can do but it doesn't really matter.

[Sir Craig]

2. "Money," by Pink Floyd

The moment you hear the cash register, you know what's about to play...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. "Won't Get Fooled Again"

"Satisfaction"
"Dazed and Confused"

Lots and lots of songs meet this criteria...

[LiberalVoice]

4. Bicycle by Queen

Not a note, but a voice anyways...

[NamVetsWeeLass]

11. LOL Yeah but there is the fact that Freddie Mercury's voice can't

be confused with anyone else's... The Man had incredible range. Since Freddie there has only been one other able to hit same range and that is Geoff Tate from Queensryche.

[qnr]

5. Atlantis, by Donovan

A Whiter Shade of Pale, by Procul Harum. A lot, actually --- for some reason, very many Supertramp and Alan Parsons Project songs

[demgrrrll]

6. Smoke on the Water, Miss You, Maggie May , All Right Now.

And on and On.

[OneBlueSky]

7. Satisfaction . . . which brings to mind a story . . .

some years ago, when I was still in my going-out-to-bars days, a few friends and I happened upon a small club and decided to stop in . . . the band had just finished setting up and about to begin . . . my comment to my mates was "they look like the kind of band who'll open with 'Satisfaction'" . . . yup . . . they did . . . :)

[kodi]

8. opening guitar feedback note "I Feel Fine" Most famous opening note. ever.

'nuff said.

[LDS Jock]

9. "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor

That first bang on the piano and I know what it is. And I start singing.. first I was afraid.. I was petrified.. kept thinking I could never live without you by my side

[AVID]

10. Everybodys workin for the weekend

Loverboy

[NamVetsWeeLass]

12. There are so many

most songs by Zeppelin, the Beatles, Janis Joplin, Hendrix, The Doors...Black Flag... Social Distortion... Too Numerous to name them all

[JimmyJazz]

13. Should I stay or Should I go.

Admittedly, I can recongize most Clash songs by one or two notes, but I think others will agree with me on this one as well.

[rockymountaindem]

14. Rising Wind by CCR

dum WAH WAH wa wa wa, wa WAH wa wa wa...

You know how it goes.

[mac56]

15. "Wild Thing" by the Troggs.

"All Day And All Of The Night" by the Kinks.
"19th Nervous Breakdown" by the Stones.

[truthbetold]

16. "Fat Bottom Girls"

by Queen.

[NNadir]

17. Gary Peacock's Bass on Ralph Towner's beautiful "Amber Captive."

It's one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.

I'm having a Ralph Towner weekend.

[Bossy Monkey]

18. "Rhiannon" n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. "Bigmouth Strikes Again" by The Smiths (nt)

[Dookus]

20. Most popular Bowie Songs...

"Changes" has a really identifiable first note.

[CO Liberal]

21. "Don't Pull Your Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds

[chaska]

22. Stop in the Name of Love. Supremes

[chenGOD]

23. The "MacGyver" theme song...:)

plus about 40 zillion others

[alarimer]

24. Folsom Prison

That guitar riff is unmistakable.