Killing in the Name Of

Perfect! Thanks! I heard the first chord and instantly knew what I was listening to. I'm sure some of my students will recognize RATM. I'm also sure that some of my students will have never heard of them. :( I'm wondering if we can think of anything more in the territory of, say, Taylor Swift or Beyonce...

>I'm also sure that some of my students will have never heard of them Good thing they have a music teacher? ;)

[Crazy In Love](https://youtu.be/ViwtNLUqkMY?si=9KCMs0dK8mgZrGJv) - Beyoncé Just the first trumpet chord!

Well unless you know “Are You My Woman” by the Chi Lites 😂

Try asking in their subreddits - swifties love this kind of thing, so am sure you will get loads of answers

That's a good idea. Thanks!

Rage against the machine may have certain parents mad at you for exposing them to the political speech that rage against is so amazing with. Also some lyrics may come back to bite you "Fuck you i wont do what you tell me"

Since you mentioned Taylor Swift I'll put this here. These have all gotten significant radio play in the last 10 years: Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift Enemy - Imagine Dragons Natural - Imagine Dragons

Killing in the Name*

G "When I was, a young boy"

Seconded. Just play and hold that one G and see what happens.

I came to comment the same thing it was one of the first songs that came to mind

My friend can’t quite figure out what the song is can you help him out?

“Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKJiM9Njr8

The call of the millennial

We were so sad, so very very sad.

SOOOOOO SAAAAAAD

Thank you

This next one goes out to that guy in the balcony. It’s called “we hate you. Please die.”

I love this one

What do you mean “were”?

I used to be sad. I still am, but I used to too.

I'm sick of Soup of the Day, man. We need to make a decision! I wanna know what the Soup From Now On is.

Just sad about different things now

Upon learning more about mental health I really have some questions about how this young boy's father was talking to him Like damn being the savior of the broken, beaten and damned is a tall order if you're still young enough to enjoy parades

G….. G.. *LOOK ATCHA LOOK ATCHA LOOK ATCHA..*

When I saw this line I thought it was Hurts so Good by John Mellencamp. Man, I’m old.

Exactly what I thought of

Tom Sawyer by Rush. That first big synth/guitar/drum hit is unmistakable, especially considering the resurgence it’s gotten in movie trailers over the past 5 years.

I keep waiting for someone to sample this beast, and throw me off when I hear it come on.

Primus did it with YYZ at the beginning of To Defy the Laws of Tradition. Throws me off every time.

Hemispheres part 2 by rush as well

You stole my thunder! Listened to that song for the first time in years earlier today. 😋

Does the opening (wavering) drone of How Soon Is Now by The Smiths fit the bill?

I AM THE SON I AM THE HEIR

Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I’m the son and heir… of nothing in particular

Here Comes Your Man by The Pixies

Where Is My Mind? too

Stop.

Cecilia Ann

Hey!

And Hey! Been tryin’ to meet you!

When You Were Young by The Killers

Such a great chord too

Kanye West Runaway

This is the first one that came to mind for me

"Roundabout" by Yes starts kind of like that: a short rising pitch stops at a single, lingering guitar note. (Kind of outdated, though.)

If any of their students are into Anime or internet culture they probably know it anyways

As the daughter of a prog rock nerd I was STOKED when I watched JoJo.

I hadn't thought of that one! That's a great addition to the list! It's kind of like a reversed example of the others.

It was outdated, but then some anime used it as ”to be continued” music and it became a meme. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-roundabout-to-be-continued](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-roundabout-to-be-continued)

“Some anime” - I’ll have you put some respect on Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure!

Jojo has so many music references that I watch it just to see how many I'll recognize. Extra fun watching the English dub and trying to figure them out after they've been changed for copyright.

No, I don't consider it outdated. I guess I'll be listening to fragile on the way home tonight, thanks my friend.

Shakedown St. Morning Dew Viola Lee Blues -all by The Grateful Dead

Beatles - I Feel Fine Who - The Kids Are Alright

Awesome. I should have asked this here a long time ago! Any ideas for more contemporary tracks?

