Best Rock Intro Ever?

Axe

There's a whole pile of contenders for best intro, but my vote goes to AC/DC - Thunderstruck, an utterly kickass piece of guitar work from Angus, and great backing up with the vox and drums.

Pugsley

Metallica - master of puppets
Had a great intro, over a minute long and f*cking superb

OLDYELLAR

yeah master of puppets = flippin brilliant

Lemming

AC/DC: ThunderStruck
Metallica: Master of Puppets, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Led Zeppelin: StairWay to Heaven (sorry, but it has to be included), Rock and Roll, American Woman
Gn'R: Sweet Child O'Mine, Welcome to the Jungle
MeatLoaf: Bat of Hell / Anything for Love
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child (slight return), Little Wing
Motorhead: The Ace of Spades
Van Halen: Jump
Eric Clapton: Layla (original version)
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
Iron Maiden: Phantom of the Opera (the old daly thompson lucozade ad music)
The Rolling Stones: Paint it Black
Thin Lizzy: Parisienne Walkways, Dancin' in the Moonlight
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Eagles: Hotel California

Blarg .. my mind is not operating fully so I KNOW I'm missing stuff.

Anyway, before someone goes "OH MAN I can't BELIEEEEVE you listed that song" let me state that I'm not just picking songs based on technical merit, but rather also on the impression they leave on the listener, the imagery/emotion they invoke, and do they set the tone for the rest of the song, etc.

robz150

Some good ones

Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
GNR - Welcome to the Jungle
Stairway to heaven and Layla

Beruthiel

how in gods name can you just pick one???

anyway, first to mind today is..

smoke on the water - deep purple

Gordon

Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix *wakka wakka*

Tazz T

HIghway to hell is pretty cool and who doesn't know the start of Ace of Spades.

cournioni

Slayer - "Raining Blood", "South of Heaven" and "Dead Skin Mask".
Led Zeppelin - "Stairway To Heaven"
Pantera - "Cowboys From Hell" (the best in my opinion), "Domination", "A New Level" and "Avoid The Light"
Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath"
Iced Earth - "Traven In Stygian", "Dark Saga" and "Dantes Inferno"
Sepultura - "Troops Of Doom"
Ozzy Osbourne - "Mr. Crowley" and "Crazy Train"
AC/DC - "Hells Bells", "Highway to Hell", you name it!!
Down - "Eyes of the South"
Megadeth - "Hangar 18", "Holy Wars", and "Tornado of Souls"

Puca

Dont laugh, but Bon Jovis Let it Rock has a Calssic Organ intro which is **** hot

nosmo

Opeth - The Moor
Tool - Flood

Dredz

Have to include some Rage here, so:

People Of The Sun

No Shelter

Guerrilla Radio

Wake up

etc, etc.....

_sheep

'tallica - master of puppets

dregin

pumpkins - siva
metallica - master of puppets
nirvana - teen spirit

bye
dregin

nesthead

i do belive we are all forgetting Metallica - Am I Evil,

and as for rage intros, Bombtrack, In My Eyes and Wake Up

Slayer - Bitter Peace is also fuppin brill (love the the part when the double kick comes in)

Oeneus

Here's some Nightwish intros that make you cry!

Wanderlust
Sacrament Of Wilderness
Tutankhamen
Tenth Man Down
Crownless
Over the Hills And Far Away

Lemming

Originally posted by Oeneus
Over the Hills And Far Away

That sounds like a Divine Comedy song

(well, not a song. But it is a lyric from "Tonight we fly" - bloody good song too)

Crucifix

Metallica - Battery

TenLeftFingers

Entombed - Lights out
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Witchery - Midnight at the Graveyard (short but sweet)

Kali

led zeppelin - whole lotta love
led zeppelin - immigrant song
lynyrd skynyrd - free bird
led zeppelin - babe im gonna leave you

Drunk pirate

Pantera - (Reprise) Sandblasted skin, Clash with reality.

Metallica - Master of puppets (Words cannot describe) and For whom the bells toll (Best song ever).

mike65

The opening to Highway Star on Made in Japan works for me every time...

Mike.

cournioni

Originally posted by nesthead
i do belive we are all forgetting Metallica - Am I Evil,

Diamond Head do it better though.

Doodee

omg, whats wrong with you ppl.
Whiskey in teh JAR!!!!!!

Also Highway star and Smoke on the water by Purple are classics.

one more recently that whenever i hear i cant get outta my head is QOTSA - Feel good Hit of the Summer.

Lemming

Originally posted by Doodee
omg, whats wrong with you ppl.
Whiskey in teh JAR!!!!!!

I hang my head in shame ....... knew I forgot some songs, but not THAT.

EEP!!!:eek:

Dun

My favs in no particular order are:

G'n'R - Sweet Child of Mine
Metallica - Fade to Black, One (both send shivers up my spine), Creeping Death, Motorbreath
Pearl Jam - Corduroy, Spin the Black Circle
Nirvana - Aneurysm, Breed, Teen Spirit, Love Buzz,
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Though my all time favourite* has to be Nirvana's Radio Friendly Unit Shifter.

*Subject to change anytime

domeara01

wanderlust has the best ever intro. i was totally blown away by it. wanderlust by nightwish that is.
hotel of the white locust by glassjaw adn some of the glassjaw intros are deadly too.
satans says this.

Pencapchew

Nirvana - RFUS has a great intro, glad to see im not the only one. The version from MTV's live and loud is brilliant and my current favourite song.