Hello, Chicago! From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Greg Kott.

And I'm Jim Deregadas. A new year means new beginnings at a fresh chance to put your best foot forward.

In that spirit, we'll highlight tracks that do the same thing from their very first notes. Great starts and music. Plus I share a song I can't live without. That's all coming up on sound opinions.

You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Greg Cott here with my partner Jim Deeregottis and we're at the beginning of another new year and speaking of good beginnings new beginnings

we're going to talk about songs with great beginnings. You know, when you

turn on the radio, Jim, if you don't get caught in those first few seconds, a lot of people

will just tune out right away. So we thought at the top of the new year that's the perfect time to

highlight some of our favorite great starts in music. Oh, oh, oh, oh, So we're sharing a few of our favorite great starts in music. Greg, what is a great start?

You know, specifically, it's a song that has a really distinctive appeal from the opening seconds,

a catchy guitar riff, a particularly strong hook, an

unusual bit of sampling or studio trickery. Think you really got me by the kinks. And by the way we would be remiss if we didn't thank a sound

opinions listener for suggesting this show idea here is what she had to say

my name is Abby Ness and I'm from Glenard and Maryland and I got the idea

for a great stark episode while listening to Crazy on You by heart. It has that iconic guitar solo at the beginning of the song by Nancy Wilson that I heard many times before but

this was the first time that I read on Wikipedia that she had actually titled that

silver wheel almost as if it was a separate song in and of itself.

Which was surprising to me because I've always thought of that intro as being integral to the rest of the song. It kind of builds the

suspense and intrigue that then resolves with that driving guitar part at the

beginning of the Crazy on You part. That seems pretty unique to start off a song that way with something that's so different and strikingly different from the rest of the song.

There must be other great examples out there of ways that musicians have started their song

creatively. So I was really curious to hear what you guys thought about what makes the start of a song great and some examples for that because I the more that I've been thinking about this the more I'm convinced that starting a song is almost like an art form

unto itself sort of like an icebreaker at a party and it's always awkward but there

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