What is your favourite intro to a song?

"What song people!?!?!!!"
Peter Frampton. 1979. Ahhh, good times.

From a song recorded maybe 15 years before I was born: the intro to "Mr Tambourine man" by a group called The Byrds. Incredibly enervating.

Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.


Not really my favorite... but it's a sentimental thing... reminds me of someone... and I love the way he's screaming it.... Plus, it's the first thing that came to mind.

I'm not sure I know what you mean.

She's my lady she's my life that one song by?

In The Air Tonite by Phil Collins & Genisis:
Duh duh, duh duh duh doo doo BANG

Radiohead - Permanent Daylight
The Cure - Disintegration
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
The 1981 version of Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
There are so many more I can think of for The Cure and Radiohead, but those two still give me that tingly feeling.

The Verve: Bittersweet symphony

Yep sure do

I'm not exactly sure what you mean but I like when there all sitting around in Moulin Rouge?

The intro to a song are the first opening bars or so, or the time from the beginning of the song until the singing kicks in.

Oh, I thought it meant something that.

Welcome to the Machine - Pink Floyd

There are a good many I like. The Beatles made quite extensive use of them in the early days, and one of the best I feel was that to "If I Fell". A really moving intro is that to "Old Man River"; heartbreaking. Possibly the most haunting ever used in contemporary Rock music is the intro to "Shine on You Crazy Diamond". It's like a distant call...a chiming bell...a cry of despair from the depths to a much loved long lost friend. Of course, it was recorded in 1975, when there was still hope for its subject's return to life and love and joy, which perhaps makes that intro all the more poignant. Just incredible.

Enigma "Sadness"
Princess "Say, I'm your number one"
Loose Ends "Hanging on a string"
Paul Hardcastle "19"

Double Dare Ya by Bikini Kill
“We’re Bikini Kill! We want revolution, grrrl style, NOWWW!”

I don't have a specific one..but anything with an amazing guitar, drum, piano solo..anything with an amazing solo will get me hooked.

I like the beginning of Love Me Or Hate Me by Lady Sovereign. I have it as my ringtone.

Run to Paradise - Choirboys and Money for nothing - Dire Straits (off the top of my head).

Ooh Money for Nothing's a great one!

The intro to Thunderstruck by AC/DC (especially the live version)

Eddie playing his guitar with a power drill at the beginning of Poundcake.

It's an Ozzie Osbourne song,,, crap... can't remember the title... I'll be back when I do.

"Best of You" by Foo Fighters

"I've got another confession to make.
I'm your fool."

I just REALLY love that song.

Hmm...

I like the intro to Archive's - 'Fudge you'