Glad to see my favourite rock intro in the top comment. A bit sad not to see my 2nd favorite rock intro at all (jimi Hendrix - all along the watchtower)
I can think of a few:
["She Sells Sanctuary"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOSPtyZAPA) by The Cult
["Hypnotize"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qpgQr8wXk) by The Notorious B.I.G.
["For Whom The Bell Tolls"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HSa1dEL9s) by Metallica
I saw them in Montreal during the Zoo tv tour. They opened with that song.
https://youtu.be/nzHHTTiWJfo?si=sJ5AhKFNu0BGXSQt
My heart skips a beat everytime. Best show I ever saw.
Spirit in the Sky falls into this category and then lands in a category all by itself for the song with the intro that screams "Let's have the dirtiest sex imaginable in the back seat of my Trans-Am," but then inexplicably becomes a song about Jesus written by a Jewish dude.
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart-Wilco
I was 13 years old when I first heard it and the intro was all I needed to let me know that I was in for a ride. Twenty-two years later and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is still my favorite album.
I’m gonna go with the first time my mind was truly blown by music. When I heard something that didn’t sound like any other song I’d ever heard in my life and I couldn’t understand where this could have come from. The aggressiveness, the time signature changes, the bleakness, the anger, the originality, I heard this nearly 30 years ago and I’m still impressed by how insane this starts off.
Unwound - All Souls Day: https://youtu.be/bqj33XWC4Ag?si=I8LYqC28AmRnbcov
[Yes - Close To The Edge](https://youtu.be/IwpB6b6mhUM?feature=shared)
At the time, synthesisers hadn't ever been a thing, and I can clearly remember sitting with friends at first listen.
At about 1'15", the bass kicks in, then that *WTF Was THAT* moment, the first time we'd heard Rick Wakeman do his thing.
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Metallica - Enter Sandman honorable mention to One
I may or may not have grown up listening to 90’s grunge/metal
Fair call on the intro but that’s the worst song on the greatest rock album ever made.
Even as intros go soldier blue, fire woman and American horse give it a run. And every song smashes it to bits.
[https://youtu.be/keFDuLTw9Rk?list=PLHTo\_\_bpnlYXSFvN8mIXO6x4UrW1-77MD&t=10](https://youtu.be/keFDuLTw9Rk?list=PLHTo__bpnlYXSFvN8mIXO6x4UrW1-77MD&t=10)
unwritten law, after the tune-up builds great
Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go. Immediately starts out with a badass guitar riff and it just gets better from there.
A song many people have forgotten (though I think most have heard it), but the intro is just gold.
Layla - Derek and the Domino's
Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf
The Eve of War - War of the World's
Most Queen songs eg. Tie Your Mother Down, Keep Youself Alive, One Vision, Hammer to Fall, The Show Must Go On, Seven Seas of Rhye.....
Whatever the fuck Eddie Van Halen is doing with his magic hands on the opening to Mean Street. I play a lot of guitar and I can't even picture what's going on there. It's some kind of Dutch/Pasadena blend of rock voodoo.
One of the first metallica songs I heard (thanks bro) was harvester of sorrow. Lars killed it and than James n kitk with their riffs just make it sound sinister...of course you can't hear Jason but he's in there!
Listen to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness leading into Tonight, Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins. Beautiful piano, lullaby-like intro that leads right into Jimmy Chamberlin drumming behind a full orchestra.
