What's the greatest intro in the world?

[uppernotmaster]

Apologies if I missed it but has Hot for Teacher been mentioned? That intro kicks ass.

[PNWbrit]

More Jam, one can never have too much Jam.

[Buster Highmen]

And the first rap style thing I ever heard with a killer intro:

[Buster Highmen]

And can't leave out XTC:

[waxman]

How Soon is Now-Smiths

or spoken word:
Hello my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to die.

[PNWbrit]

Another great XTC intro

[Buster Highmen]

And here's another classic XTC kicker with one of your ex-clients cameo I believe:

[Tippster]

Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"



Aerosmith - "Sweet Emotion"

[PNWbrit]

How Soon is Now-Smiths

Well payed sir!

See also: Charming Man by same

[Tippster]

Well payed sir!

See also: Charming Man by same

See also: "What Difference Does It Make?"

[Meadow Skipper]

Then there's The Byrds Eight Miles High...

We might have the winner right there. One of the greatest intros ever.

[Steven S. Dallas]

"Cowgirl in the Sand" is a great call. That first huge chord feels like there's a giant wave breaking over you.

My Morning Jacket's "One Big Holiday" gets me pretty jacked and pumped, too.

[Furry Eldo]

Step On - Happy Mondays
Vapour Trail - Ride
Fool's Gold - Stone Roses
Club Foot - Kasabian

[dookeyXXX]

i've always been partial to Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages."


the whole "unta-gunta-gleeben" (or whatever the hell the dude is saying) jibberish is classic, like a muppet talking with a mouth full of meds.

[Huckin eh?]

No one has mentioned it so I will.

THE DANDY WARHOLS - Bohemian like you!

[wicked_sick]

I don't know about best in the world, but I've always liked:

- Strength of the World - Avenged Sevenfold
-Crazy on You by Heart
- Longview - Greenday
- Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

Money for Nothing
Thunderstruck
Rock n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

[The AD]

How about The Clash's "White Riot" with the siren?

[bagtagley]

I like how Van Morrison's Gloria (and every other version, I suppose) basically jumps right into the song's rhythm. It's like you caught it a few seconds after some really exciting intro.

He's got a lot of good intros.

[peterslovo]

I've loved the funky, totally weird beginning intro to ELO's Fire on High. Goosebumps.

[Jer]

Det Som Engang Var or War Pigs.

Or Close to the Edge.

[schindlerpiste]

All along the Watchtower - Hendrix
Smoke on the Water
Roundabout
Innagoddadavita

For the obscure: Superstrut: E. Deodato

[FrankZappa]

Need some old classics in here too.

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

I can't remember what songs they were, but I do remember picking up the needle on the 45's and starting the songs over and over again when I was little. I just digged those old intros. Prolly was stuff like The Monkeys, maybe some Beatles...

I saw part of some show on PBS last nite about a bunch of groups from the sixties. Lotta those old songs had masterful intros.

[board]

I'm late to the party here so allot of my favorites have already been mentioned but this has to rank right up there; short, sweet, simple and so damn jealous I didn't write this riff myself.

This song could start another category as well “best interlude”

[Jer]

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Joe Walsh - criminally underrated guitar genius.

Actually Ravel wrote the interlude for The Bomber. I like it better as part of Joe's song than as part of Bollero though.

Funk 49 (off the same album) had a very memorable, if short intro.