Fave guitar intro?
 

This can really set the tone and mood of a song....I was just listening to the opening bit of the song 'Magic Man' by Heart and found that guitar intro just so incredibly sexy.

Surely there's others.....

Aces High by Iron Maiden

Revolution, by the beatles

Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

"Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" - Van Halen

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

Sweet Child O Mine!

Intro-Sweet Jane, from Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal album.

Jeez, basically the beginning of any Jimi Hendrix song kicks a lot of ass (well, the entirety of the songs live up to the intros without a doubt). The beginning of Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is wicked good fun - the forshadowing wicka-wicka-wicka giving way to the simple but raw openning riffs. Ooh yeah!

Try listening to the version by Children of Bodom. I very much prefer it to the original.

i second this one
also Rammsteins "Teir" intro is nice
and although im not much of a fun of the whole song, i love the intro to Pinball Wizard by the Who

the whole intro to Radiohead's B-side Polyethelyne is just great. I recommend you all find that song and listen to it.

Opeth - Bleak

Start Me Up - Rolling Stones

Blackened - Metallica. Hands down. Not a big fan of Metallica though.

"All right now" Free

I concur with Stompy....Sweet Child O mine.

Can't You Hear Me Knockin' - Rolling Stones

rock and roll...led zepplin
any bb king song (that dude is fucking amazing)
sweet child o' mine.....guns 'n roses
any hendrix


wait no i changed my mind..
BACK IN BLACK....AC/DC

Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover

That song is fucking amazing.

There's about a dozen early Alice Cooper riffs that are absolute classics. Simple lines like Caught in a Dream, or Eighteen, or burners like School's Out. Pick up any of his early albums and you'll see what I mean. My favorite is Love it to Death.

There aren't really any riffs or anything, but I think the alltime coolest intro for a song would have to be the live version of AC/DC's Thunderstruck.

Damn thats a good song.
/me listens

I think Collin James - "Why'd you Lie?" has a pretty cool guitar intro.

I second Metallica's Blackened. I think One is awsome too.

Ditto. The intro to this song is what made me want to learn guitar

"waiting" from over it

I have to go with the opening to Thunderstruck off of Ac/DC's live album also.

"Waterfall" by the Stone Roses

Tesla "Hang tough"

Metallica - Enter Sandman, Fade to Black
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker, Since I've Been Loving You

Some more I saw:
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Sunshine of Your Love, Crossroads - Cream
Space Oddity - David Bowie
A Change of Seasons, The Glass Prison, Misunderstood - Dream Theater
Beck's Bolero - Jeff Beck
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
In My Time of Dying, Moby Dick, The Wanton Song - Led Zeppelin
You Really Got Me Now, Eruption - Van Halen

Funk #49 by The James Gang

As well as Whole Lotta Love, The Rover and Hotdog

Forgot The Ocean, Tea for One and Achilles Last Stand. Oh yeah and The Song Remains The Same and The Rain Song.

metallica - fight fire with fire

the acoustic guitars in that intro sound so cool and have such a contrast to the rest of the song.

"Modern Man" by Bad Religion

Its got a great moment before the song really starts where you hear guitar noise that is cause by just touching the strings on a live amp. Usually that kind of thing is produced out of recordings. Thats why I love this into.

There are so many, but the one that immediately comes to my mind is Mayonaise's intro, by The Smashing Pumpkins.

And The Trooper

barracuda - heart

Love Hurts - Nazareth
Beautiful Girls - Van Halen
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
Day Tripper - The Beatles
Change It - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Slow Ride - Kenny Wayne Shephard

it's really short but i love the intro to
Holiday - weezer