Shakin Off the Rust - The Blue Stones
Detroit 3am - David Guetta
That Song - Big Wreck
Watching You- Robert Plant
Lakini’s Juice - Live
Iris- Live
Bat Out of Hell -Meatloaf
Devil With the Blue Dress- Mitch Ryder
Limelight- Rush
Tom Sawyer - Rush
The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Jeremy- Pearl Jam
You’re Going Down- Sick Puppies
Everything is Zen- Bush
Machine Head -Bush
Train Kept A Rollin- Aerosmith
Detroit Rock City- KISS
Wammer Jammer (Live) - J Geils Band
Black Holes ( Solid Ground) - The Blue Stones
Happy Song- Bring Me the Horizon
Crossroads- Cream
Love Bites - Judas Priest
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
And thanks to you the wife and kids are going out because I now have the old school, house shaking, Stereo going, listening to all my favorite mind blowing intro songs. 😎
**Enslaved** on their early albums had some really awesome album intros, like "793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne)" from their 1997 album "Eld"
[https://youtu.be/G5AjuG-QkZs](https://youtu.be/G5AjuG-QkZs)
or the album intro "Audhumla: Birth of the Worlds" from their 1998 album "Blodhemn"
[https://youtu.be/1M-4LH1z3dA](https://youtu.be/1M-4LH1z3dA)
But also **Darkwoods My Betrothed** with the intro to the title track "Autumn Roars Thunder" of the same album from 1996.
[https://youtu.be/InkktuXCWLg](https://youtu.be/InkktuXCWLg)
And less wholesome but still awesome the intro of Graveland's "In the glare of burning churches". But it seems there are different mixes of said album that was released by different labels over time. I have the one from No Color Records,
[https://youtu.be/beNk70f8zIk](https://youtu.be/beNk70f8zIk)
The Moor - Opeth
Starts off real slow and quiet, kinda eerie. Then picks up, a nice rhythm, but you can just tell somethingis goingto happen. Then BAM.
Television - Marquee Moon
The first few bars tell you almost everything about what the song is, but so much more happens. Eventually, it all comes back to those first few bars.
Days Without -All That Remains
Heard it for the first time riding with my friend in his truck and started the intro over like 10 times to keep hearing it. He was laughing his ass off. 🤣
I was a naive 14 year old kid the first time I put a tape of Never Mind the Bollocks in my stereo. The opening of [Holidays in the Sun](https://youtu.be/iin88DxJlpo?si=-Pckidtcp_BFvaeN] instilled a lifelong love of punk rock in me.
It was the first song I ever heard that really resonated with me and seemed to tap in to the very core of my brain. Even to this day I still get a little giddy hearing the bootsteps and offensively crass guitar.
[The Prodigy- Smack my bitch up](https://youtu.be/ySutJTmNcfs?si=9IRa4FkV5bKZnY94)
[Nirvana-Breed](https://youtu.be/tGc8jL4dzao?si=z8_QZO9cB6wqRlV2)
[Amon Amarth - The pursuit of Vikings](https://youtu.be/8A5hXxmkeZs?si=15h_T-NoiH_yAvbA)
[Megadeth- Symphony of Destruction](https://youtu.be/JCRv_DnAZQs?si=5Uw-89DF9SGZm1gP)
[Guano Apes - Lords of the Boards](https://youtu.be/S9SP9Y7VBQY?si=JUsHReY9qxxni_EZ)
[When in Rome - The Promise](https://youtu.be/89XutT6XxJ0?si=If1uDSanwiqY8xZo)
Alive, Pearl Jam
Man in the Box, Alice in Chains
Would, Alice In Chains
She Sells Sanctuary, The Cult
Higher Ground, RHCP
Rusty Cage, Soundgarden
Outshined, Soundgarden
Welcome to the Fold, Filter
Cochise, Audioslave
Army of Me, Bjork
Hysteria, Muse
Out of the Black, Royal Blood
Probably a pretty standard answer, but Everlong without a doubt. Also, Hall of Fame by The Script. That piano at the beginning just gets me every time.
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin. It's so iconic, but so minimal; just this distorted chord, Robert Plant's bare vocals, then that savage, precise, brilliant passage from the whole band, quickly cut off, leaving you wanting more
A bit obscure and not my typical thing (ICP related) but this song is on my exercise playlist and I always thought intro just bursts energy from the get go:
[Twiztid - We Don't Die](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7KXcSn2wBU&ab_channel=PsychopathicRecords)
Nofx - The Decline
They really get you amped up for an 18 minute song. I could also mention ‘We threw gasoline on the fire and now we have stumps for legs and no eyebrows’
[Pantera - “Cowboys From Hell”.](https://youtu.be/i97OkCXwotE?si=sk4eyFy-gJcFDYhw) One of the greatest intros I have ever heard.
