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it fades in, then out a bit, then back in, then back out at the end - somehow seems to add a large amount to the atmosphere of the song.

Was it the first song to ever do this? I had a feeling it was...?

This was the first one that popped into my head.

is gorgeous

which is a good Yo La Tengo track

Top track.

brilliant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPJVPXYUk4

This song is beautiful. I absolutely love the way it fades in, really builds up the atmosphere.

Buzzcocks - What Do I Get

i win

maybe.

anyway:

Orion - Metallica should be on this list.

fade in of the main riff of the track being played at double the speed, lower fidelity and panning across the speakers, and then the actual song bursts into life.

lovely

Possibly my favourite Belle and Sebastian song.

on the same album and everything

White Tooth Man and Glad Man Singing.

1st track on the album, too, so you're drawn into cranking the volume up plenty.

The Residents - Birthday Boy

I'm So Green - Can

Fades in and out as if playing on a continuous loop. One of their best songs and the fade in/fade out technique suits it beautifully.

classic.

The version on Giant Steps anyway: it's an edited fade-in from the full-length version, but it still works really well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht672-wYelc

Better Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lUj9zWwop8

&

Corduroy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S73ypK3As8I

if you gradually turn up the volume on your stereo at the start of it.

Eno - King's Lead Hat (love that one)

Brian Jonestown Massacre - You Look Great When I'm High

and I was also stupidly impressed by the fade ins. I think it's particularly striking because the album begins with a fade in, which I thought was really cool (for no reason whatsoever).

Here's a few more to add to the list:

The Walkmen - We've Been Had
The Walkmen - Rue The Day
Yo La Tengo - Gentle Hours
Real Estate - Let's Rock The Beach

'Hand in Glove' came to mind first though.

also The Field - I Have The Moon, You Have The Internet, which takes about 30 seconds to reach its proper volume and led to the old turn-it-up-shit-turn-it-down problem.

Mainly because I have an mp3 player with only shuffle and I get fed up with not having songs I recognise instantly. However, this song I absolutely love.

Wilderness - Fly Further to See http://youtu.be/_i3RI-B6Tb4

One of the most under-appreciated bands of the last half a decade for me. It's only a short fade-in, but it's cool.

The worst example is the first track on the third Mansun album, not least because it's a terrible song, and also because starting your album with a lengthy fade-in is a rubbish idea.

Cuttooth, awesome song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq07Q4CtA4I

Not a favourite, but definitely improved by the fade in.

Last Day Of Winter, and An Inch Above Sand.
Boards of Canada - Satellite Anthem Icarus (sort of).
David Bowie - Space Oddity.

Animal Collective - My Girls
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
Queen - I Want To Break Free

Re-Make/Re-Model
Ladytron
2HB
Serenade
Out of the Blue
Sentimental Fool (kind of)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6S9oqJRclo

please listen to this loud with headphones ALL The way thru
I used to listen to this full blast with full bins on so much.....its the zenith of the old school of pre punk rocknroll

best rock guitar and drum symphoney ever....looks like its wrong but completely different and awesome bits reward those who listen all the way thru (hat im trying to say is, dont just listen to a minute of it then look at the length of it and think thats it in its entirety.....best polished rock track ever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRQfUmL8uis

ok its not strictly a fade in, but its like the song itself replicates this.

I want this in juxtaposition to achilles last stand cos to me it represents a contrast to achilles last stand in its unpolishedness...its not punk, but its embracing of messyness is something that punk introduced most to, as an antidote to the overindulged overpolished nature of a lot of pre punk rock (which was derided as dinosaur rock, because it was mostly musically empty and just about technique (in my heart led zepplin deserve to be excused (to a degree) from punks reaction against them, as they were driven a lot, sonically rather than just the unpalatable guitar wankery that typified many rock bands before punk.....rock bands prior to punk were sort of working towards a nadir of style and technique over substance and passion.

PS I realise that this is ironic given that muse can be "as souless as a vampire playing an organ in a desecrated church in the middle of the night in a thunderstorm" despite their dirtyness and histrionicness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKDYyFf1s0I

another one that has the song doing the fade in equivalent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3-kq4EQ1vQ

nothing else introduced itself as boldly and brashly as this did before
the beatles - she loves you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0YifXhm-Zc

my mum brought this for me at its initial release when i was a kid :) 1963 I think

You people disgust me. :(

Yo La Tengo - I Heard You Looking
Built To Spill - The First Song
Spacemen 3 - almost EVERY song on The Perfect Prescription

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Sleater-Kinney?

or the penultimate one on the album. prob my favourite track, absolutely cracking.

If not, then I just did.

There are some great fade ins all over the Plasikman 'Musik' album. And that one off Songs For The Death 'You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar' that's all quiet then blasts your bonce off (or doesn't that count as a fade in?).

The shout for New Decade up above was a good one. Still a marvellous album and track.

because they don't give Pavlovian stress reaction thinking I'm recieving a call on my iphone.

Shouldn't the thread title be "...songs that fade IN"