Songs with great intros

Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Led Zepplin - Rock and Roll
Blur - Song 2

Another Girl Another Planet - The Only Ones
Dancing The Night Away - The Motors
Eyes Of The World - Rainbow
Stargazer - Rainbow
Spirit Of Radio - Rush

Johnny B Goode - various artists

Bonham's intro to  Led Zep's Rock and Roll is great but completely nicked from Little Richard’s You Keep a Knockin’

Forget About You - The Motors

Bat Out of Hell has an epic near 2 minute intro for sheer over-the-top-ness.

Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYI6XJH9Ss

shocking omission

Obviously a fred without a certain song from Let it Bleed..

Another Elton John song (?) with the longst intro ever..

Song For Guy.

Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones

Age Of Consent - New Order

Excellent call by sixtwosix on The Motors' Dancing The Night Away imo

HARD DAYS NIGHT  BEETLES

HARD DAYS NIGHT  BEETLES

HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE     CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Burning of the Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix

Baba O'Riley - The Who
The Song Remains The Same - Led Zeppelin

Gimme Shelter - Stones

Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns n Roses
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Neon Nights - Black Sabbath
Babylons Burning - The Ruts
Rainy Night In Georgia - Randy Crawford
New World In The Morning - Rodger Whittaker

Watcher Of The Skies - Genesis
Tightrope - ELO
Where The Streets Have No Name - U2

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Music in Dreamland - Be Bop Deluxe
Overture/Long Time - Boston
Tap Turns on the Water - CCS

One from the early 70's ( my era )
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress by the fabulous Hollies

Papa was a rolling stone by The Temptations is nearly 2 mins too. And it's ace!
Smoke on the water the obvious choice.
Day tripper - The Beatles

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

shang-a-lang - Rollers

I Feel Fine - The Beatles. Love the feedback on the single note, the riff and then the 'What I Say' drum pattern from Ringo.

The extended intro to 'Sweet Jane' on Rock n Roll Animal, although you could easily skip the first three minutes and just go straight into the riff as it did on my Best of Lou Reed LP when I was a kid. It's brilliant either way.

The Cedar Room - Doves.

don't fear the reaper - blue oyster cult

Doves - surely one of the most underrated bands of the 90s/2000s

booker t, green onions

muse - new born

lenny kravitz - are you gonna go my way

I wanna be adored - Stone Roses

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booker t, green onions

Are you sure??? 'Aint this an instrumental?

Shine on You Crazy Diamond-Pink Floyd

Sympathy for the devil..

I will posses your heart...death cab for cutie

Baker Street

Primal Scream - Loaded
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDK2svrGG_c

Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_qPTyy4itI

Kasabian - ID
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FtvwLSWBx0

Reef - Place Your Hands..

I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins

Wichita lineman- glen Campbell
queen is dead- smiths
this charming man- smiths
born to run-broocie
black coffee in bed- squeeze
up the junction- squeeze

I was expecting Wichita Lineman to do quite well in my 60s poll but no votes so far.

Atmosphere - Joy Division
I Was Made For Loving You - Kiss
Doctor Doctor - UFO
Into The Valley -  The Skids
Public Image - PIL
Pretty Vacant - The ' Pistols
Holiday In The Sun - The ' Pistols
Motorhead - Motorhead
Pale Shelter - Tears For Fears

ocean colour scene - river boat song

leyla   eric clapton

And Your Bird Can Sing

Wild Thing

L.A Woman

Running To Stand Still - U2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvUI-s4Azw4

oh no slippy...am gonna have to click on the link and it will be playing all night now

Continuing the theme:

With Or Without You - U2

U2 get a terrible slating on here egner as a rule, that is a great song and at the time I was a full on coke monster so it was very relevant to my world. I must have listened to The Joshua Tree a thousand times and saw them live often.

Boneo is a twát. But they sure did make some decent stuff..

Did i ever mention Boneo was a ****?

Fancy blocking pope out..

..they do get a slating slippy....in the wider world as well....but the Joshua tree was brilliant

..and the melancholy lyrics to that song strike a chord with me for sure......lovely song.

following on with U2 - I Will Follow

Ceremony - New Order
Temptation - New Order

Is Vic There - Department S
Hanging Around - The Stranglers
Into The Valley - The Skids
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
Love Her Madly - The Doors

Siouxsie and The Banshees
Happy House
Spellbound
Hong Kong Garden
Israel

A Forest - The Cure
Kick In The Eye - Bauhaus
Quiet Life - Japan
Tempted - Squeeze

Purple Rain - Prince ...just off the top of my head - will give it some thought though.

If they didn't have a recommend I'd say Sympathy For The Devil and Paint It Black but I'll throw in Hotel California and Boys Of Summer. Certainly instantly recognisable if you don't class them as great intros.

Yes....instantly recognisable - give you that.

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

Smoke on The Water – Deep Purple

Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns-n-Roses

for me

Some brilliant choices already posted but I'll add...

Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll - Ian Dury & The Blockheads.
Yeah Right - Dinosaur Jr.
The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy.
The Trooper - Iron Maiden.

London Calling- The Clash

somebody got murdered- the clash

Promises buzzcocks

Hotel California - Eagles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPH_kM6Qmbw

Blur - Popscene - Awesome double feedback then the drums come in...

Talk Talk - Lifes What You Make It - Straight into the brilliant piano riff chorus...

Tommy Gun - Clash
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U@

Moving To New York - The Wombats
What Difference Does It Make - The Smiths

Cannonball - The Breeders

She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits, Gimme Shelter - The Stones, Jungleland - Springsteen

Fool's Overture - Roger Hodgson

Last Night - The Strokes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NFDhxhWyIw

Another shout for Stargazer by Rainbow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CjO0H2j0s

Have to add "Over the Hills and Far Away" by Led Zep to my list too

Phantom of the Opera by Iron Maiden
The Trooper by Iron Maiden
Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
Doctor Doctor by UFO

Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys

Time (for me - Pink Floyd) is without doubt the greatest intro of all time. There are some beauties posted here; for example Gimme Shelter and Cozi Powell's Stargazer intro but nothing beats the intro of Time (imvho)

everybodys talkkin- nillson
ventura highway- america

a-ha - Take On Me, for me.

Van Halen .... JUMP

Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch of 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVNeAFx4FlM

walking C C S

Television - Marquee Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing does it for me.

Sort of describes UKip

Give it away - RHCP.  Crank it.

sound and vision - Bowie

We must have Bowie's...

Queen Bítch then..

Well if we're having Queen Bitch we should have Diamond Dogs too, then!

And The Jean Genie. I feel a Bowie fred about to pop up..

So as not to disappoint Tommy

Locomotive Breath...Jethro Tull.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCcwNoVSt2E

band on the run
jet

The Damned - Anti-Pope