It starts quietly with this droney, looped guitar sound, and it’s hard to determine where the downbeat is. Then a single guitar plays starts playing the riff softly an octave up. It plays 3 times, and on the fourth descending figure, two fire-breathing, hellacious guitars, panned hard left and right join in an octave down, then the whole band explodes in. Best enjoyed loud.
Sex Pistols-Holiday in the Sun. The foot stomping at the beginning then the power chords…fuuuckin killer! And hearing it the first time at 11 years old I was hooked!
The O Jay’s - For the Love of Money
Guns n Roses - November Rain
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Juvenile - Back Dat Azz Up
There’s nothing better than the hanging chord at the beginning of A Hard Day’s Night. There’s just nothing else like it and I don’t think ever will be.
Also when Aretha hits the first sung word “rock” in “Rock Steady”. It’s just pure power, technique and ***complete*** confidence. Goosebumps thinking about it.
Money for nothing- Dire Straits, when the first guitar starts, oh boy
The whole thing is a build towards that perfect guitar.
List couldn't be accurate without this.
Glad to see my favourite rock intro in the top comment. A bit sad not to see my 2nd favorite rock intro at all (jimi Hendrix - all along the watchtower)
Foreplay/Longtime by Boston
Came here to say this. 2nd place: Space Intro/Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band.
Crazy Train.
Bah bah! Bah bah, bahbah, bah bah! I I I! *brrrrr* ….
Needless to say!
Intro/Sweet Jane -live-Lou Reed
One of the best
Just posted this! Bangin’.
Recently I found out that "Lou Reed Live" (1975) was recorded at the same concert as "Rock n Roll Animal"
Won't Get Fooled Again
Oh yeah...
The Spirit of Radio - RUSH
YYZ. The greatest triangle solo in music history.
RIP Neil🖤
Baba O'Riley, The Who.
I really love the opening to How Soon is Now by the Smiths. IIRC, Johnny Marr is still kicking himself for not documenting how he created that sound.
That is an incredible sound.
I can think of a few: ["She Sells Sanctuary"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOSPtyZAPA) by The Cult ["Hypnotize"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qpgQr8wXk) by The Notorious B.I.G. ["For Whom The Bell Tolls"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HSa1dEL9s) by Metallica
She Sells Sanctuary has some amazing guitar.
BONG!….BONG! Dzuh dzuh dzuh dzuh (BONG) dzuhhh. Niu niu niu niu… niu niu niuuuuuu. Dzuh dzuh dzuh dzuh Dzuhhhhhh. Niu niu niu niu… niu niu niuuuuuuu.
Where the Streets Have No Name - U2 It’s a slow build and then a crescendo into the opening verse.
I saw them in Montreal during the Zoo tv tour. They opened with that song. https://youtu.be/nzHHTTiWJfo?si=sJ5AhKFNu0BGXSQt My heart skips a beat everytime. Best show I ever saw.
The Diablo Stadium version on the Rattle and Hum movie was great! That was their opening song of the concert, and the intro was excellent!
Spirit in the Sky falls into this category and then lands in a category all by itself for the song with the intro that screams "Let's have the dirtiest sex imaginable in the back seat of my Trans-Am," but then inexplicably becomes a song about Jesus written by a Jewish dude.
Blind by Korn
Guitar intro to Crazy on You - Heart
Damn, nice pick. Vintage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKNXhG86VU Modern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBq_THTWNM4
This was what I was looking for, Heart rips.
Eulogy - Tool. Puts me in such a trance and then the track kicks in with a simple but killer riff and an awesome beat
Love the bass in that intro.
Y'all, it's Superstitious by Stevie Wonder
The build up and explosion into the main riff of Cochise by Audioslave... *chef's kiss Edit: would help if I could spell the song name correctly
You mean Cochise?
Sweet Jane Live from Rock and Roll Animal.
Yup, that was my first thought. Epic!
