Best intro?

[erwinrafael]

Thinking about this more, Van Halen seems to be the master of the intro. So much so that when you think of a Van Halen song, most likely the good musical idea you would remember is in the intro.

[Ben_Jamin]

Tesla - Love Song, Heavens Trail.

[Lowdz]

David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose

Van Halen - Mean street

DT - Breaking All Illusions

Queensryche- Anarchy -/ Revolution Calling, Suite Sister Mary (voice over and intro - same with Needle Lies)

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

[jingle.boy]

David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

too funny... I was considering calling out both of these on my post.   

[TheCountOfNYC]

Dream Theater-The Glass Prison
Haken-Celestial Elixir
Boston-Foreplay/Longtime
Dragonforce-My Spirit Will Go On
Bullet For My Valentine-Your Betrayal
Gojira-Flying Whales
Avenged Sevenfold-Exist
Metallica-Battery

[Fritzinger]

Genesis - Watcher Of The Skies
(For the song and the album)

[Shooters1221]

Tom Sawyer

[ganpondorodf]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is shite, and the Wish You Were Here album is the biggest musical case of the Emperor's new clothes imaginable

My answer, as it often is, is Big Balls by ACDC

[jcmoorehead]

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

too funny... I was considering calling out both of these on my post.   

Put in another vote for Bat Out Of Hell for me, also add in I'd Do Anything For Love as well.

[Fritzinger]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is shite, and the Wish You Were Here album is the biggest musical case of the Emperor's new clothes imaginable

My answer, as it often is, is Big Balls by ACDC

You basically call Wish You Were here shit and mention a song called Big Balls right after that? You must be joking.

[Podaar]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is shite, and the Wish You Were Here album is the biggest musical case of the Emperor's new clothes imaginable

[ganpondorodf]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is shite, and the Wish You Were Here album is the biggest musical case of the Emperor's new clothes imaginable

My answer, as it often is, is Big Balls by ACDC

You basically call Wish You Were here shit and mention a song called Big Balls right after that? You must be joking.

Big Balls is a great song. Wish You Were Here is a bunch of meandering wankery, and I say that as a fan of Pink Floyd. That album is just trash

[Cool Chris]

I am a big Floyd fan, and will concede I never cared much for Wish You Were Here and don't get all the hype and love. WttM and HaG have never been high up on my Floyd song rankings either.

But SoyCD is a masterpiece in every way.

[romdrums]

Genesis - Watcher Of The Skies
(For the song and the album)

Yes!!

A few of my faves:
Meshuggah- Future Breed Machine
Faith No More- The Real Thing
Fates Warning- Leave the Past Behind
Genesis- Dance on a Volcano
Karnivool- Goliath
Marillion-Gazpacho, Invisible Man, Splintering Heart

[The Walrus]

Dream Theater-The Glass Prison
Haken-Celestial Elixir
Boston-Foreplay/Longtime
Dragonforce-My Spirit Will Go On
Bullet For My Valentine-Your Betrayal
Gojira-Flying Whales
Avenged Sevenfold-Exist
Metallica-Battery

Yes!! The beginning gets my blood pumping so hard.

[ProfessorPeart]

Here's one I have always enjoyed:

Kansas - Song For America

[T-ski]

has anyone said Metropolis Pt. 1?

[Stadler]

has anyone said Metropolis Pt. 1?

Yes.   Some dude named T-ski.

[max_security]

Judas Priest " Hellion ". I wonder why they never wrote anything else like that ?
Iron Maiden " Where Eagles Dare " that drum intro being the first that we heard of the new drummer at the time , Nicko.
Alcatrazz " Incubus " Into to Side B of No Parole
Tony MacAlpine The Chopin piano piece that he does on Edge of Insanity
Yankee Rose especially the video " gimmie a glazed donut and a bottle of anything...TO GO "

[Fritzinger]

I love Metropolis Pt.1, but honestly the sounds on that intro sound a little dated to me...

I would like to add The Revealing Science Of God by Yes. The restored CD version though.

[Lowdz]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is shite, and the Wish You Were Here album is the biggest musical case of the Emperor's new clothes imaginable

My answer, as it often is, is Big Balls by ACDC

You basically call Wish You Were here shit and mention a song called Big Balls right after that? You must be joking.

Big Balls is a great song. Wish You Were Here is a bunch of meandering wankery, and I say that as a fan of Pink Floyd. That album is just trash

Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best

That’s poetry right there 

[ReaperKK]

A lot of great intros here, I definitely recommend checking these two out:

dredg - Lechium (such a great build up to an amazing song)
dredg - Triangle (Perfect intro for the song, a real motherfucker to play on guitar)

[Ninjabait]

Not counting classical or film scores:

