Best intro to a song
 

Hi! What song in your opinion has the best,coolest,badass intro?Personally i really like intros in Black Night and Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple.All genres are welcome.

Deep Purple-Smoke On The Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M

Deep Purple-Black Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et3AJIry4iI

Fire on High and Twilight by ELO come to mind. One starts with spooky haunted house noises and backwards talking, and the other with a robotman telling you how dope shit is about to get. Such weird and badass ways to start songs.

Praxis - Interface/ Stimulation Loop

My Baby Must Be A Magician-The Marvelettes is pretty cool...Ain't Too Proud To Beg-The Temptations is a killer.

Sweat Loaf

I really hate to be predictable..............

Jesus Christ, where's ISIS when you need them?

Even the best of pop music intros pale in comparison to some classical music intros.

The first ~5 minutes of this is just about the best opening to anything anywhere. Especially if you really crank it up.

Came here to post that.

As a follow-up, do you call the album IV or [untitled]?

Zoso.

**** yeah.

Also...

This one is so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqvYi1s4NvY

I am listening to this song right now and for me sax intro is amazing.

The immense introductory buildup all the way to 25:20
The shift into even more massive buildup at 29:35
And the transcendence from 35:48 and onward

Three minutes of the intro are cut from the official video. Here's the full track, and it's amazing.

How about the tinkling piano intro to Flaming Telepaths on the Secret Treaties LP by BÖC?