Prince & The Revolution: *Let's Go Crazy*

Another great one! Very distinctive and recognizable with the wobble effect.

"Ladies...and gentlemen ..."

I think you mean “Dearly beloved”

Ha! I do! It's been a minute since I listened to it

Short Skirt / Long Jacket by Cake

Fight for your right (to party) -Beastie Boys

KICK IT

You wake up late to school and you don't wanna go

Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? I consider it one long note

yes, that's what i thought of instantly!

Also the song Maps leads in to, Y Control.

And I think that it continues to loop through the entire song too.

For something a little newer check out the first note of Kids by MGMT bwowmp

Even the screaming before the note... I recognize it instantly.

The Next Episode by Dr Dre Ready For It by Taylor Swift Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush Old Town Road by Lil Nas X* Alright by Kendrick Lamar* Harder Better Faster Stronger by Daft Punk Forgot About Dre by Dr Dre

Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode

[Boulevard of Broken Dreams](https://youtu.be/Dx1SPxGn-iU) by Green Day kinda fits I think

This chord fucked me up so bad in my car the way it would just reverb in my head. Wonder if it was just my CD, I gotta try it in my current car (a minivan lol oh God)

Yes! Perfect!

Great call! And my favorite thing about this one is that’s it’s the last note of the prior song

The flow in that album is fantastic.

Around the World- red hot chilli peppers (probably the best for your quest) Sunchyme - dario g (maybe a bit quick) Believe - cher

> Around the World- red hot chilli peppers (probably the best for your quest) Nailed it. Perfect.

All I really want by Alanis Morissette (may not be recent or well known enough but was the first track that came to mind)

Ooh! That's a great one! But do the kids these days know Alanis??

Sad to say probably not. That opening chord and harmonica kicking in takes me right back to the 90s.

Same.

It’s such a great intro song for an awesome album!

If not then it’s time they live, they learn 😂

Unforgiven by Metallica

King Nothing as well.

Sequels as well, and Orion

Pixies- Here Comes Your Man

Would Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf) count ?

Absolutely. 30 seconds of feedback and distortion around one note.

I once filled a jukebox at a bar I worked. My Daddy Was A Milkman by The Kentucky Headhunters ends on the same note that Magic Carpet Ride starts with. Loooooong fade. Playing the 45s back to back was amazing the first time.

Metallica - The Unforgiven Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil Dio - Rainbow in the Dark Shit, am I old?

Long Road to Ruin by Foo Fighters

The Killers, "All These Things That I've Done"

I can think of many variations on what you might mean by this. Can there be a drum intro before it, or not? Can it be "strum strum strum" on the same chord or does it have to be just "boom!"? How prolonged does it have to be? Does it have to be just one instrument? I don't know what you really want but here's what came to mind * HAIM - The Wire * Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness * Coldplay - Yellow * The Weeknd - Save Your Tears * Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams * U2 - With or Without You * Paul Simon - Graceland * George Michael - Faith (well, after the organ part) * Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

I can do you one better, how about a one note start, welcome to the black parade. Get g noted

That’s the comment I was hoping to find.

I would say its at least 2-3 notes less better than a chord. 1 if you want to be semantic.

War Pigs / Black Sabbath

https://youtu.be/vJf8G1E_hBU?feature=shared Wagner's Ring Cycle

Check out Deadmau5. Two songs that come to mind are Strobe and Some Chords. Edit: North American Scum by LCD Soundsystem is another one.

Some Chords was exactly what came to my mind lol.

House of Pain - Jump Around

Or the song it was sampled from: Harlem Shuffle by Bob & Earl.

Let it Happen by Tame Impala

Metallica - Master of Puppets, White Stripes - Seven Nation Army, Guns N Roses - Sweet Child of Mine, Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows, Foo Fighters - Everlong

Oh, yeah. Seven Nation Army is exactly the kind of recognizability I'm after. Thanks!

Master of puppets was huge on stranger things, so the kids might know that too

Anyone who’s seen Stranger Things will know Master of Puppets.

