Introduction, The Introduction, Intro, or The Intro may refer to:
Intro is an American R&B trio from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The trio consisted of members Jeff Sanders, Clinton "Buddy" Wike and lead singer/songwriter Kenny Greene. Intro released two albums (for Atlantic Records): 1993's Intro and their second album, 1995's New Life. The group had a string of US hits in the 1990s. The hits included the singles "Let Me Be The One", the Stevie Wonder cover "Ribbon in the Sky", "Funny How Time Flies" and their highest charting hit, "Come Inside".
Intro's Kenny Greene died from complications of AIDS in 2001. Intro recently emerged as a quintet consisting of Clinton "Buddy" Wike, Jeff Sanders, Ramon Adams and Eric Pruitt. Adams departed in 2014, with the group back down to its lineup as a trio. They are currently recording a new album to be released in 2015. The group released a new single in 2013 called "I Didn't Sleep With Her" and a new single "Lucky" in October 2014.
In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece, preceding the theme or lyrics. In popular music this is often abbreviated as intro. The introduction establishes melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic material related to the main body of a piece.
Introductions may consist of an ostinato that is used in the following music, an important chord or progression that establishes the tonality and groove for the following music, or they may be important but disguised or out-of-context motivic or thematic material. As such the introduction may be the first statement of primary or other important material, may be related to but different from the primary or other important material, or may bear little relation to any other material.
A common introduction to a rubato ballad is a dominant seventh chord with fermata, Play an introduction that works for many songs is the last four or eight measures of the song,
Play while a common introduction to the twelve-bar blues is a single chorus.
Play
eureka, eureka, eureka, the cheaper alternative
let's steal now, let's steal now, let's steal from the fashions with a [not to kill]
a [dealing, a dealing], a blow job for every corporate executive
a-when the lights go out it's you and [palace seats at home ]and turns around
you'll be there in your dressing-gown and sowing all the seams
be a [summer toth bath] 'cos you've gotta go free, you've got a backstage pass so you're V.I.P.
I bet you're happy right now but where will you be
when they ask you to beg for the cash you demand and you wake at a song 'cos it's all second-hand
so bleed it, so bleed it, so bleed like you need it, your free 60 seconds of fame
[they've seen it, they've seen it, they've seen all of bleed on the back of] again
but if you miss something don't look around there ain't no time you're losing ground
they own your flesh by pound by pound those cunts you chose to leave
CHORUS:
(it's) the cheapest thrill, and it's the quickest meal, try underkill
it's the cheapest thrill, it's the quickest meal
try underkill (x4)
(x2)
it's the cheapest thrill, and it's the quickest meal, try underkill
([a-when you don't keep still] try underkill) (x12)
I'll do anything, a-just as long as I feel
[we'll be big, tall, Nelson, live to fame]
be a rock'n'roll star [but a formula laid]
[we'll be big, tall, Nelson, live to fame]
and let's split, with the cash
(we only did it 'cos we're broke...)