Gimme Shelter by a million light years.

And you?

"Brown Sugar", "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Start Me Up" by 2000 light years added to your million. :-)

JumpingKentFlash

Let It Loose
If You Can't Rock Me

and the fantastic Jumpin' Jack Flash

Noone else on GS?

Can't You Hear Me Knockin'

1. Gimmie Shelter
2. Jumping Jack Flash
3. Live With Me
4. Paint It Black
5. Memo From Turner (the one on The London Years Singles Collection)

"Rape, murder, it's just a shot away..."

I agree with all the above choices. I'd also add Satisfaction to the mix.

Honky tonk women

I wwnna hail GS: Listen to Bill's wizard bass,
to Charlies cannon-thunder drums... Keef's mighty guitar tricks,
choir... The percussion (cucumber?)

In my book theres only one other intro anywhere which can compete,
and that is the intro of "Lazy" w/ Purple from Machine Head (1971).
Awfully hard if not entirely impossible to compare these two intros,
but this very November day - with mixed weather by us - I sense
GS is winning with a good horse-length. And I aint saying that because
this is a Stones-board...
Me heart has been with the lads in Purple since 19 @#$%& 72...

Yes I totally agree with GS. My second choice is Already Over Me. A couple of years after B2B came out, I was listening to 5 Stones CDs on the shuffle mode and hearing the beginning of Already Over Me was refreshing when it was played out of the normal sequence. At the time I really wasn't a fan of the song & now it is one of my favorites. Other quality intros by Charlie are Flip The Switch and Let Me Down Slow.

Satisfaction. That fiff changed everything.

You Got Me Rocking
Satisfaction

It's All Over Now

Gimme Shelter - This is the song of the apocalypse
Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Keith Cutting through the air with a knife
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Satisfaction

Brown Sugar - I don't know what it is about this song - I played it at full volume last night, and something came over me. It's got to be the most powerful, sexual, and electric intro that I've ever heard. Anyone else know what I mean? Something just comes over you and you get into this song so much. It's addicting.

Nothin' says "Stones" like the opening of Brown Sugar

Hot Stuff or Hand of Fate



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Love Big Al's typo LOL.
"Talkin bout You"
"Back Street Girl"
"She Smiled Sweetly"
"She's A Rainbow"
"Sing this all together, see what happens"
"I'm Movin On"
"I wanna be your man"
"Mercy Mercy"
"Child of the Moon"
"Sway"
"Fingerprint File"
"Can you hear the Music"

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Hmmmm, I have many favorites but chief amongst them would have to be "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" (At least for today. Ask me tomorrow and I may have a different opinion!)

Rip This Joint.....

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How can it not be CYHMK?

So many great ones. Would add Beast of Burden

IORR and All The Way Down

To me it's Rocks Off - I bought Exile On Main St', put the whatever-it's-called-pre-cd-age-thing down and it literally knocked me off my feet. I knew about the legend of EOMS but didn't know the music.
Here comes Keith ... and I repeated that put-that-whatever-procedure six times before I let Mick start the song! And the rest of Rocks Off was worth listening to theree times in a row, too, before (hey, I had to look it up!) I let them do Rip This Joint. That's my "Rosebud" memory from teenage days.

A lot of the Goats Head Soup songs have great intros;

"Dancing With Mr. D"
"Heartbreaker"
"Angie"

rocks off (da da da duh da da duh dat wham!)
brown sugar
tumbling dice
all down the line
HTW
so many good ones
for atmospheric effect, gimme shelter