TOP 90 GREATEST PIANO INTROS 

21:38. This one is my favorite. All of those complex harmonies bring a tear to my eye 😢

Great gig in the sky oughta be here

Not to sound like I'm obsessed with Billy Joel, but half of his catalog has piano intros at least as good as some of the ones you played. Just a few for thought: Miami 2017, Captain Jack, Summer Highland Falls, Streetlife Serenader, The Stranger, Vienna, Just the Way You Are, New York State of Mind, etc, etc.

Thanks for giving the Chopin a little more air than the rest

I can understand why you left it out as I noticed you played A Night At The Opera songs back-to-back, but the over 1 minute piano intro to Death On Two Legs is legendary in my mind and perhaps my favourite piano intro of all time.

Woke up, fell out of bed and listened while having my coffee. You just made my day David, thanks !

Also, Bruce Hornsby And The Range’s “The Way It Is” has a beautiful piano intro.

A few more to consider: Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills Rock The Casbah - The Clash Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos Down Among The Dead Men - Flash and The Pan (and also "Hey St Peter", but just for the piano playing & wonderful bright tone in general)

Please do a whole episode of playing Every Little thing she does is magic-its gorgeous!

I'm often in debate about what my favourite Springsteen album is: "Born to Run" or "Darkness on the Edge of Town". But man, those opening chords to Thunder Road... that song just twists my heartstrings instantly.

Joni Mitchell's Blue is such a timelessly beautiful and heartrending song.

I think you should include Tori Amos here or even analyse her piano playing in a separate video!! Brilliant pianist she is, besides being an amazing singer and songwriter :D

After 'Karma Police' I thought, OK, that's it for me, that was the last truly memorable bit. Then 'Lose yourself' stood out, which was kind of amazing to me 😅. That's an underrated intro right there. Good pick.

Nice work. A song for guy - Elton John, Piano man - Billy Joel, Tubular bells - Mike Oldfield, Against all odds - Phil Collins, Great gig in the sky - Pink Floyd, Dream on - Aerosmith.

Did not know that Mick Ronson played, in addition to guitars, these iconic piano phases for Bowie and Reed, too.

I started off so well... Somewhat of a shock how few of those I even knew. What on earth have I been listening to for the last 70 years?!

David’s whole vibe changed when he started playing Karma Police lol

Great job, everybody’s commenting what you should have done but I just think you did an amazing job performing! Nicely done David!

That Yamaha sounds great David. Really compliments your playing.

If you ever do another list: Across the Sea - Weezer Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp Death on Two Legs - Queen Life in a Glasshouse - Radiohead Leave the Door Open - Silk Sonic Aja - Steely Dan Sail On Sailor - The Beach Boys Nobody Home - Pink Floyd Jealousy - Queen High Hopes - Pink Floyd Don't Go Near the Water - The Beach Boys The March of the Black Queen - Queen You and I - Queen Codex - Radiohead Haunt You Every Day - Weezer The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis The Stranger - Billy Joel The Greatest Man That Ever Lived - Weezer A Trick of the Tail - Genesis Let Me Entertain You - Queen Longtime Sunshine - Weezer The Back Seat of My Car - Paul McCartney Watching the Wheels - John Lennon Isn't It A Pity - George Harrison I'm the Greatest - Ringo Starr Jacked Up - Weezer Mad Man Moon - Genesis Spectre - Radiohead Futari - Tatsuro Yamashita Cat Food - King Crimson Silly Love Songs - Wings Come and Get It - Badfinger Wild Honey - The Beach Boys Last Flowers - Radiohead You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone - The Beach Boys All This is That - The Beach Boys

Nobody Does It Better is really iconic!

"A Night At The Opera" is one of my favourite albums ever, and its four(!) entries here has to be one of the reasons why. Freddie was a genius.

So glad 1985 made it - I rarely see this fantastic song discussed! Nice work and EXCELLENT piano tone! 🕺

McCoy Tyner, my favorite pianist of all time. another honorable mention piano intro from 1967: She's a Rainbow by the Rolling Stones.

I like this partially because I enjoy hearing you play, but also because I discover new songs through it - and shows me where my blindspots are.

Was looking out for my personal favourite - 'Year Of The Cat' (love those maj7ths). Also, 'Walking in Memphis'..