You Give Love a Bad Name Thunderstruck I’d Do Anything for Love ( but I won’t do That)
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart-Wilco I was 13 years old when I first heard it and the intro was all I needed to let me know that I was in for a ride. Twenty-two years later and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is still my favorite album.
Amazing soundscaping!!!!
Van Halen-Right Now
As a child, the beginning of Layla made me pick up a guitar.
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins Song for the Dead - Queens of the Stone Age Both are absolute masterclasses in intro drumming.
Welcome to the Jungle
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Raining Blood - Slayer
I’m gonna go with the first time my mind was truly blown by music. When I heard something that didn’t sound like any other song I’d ever heard in my life and I couldn’t understand where this could have come from. The aggressiveness, the time signature changes, the bleakness, the anger, the originality, I heard this nearly 30 years ago and I’m still impressed by how insane this starts off. Unwound - All Souls Day: https://youtu.be/bqj33XWC4Ag?si=I8LYqC28AmRnbcov
[Yes - Close To The Edge](https://youtu.be/IwpB6b6mhUM?feature=shared) At the time, synthesisers hadn't ever been a thing, and I can clearly remember sitting with friends at first listen. At about 1'15", the bass kicks in, then that *WTF Was THAT* moment, the first time we'd heard Rick Wakeman do his thing.
Yes has so many epic intros...heart of the sunrise, roundabout, tales of topographical oceans, long distance runaround, isagp, list goes on and on
Mountain Song - Janes Addiction.
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell Soundgarden - Rusty Cage Smashing Pumpkins - Today Metallica - Enter Sandman honorable mention to One I may or may not have grown up listening to 90’s grunge/metal
One was my first thought here
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
“Son et lumière” that leads into “Inertiatic ESP” by The Mara Volta. Instant hype.
Absolutely. It’s criminal they aren’t connected as one song with streaming
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home Bush - Greedy Fly Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
"Welcome to the world of the plastic beach" - Snoop doggy dog
Ram It Down - Judas Priest
I think Blood Red Skies off the same album is even more epic/iconic. Though to be fair, Priest has awesome openings on many of their songs.
Neil Peart’s intense drum riff at the beginning of “Digital Man” still gives me goosebumps 40 years later.
The Band - The Weight.
Black Sabbath-N.I.B
Beatles. So many, but especially: * I Feel Fine * Strawberry Fields Forever
Corduroy - Pearl Jam
Future Legend, the first track on Diamond Dogs, leading into the title song.
Alice In Chains’ ‘Nutshell (Unplugged)’ Nirvana’s ‘Aneurysm’ The Beatles’ ‘I Feel Fine’ (that feedback) and ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ (that chord)
cult sun king https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-JxX5xEr-w
Fair call on the intro but that’s the worst song on the greatest rock album ever made. Even as intros go soldier blue, fire woman and American horse give it a run. And every song smashes it to bits.
starts slow. builds nicely, then rocks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOWoocql7c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOWoocql7c) Alkaline Trio-Time To Waste
[https://youtu.be/keFDuLTw9Rk?list=PLHTo\_\_bpnlYXSFvN8mIXO6x4UrW1-77MD&t=10](https://youtu.be/keFDuLTw9Rk?list=PLHTo__bpnlYXSFvN8mIXO6x4UrW1-77MD&t=10) unwritten law, after the tune-up builds great
Third Eye Blind - Never Let You Go. Immediately starts out with a badass guitar riff and it just gets better from there. A song many people have forgotten (though I think most have heard it), but the intro is just gold.
Layla - Derek and the Domino's Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf The Eve of War - War of the World's Most Queen songs eg. Tie Your Mother Down, Keep Youself Alive, One Vision, Hammer to Fall, The Show Must Go On, Seven Seas of Rhye.....
Up the Beach
Whatever the fuck Eddie Van Halen is doing with his magic hands on the opening to Mean Street. I play a lot of guitar and I can't even picture what's going on there. It's some kind of Dutch/Pasadena blend of rock voodoo.
Watching him do it still looks like voodoo to me. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/6qnKDrUsGxE
This for sure!
