Songs with spoken word intros

Hello esteemed forum.

I've always enjoyed songs with spoken word intros, such as:

NWA - Straight Outta Compton (You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge)

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (Woe to you oh Earth and sea...)

Do you have any favourite songs with spoken word intros?

Thanks

 

Atlantis - Donovan

 

First one I thought of:

The song does not start until around the :55 mark

 

Wayne (as was) County and the Electric Chairs - Storm The Gates Of Heaven. Great track!!
Alice Cooper Black Widow - great spoken intro by Vincent Price

 

Move On-Abba
Santa Ana Winds-Beach Boys
Troglodyte-Jimmy Castor Bunch
Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited-The Move

 

And One-Traumfrau, sorry listening to the cd single last night, first thing that popped in my head

 

Doesn't David Bowie whisper the opening words to Modern Love?
Cult of Personality - Living Colour

 

The Ultimate Prophecy - J.D. Blackfoot

This is The Ultimate Prophecy!
Lain out on the dawn of creation the King hath named it ground.
And he hath given to the earth people to sit and look profound.
But they will be known as love creatures, born to live on sound.

 

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune - "The Revenge of Veri Gemini".

"You're boned like a saint -- With the consciousness of a snake"

 

Prince - "Let's Go Crazy"

Roberta Flack - "Reverend Lee"

Elvis Presley - "U.S. Male"

Darlene Love - "A Fine, Fine Boy"

The Crystals - "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"

Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"

 

Meatloaf - You took the words right out of my mouth (Hot summer night)

 

Pet Shop Boys - Jealousy (Extended Version)

The awesome extended version contains a spoken word intro of Neil quoting a line from Othello. The intro is exclusive to this mix.

 

"Me and My Arrow" - Harry Nilsson

Chicago opens the Chicago III's instrumental suite "Elegy" with Kendrew Lascelles' poem "When All The Laughter Dies In Sorrow".

 

Apoptygma Berzerk-Kathy's Song , the vnvnation mix, from the single of the same name

 

Ray Price's spoken intro to "Night Life"

 

"I am the God of Hellfire and I bring you..." - "Fire" by Arthur Brown

Not so much spoken as it is shouted dementedly.

 

"Ain't It Fun" - Peter Laughner/Rocket From the Tombs - dedication to writer Jane Scott.

Al Green's dedication to Junior Parker in "Take Me to the River"

 

"Wine" - Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Band

 

X Offender - Blondie

 

Prince - Can't Stop This Feeling I Got ("Dear Dad... Things didn't turn out quite like I wanted them to...")

 

Dearly beloved....

 

Ladies and gentlemen, how do? -- Love Song - the Damned
The long intros to Turn Blue by Iggy Pop & numerous Isaac Hayes songs
Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder - The Mothers
The Soft Parade - The Doors

 

Spacehog?

 

Perhaps too loooonnngg of a spoken intro:

"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by George Thorogood


............Kliph

 

Oh God ! My favourite by a long is the opening to "Old Friends " That was forty five years ago and now I can actually relate to it. It amazes me that Paul Simon at such a young age would even contemplate our own mortality.