[elrod-tom]

Actually, Led Zepplin's "Immigrant Song" has a pretty good opening.

 

[spaceman]

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond
John Hiatt - Perfectly Good Guitar
Roxy Music - Take A Chance With Me
Talking Heads - Take Me to The River
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

 

[dohminator]

I would like to recommend another AC/DC song for the list. Hell's bells has just an awesome opening with the bells ringing and then the guitar coming in on top of that.

 

[scottpaul_iu]

Coming at it from a different angle:

Blackfoot - Road Fever
Emerson, Lake and Powell - Touch and Go
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Black Moon
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
Pink Floyd - One of These
Rainbow - Spotlight Kid, Death Alley Driver
Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, Saturday Night Special, Gimme Back My Bullets, That Smell
Marshall Tucker Band - Sing My Blues
Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
Rush - Xanadu, Red Barchetta, YYZ, La Villa Strangiato

 

[LSU_Tiger]

I don't know about the "best" song intro, but I have a nomination for the most creepy / scary one:

Song: Intolerance
Artist: Tool
Album: Undertow

 

[waylman]

sabbath-black sabbath....It's the first track on their first album....AWESOME!!!!

 

[Matthew-Spaltro]

Metallica-Creeping Death
Deep Purple Burn and Stormbringer. Two title tracks.
Tool-46and2

 

[AtEase]

Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (classic riff...)
Joy Division - Warsaw (3-5-0-1-2-5 Go!)

 

[LSU_Tiger]

Here's a pretty obvious one that I'm sure has been nominated already --

My Sharona -- The Kinks

 

[dougli]

VAN HALEN - Runnin' With The Devil
OZZY - Crazy Train

 

[ArChaos]

Quote:

Originally posted by daycart1 Cream: "Sunshine of your Love" Led Zep: "Heartbreaker" Iron Butterfly: "In-a-gadda-da-vida" Team Geezer

Yeah, all of them good choices... "In-a-gadda-da-vida" - especially in the live version.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Quote:

Originally posted by veesmak how has no one said nirvana - smells like teen spirit? now it has been said.

Yup, that one's a classic.

And I'd like to add another:

Joe Walsh, "Turn to Stone", live version from You Can't Argue with A Sick Mind

 

[elrod-tom]

Quote:

Originally posted by LSU_Tiger Here's a pretty obvious one that I'm sure has been nominated already -- My Sharona -- The Kinks

That's the KNACK, not the Kinks.

Interesting trivia: Doug Feiger, the lead singer of the Knack, is the brother of Jeffrey Feiger, the former attorney for Jack Kevorkian. Betcha you never think of the Knack the same way again.

 

[NotoriousBIG_PJ]

Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
Zwan - Ride the Black Swan

Biggie.

 

[AtEase]

Quote:

Originally posted by elrod-tom That's the KNACK, not the Kinks.

All Day And All Of The Night
and You Really Got Me are two great openers that are by the Kinks