Songs with no intro

genesis with peter gabriel did this shit all the fucking time

looking for someone
supper's ready (which gets bonus points for being a _23-minute epic_ with no intro)
dancing with the moonlit knight

there are some other songs that are very close, like "lillywhite lilith" and "the lamia"

Buncha Sam The Sham songs: "(I'm In With) The Out Crowd"; "Medicine Man"; "How Do You Catch A Girl?"; "Ju Ju Hand"; "Ring Dang Doo"; "Lil' Red Riding Hood" (if the wolf howl counts)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9GIgghiP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfK1_FBTMtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMGSj_t_1U

Need a subthread of songs that start with an a cappella rendition of the chorus, before launching into a musical intro…

Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA7XqnHMIwQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQtqwIqnvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4IG0YOGiV0

W.A.S.P. - "I Wanna Be Somebody"

Beach Boys "Heroes and Villains"

Joanna Newsom has a lot of these

Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing

Beach Boys - "Here Today"

the cowsills - start to love
dennis wilson - thoughts of you

Madness: "Rise and Fall"
(which btw is an album opener)

Beach Boys "Heroes and Villains"

at least half of the smiley smile tracks do this.

CSNY - "Our House"
Paul McCartney - "No More Lonely Nights"

Fiery Furnaces - Pricked in the Heart
Fiery Furnaces - Turning Round
Fiery Furnaces - Up in the North
Fiery Furnaces - Police Sweater Blood Vow (this one has an opening chord)

Misfits - Bullet owns this category:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTgDBNQ3lU

beatles -- maxwell's silver hammer

anthology version has a nice lil piano intro that i think actually would've improved the song, emphasizes the silly/vaudeville tone of the number

Another Beatles obvious one : « Hey Jude » (but indeed they have plenty)

Super Furry Animals - If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You & Demons, probably more

I remember seeing them in early days, Gruff introduced IYDWMTDY with "This one's called" and then immediately starting the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAI8YOh0K4

Love that song....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWpAsMJMX0

Rolling Stones: "Mother's Little Helper"

Minor Threat “out of step”

Elvis Costello, Accidents Will Happen - starts with vocal and it is already the verse. Does that count?

EC's first three albums all start with just his voice, already in the verse: Welcome to the Working Week, No Action, Accidents Will Happen.

Steve Hillage: Wait One Moment
The Cramps: Tear It Up
Johnny Thunders: Little Bit of Whore

Toni Braxton - Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgA6hdK0gq4

Courtney Barnett - Elevator Operator

Haddaway - What Is Love

Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle

i would argue that the kind of acapella chorus shouting of that song and "you give love a bad name" is an intro, even though it starts with vocals.

anyway, dababy's "off the rip" is a hip-hop example, along with a bunch of his other songs

Yeah, I probably should have titled the thread "songs where the vocal comes in immediately" (and then there is also a distinction btw. songs with an "vocal intro" and songs that jump right into the verse).

"Road to Nowhere" by Talking Heads is an interesting example: an a cappella intro which is unrelated to the rest of the song.

another obvious example of that is "bohemian rhapsody," though themes from that intro recur throughout the song

felt Abba must have these, because they have a way of going right into their choruses...

(see also this thread: the CVC formula: songs with choruses as intros)

...so I scrolled thru the 59-track Abba Gold Anniversary Edition and found these:

“Take A Chance On Me”, “Super Trouper” (both start with the chorus sung acapella tho); “Our Last Summer”, Kisses Of Fire”. “I Am Just A Girl” has just one guitar strum, “Rock Me” has two drum beats.

probably more to be found on their albums