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Just to be clear in advance, I am not cool when it comes to music. People who have commented on other threads about music on this site have quoted the names of musicians that I have never heard of (although we all know they're showing off or even making it up). Anyway, what in your view is the best intro (the part of a song before the singing at the start) of all time ? I don't know about all time but I was listening to "In between days" by The Cure earlier and bloody loved it. There is a book running on how many times "Stairway to Heaven" and "Blue Monday" is mentioned. You have been warned.

IF anyone has the Alchemy album from Dire Straits, then I have 2 songs. Tunnel of Love and Telegraph Road. Great Intros!

I believe it is traditional to make a list of these things?

1) Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones

2) Theme from Shaft, Isaac Hayes (RIP)

3) Do It Again, Steely Dan

4) For Those About To Rock, AC/DC

and, in the short but sweet category...

5) Highway Star, Deep Purple, or Love Is A Long Road, Tom Petty; take your pick.

I promise I do actually own music produced after 1980. Honest.

 'Hoe Cakes' by MF Doom and anything on Steely Dan's Aja

"We do what we're told" by Peter Gabriel. Superb.

These;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1OKo97ZAn0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZADbubu0Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCzURbL7fmM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09hBGGpSjk

Firefox browser is shi te - you'll have to cut and paste em. 

Bring Tha Noize - Anthrax and Public Enemy 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLkaGcpJFA 

 

Everything's Ruined: Faith No More 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irHyoRNcRY

 

Ma and Pa - Fishbone 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PprwMBdooY 

 

Alive: Pearl Jam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_LQU2-GOXY

 

Dead Souls: Joy Division

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3xUztICZUw 

 

Pounding - Doves (an intro so good Snow Patrol stole it for their song 'Chocolate')

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ygIR20cjGE 

 

Say No Go - De La Soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ6GbOVEQAw
 

Hopefully there's something on here for everyone - enjoy: I could go one but I won't. 

 Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AWQEFOSGn0

 

Run DMC - Beats To The Rhyme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5SMJRPh8nY

 

Foo Fighters feat. Serj Tankian - Holiday in Cambodia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUJrt6E6ki0&feature=related

 

No WTO Combo - New Feudalism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md73QaZIFbw

 

Dead Kennedts - Police Truck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCPn0l220MY&feature=related

 

 

There is always the classic Kiss song Detroit Rock City, but it has to be the version on the Destroyer Album (not on the various Alive versions).

The song starts the album, and you hear background noise followed by a cassette taop (remember them?) being inserted and then screaching tyres followed by a crash sound and then one of the all time great riffs.

 Also there is the obvious Queen song Don't Stop me Now, but how about there song I'm in love with me Car 

Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding from Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

 "Slow Dancing" by Lindsey Buckingham (of Fleetwood Mac)

or the best ending:

"The Chain" (again it's Fleetwood Mac)

Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd

suman:

or the best ending:

Comfortably Numb (live from the Pulse album)