Best drums only intros to pop songs Eva!

[Icehaven]

Midlife Crisis by Faith No More is my favourite.
https://youtu.be/U8b88US-6ts

It's only short but Shake Your Rump by Beastie Boys is a good one.
https://youtu.be/YxaPrPfATuQ

More recently I Used To by LCD Soundsystem.
https://youtu.be/zhTG2wM-r-g

[the science eel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjK6x-Pi6Q

[Icehaven]

Blue Monday is another good shout of course.

And Thieves Like Us.
https://youtu.be/Fc1ldXDJicY

[wosl]

Bush - Sat In Your Lap
Talk Talk - Happiness Is Easy
Bark Psychosis - Shapeshifting

(Latter two both Lee Harris)


^{edit: link to single track rather than entire album}

[flotemysost]

Another short one, but Love Shack by the B-52s

Rasputin by Boney M

Ah yeah that's a corker. I might just be imagining this but I'm sure I've heard a few slightly different versions of the intro, as I remember being disappointed when I downloaded the MP3 from some 'Best Disco Hits' compilation album years ago that it wasn't the one I was expecting.

Midlife Crisis by Faith No More is my favourite.
https://youtu.be/U8b88US-6ts

Another good'un, think that intro's a Simon & Garfunkel sample, not sure which song though.

[Sin Agog]

For some reason I'm incapable of isolating individual parts when I listen to music.  It's all either one big pleasant or unpleasant aural melange.

[Johnny Textface]

For some reason I'm incapable of isolating individual parts when I listen to music.  It's all either one big pleasant or unpleasant aural melange.

You need to listen in a slightly different way I think.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Short but sweet, and almost identical, the intros for Goody Two Shoes by Adam Ant and Where's Me Jumper? by The Sultans of Ping FC.

[Mr Banlon]

Honeydrippers - Impeach The President : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpFZQtBJkMI
The Headhunters - God Made Me Funky : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzifRDyPtd0
The Scaffold - Liver Birds : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_97dpL4GejA
The Mike Curb Congregation - Mickey Mouse Club : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLjbo1cPLP8

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

The Strangeloves liked a good drum intro.

I Want Candy

Cara-Lin

More recently, I like Do You Remember by Ane Brun

[SpiderChrist]

No Time This Time

https://youtu.be/woG54UNJRrE

Sex And Drugs And Rock'n'Roll

https://youtu.be/vLf0BVYFySs

Be My Baby

https://youtu.be/gG7UXv8Zc5Q

[Better Midlands]

Nah.. that's like an 808 or 909 or sumshit.  It's allowed.

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=259457

The song is made with a Linn LM1 and the sound you're looking for is the claps played with 64th notes. Obviously with some reverb.

If you listen to the YouTube video at x0.25 speed you can hear it.

[buzby]

EDIT: You've already done the bit about the Linndrum clap on Maniac. You can hear it recreated using Linndrum samples on an Electribe ES1 here (couldn't find a video of someone doing it on a real Linndrum).

In a Lonely Place by New Order

Also Everything's Gone Green, Truth (both Clef Master Rhythm DR-55 clone), Blue Monday's precursor 586 (Oberheim DMX on the album version, Clef again on the Peel Session and Video 586 versions) and Murder (Steve's drumming).

If you want pop, there's Confusion (Arthur Baker's 808), This Time Of Night, The Perfect Kiss (both Yamaha RX11) True Faith (Stephen Hague's Drumulator), Fine Time (album version) and Vanishing Point (both using drum samples in an Akai S900 sequenced by a Mac running Upbeat).

And Thieves Like Us.
https://youtu.be/Fc1ldXDJicY

(Oberheim DMX)

[Sebastian Cobb]

The Jets  - Crush on You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm_QilrHkh8

[NoSleep]

The Headhunters - God Make me Funky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzifRDyPtd0

[Inspector Norse]

NO FUN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-4icrlZbaY

[NoSleep]

Awesome intro, not very keen on what comes after:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCKXxJRgVgc

[Inspector Norse]

Simple but effective:

Candi Staton - I'm Just a Prisoner...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laSqW2MBt7E

[poodlefaker]

Be My Baby / Ronnettes
No Can Do / Hall and Oates

I sometimes wonder about 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover... I presume Steve Gadd came up with intro, rather than Paul Simon - imagine being in the studio: PS turns up with another one of the brilliant pop songs he was just pissing out at the time - clever witty lyrics, great tune, the verses slowly building up to that killer chorus/refrain. He demoes it to the group of session musicians he's assembled and Steve listens and goes "OK, how about I start it off with this..." Amazing.

[jobotic]

Get Off My Cloud. Love Jagger's "yeah" before everyone else comes in.

https://youtu.be/1sWqmMAvmdU

[Marner and Me]

Stone Roses-Elephant Stone.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Overkill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzTET_8SQg

[SteveDave]

Another short one, but Love Shack by the B-52s

There's a drum fill in this after "Wearing next to nothing cos it's hot as an oven" that fills my heart (even though it's just a snare roll) and I was looking forward to it when I saw B-52s play a few years ago. Lamentably, the drummer (Sterling Campbell) didn't do it. My entire evening was ruined. And they didn't do "Is That You Mo-Dean?" or "The Flintstones Theme Tune"

[ASFTSN]

Judas Priest - Painkiller

[Neomod]

That Blondie Heart of Glass intro someone mentioned above seconded.

To add. Short and to the point.

Madness House of Fun

The Beat Mirror in the Bathroom

Depeche Mode People Are People

Cardiacs R.E.S

[studpuppet]

Lots of New Order songs

Also many Joy Division ones as well:

Sound Of Music
New Dawn Fades
She's Lost Control
Isolation
The Only Mistake
Glass
Atrocity Exhibition

Plus a few others in their live versions without atmospheric synth intros.

[SpiderChrist]

Fireball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIbYeEDO1sQ

[SpiderChrist]

Five Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWm03wYBTbM

[studpuppet]

Stone Roses-Elephant Stone.

Nah.

[SpiderChrist]

Revolution Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2euERguX9o