Which song has the best intro?

[Chaotic42]

I'm sitting here writing a paper for one of my classes and Baba O'Riley came on. I think it has to be one of, if not the best intro in all of musicdom.

What's your favorite?

 

[Anubis]

Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

 

[Via]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQifd7O_N5k

 

[Crono]

This song from Spongebob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E4MSI7mjww

 

[Tristicus]

Don't know, but I have a lot of favorites.

How Great Thou Art - Becoming the Archetype
The Best of Me - Underoath
Insane - Eminem
Either They Decorated for Christmas Early or They're Dead - He is Legend

 

[ProfJohn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQifd7O_N5k

Does that really count since it is really two songs?

If it did then Eruption would have to be the winner.

 

[Via]

Here's one for the glam rock crowd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCLXEzKBsP4&feature=fvst

 

[ProfJohn]

Over the Hills and Far Away. great guitar intro.

Hotel California. the intro to the live acoustic version from the concert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDPnoU5M908

 

[Anubis]

obligatory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

 

[Via]

This song has a great one imo:

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

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Here's one for the glam rock crowd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCLXEzKBsP4&feature=fvst

Fucking hate to admit to liking that

Contribution:

http://youtu.be/ySjXFjLTagQ

Don't care for the band or song, just like the intro.

And for the rockers:

http://youtu.be/07G2Fzj3riU

Lithium and a Lover

 

[Gibsons]

Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the sky. Hate the song, but the intro is iconic.

Iggy Pop Lust for Life

Led Zep - When the Levee Breaks

Beatles - I Feel Fine.

 

[MotionMan]

I particularly like the first 53 seconds of Metallica's "Sad But True"

Also, Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (first 59 seconds).

MotionMan

 

[mugs]

Pinball Wizard
Fire on High
Hot for Teacher
Locomotive Breath
I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (the album version that's ~12 minutes long)

Edit:
The Final Countdown!

 

[datalink7]

Freebird immediately sprang to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY

 

[Away]

Damage Inc.

 

[mugs]

Freebird immediately sprang to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY

It has such an awesome ending, I hadn't even thought about how good the intro is.

Free Bird haters are philistines.

 

[CallMeJoe]

I don't know if it was yet mentioned (can't click YouTube links at work), but I would nominate Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing.

 

[dwell]

Spirit of the Radio

 

[Anubis]

I particularly like the first 53 seconds of Metallica's "Sad But True"


there are a ton of old Metallica songs that have great openings

Nothing else matters
Master of puppets
Fade to Black
One
For Whom the Bell tolls
Creeping Death
...

 

[lxskllr]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues

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

 

[JackBurton]

Korn - Blind

 

[Jeffg010]

I like Sweet Child of Mine intro

 

[BrokenVisage]

Love Will Find a Way - Yes

Something Happened on the Way to Heaven - Phil Collins

 

[AstroManLuca]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aTYp8-O96M

Van Halen - Right Now

not my favorite song but I like the intro a lot