Best rock song intros
What, nobody mentioned "Stairway"?
It's a good topic: the kind of songs that make you stop whatever you're doing and listen to the radio from the first note.
A few more candidates:
"Los Angeles," the first song on the first X album.
Just about every song on "Who's Next"
Prince was also good at this, in his early days: "1999" and "Let's Go Crazy" among others.
Midnight Oil, "Beds are Burning"
The Bangles, "Hero Takes A Fall" (a particular guilty pleasure of mine)
The Clash, "London Calling" (unless you're old school and prefer "White Riot"
Or, going way back, Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" which was considered the coolest intro when I was a kid--I'm semi-embarassed to remember that the intro was our favorite thing to play in junior high school band!