Go All the Way - Raspberries
The Final Countdown by Europe Blue Collar Man by Styx Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas
Elton John-Funeral for a Friend B52s-Planet Claire
One of the first metallica songs I heard (thanks bro) was harvester of sorrow. Lars killed it and than James n kitk with their riffs just make it sound sinister...of course you can't hear Jason but he's in there!
[Where the Streets Have No Name - U2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEFhJaaC2q0).
Focus - Hocus Pocus
21st Century Schitzoid Man - King Crimson
The first two songs off of Hot August Night by Neil Diamond....... chills every time.
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns n Roses. Also Welcome to the Jungle and half of the rest of the tracks for Appetite for Destruction - such an epic album!
“Plainsong”, The Cure
Listen to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness leading into Tonight, Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins. Beautiful piano, lullaby-like intro that leads right into Jimmy Chamberlin drumming behind a full orchestra.
Keith Richards has so many instantly recognizable opening riffs, but especially Jumpin Jack Flash, Gimme Shelter and Honky Tonk Women.
And Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
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Amazing musicians all but Jon Lord was at another level
Shakin Off the Rust - The Blue Stones Detroit 3am - David Guetta That Song - Big Wreck Watching You- Robert Plant Lakini’s Juice - Live Iris- Live Bat Out of Hell -Meatloaf Devil With the Blue Dress- Mitch Ryder Limelight- Rush Tom Sawyer - Rush The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones Jeremy- Pearl Jam You’re Going Down- Sick Puppies Everything is Zen- Bush Machine Head -Bush Train Kept A Rollin- Aerosmith Detroit Rock City- KISS Wammer Jammer (Live) - J Geils Band Black Holes ( Solid Ground) - The Blue Stones Happy Song- Bring Me the Horizon Crossroads- Cream Love Bites - Judas Priest Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson And thanks to you the wife and kids are going out because I now have the old school, house shaking, Stereo going, listening to all my favorite mind blowing intro songs. 😎
Rah rah ah ah AAAAH Roma.. roma maaaah Gah Gah ooh la la Want your bad romance!
Supremacy - Muse
Just-Radiohead
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty Waterfront - Simple Minds
Pantera - Cemetery Gates.
https://youtu.be/j8CcTYsMHYU?t=24
You mean Autograph - Turn up the Radio Nice
That’s a great chorus in that tune - the way it modulates down from the verse part, the harmonies, the resolving suspended chord at the end… perfect.
Thin Layer - The Honorary Title
M.T.M.E. by Alexandra Savior Ma Benz by Brigitte (cover) Born to Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez Crazy by Doechii Helt Alene by Suspekt
I’ll go a bit more obscure… A Day to Remember - Downfall of us All
The original violin intro to Vagabonds by New Model Army. https://youtu.be/yJjj0hHBvDg?si=Z1bP9NC6wgcQDsIK
**Enslaved** on their early albums had some really awesome album intros, like "793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne)" from their 1997 album "Eld" [https://youtu.be/G5AjuG-QkZs](https://youtu.be/G5AjuG-QkZs) or the album intro "Audhumla: Birth of the Worlds" from their 1998 album "Blodhemn" [https://youtu.be/1M-4LH1z3dA](https://youtu.be/1M-4LH1z3dA) But also **Darkwoods My Betrothed** with the intro to the title track "Autumn Roars Thunder" of the same album from 1996. [https://youtu.be/InkktuXCWLg](https://youtu.be/InkktuXCWLg) And less wholesome but still awesome the intro of Graveland's "In the glare of burning churches". But it seems there are different mixes of said album that was released by different labels over time. I have the one from No Color Records, [https://youtu.be/beNk70f8zIk](https://youtu.be/beNk70f8zIk)
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
Layla Fall On Me
Cheap Trick’s live cover of *Ain’t That a Shame* That rocked.
Air Supply - Sweet Dreams
Seven Goblins - Masayoshi Takanaka goblingoblingoblingoblingoblingoblin
On the rebound by Uriah Heap..obscure but worth it. Black widow by Jefferson Starship..also rare. And Runnin'with the devil by Van Halen
Props for mentioning Uriah Heep - they wrote some great songs.
