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ZeeZee Senior MemberPosts: 28,076 Senior Member
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What are some of your favorite song intros?  Regardless the rest of the song, you just think the intro is badass. 

Money for nothing - Dire Straits 
https://youtu.be/JRDgihVDEko

La Grange - ZZ Top
https://youtu.be/Gg9cNGHl-bg

Enter Sandman - Metallica 
https://youtu.be/87by1DjfxLw


"To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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  • ZeeZee Senior Member Posts: 28,076 Senior Member
    #2
    Hotel California (Hell Freezes Over) - The Eagles
    https://youtu.be/btTALvD2wIs
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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  • jaywaptijaywapti Senior Member Swampland, FLAPosts: 5,100 Senior Member
    #3
    40 miles of Bad Road
    Duane Eddy

    Wanted Dead or Alive
    Bon Jovi

    Elk Hunt
    Trevor jones

    JAY
    THE DEFINITION OF GUN CONTROL IS HITTING THE TARGET WITH YOUR FIRST SHOT
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  • JayJay Senior Member New Mexico/TexasPosts: 4,553 Senior Member
    #4
    I'll go with all the ones Zee listed and add;

    Kinda mood and activity dependent.  I can't post YouTube links at the moment.

    Metallica has a bunch of great intros. The Four Horsemen, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Master of Puppets rank up there.  But the list could go on.

    Push It - Static-X

    Down With the Sickness - Disturbed

    Hells Bells and Thunderstruck - AC/DC


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  • ZeeZee Senior Member Posts: 28,076 Senior Member
    #5
    Damn near every AC/DC song intro is iconic. But, some notable. 

    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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  • Wambli SkaWambli Ska Posts: 4,644 Senior Member
    #6
    Zee said:
    Hotel California (Hell Freezes Over) - The Eagles
    https://youtu.be/btTALvD2wIs
    One of the best song beginnings, middle and end.  Arguably the best rendition of one of the best songs ever recorded and it was recorded LIVE!!!!

    The whole album is amazing and one of my favorites!

    It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎

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  • JKPJKP Senior Member North FloridaPosts: 2,678 Senior Member
    #7
    Stone Sour - Song #3

    https://youtu.be/K73-hmaHPHY
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  • PFDPFD Senior Member PNWPosts: 1,841 Senior Member
    #8
    Foreplay (intro to Long Time) Boston.
    Intro to Angry Young Man by Billy Joel.
    I think I have Hell Freezes Over. Need to put that on the USB thingy in the car.
    That's all I got.

    Paul
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  • BigslugBigslug Senior Member Posts: 9,706 Senior Member
    edited November 2022 #9
    Zee said:
    Damn near every AC/DC song intro is iconic. But, some notable. 

    Moneytalks

    Does Who Made Who even HAVE an intro?

    U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name, Vertigo

    Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

    Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some

    And the Weakness-For-A-Rickenbacker-12-String-Sound:  The Byrds - Feel a Whole Lot Better, Mr Tambourine Man, and Tom Petty Listen To Her Heart and American Girl.


    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • Diver43Diver43 Senior Member Between Ft Lauderdale and MiamiPosts: 12,565 Senior Member
    #10
    Sweet  Child O Mine, Guns N Roses
    Crazy Train Ozzy Osbourne
    Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 

    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
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  • BigslugBigslug Senior Member Posts: 9,706 Senior Member
    #11
    Beatles - Revolution

    Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (That opening bass line is an ear-worm and a half)
    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • ZeeZee Senior Member Posts: 28,076 Senior Member
    #12
    Some really goods ones mentioned. Some I know and others I’d never heard. Nice. 
    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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  • JayJay Senior Member New Mexico/TexasPosts: 4,553 Senior Member
    #13
    Walk - Pantera
    https://youtu.be/AkFqg5wAuFk

    Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
    https://youtu.be/xvaEJzoaYZk


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  • JayJay Senior Member New Mexico/TexasPosts: 4,553 Senior Member
    #14
    Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
    https://youtu.be/bMPlPJP2brw
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  • JayJay Senior Member New Mexico/TexasPosts: 4,553 Senior Member
    edited November 2022 #15
    While thinking of “favorite song intros,” of course I think of the more iconic ones. At least the ones I like. Thinking of the ones that, almost no matter what’s happening, will get me moving, head nodding.. I might like the song. I might just like the intro…

    It got me to thinking of those kinds of songs. And there are two that, while the intro isn’t iconic or even very spectacular, the start of the song gives me goosebumps or even makes the hair on my neck stand up. 

    Loud and Heavy - Cody Jinks
    https://youtu.be/cd5pORQP1z4

    Pretty much starts with vocals. I guess because that song just HITS me. But the intro to that song gets a physical reaction pretty much every time. 

    No Words - Cody Jinks
    https://youtu.be/bDtnrOGwpig

    Again, just the intro to that song gets me. Always loved it and loved the song. 

    A friend of mine from work committed suicide a few years ago. This was one of the songs his daughter chose to play during the video eulogy at his funeral. The intro to that song literally makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time I hear it……. 