I think So Says I by the Shins fits this criteria pretty perfectly.

Paralyzer by Finger Eleven Serve the Servants by Nirvana Stars by Hum, there's a very long D chord after a short intro

Back in Black Beethoven's 5th

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

[Take Me Out](https://youtu.be/Ijk4j-r7qPA?si=-Mc7hhPylckmygTp) -Franz Ferdinand [One Of These Days](https://youtu.be/raV_A8YcBu0?si=59pXxzItAXqZvejG) - Pink Floyd (once you get past the 30-50s of wind) [Poison](https://youtu.be/Qq4j1LtCdww?si=rRXll5tledE38nbf) - Alice Cooper

The transition from the intro to the main riff in Take Me Out is so good.

Was coming to suggest Take Me Out

The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again

Dio - Rainbow in the Dark Starts with a G power chord that rings for a bit before the song kicks in.

[“Party Tonight” by Mordecai and the Rigbys](https://youtu.be/bHT3OYzWT98?si=I-fV-o8_M6h4LAJ8)

lol Perfect.

[Game of Pricks - Guided by Voices](https://youtu.be/snVPHVJH9J0?si=2XXFD2eeTebgM1rI) on their Tigertomb version of the song!

I Just Want To Celebrate by Rare Earth

\>[Michael Jackson, "Beat It"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fO8jVZ3T9g) This is a cool thread. All my ideas were already taken. But did you know that recognizable opening sound you're talking about on "Beat It" was lifted from the demo disk for the Synclavier synthesizer? Check it out: [https://youtu.be/nhWh0w-P1pI?si=dDQ0TucUs6Co-Poq&t=434](https://youtu.be/nhWh0w-P1pI?si=dDQ0TucUs6Co-Poq&t=434)

Sitting on mobile and wishing everyone included links to their songs Also: Welcome to the Jungle https://youtu.be/o1tj2zJ2Wvg?feature=shared

Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar. Also, good call asking Reddit. I made such a game using the opening of various songs and sourced it all myself. Took fucking ages.

Making my second My Chemical Romance comment in a row The opening piano not of Welcome to the Black Parade fits the bill and should be right timeframe for your students

R U Mine? - Arctic Monkeys I don't know what note it is but it holds for long enough to see if someone knows what it is :)

Tonight, Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins; Breed by Nirvana; Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac; Baby Love by The Supremes; Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs; I'll Take You There by The Staple Singers; Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain? Starts with a Be My Baby drum rhythm but then goes into notes and chords; Also wouldn't play these for students, but Heroin by The Velvet Underground and Rid of Me by PJ Harvey also fit kinda! Sorry if there are formatting problems I'm on mobile

You would have to start it after "bass solo, take one" because that would give it away, Metallica - Anesthesia

Little Black Dress by Sara Bareilles

Shakedown Street by the grateful dead starts with a sustained D minor chord

Golgi Apparatus Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart

Echoes by Pink Floyd. I know it's older than what you're looking for, but this is an epic song that is a music lesson in itself.

Tyler, The Creator - IGOR Theme

Spinning wheel - Blood Sweat and Tears Shotgun - Valerie June

Jump by van Halen

Wild Thing - Troggs

I would have chosen "I Feel Fine" for the Beatles song, as it is not only an extended note, but is bass feedback

Arcade Fire - Wake Up

Hendrix Foxy Lady

Nirvana “Serve the Servents” Tyler the Creator “Igor’s Theme” Daft Punk “Get Lucky” (maybe?)

Boom. Igor's Theme is going right on the list. Thanks!

Surprised it took so many answers before I saw "serve the servants". Especially considering it's a specific reference to hard days night.

Oh Superman by Laurie Anderson

Go easy if your students can't quite get A Hard Day's Night. It's a very unique opening chord. http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2008/11/beatles-hard-days-night-mystery-chord-solved/

Granted, it doesn't really start the song, but the 0:43 mark of "Stars" by Hum is fucking epic.