Rush - Tom Sawyer, YYZ
Yes - Roundabout, Siberian Khatru, Close to the Edge, Owner of a Lonely Heart, Leave It
Taylor Swift - Style, Look What You Made Me Do
Demi Lovato - Confident
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling, Run Away With Me
Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Age of Vulture Culture, Jigsaw Hustle, Voodoo Mon Amour, A Tap Dancer's Dilemma, Balrog Boogie, etc.
Dream Theater - Octavarium, The Count of Tuscany, On the Backs of Angels, Bridges in the Sky, Lost Not Forgotten, A Nightmare to Remember, The Shattered Fortress, The Best of Times, The Dark Eternal Night, Panic Attack, Stream of Consciousness, This Dying Soul, etc.
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Snarky Puppy - Tio Maccaco
Gojira - Stranded, Silvera, L'Enfant Sauvage
Juno Reactor - Navras, War Dogs, Pistolero
Nightwish - Creek Mary's Blood, The Greatest Show on Earth, Dead to the World, Dark Chest of Wonders
Epica - The Holographic Principle, The Essence of Silence
Ayreon - Everybody Dies, Day 11: Love, Day 16: Loser, Run Apocalypse! Run!, River of Time
Camel - Freefall, Lady Fantasy
ELP - Tarkus
Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope
Haken - Streams
Lapsley - Operator
ABBA - Voulez Vous, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Gimme Gimme Gimme! A Man After Midnight, Money Money Money, Does Your Mother Know, etc.
Adele - Rolling in the Deep, Rumour Has It, I Miss You, Skyfall
The Algorithm - Trojans
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box, Phantom Limb, Stone
Alter Bridge - Blackbird, One by One
The Anchoress - What Goes Around, One for Sorrow
Animals as Leaders - CAFO
Anneke van Giersbergen - Drive
ARK - Just a Little
Unitopia - The Garden
Blind Guardian - Fly
Between the Buried and Me - Memory Palace
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Money
Incubus - Pendulous Threads, Anna Molly, Southern Girl, Drive, Beware! Criminal, Love Hurts, Absolution Calling, Follow (1st Movement of the Odyssey), When it Comes, Clean, etc.
Muse - Survival, Supremacy, Panic Station, Take a Bow, Hoodoo, Stockholm Syndrome, Hysteria, City of Delusion, Uprising, United States of Eurasia, The Globalist, Reapers, Citizen Erased, Space Dementia, etc.

That's all I can be bothered to list right now. There's just so many songs with really, really good intros...

[ReaperKK]

Incubus has some other really great intros like "Redefine" and "Just a Phase"

[pg1067]

Dream Theater - Octavarium

That intro -- at least until Jordan switches to the steel guitar and starts playing the main Octavarium theme -- is utterly tedious and I pretty much always FFWD through it.  I'd be totally ok if he packed up his Continuum and Keytar and we never saw either again.

[Architeuthis]

Dream Theater - Octavarium

That intro -- at least until Jordan switches to the steel guitar and starts playing the main Octavarium theme -- is utterly tedious and I pretty much always FFWD through it.  I'd be totally ok if he packed up his Continuum and Keytar and we never saw either again.

I love the intro to Octavarium!  It sets the mood with atmospheric tones that puts me in a different world. Its remeniscent of Shine on you crazy Diamond at first and takes it to the next level when the continuum and steel guitar parts kick in.  That song is a good representation of what Dream Theater is all about..

[The Walrus]

Dream Theater - Octavarium

That intro -- at least until Jordan switches to the steel guitar and starts playing the main Octavarium theme -- is utterly tedious and I pretty much always FFWD through it.  I'd be totally ok if he packed up his Continuum and Keytar and we never saw either again.

I love the intro to Octavarium!  It sets the mood with atmospheric tones that puts me in a different world. Its remeniscent of Shine on you crazy Diamond at first and takes it to the next level when the continuum and steel guitar parts kick in.  That song is a good representation of what Dream Theater is all about..

Yeah, I freaking love Octavarium, but the intro, man. That is magical. Score version rules too.

[ganpondorodf]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is shite, and the Wish You Were Here album is the biggest musical case of the Emperor's new clothes imaginable

My answer, as it often is, is Big Balls by ACDC

You basically call Wish You Were here shit and mention a song called Big Balls right after that? You must be joking.

Big Balls is a great song. Wish You Were Here is a bunch of meandering wankery, and I say that as a fan of Pink Floyd. That album is just trash

Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best

That’s poetry right there 

I actually find it to be a surprisingly moving song

[pg1067]

Dream Theater - Octavarium

That intro -- at least until Jordan switches to the steel guitar and starts playing the main Octavarium theme -- is utterly tedious and I pretty much always FFWD through it.  I'd be totally ok if he packed up his Continuum and Keytar and we never saw either again.

I love the intro to Octavarium!  It sets the mood with atmospheric tones that puts me in a different world. Its remeniscent of Shine on you crazy Diamond at first and takes it to the next level when the continuum and steel guitar parts kick in.  That song is a good representation of what Dream Theater is all about..

Yeah, I freaking love Octavarium, but the intro, man. That is magical. Score version rules too.

The Score version is like twice as long -- and, hence, twice as boring!

[nicmos]

YES!

Upon a quick skim, I didn't notice the following 80s gems

Welcome to the Jungle

Kickstart My Heart

Panama

This is supreme taste right here!  I totally get hyped when I hear the intro to these (except where I am WTTJ gets played so much on the radio it sort of gets old.)