Your favorite song lead-in

I heard it again on my iPod the other day (the album cut)...and almost started to cry. It's honestly one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.

 

The following get me amped up:
- "I Want You To Want Me" - Cheap Trick (MUST be the Live at Budokan version)
- "The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis and the News (always makes me think it's 8:25 and - damn - I'm late for school!)
- "Don't Stop Believin' " - Journey (please rise for the singing of our national anthem.)
- "Touch the Sky" - Kanye West
- "When the Levee Breaks" - Led Zeppelin
- "For Whom the Bell Tolls" - Metallica
- "Walk" - Pantera
- "Welcome to the Terrordome" - Public Enemy (I once hit a hill on a country road going about 75 to this song. Intention: Get air under my car and the pavement. Mission accomplished. Problem is, you couldn't see what was on the other side of the hill. In this case, it was a state trooper. I now no longer listen to PE while driving.)

The following just move me to goosebumps, tears or both:
- "No One's Gonna Love You" - Band of Horses
- "In My Life" - Beatles
- Three from Pink Floyd: "Comfortably Numb," "Hey You" and "Coming Back to Life"
- "A Change Is Gonna Come" - Sam Cooke (no one has EVER come into a song with so much power in one voice.)

 

Two words: Billie Jean

 

Have we gone this long without mentioning the Daddy of them all?
Johnny B. Goode.

 

The intro to the version of "Sweet Jane" on Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal album is mega cool.

 

That's definitely one of them... Paradise City is another.

Iron Man by Black Sabbath.

I heard Rainbow in the Dark on the radio the other day and a buddy of mine and I started singing at the top of our lungs as our wives looked on in disgust. ;D

 

A few more that I believe haven't been mentioned yet...

Seaside Bar Song - Springsteen
Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones (or any Ramones song for that matter)
Wilbury Twist - Traveling Wilburys

 

OK, I know ESJ got here before me but

Thunder Road (first, last, always).

Waiting on a Friend, Stones

 

So is it the musical intro, or Robin Zander telling the crowd "I want YOU... to want... ME"?

 

Dear Prudence: Beatles
Honky Tonk Women: Stones
Don't Take Me Alive: Steely Dan
I'm a Man: Chicago
Do It Again: Steely Dan
I'm a Rocker: Raspberries
Free Man in Paris: Joni Mitchell
Cinnamon Girl: Neil Young
Since I've Been Lovin' You: Zeppelin

 

Enter Sandman at Lane Stadium.

 

Chest Fever -- The Band.
(Garth's keyboard intro occasionally ran to seven minutes live. Check out "Rock of Ages" for details.)