Best Drum Intros in Rock

[pianozach]

Best Drum Intros in Rock

Rock's been around long enough that we could make a list 100 songs long. I'll start:

1. Yes - Hold On
2. Black Sabbath - Iron Man
3. Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

[Ash Armstrong]

Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Led Zeppelin - The Rover
Rainbow - Stargazer

[Yorkshire Square]

[Ash Armstrong]

Good one.

[Soundwaveseeker]

Led Zeppelin: When The Levee Breaks
Rush: Digital Man
Ultravox: Sweet Surrender
Genesis: Paperlate

[Enlighten]

Genesis - Behind the Lines

The Police - One World

Dave Mathews Band - Ants Marching Live, Carter Beauford slaying it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCsmGb0mm9w

[patrickq]

Genesis, “Tonight Tonight Tonight”
Rush, “The Body Electric”
and to echo pianozach, definitely “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” (Steve Gadd, percussionist). Great call.

[Enlighten]

Genesis, “Tonight Tonight Tonight”
Rush, “The Body Electric”
and to echo pianozach, definitely “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” (Steve Gadd, percussionist). Great call.

Dude, love that you chose The Body Electric. One of the best deep tracks from Rush.

[luvyesmusic]

I posted this one years ago. Perhaps not an iconic rock song, or let alone a rock song, but this guy is good/great. She’s not too bad, either. ;-)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vW1YWMTw64s&feature=share

[pianozach]

ELP - Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression
ELP - The Sheriff

[Soundwaveseeker]

Dude, love that you chose The Body Electric. One of the best deep tracks from Rush.

Rush has a number of great drum intro songs, though Body Electric is a great call.

Animate, You Bet Your Life, One Little Victory, Territories, Mystic Rhythms, High Water, there's probably more.
I guess YYZ kinda qualifies too.

[Roundabob]

Moody Blues - I’m Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band
Yes - Shoot High Aim Low
Yes - Lift Me Up

[True]

Hot For Teacher is a good one

And while Sound Chaser starts briefly with a Fender Rhodes, the drums are the centerpiece of the intro to that tune

[Gilly Goodness]

It's short and sharp but have always loved Bruford's intro on SSOTS. So cool. Momentarily off kilter than locked right in.

[Mr. Holland]

Toto - Rosanna
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Deep Purple - Fireball
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare

Depending on how broad you see rock:

Stevie Wonder - Superstition