songs that act as instrumental intros to other songs

Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer ---> Crown of Thorns

 

Then there's the obvious choice of 2112 Overture/Temples of Syrinx to lead off the 2112 LP.

 

Three Dog Night - Prelude To Morning---->Pieces of April

Styx - Clair de Lune------>Ballerina

 

Genesis-Broadway Melody of 1974>Cuckoo Cocoon from side one of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

 

Only on the 2001 remastered CD of their 1984 debut,Declaration,but The Alarm, The Peace Train>Marching On.

 

Ayreon - Swan Song => Ayreon's Fate



Symphony X - Rediscovery (Segue) => Rediscovery (Part II) - The New Mythology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xyycpgmu_w

Both are among my favorite compositions.

 

5 years and 5 pages........and my favorite one wasn't mentioned yet....................

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Glad -> Freedom Rider

 

Also...
Deep Purple (1969) - Fault Line into The Painter

 

Wings - Beware My Love

There is a brief organ piece before the song crossfades in on the album version.

 

Megadeth
Dialectic Chaos --> This Day We Fight!

Yngwie Malmsteen
Last Journey --> Vikings Battle (Suite)

Yngwie Malmsteen
Overture --> Critical Mass

Overkill
XDM --> Armorist

Paul McCartney & Wings
Venus and Mars --> Rockshow

Queen
Procession --> Father to Son

Kreator
Mars Mantra --> Phantom Antichrist

 

Bill Nelson - The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart)
Echo in Her Eyes (The Lamps of Oblivion)-->The October Man

Getting the Holy Ghost Across
Suvasini-->Contemplation

 

The beautiful (and much too short) "Nassau" which leads into "Baby I Love Your Way"
on "Frampton".

 

Moody Blues: Beyond ---> Out and In

Chameleons: Seriocity ---> In Answer (don't much like Seriocity, love In Answer)

 

Boston:
foreplay -----> long time

 

I just got a little history lesson. I thought the Beatles stole that from the 1812 Overture. Turns out Tchaikovsky stole it from the French.

 

Poison: Swampjuice (Soul-O) ---> Unskinny Bop

They were issued together that way on the U.S. 45.

 

Fly Like An EAgle and Book Of Dreams both have songs on them that have synth effects that sound like the beginning of the songs they lead into.

 

*heavy sigh* Instrumentals aren't songs. Songs are, by definition, sung. Destroy the lexicon if you must. Apparently it's not important on a music-related website.

 

Not sure I completely understand the idea behind the thread (and a read through the responses shows I'm not alone), but the first thing that occurred to me when I read the title was several bars of Nat King Cole's "Lush Life" leading into "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" on Living Colour's Time's Up.

 

Canadian Sunset ---- My Guy ?

 

1984 into Jump Van halen

 

Jimi Hendrix (this intro does have some distorted, umm, "vocals")
...And the Gods Made Love --> Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)

Pink Floyd (likewise, the first "song" from DSOTM is essentially an instrumental)
Speak to Me --> Breathe

Heart (on their first "Greatest Hits" album)
Silver Wheels --> Crazy On You

Black Sabbath (lots of good ones already mentioned for this band)
E5150 --> The Mob Rules

Iron Maiden (another band with more than one of these)
Transylvania --> Strange World
The Ides of March --> Wrathchild

 

On Wings' Venus and Mars album, the instrumental tag of "Listen to What the Man Said" serves as an intro to "Treat Her Gently"/"Lonely Old People."
ELO - "Eldorado" intro into "I Can't Get It Out of My Head."
1910 Fruitgum Company's Hard Ride album - "In the Beginning" (instrumental) segues into "The Thing" (another instrumental).
Neil Young's first album - "String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill" segues into "Here We Are in the Years."

 

Scott Walker: Prologue -> Little Things That Keep Us Together

 

These are not separately titled, nor are their composers credited, but a passage from the first movement of Beethoven's 1st Symphony is the intro to Deep Purple's cover of "We Can Work It Out" (actually that intro is retitled "Exposition" and credited to the band). Deep Purple used a variation on Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" as an instrumental intro to their cover of "River Deep,Mountain High." A passage from Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" is the intro to the Vanilla Fudge's cover of "Some Velvet Morning." The beginning of the first movement of Beethoven'e 5th Symphony is the intro to ELO's cover of "Roll Over, Beethoven."