This was the highlight of our night, David. Thank you so much for the thoughtful compilation.

Boomtown Rats I Don't Like Mondays totally iconic intro! Also The Elephants Graveyard by the Rats has a great piano intro too, courtesy of Johnnie Fingers.

The nostalgia you waking up with some of these intros! Well played as always David!👏

Thanks for including Runaway, I now know I can play one of the greatest piano intros!

Lovely to see you playing a piano with real strings and actions instead of the digital one. 👍👍🎹🎼🎶🎶😘

there is no better reason to learn piano ...good work, David!!

This was very well done, David. Thanks!

Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis 😊

I would like to see Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. That intro is the epitome of prog keyboard. I loved that you put Lady Stardust, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five, and the Night at the Opera ones! All of those are favorites of mine. Also, there was Karma Police but no Sexy Sadie lol

I was so pleased that you included Could it be magic, I was waiting for that one in the first video

@13:35 the intro to "This Year's Love" punches me hard every time I hear it, and I hear it A LOT. Delighted to hear it here.

Lady Grinning Soul is amazing... and on another note, I think Nicky Hopkins literally elevated every song he played on.

As far as piano intros, a couple of Cat Stevens songs come to mind--Morning Has Broken and Sitting. These two songs, as soon as I hear the intro I am already hooked. Keep up the great content, DB!

When you went into that Queen block, I was hoping for "Death on Two Legs" but I get that you can't just pick every Queen song for a compilation like this.

I don't know about greatness of piano intros but i always found those by twenty one pilots particularly fascinating. Especially some pieces from self-titled album feature some beautiful piano intros like "implicit demand for proof", "trapdoor", "addict with a pen" or "air catcher". Some pieces from other albums alao come to mind like "car radio", "goner" or "truce"

Great! Now for the next one: Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me, Tom Waits - Johnsburg Illinois, and I'm sure Procol Harum must have several, at least Grand Hotel.

Superb effort! Thanks for compiling this!!!

Thanks David, you've introduced me to quite a few great songs I haven't heard before.

Genesis - One for the Vine/Many Too Many C418 - Sweden Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Take a Pebble The Kinks - Denmark Street/Nothing to Say/David Watts Moby - In My Heart/18 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Soft Trees Break the Fall Aphex Twin - Avril 14th Steven Wilson - First Regret/3 Years Older Nils Frahm - Forever Changeless Porcupine Tree - Sentimental/Piano Lessons Yes - Awaken Frank Zappa - Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man Kate Bush - Room for the Life And your Thom Yorke fix... The Smile - Open the Floodgates

I really enjoyed this, David!

So many of my favorite and foundational songs of my life.

So good, David. Please make a Spotify playlist of all of these great piano intros. The world deserves to hear these before they die.

"Sing" is such a great pick ! I love its simplicity and I think the song on itself is one of the best shoegaze songs of all time !

Always enjoy your eclectic taste in music.. There's so much great music out there from all genres and decades.

I don't want to sound bias or anything but Queen's Seaside Rendezvous sounded so exquisite. I swear it did 💖. Great piano playing skills David.

Vanessa Carlton - "A Thousand Miles" deserve to be on your list I think :)

absolutely amazing

What an amazing sounding piano!

Thank you for reminding me of so many songs I’d forgotten to revisit.

Nightswimming is just about the only song (non-simplified) that I can play on the piano.

Wow! 12/10 video! I remember requesting Come Sail Away by Styx in an early video. Thank you for performing that as well as the other songs that deserve to be included. You string them along so well. You are a professional my friend. Always get excited to see these types of videos from you! Keep going!!

Excellent! I'm personally a fan of the intros to Hey Bulldog and Martha My Dear, too.

I knew it! I knew before watching this video, my favorite Ben Folds Five song will be on this list! I'm so happy you did include BRICK! (@12:25). Thanks and rock on!🥰🤗

Absolutely outstanding

I haven’t got to the end of the video yet but Roses by OutKast has such a cool piano intro! Great vid so far 👍🏼

Omg A Night at the Opera praise ahhhh I love it

Great video! Especially loved that you included Virtual Insanity, one of my favorites. Whenever you do the next one, I’d love to see Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear’s intro included.

