Favourite Intro's to Rock/Metal songs.
 

Here we go.

What suckers you into listening to the rest of the song...

Pick your three most favourite introductions of all time. Or for now...

Mine in no particular order...
1) Tool - Sober -I love the way this intro builds.
2) Slayer - Skeletons of Society -I always get hooked listening to the driving rythem of this song.
3)AC DC - Thunderstruck -Ananananananana THUNDER ananananana THUNDER

Those are mine for now.

1) Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter
2) Eagles - Hotel California
3) Deep Purple - Child In Time

*drools*

Why did i say 3
I wanna add Layla by Eric Clapton now :(

Bother.

Bump! This thread didn't get a fair run i do believe, so i'll try this again:D

Please, continue...

Lit Up - Buckcherry
Wishbone - Dropbox
Woke Up This Morning - Alabama 3

Not sure if Alabama 3 counts as rock, but the beginning rocks.

slayer- rainging blood
drowing pool- tear away

1.) Pink Floyd- Have a Cigar ( love the opening bass)
2.) The Who - Magic bus (you cannot tell me you don't nod your head/tap your foot when the guitar comes in)
3.) The Doors - L.A. Woman

Fanfare for the common man - Emerson Lake & Palmer
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
The Pusher - Steppenwolf

1. Motograter - Red
2. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
3. Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator

statesboro blues - the allman brothers
rock and roll doctor - little feat

....i'll think on the third.

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Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Understated & funky)
Stooges - TV Eye (Iggy screaming at the top of his voice)
Massive Attack - Angel (Read my review of Mezzanine in the Urban 100 & you`ll see why I chose this in a 'ROCK' thread ;))

drowning pool - tear away
korn - blind
a perfect circle - the noose

The Doors - Riders on the Storm
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed-Girl

schism - tool
speak to me/breathe - pink floyd
when the levee breaks - led zeppelin

Boys Night Out "A Torrid Love Affair"
Converge "Two Day Romance"
Thrice "All Thats Left"

oh, and AC/DC - Hell's Bells

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Clutch - Mob Goes Wild
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

^good call on ride the lightning.

^ mos def......Seek and destroy's intro is ok too

AC/DC - T.N.T.
Turbonegro - Get It On
Metallica - The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

Turbonegro are good. I like.

Machine Head - Davidian
Superjoint Ritual - **** your enemy
Drowning Pool - Bodies

Dark Tranquillity - Doberman. Beautiful intro :)

dire straits - money for nothing
atreyu - bleeding mascara
slipknot - before i forget

The most beautiful intro I've ever heard is the one of "Le parrin" by Slash
I really love it!!

Damien - Iced Earth

both the operatic and acoustic parts.

confined- as i lay dying
zombie autopilot- unearth
this darkened heart- all that remains
like light to flies- trivium
pull harder on the strings of your martyr- trivium
Sadist Nation- darkest hour
all great intros

Rainbow- since you;ve been gone

Deep Purple- smoke on the water

meat Loaf- bat out of hell..(he, he- the motorbike!!)

Smoke on the Water. :clap:

I knewMetallica was getting in with one song, but I wanted to ignore the traditional MOP and Sandman answers and go with something that had a deserving nod. I think lightning has an unreal intro.

ACDC Back in Black

ACDC had heaps of good intros, apart from the ones already mentioned, Jailbreak, For those about to rock we salute you are great too

The Who - Wont get fooled again - wicked synth intro, same as baba oriley

Frank Zappa - Eat that question - what can beat that electric piano?

also, in the non rock category,

Sonny Rollins - St Thomas

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

AC/DC- hells bells
dir en grey- cage
malice mizer- beast of blood

One- Metallica
There are loads but I can't think right now...

Machine Head - From This Day
Pantera - Sandblasted Skin
KsE - The Element Of One

little wing/hendrix

Hells Bells and Back in black!!!!
They are just the best guitar intros!:cool:

1.Stairway to Heaven/Led Zeppelin
2.Close to the Edge/Yes
3.Iron Man/Black Sabbath
4.Pinball Wizard/The Who
5.Smells Like Teen Spirit/Nirvana
6.Money/Pink Floyd
7.Baba O'Riley/The Who
8.War Pigs/Black Sabbath
9.Roundabout/Yes
10.Helter Skelter/The Beatles

Face in The Sand - Iron Maiden
How The Gods Kill - Danzig
And another vote for Child In Time

I like Metallica's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (probably cause I am a bass player and there's a lot of awesome bass in it!...lol)

hells bells!