Which song has the best intro?

[DivideBYZero]

Another Van Halen classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFHkkxEr8aA

 

[DivideBYZero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx86CxKYtg0

 

[twinrider1]

Maybe this isn't what you meant, but this is my favorite into......

J. Geils -- Must Of Got Lost

Hold on this song has a little introduction to it
It's ain't supposed to be sad though you might feel it that way
It's a song about desperation
Every now and then we do get desperate

This is a song about L-O-V-E,
And if you abuse it you're gonn' lose it
And if you lose it you're gonn' 'buse and
If you 'buse it you ain't gonn' be able to choose it
'Cause you ain't gonn' have it further on down the line
Things ain't gonn' be so fine
You're gonn' to be sitting there on your little machine
Tryin to look and keep it clean and
You're going to be home playing bingo all night all alone
And that's why your sittin' there by the telephone
And you know that she ain't goin' to call you!

So you put on the TV and you're watchin' Johnny Carson
Seguin' right into the Tomorrow show
But that don't got the go so you turn it off ya turn on the radio
The radio don't' seem to get the click so you say
"Hey Man, I can't lickety split"
You start to open up a little book
And there's somethin' there you got to overlook
And you say "Baby, you know there's somethin' on my mind!
"You say "Baby there's somethin' on my mind
I know that you're home and I know you ain't all alone! "

So you start walking over to her house
And you get over to her house
And you walk over to her door and
You start poundin' on her door and you say
"Open up the door bitch!?
This is wooba gooba with the green teeth, let me in!!"

Well, she opens up the door
And then you just kinda walk up to her and say
"Baby", (say Baby!) you look up way up at her green mascara
And you say "Oh my darling
You know her and me was at the party as friends
Do not believe what they say
That's only gossip that they tellin' ya
A wise crack of lies!"
You say Darling!!!

Take your big curls and squeeze them down Ratumba -
What's the name of the chick with the long hair?
(Rapunzel!) Hey Rapunzel!
Heh heh... Hey Reputa the beautah! Reputa the Beautah!
Hey Reputa the Beautah flip me down your hair
And let me climb up to the ladder of your love!!
Because this is the wooba gooba sayin to ya
"Love comes once and when it comes
You better grab it fast 'cause sometimes the love
You grab ain't gonn' last and
I believe I musta
You know I think I musta,
You know baby I think I musta
You know I think I musta
I musta got lost!!!!!!!

 

[Jaepheth]

Beatles' Carry that Weight had such an awesome intro they gave it its own track (Golden Slumbers)

 

[buffaloe420]

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
For y'all have knocked her up.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I knew I had to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit.

guitar in this song is killer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12pywl9zNIE&feature=youtube_gdata

long song but if you like lead guitar you going to love this

 

[cardiac]

Locomotive Breath

This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgfHz792Kqs

 

[Fritzo]

Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2 popped into my mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJaVph-9Do

 

[ahenkel]

Qotsa -Regular John (Especially the live version)

 

[glenn1]

This is probably the best answer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI


If you're looking for something in the rock venue, this would be my nomination:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8VTlXVqUQ&feature=related

 

[Fritzo]

This is probably the best answer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI


If you're looking for something in the rock venue, this would be my nomination:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8VTlXVqUQ&feature=related

Whiny singer that looks like Michael J Fox.

No.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Coheed & Cambria - Welcome Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abJYXY3mPjs

Muse - hysteria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7la0SndoCI

The Who - Baba Oreilly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUBTX9kKEo

Dropkick Murphy's - Shipping up To Boston (short but good)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzF0hHb7xMc

 

[Loop2kil]

WTF no one mentioned ACDC - Thunderstruck

All the Metallica has already been mentioned.

Slayer - Divine Intervention - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esT7pTZ1DnM - particularly starting at 00:54..Sends chills up my spine.

Slayer - Cult - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J11s-hXrew

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOwBs-XHIo4

 

[Loop2kil]

I don't like Anthrax as a band at all...hate the vocals but this intro is pretty cool.

Anthrax - Finale - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAr41cycWIE

 

[Iron Woode]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIjUY3pjN8E

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LRtjVt0LUc

 

[zinfamous]

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?

yeah, it's either that or Three's Company theme.

fuck yeah, man.

Rock on.

 

[zinfamous]

A lot of greats mentioned in the thread, and many by this band right here...though I'm rather astonished that this has not been mentioned yet.

I mean, barely one second in, and you fucking know what is about to happen when you hear this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eFn8Cgcx8g

 

[zinfamous]

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

Free Bird haters are philistines.

:thumbsup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-rnmSQXE9Q

that's probably my favorite song anywhere. always has been.

though I'm quite partial to this opening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlJWis5wH54

 

[zinfamous]

lol.

did anyone mention this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8

 

[Cerb]

Rainbow - Kill the King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkSHHK7WlAw

The top comments are gold.

How's about Thick as a Brick? There was even a lone version of just the intro. Not an epic intro, but still...

A few favorite intros, not yet mentioned:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkanocYiQ1Q
Tarot Woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUAekdWSO4
Spreading the Disease

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcVvjRNuTR4
Muddy Jesus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDprOYJ3CJo
Mr. Crowley

 

[vi edit]

I don't like Anthrax as a band at all...hate the vocals but this intro is pretty cool.

Anthrax - Finale - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAr41cycWIE

Be All, End All is on that same album and even better....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J-gFEvv0fc

 

[Fritzo]

lol.

did anyone mention this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8

 

[Loop2kil]

Be All, End All is on that same album and even better....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J-gFEvv0fc

Yeah I had forgotten about that one...pretty killer intro but then Scott opens his mouth and I want to punch my speakers.

 

[Ns1]

Tool - Eulogy

one of my favorite at over a minute long


Also love Pink Floyd - Time (Live in London / Pulse version)

 

[BrokenVisage]

Another Van Halen classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFHkkxEr8aA

Yeah VH has some of the best intros ever, especially with some of the ballads they do like 'Can't Stop Lovin' You' and 'Dreams'. And lest we forget the greatest guitar solo of all-time is technically the intro for their cover of 'You Really Got Me'

 

[zinfamous]

Hehe, I considered posting that image in place of the link.