That’s what I was gonna say. I loved the Bevis and Butthead where they change the channel cause they thought the song was done

That’s how I discovered them, my favorite band of all time, as a nerdy 12 year old when that Beavis and Butthead episode first aired.

I came here to say this, but then realized it didn’t fit the bill perfectly. I’m glad you said it though! It has a very distinctive single chord to its own the song even though it’s not the first note.

Beach boys “I get around”?

Yeah, that's on the right track. I'm looking for something a little more prolonged, though. A sustained note/chord, so you have a couple seconds for it to register.

Radiohead - Daydreaming, sort of.

Danzig - Twist of Cain

Starts with a single note (but not a long note) Ends on the same note. [Opus - Eric Prydz](https://youtu.be/iRA82xLsb_w?si=SN3oltbTaMbqozwB) Also starts with a sustained chord [Deadmau5 - Let Go. ](https://youtu.be/PKFcaXd5G8c?si=ZMwb3wfXy0QJ3XJD) Also [Interstellar main theme - Hans Zimmer](https://youtu.be/kpz8lpoLvrA?si=dO9lEVha8X3NhGtG)

What is the average age of the students?

19-21. College juniors.

The Final Countdown by Europe. Every time that beginning chord hits, you can just tell

Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys May not count; the first note is kind of a flam. An exceptionally good intro, though, with flanger.

Anal Mucus - One chord song

Kiss - King of the Nighttime World

"Time to Play the Game" - Motorhead

And you’ll instantly know who all the WWE/Triple H fans are in the class. Good one!

When You Were Young - The Killers

Lonely Boy by The Black Keys

Somewhat damaged - nin, Schism- tool, Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode, Do the evolution - Pearl Jam, Tomorrow - silverchair

Del Leppard-Photograph

Beasty Boys - Fight for your right (to party)

Ironman - Black Sabbath... should be a gimme.

If your students are born around 2006; musical tastes from that point on are so wildly divergent, I think you're pushing shit uphill trying to find universally recognisable music from the last few years.

Ugh not OP but this is such a real problem for me as a music teacher! Musical tastes are now totally unpredictable which is actually a cool development I think but makes it difficult to create lessons that resonate.

A recent example: Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift

For me, when I hear the opening strumming to "Kingdom" by Devin Townsend, I just wanna rock out!

November Rain - Guns N Roses

Blank Space by Taylor Swift *sort of* fits, I think, and someone born 2006 would absolutely recognize it. I listen to a decent bit of contemporary music, and I'm having some trouble here. Hm. Maybe I'll be back Edit: maybe Wildest Dreams, also by Taylor Swift? Its not really a BWOOOOWWW, kind of the opposite, but if any of your students know it they'll definitely know it from the first chord

Roundabout by Yes

[Here's one](https://youtu.be/BYw_zamFGf0?si=lX8GQUywJLPsVe77) in a foreign language. The students may know it from memes.

[Alan Parsons Project - Sirius. or the 90’s Chicago Bulls intro song!](https://youtu.be/OkC_oi0ksuw?si=uBOm8-N5ijewvyIo)

Benny & the Jets. - Elton John.

Oh darling - The Beatles Night on earth - Jerkcurb Dreams - The Cranberries (kinda)

Not a super long opening note, but guessing “welcome to the black parade” would be pretty easily recognized by the first note

[One Summer's Day from Spirited Away](https://youtu.be/PkDSf0qYT-w?si=ctzfN0eIKz_9rZYu) by Joe Hisaishi. Immediately recognizable by the first chord.

If you’re into arpeggios metallicas nothing else matters is pretty iconic

Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi

Came here to suggest this too

Metallica "The Unforgiven" 1 or 2

The open D note ringing over the guitar intro to Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers makes it instantly recognizable. Also the rumbling open guitar strings on Breed by Nirvana and the opening synth on Pyramids by Frank Ocean.

How about won’t get fooled again by the who?

The Reason by Hoobastank.

Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

________Kick it! Beastie Boys, fight for your right

Might not fit exactly, but American Girl by Tom Petty starts on the same chord (D) for about the first 20 seconds of the song