best song intros

[trashy]

What song intros do you love? Sometimes, I listen to the song intro over and over again, because I think it's so great. Like:
Elvis Costello "Watching the Detectives"
Stevie Wonder "Have a talk with God"
The Clash "Guns of Brixton"
Radiohead "Airbag"
Blur "Girls & Boys"
Beach Boys "Wouldn't it be nice"

Although the last song sort of violates this rule, I'm thinking of songs that don't necessarily get better after the intro. Like Neutral Milk Hotel's "Holland 1945" has a great intro, but the song is so freakin' good you forget about the intro.
Any others?

[aurelialuz]

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[Rick Hunter]

Mr. Bungle...Girls of porn
Morrisey...jack the ripper
Tool...stinkfist

[doyoudigworms?]

rem - gardening at night

every oasis song although I actually think oasis has some good tunes

im not sure what the name or anything but they play it on oldies 95.7fm all the time, and Im sure they do in your town.

"I was walking down the street one day...Does anyone know what time it is?"
after the intro I gotta turn the station

every yes song. although same with oasis.

[Randy]

"That's When I Reach for My Revolver" Mission of Burma

"Public Image" Public Image Limited

"Gotta Get Away" Stiff Little Fingers

"Anthrax" Gang of Four

"Steelworker" Big Black

Guess who's about 40 and plays bass...

[Randy]

im not sure what the name or anything but they play it on oldies 95.7fm all the time, and Im sure they do in your town.

"I was walking down the street one day...Does anyone know what time it is?"
after the intro I gotta turn the station

I just realized, that is the band Chicago.

Thanks, now I have to go listen to 5 hours of the Swans to wash that song out of my head.

[swingdoc]

two biggies gotta be:

Little Wing - Hendrix

Bloody Well Right - Supertramp

a distant third,
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

[tactics]

Black Sabbath- 'Sweet Leaf'
Kyuss-'Freedom Run'
Radio Birdman-'Monday morning gunk'
The Stooges-'TV Eye'
Chocolate Watch Band-'Voyage of the trieste'
Monster Magnet-'Nod Scene'
Pink Floyd-'Astronomy Domine'

[cassembler]

Yeah, Kyuss "Freedom Run" is a great intro for the two-minuters. (Side note: the last song on that album is still the shortest one I own at 3 seconds long.)

Dream Theater "Caught in a Web"

Tool's "Prison Sex"

[tactics]

Ive often imagined 'Freedom Run' as a whole movie similar to the first Terminator or Escape From New York.With the album 'Blues for the red sun' as the soundtrack.

[soundhack]

do the 5 notes that start "get a grip on youself" (stranglers) qualify as an intro? one of my all time favorites

i always crack up when i hear the intro to "ride my see saw" (moody blues) on the art bell show.. (after every late session)

[cassembler]

Oooh, I heard one last night... Boston's "whatever the hell that song is" where they do the big prog rock jam at the beginning...

[winky dinglehoffer]

Side one of Frank Zappa's Lumpy Gravy starts with a guy intoning,
"THE WAY I SEE IT BARRY, WE'RE IN FOR A VERY DYNAMITE SHOW."

Side two starts with some other guy sort of singing, "merry go round, merry go round, doot doot doo, doot doot doot doo, doot doo--" then he says, "And they call that 'doing their thing.'" And this other dude says, "Oh, so that's what doing your thing is."

Those are two of my favorite song intros.

[doyoudigworms?]

PONY!

[gabewheel2000]

for some reason the intro that pops in my mind first is seek and destroy by metallica.