This is so entertaining. I wrote down a few dozen that I will make a point to learn now. The tone on that piano is gorgeous

Thank you for including Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five I don't think that song gets enough recognition. Edit: And four songs from a Night at the Opera that I love! (Lazing on a Sunday afternoon and Seaside Rendezvous are so great)

i really appreciate because you put all intro songs based on timeline, thanks

Great job, Paul was a pretty good pianist..didn't realise

Great to see Mick Ronson in there - and in a piano intros video!

What a great collection. I know there’s many more songs that could be included. But I want to thank you for introducing me to stuff I hadn’t heard before.

Very nice video. Absolutely loved it even though I didn’t know all the songs.

Beautifully played Matey

Loved it

Trouble, Somewhere only we know? Great list of brit pop

Good stuff, inspirational! :)

Beautifully played and nice to hear a real hammer and strings piano. Brighton electric has the best acoustics of any rehearsal room in the city. Want to listen to a playlist of these songs now.

The ABBA's intros are so memorable!

Tori Amos- Precious Things, Winter, Silent All These Years / Jackson Browne- Doctor My Eyes/ Joni Mitchell- Woodstock( her original version from 1970 on piano) / Ray Charles- Hit The Road Jack

Those intros to "Trouble" by Coldplay and "Hoppípolla" by Sigur Rós gave me goosebumps. ❤

hoppípolla just hits on another level... especially once that bass kicks in. mega.

This reminds me of just how much I enjoy piano based popular music. I've had a lot of these songs on heavy rotation at some point in my life. Hoppípolla is the only one that gave me chills, and considering how many times I've heard it over the years, that's pretty special.

Nice to hear you play your piano, excellent

This is great! I would love to see Light Years by The National included in the following video!

17:57 thanks for including this, it’s a great piano intro that doesn’t get much love in these kinds of things

Amazing! Altogh for me personally linkin parks In the End and Robot Boy are some of my favorites

If you had played Death On Two Legs, you would've completed A Night At The Opera! Great video, by the way.

One of the greatest intros ever in music history is usage of up-tempo Bach's Prelude (and Fugue) N24 in B minor in Bad Romance, but i imagine it'd be quite difficult for you to play. I'd be remiss not naming Alejandro with its epic Czardas beginning. Actually, not a single Lady Gaga song is kind of a letdown. Telephone has got a great intro - simple, yet sophisticated. And Shallow, of course! Oh, Paparazzi was massive back then, and it's a real PIANO intro in the acoustic version.

That was so enjoyable.

One of my favorite channels 😍

They are all amazing intros. Here are my top three major modal ones!! 1. “My Immortal” - Evanescence Is it only me or is this one in a Sonata Form as entirely??? It’s my favorite key & it’s dominant!!! 2. “What I’ve Done” - LP 3. 9 Crimes - Damian Rice

Was watching this video and realized that there's a perfect piano intro that could've been on the list, but it's from the unknown Ukrainian band Тік - Апрєль. Not famous beyond Ukraine but quite iconic tbh. Makes me think of how much music is out there locked in their own countries and never reaching world audiences. How much we probably miss. Great list though! Thanks! Edit. Also remembered Happy End by the Ukrainian band Boombox. Also a crazy intro full of complex harmonies.

Great work David. How could you remember all the songs in the right order? Incredible feat if done in one take

Glad to see 21st Century Breakdown get a song on here. I’ve always loved ¡Viva la Gloria! and I think that intro could go on a future video if you ever do this again.

Loved the Coldplay!

I love this kind of videos! Some of the songs I would expect to hear are Evil woman (ELO), Good Times (Chic), Up where we belong (Joe Cocker), and Apologize (One Republic)

Wow...that "Watermelon man" at 1:10 brought me right back into Transport Tycoon 😲

Head Over Heals by Tears For Fears and I Don't Like Mondays by Boomtown Rats are both iconic 80s intros too - should be on the next one 😊

Awesome video

love this video david! Have you ever listened to any black country, new road? Id love to see you make a video analysing some of their stuff

Great video! Pavlov’s Dog’s “Valkerie” has also a beautiful piano intro.

First off, fantastic video. Boy the 60s and 70s talent shadows the rest.