Push by the cure

Another Metallica mention, this time, the first track from ...And Justice For All, "Blackened".

It got me every time... I remember stealing that album in seventh grade and putting it on the stereo and cranking up the volume super high to hear the fade in at the beginning... then being blown away like a Memorex commercial after the chords and drums hit.

the intro to Holiday In Cambodia and, similarly, Fortunate Son

hah Nice...Metallica does indeed have some great intros, now that I think about it.

Black Flag - Six Pack.

I like the intro way more than the rest of the song.

I'm Insane and Society is a hole Sonic Youth.
Fake Plastic Trees- Radiohead
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter-Nirvana
Winter Song-Nico
Do You Love Me?- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Pattern Recognition, Stones- Sonic Youth
I'm Afraid of Americans- David Bowie
The Hanging Garden- Cure
Just Like Heaven- The Cure

I love the whole song but that intro is just priceless. Amazing stuff happens when the drums kick in. Good call, Chout.

Clipse- Dirty Money

"Yo Ma I got a pocket full of stinkies lets spend them right quick."

MBV- Sometimes
Velvet Underground-All Tomorrow's Parties
Stone Roses- I Wanna Be Adored
Aphex Twin- Windowlicker

Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf

SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!

Ha ha, was just listening to that

Dub Sex - Man on the Inside. A dark, anguished, obsessive song, a favourite of mine for nearly 20 years. Feedback, a rumbling bassline and good rhythm. The lyrics in that foghorn voice, accompanied by shards of streaming guitar, make it even better. What a great song.

Confused,
On a circular route,

Chasing someone; chasing you,
I spent 24 hours in hot pursuit,
And I know your future plans
for you...

The odds are stacked against you,
that's why you always lose.

Does that unnerve you?
It should do...

Like Eating Glass-Bloc Party
I'll Cry for you-Swans (a very tense minute of feedback)
Candle-Sonic Youth
Everything in its Right Place, You-Radiohead
Revenge, Six Pack-Black Flag
Filler-Minor Threat
Sex Bomb-Flipper
Down on the Street-the Stooges
Sunday Morning-Velvet Underground
9-9-REM
Split Myself in Two, Reward, Our Friends, Lost-Meat Puppets

Led Zeppelin - 'Whole Lotta Love'

I dig Plant's little barely-audible grunting sigh followed by Page's opening riff. Actually, there are several great Zeppelin intros.

Agreed, "Intro" is well worth being it's own song, and arguably even better than "Brave Men Run". It's actually one of my all time favorite Sonic Youth songs, though that list does run several pages...

For Metallica intros, since that seems to be a whole separate thread within a thread here, I'd vote for "Fade to Black" actually. Most of the song is the intro really.

Of course the intro to "Sweat Loaf" by the Butthole Surfers is an all time classic that is arguably superior to the song itself.

Mogwai - "Yes! I am Long Way from Home"

Sigur Rós - Popplagið, Ný Batterí, Hjartað Hamast
Mogwai - Helicon 1

Building Steam With a Grain of Salt has an excellent intro. Fuck, the whole album is excellent.

"sonicl, this is nymphomaniac woman... nymphomaniac woman, this is sonicl...

okay... I'll just leave you two to get to know each other"


Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Hee hee.

milk man- deerhoof

i can't think of any others right now