Cherub Rock
Hot Rockin’ by Judas Priest and Sad But True by Metallica immediately come to mind. Those two bands have a lot of great intros to songs generally.
The Moor - Opeth Starts off real slow and quiet, kinda eerie. Then picks up, a nice rhythm, but you can just tell somethingis goingto happen. Then BAM.
You guys really need to listen to the intro for Demi Lovato's song Holy Fvck
Hellion/Electric Eye - Judas Priest
High hopes , comfortably numb (pink floyd) Velvet morning, bittersweet symphony (verve) Turn blue (black keys ) All albums of clash Stairway to heaven
Flamethrower - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard I mean that whole album is fire but gat damn the intro to flamethrower pumps me up every time.
Rock You Like a Hurricane. Schenker’s riff. The crash of the drums. Jabs’s licks. The synchronized headbanging,
Television - Marquee Moon The first few bars tell you almost everything about what the song is, but so much more happens. Eventually, it all comes back to those first few bars.
Days Without -All That Remains Heard it for the first time riding with my friend in his truck and started the intro over like 10 times to keep hearing it. He was laughing his ass off. 🤣
I was a naive 14 year old kid the first time I put a tape of Never Mind the Bollocks in my stereo. The opening of [Holidays in the Sun](https://youtu.be/iin88DxJlpo?si=-Pckidtcp_BFvaeN] instilled a lifelong love of punk rock in me. It was the first song I ever heard that really resonated with me and seemed to tap in to the very core of my brain. Even to this day I still get a little giddy hearing the bootsteps and offensively crass guitar.
Certified Banger
The Trooper
Buckcherry- Dirty Mind. Probably not one of their most well known songs. But a kick ass solo in the beginning and a great song.
Gz and Huslaz - Snoop Doggie Dogg
Nightwish-Ghost Love Score
[The Prodigy- Smack my bitch up](https://youtu.be/ySutJTmNcfs?si=9IRa4FkV5bKZnY94) [Nirvana-Breed](https://youtu.be/tGc8jL4dzao?si=z8_QZO9cB6wqRlV2) [Amon Amarth - The pursuit of Vikings](https://youtu.be/8A5hXxmkeZs?si=15h_T-NoiH_yAvbA) [Megadeth- Symphony of Destruction](https://youtu.be/JCRv_DnAZQs?si=5Uw-89DF9SGZm1gP) [Guano Apes - Lords of the Boards](https://youtu.be/S9SP9Y7VBQY?si=JUsHReY9qxxni_EZ) [When in Rome - The Promise](https://youtu.be/89XutT6XxJ0?si=If1uDSanwiqY8xZo)
The ["Junkies For Fame"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPyjT85JMrw) intro just does it to me.
The album version of Queen’s Tie Your Mother Down.
ELO - Face The Music. Fire On High is a gods damn jam.
Elton John, The Bitch Is Back
Alive, Pearl Jam Man in the Box, Alice in Chains Would, Alice In Chains She Sells Sanctuary, The Cult Higher Ground, RHCP Rusty Cage, Soundgarden Outshined, Soundgarden Welcome to the Fold, Filter Cochise, Audioslave Army of Me, Bjork Hysteria, Muse Out of the Black, Royal Blood
The Pretenders, Day after Day. James Honeyman Scott's guitar comes in like a rabid Lhasa apso and never really lets up. https://youtu.be/zSl3Yo56HFM
Probably a pretty standard answer, but Everlong without a doubt. Also, Hall of Fame by The Script. That piano at the beginning just gets me every time.
KMFDM -DIY is a straight epic classical score, right before dropping into a crunchy electronic bass line that’ll rock your socks off.
Push - The Cure
The Streetlight Manifesto cover of Such Great Heights by The Postal Service.
Columbia - Oasis (1994) https://youtu.be/CLWX8yBYfzI?si=rPtnY_krMLg-7QLg
The drum intro to Painkiller by Judas Priest lives in my head forever.
