What are some of your favorite song intros?

[rtslinger]

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

This John Cougar I need a lover really cool

[ffutterman]

I'm a sucker for really slow intros that just keep building, and a couple of my favorites are

Professor Nutbutter's House Of Treats - Primus
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Shoots And Ladders - Korn

...I gotta explain that last one. The first time I heard the song, I thought "Man, this song's gonna rock!" It's got that great build with the bagpipes, then it kicks your teeth in with those Korn-ey chugs, and then what's-his-face starts to sing. So very, very, very disappointing. I still love listening to the intro, but I hit the skip button as soon as the singing starts. Ring Around the Rosie? Really? You've got an intro like that and think to yourself "You know what goes with this? Nursery rhymes."

[Richland123]

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Under Pressure - Queen
Dragon Attack - Queen
Takin' Care Of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Come Together - The Beatles
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
Everybody Wants You - Billy Squier
Johnny B. Goode - Churck Berry
Down On The Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Run Through The Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Walk Of Life - Fire Straits
Fast As You - Dwight Yoakam
All Right Now - Free
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
Devil Inside - INXS
Memphis - Chuck Berry or Johnny Rivers
Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers
All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks
You Really Got Me - The Kinks
Some Kind Of Wonderful - Soul Brothers Six or Grand Funk Railroad
We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
My Sharona - The Knack
Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
Dirty Water - The Standells
I Got A Line On You - Spirit
Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
The Joker - The Steve Miller Band
Swingtown - The Steve Miller Band
Jet Airliner - The Steve Miller Band
Life Is A Highway - Tom Cochrane
867-5309 Jenny - Tommy Tutone
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
La Grange - ZZ Top
Cars - Gary Numan

[N.F.A.]

Monterey
When I Was Young

Both of them by the Animals

[Richland123]

Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
China Grove - The Doobie Brothers
Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers
Listen To The Music - The Doobie Brothers
Hold On Loosely - .38 Special

[MD]

Stanly Clark, Chic Corea, John McLaughlin - Song to John (part 1)

[Guitalia]

Manifesto - Roxy Music (with the great Alan Spenner on bass; once the song intro is over, halfway into the track, listen to his lines):

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

[N.F.A.]

Crooked Bird - Gas Huffer
Fire on the Mountain - Grateful Dead I especially like the one off Dead Set with the angry bee sounding guitar. Any version really...
The Pride - Isley Bros. Funky clavinet and bass. Heck yeah!
Living in the Past - Tull
1983 - Hendrix
Hey Baby - Jimi
Turn to Stone - Joe Walsh
God's Gonna Cut You Down - The Man in Black
Since I've Been Loving You -Zep
Valleri - Monkees That killer flamenco sounding guitar
Golden Age of Rock and Roll - Mott
When Doves Cry - Prince

[dougazbass]

Turn up the Radio by Autograph.

[funkyjudge]

There have been many great songs/song intros already mentioned here, several of which I would have listed if they weren't already included. So, here's a few more of my favorites that have not yet been listed (in alphabetical order; not necessarily in order of favor):

"Ball of Confusion" - Temptations
"Hump de Bump" - RHCP
"I'll Take You There" - Staple Singers
"Peg" - Steely Dan
"What is Hip?" - Tower of Power
"You're Still a Young Man" - Tower of Power (quite possibly my favorite intro; certainly my favorite horn intro)

[jpTron]

-Thunderstruck. One of the best intros in music. After that intro the song falls off a freakin' cliff and sucks, just like every other ACDC song.
-Suffocation - Pierced from within
-Metallica - and Justice for all
-The Dillinger Escape Plan - Panasonic Youth/When Good Dogs do Bad Things/Sugar Coated Sour
and many more.

[Depth_Charge]

Favourite intro? Fun topic. These spring to mind:

Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
Dream Theater - As I Am
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Korn - Got The Life
Mudvayne - Dig
Slayer - Criminally Insane
Pungent Stench - Daddy Cruel

After those I'd have to look through my iPod.

[Trayster2]

BEST intros EVER:

"Sweet Child 'O Mine" GNR
"Baba O'Riley" The Who
"Crazy Train" Ozzy Osbourne

[plankspanker13]

+1 for Time, Starship Trooper, Josie and Tarkus, to which I will add:

Karn Evil 9 - ELP
Take a Pebble- ELP
Midnight Cruiser - Steely Dan
Green Earrings - Steely Dan
The Ikon - Utopia
The Seven Rays - Utopia
Jungle Love- Steve Miller Band
Every Hour - Mexico 70
With a Canteloupe Girlfriend -The Three O'Clock
Summer '68 - Pink Floyd
Sheep - Pink Floyd
D.C.B.A. 25 - Jefferson Airplane
Just One Victory - Todd Rundgren
Turn Me On - The Tubes
Take It Easy - Eagles
Witchy Woman - Eagles
Hotel California - Eagles
Love Her All I Can - Kiss
Let Me Know - Kiss
Bacchus Plateu - Rush
South Side of the Sky - Yes
Elephant Talk - King Crimson
The Sheltering Sky - King Crimson
Disco Suicide - Brand X
T*tties & Beer - Zappa

...and I will probably think of more.

[sarcastro83]

Originally Posted by N.F.A.

Check out his live in Zaire version of The Payback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thIHkG9PaVo

This is really cool... also, his backup dancer is smoking hot.

I forgot to add The Cramps cover of Can't Hardly Stand It... so bloody good.

[Richland123]

Song For America - Kansas
Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
In The Dead Of Night - U.K.
Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan
Money - Pink Floyd

[guitardefector]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned one of the best intros relating to BASS which is "Little Green Bag" by George Baker Selection?? I'm daring enough to say that the 'whole' song is mostly bass.

[john m]

Lazy ---Deep Purple
Going Down--- Jeff Beck
Reelin' in the Years- Steely Dan

[OPBASSMAN1994]

Rush - Xanadu.

I don't believe I've ever heard a more epic intro.

[Richland123]

Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf