What are your favourite intros to songs? Here are some of mine

Four Tops- I Can't Help Myself
Four Tops- Reach Out I'll Be There
Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street
Elton John- I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
Christopher Cross- Sailing

Sweet Child O Mine
Let's Go Crazy
Blue Monday
Come Together
Song 2
Baba O'Riley

seven seas of rhye - queen

Muse - Plug In Baby. That riff guys...that riff!

its a bit different but I always liked the intro to wish you were here - pink Floyd

Layla - Eric Clapton
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Baba O'Reilly - The Who
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
One of These Days - Pink Floyd
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)- Jimi Hendrix

U2 - Where the Streets have no name
Stevie Wonder - I Wish and Superstition
The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
The Moody Blues - I'm just a singer in a Rock N'Roll Band
The Temptations - The Law of the Land and Papa was a Rollin Stone
New Order - Ceremony
Stone Roses - Waterfall
Roxy Music - Love is Tbe Drug
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Cure - A Forest
The Bryds - Turn, Turn, Turn

crazy by seal
/the first song on coldplay ghost stories album cant think of the name of it right now

"It's Britney, bitch"

So many great Pink Floyd intros. I'd pick Dogs and The Great Gig In the Sky as my favs.

Vogue by Madonna. That instrumental at the beginning is everything and when she says 'strike a pose' for the first time. 👌

Queen: Tie Your Mother Down, Another One Bites The Dust and Seven Seas Of Rhye.
Status Quo: Down Down, Caroline and Backwater
AC/DC: It's A Long Way To The Top, Back In Black and Let There Be Rock
Deep Purple: Highway Star, Burn and Speed King
Led Zeppelin: Black Dog, When The Levee Breaks and Kashmir
The Who: Baba O Riley, Wont Get Fooled Again and Join Together

Britney Spears- ...Baby One More Time
Kate Bush- Wuthering Heights
Abba- Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man after Midnight)
The Smiths- This Charming Man
Chaka Khan- I feel For You

The boys are back in town - thin lizzy

Actually **** it the whole song is brilliant

The brilliant intro to The Jam's News Of The World. Sublime guitar work and chord and tempo charges. Also Pink Floyd's long but beautiful intro to Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Radiohead's irreal dreamy intro to Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong, Street Spirit and No Surprises. Plus David Bowie's Ashes To Ashes, Heroes, Station To Station and Space Oddity.

Heart Of The Sunrise - Yes.

Crusaders - Street Life
The Motors - Dancing The Night Away.
Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno
U2 - New Years Day
Beatles - Day Tripper
The Byrds - 8 Miles High
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Cream - I Feel Free
Status Quo _ Whatever You Want
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take 5
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
Abba - Dancing Queen
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
Genesis - Down And Out

If "intros to songs" includes the first lines of lyrics, then . . .

Björk: Venus As A Boy
His wicked sense of humour
Suggests exciting sex

Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song
Well, my friends are gone
And my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play

The Mutton Birds (writer Don McGlashan): She's Been Talking
At the high tide line
Driftwood and shells
That's where she said
We could leave our clothes
Where the moonlight dissolves in the wet sand

thanks for the thread

No Quarter - Led Zepellin

The single first note of Sara by Bob Dylan ( on the album Desire ) makes me sigh every time I hear it.

Pinball Wizard - The Who
Hotel California - The Eagles
Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
Sympathy For the Devil - The Rolling Stones

some very good nominations... i think my fav is

public image - public image ltd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZ8unRm2c

I Fought The Law - The Clash

I love the gathering drumroll, going from almost silent to the loud, energetic guitar intro.


Just thought of another.. I must love brief, dramatic drum-based intros because I also love the "du-bu-dumdum du-bu-dumdum" of Up The Junction by Squeeze.

Nirvana - smells like teen spirit
M jackson - billie jean
Acdc - highway to hell
Jimmy h - voodoo child
Toto - love isnt always on time
Duran duran - planet earth
Ha ha - living daylights
Gladys knight - license to kill

We Found Love- Rihanna.

It's so distinctive. As soon as the first bar plays everyone always goes mental.

I've never seen a song get a bigger reception in a club like that song.