Part 2 - Greatest Intro's ever

[GuitarHack]

Van Halen - "Mean Street"

 

[threeminutesboy]

Heroes Bowie for the EBow riff
Seasons End Marillion for the arpeggio
Shine on your crazy Diamong Pink floyd for the liquid guitar
Start Me up The Rolling stones for the killing riff
Baker Street Gery Raferty for the sax
Josie Steely Dan for the magic touch
Bubble Star (Live) Laurent Voulzy for the Pink EVH is guitarist is using

and many more

 

[koogie2k]

Seven Nation Army.....LOL....kidding.

I was always a fan of:

House of the Rising Sun
Cliffs of Dover
NIB - Sabbath version
Money
Smoke on the Water
Hot for Teacher (Even though I am not a fan of EVH....still killer beginning)

This could be endless for me....so I will stop now.

 

[stratovarious]

Unchained - Van Halen
5150 - Van Halen
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath (DIO)
Knockin' At Your Back Door - Deep Purple
Moonchild - Rory Gallagher
Beat it - Micheal Jackson
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

 

[mbgreene]

Since I was just listening last night

Over the Hills and Far Away

And just to expand the category to great intro's that are probably better than the actual song:

The Song Remains the Same

 

[brentrocks]

day tripper....beatles
rock bottom...KISS
burnin' for you...BOC
mainstreet..... bob seger and the silver bullet band
runaway....bon jovi
more than a feeling...... boston
stranglehold....nugent
modern day cowboy....TESLA

i could go on for hours......

 

[DrKev]

This one goes in the outro section too...

Luke on "Better World, parts 1, 2& 3" on Toto's Mindfields album.

 

[Enforcer84]

Sweet Jane...Lou Reed live a long time ago

I love that one. Or at least a Lou Reed Intro I have a recording of if you are referring to a particular concert.

For me:

More than a Feeling
Till It's over - Billy Squier (from Enough is Enough)
Crazy over you? - Heart, one of their big songs has a beautiful intro. I think that's the one.
Rock Bottom - Kiss
The Lucky One - Loverboy
The Kid is Hot tonight - Loverboy
Head Games - Foreigner


...going the other way, the coolest jam out (?) was Changing Times by Nazareth. Cool cool cool.

 

[Beth]

Welcome to the forum, Enforcer!

Foreigner's got some good hits -- I love the intro for Jukebox Hero, but I think someone beat me to the punch on that one. That intro literally gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

-Beth

 

[Enforcer84]

Welcome to the forum, Enforcer!

Foreigner's got some good hits -- I love the intro for Jukebox Hero, but I think someone beat me to the punch on that one. That intro literally gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

-Beth

Thanks!
I love that Avatar.

Honorable mention:

Take me to the Kaptain - Prism
I believe in a thing Called Love - The Darkness

 

[peter71]

Enforcer, you dolt!

All good picks. I also have to add:

Darkness and Signal to Noise - Peter Gabriel
Fith of Firth and The Knife - Genesis

(Pattern? I don't think so)

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

and my favorite...

The Flinstones Theme Song. You cannot deny that when you hear that Yabba Dabba Doo, you know exactly what is coming next! A half hour of Hanna Barabara Madness!

 

[Enforcer84]

Enforcer, you dolt!

All good picks. I also have to add:

Darkness and Signal to Noise - Peter Gabriel
Fith of Firth and The Knife - Genesis

(Pattern? I don't think so)

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

and my favorite...

The Flinstones Theme Song. You cannot deny that when you hear that Yabba Dabba Doo, you know exactly what is coming next! A half hour of Hanna Barabara Madness!

Kiss my heinny!

oh, and Crazy Train!
That's a nice intro.

 

[Enforcer84]

Oh! how could I forget!

Baba O'Reilly! & Won't get fooled again - The Who
Two awesome intros.

 

[Ali]

Boys Of Summer- Don Henley.

If there was ever a song you can recognise from just the first note, its that one.

 

[mbgreene]

Locomotive Breath - full intro w/piano melding into ...waka waka waka wak

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

There ar so many! Maybe a little Bohemian Rhapsody gentlemen?

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Van Halen - "Mean Street"

Now that kicks!

 

[savannah_sean]

How about "sister christian"...especially the scene in Boogie Nights where Alfred Molina is totally jamming out to it, right before things get violent.

 

[DaveB]

A couple of more recent additions to the list.....

Vicarious - TOOL

Welcome Home - Coheed and Cambria

Dave

 

[fogman]

Rock 'n Roll ~ Led Zeppelin
Foreplay - Long Time ~ Boston
Child in Time ~ Deep Purple
Perfect Strangers ~ Deep Purple
Knocking at Your Back Door ~ Deep Purple
Slow 'n' Easy ~ Whitesnake
No One Like You ~ Scorpions
The Hellion - Electric Eye ~ Judas Priest
Couldn't Stand the Weather ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
Baba O'Riley ~ The Who
In the Beginning - Shout at the Devil ~ Motley Crue
Hot for Teacher ~ Van Halen
Why Can't This Be Love ~ Van Halen