    More of a personal thing than the iconic song intros. The intros themselves aren’t even that special.  But as soon as they start, my attention is somewhere else for a bit. 
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  • rberglofrberglof Senior Member North DakotaPosts: 2,985 Senior Member
    edited November 2022 #16
    Ventures - Walk Don't Run -  House of The Rising Sun
    Dire Straits - Sultan Of Swing
    Santana - Black Magic Woman
    Cream - White Room  -  Sunshine Of Your Love
    Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit 
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  • centermass556centermass556 Senior Member Posts: 3,579 Senior Member
    #17
    These are all good. I'll Add 

    Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper

    Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight

    Led Zeppelin - Stair Way to Heaven (surprised no one said this one yet)

    Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta love - Its short, but that guitar rift....

    Black Sabbath - War Pigs

    Alice Cooper - Poison 

    Joan Jett - I love Rock N Roll ( same as Whole Lotta love...)

    White Snake - Here I go again



    Most all Santana Songs

    "To have really lived, you must have almost died. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
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  • BigslugBigslug Senior Member Posts: 9,706 Senior Member
    #18
    Foghat - Slow Ride

    Stones - Gimme Shelter

    Metallica - Anywhere I Roam
    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • centermass556centermass556 Senior Member Posts: 3,579 Senior Member
    #19
    Bigslug said:
    Foghat - Slow Ride

    Stones - Gimme Shelter

    Metallica - Anywhere I Roam
    The Stones do have some good intros - 

    Paint it Black is probably my favorite, followed by Sympathy for the Devil and Gimme Shelter..



    Has anyone mentioned a song made after 2000?
    "To have really lived, you must have almost died. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
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  • gunner81gunner81 Member Posts: 655 Senior Member
    #20
    Lou Reed intro to sweet Jane
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  • CHIRO1989CHIRO1989 Senior Member Central MNPosts: 14,671 Senior Member
    #21
    Blue Oyster Cult: The Black and Silver
    Ozzy: Flying High Again
    Motorhead; Ace of Spades
    White Stripes: Icky Thump
    Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire

    I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
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  • PFDPFD Senior Member PNWPosts: 1,841 Senior Member
    #22
    centermass556 said:



    Has anyone mentioned a song made after 2000?
    Interesting observation.
    Ok, Love Lies Bleeding, Elton John.
    That's all I got.

    Paul
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  • BigslugBigslug Senior Member Posts: 9,706 Senior Member
    #23
    Def Leppard's Photograph and Pour Some Sugar On Me are their obvious ones, but this thread dredged Gods of War out of the depths of my brain.  30 years on, and it seems I'm still mourning the loss of Steve Clark's talent.  :'(

    If Van Halen's Eruption is the intro to the intro of their cover of the Kinks You Really Got Me, then both have to rate pretty high.

    Beatles - Ticket to Ride (another hit on the 12-string Rick crack pipe)

    Now, for Zee's condition that only the intro has to be badass. . .most radio stations seem to regard Queen's We Will Rock You - which I like -  as the obligatory intro to We Are The Champions - which I really don't care for. . .almost to the point of wanting to phone in to request that they play the one and specifically NOT the other, JUST to leave those accustomed to hearing the double hanging. :D
    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • JKPJKP Senior Member North FloridaPosts: 2,678 Senior Member
    #24
    Five Finger Death Punch - Far from Home
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  • Elk creekElk creek Senior Member Colorado!Posts: 7,717 Senior Member
    #25
     
    Rise, Cult
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_cjlwsyXyos
    Aim higher, or get a bigger gun.
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  • Diver43Diver43 Senior Member Between Ft Lauderdale and MiamiPosts: 12,565 Senior Member
    #26
    Lady in Black by Uriah Heep
    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
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  • Elk creekElk creek Senior Member Colorado!Posts: 7,717 Senior Member
    #27
    La Roux, going in for the kill. 
    Aim higher, or get a bigger gun.
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  • Elk creekElk creek Senior Member Colorado!Posts: 7,717 Senior Member
    #28
    She sells sanctuary, The Cult. 
    Aim higher, or get a bigger gun.
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  • Wambli SkaWambli Ska Posts: 4,644 Senior Member
    #29
    centermass556 said:
    These are all good. I'll Add 

    Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper

    Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight

    Led Zeppelin - Stair Way to Heaven (surprised no one said this one yet)

    Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta love - Its short, but that guitar rift....

    Black Sabbath - War Pigs

    Alice Cooper - Poison 

    Joan Jett - I love Rock N Roll ( same as Whole Lotta love...)

    White Snake - Here I go again



    Most all Santana Songs

    Saw him in his goodbye tour in Madison Square Garden.  The whole song was an intro to the moment Phill gets to the drums.  They turned all the lights off before the song started and it was outright eerie, and you couldn’t see anything at all, pitch black, and when Phill broke out with the drums they shined a huge spotlight on him and he was on a platform about 50 feet in the air above that stage.  He almost brought the Garden down!  Wife and I were 3 rows from center state, one of the best concerts I ever attended!

    It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎

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  • BigslugBigslug Senior Member Posts: 9,706 Senior Member
    #30
    Elk creek said:
    She sells sanctuary, The Cult. 
    Oh HELL yes!  And how did we get this far into this list without. . .

    Guns N Roses - Paradise City?
    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • jbp-ohiojbp-ohio Senior Member Pensacola, FLPosts: 10,836 Senior Member
    #31
    In the days of the cassette tape, I considered some instrumental songs as intro's into the following song.....

    Eruption/ You really got me (Van Halen)
    (Anesthesia) – Pulling Teeth/ Whiplash
    "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
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