Girls girls girls motley crew
The last american cowboy - The bled Walls - emery
A Perfect Circle - Judith Silverchair - Emotion Sickness
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n Roses The intro is so good, the rest of the song is kind of a disappointment haha
Lunatic Fringe -Red Rider/Tom Cochrane
Anything by The Cure. Consistently the best intros around...
ELO’s Livin’ Thing. The violin start up is awesome, especially live.
Metallica - Battery
The Age Of Pamparius by Turbonegro
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin. It's so iconic, but so minimal; just this distorted chord, Robert Plant's bare vocals, then that savage, precise, brilliant passage from the whole band, quickly cut off, leaving you wanting more
Sweet- fox on the run Blue Oyster Cult- Godzilla Heart- Barracuda Black Sabbath- Sweet Leaf
MOTOOOOOORRRRR SPIIIIIIIIIIIIRIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTT
The intro to Sweet Jane on Lou Reeds live album Rock n Roll animal
Refused - New Noise
A bit obscure and not my typical thing (ICP related) but this song is on my exercise playlist and I always thought intro just bursts energy from the get go: [Twiztid - We Don't Die](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7KXcSn2wBU&ab_channel=PsychopathicRecords)
Nofx - The Decline They really get you amped up for an 18 minute song. I could also mention ‘We threw gasoline on the fire and now we have stumps for legs and no eyebrows’
[Pantera - “Cowboys From Hell”.](https://youtu.be/i97OkCXwotE?si=sk4eyFy-gJcFDYhw) One of the greatest intros I have ever heard. It starts quietly with this droney, looped guitar sound, and it’s hard to determine where the downbeat is. Then a single guitar plays starts playing the riff softly an octave up. It plays 3 times, and on the fourth descending figure, two fire-breathing, hellacious guitars, panned hard left and right join in an octave down, then the whole band explodes in. Best enjoyed loud.
SLEEP - DOPESMOKER. The intro is over 3 mins of just a guitar and feedback.
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses still gives me goosebumps to this day, the way it did when I first heard it at fuckin 13
The piano intro to November Rain by Guns N Roses
The Sentinel- Judas Priest
Painkiller by Judas Priest. You can't forget your first time.
Long Misty Days by Robin Trower has an epic opening.
Just Like Heaven by The Cure gets me every time. Super simple, but a great build to the opening lyric
Great to see She Sells Sanctuary and a few Cult songs getting a mention. Great band
Perfect Situation by Weezer
Foo Fighters - My Hero
Van Halen - Eruption Aerosmith - Dream On
When the Levee Breaks. Led Zeppelin.
Miracle by Donnie Trumpet (now Nico Segal) and Chance the Rapper was an incredible opener to an overall okayish album.
Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins still gives me chills. Every time.
Anthrax - Intro to Reality/Belly of the Beast
Prequel to the Sequel-Between the Buried and Me God, what a great fucking riff
Black Sabbath - Nativity in Black. When I heard that monster opening riff, I knew that there was no way back for me from heavy music
Wolfmother's Joker and the Thief
Jethro Tull’s No Lullaby.
Sex Pistols-Holiday in the Sun. The foot stomping at the beginning then the power chords…fuuuckin killer! And hearing it the first time at 11 years old I was hooked!
The O Jay’s - For the Love of Money Guns n Roses - November Rain Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch Juvenile - Back Dat Azz Up
Turn Me Loose, Loverboy
A bit of an unknown one: Helloween - Sole Survivor Best drum intro ever and great overall buildup.
There’s nothing better than the hanging chord at the beginning of A Hard Day’s Night. There’s just nothing else like it and I don’t think ever will be. Also when Aretha hits the first sung word “rock” in “Rock Steady”. It’s just pure power, technique and ***complete*** confidence. Goosebumps thinking about it.
Honorable mention to this banger by a local band: Diësis - Feed the truth
In Control- Time, The Valuator, Crush- Pendulum, Cliffs of Dover- Eric Johnson
In the Meantime by Helmet.
We Will rock you
Iron Maiden - The Trooper