I actually prefer GN'R's "Sweet Child O' Mine"
older bands:
"Eruption", "Jump", "Panama", "Right Now" ~ Van Halen (actually, the whole song's pretty much an intro)
"La Grange" ~ ZZ Top
"Hells Bells", "Thunderstruck", "Back in Black", "You Shook Me All Night Long" ~ AC/DC
"Sweet Emotion", "Dream On", "Walk This Way" ~ Aerosmith
"Sirius" ~ Alan Parsons Project (similar to Eruption, its an instrumental intro to the next song on the album)
"The River of Dreams" ~ Billy Joel
"War Pigs", "Iron Man" ~ Black Sabbath
"Foreplay", "More Than a Feeling" ~ Boston
"Born in the USA" ~ Bruce Springsteen
"25 or 6 to 4" ~ Chicago
"Smoke on the Water" ~ Deep Purple
"Pour Some Sugar on Me" ~ Def Leppard
"The End" ~ The Doors
"Swingtown", "Rockin' Me", "Take the Money and Run", "Fly Like an Eagle" ~ Steve Miller Band
"Cocaine" ~ Eric Clapton
"All Right Now" ~ Free
"American Woman" ~ The Guess Who
"In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" ~ Iron Butterfly
"Purple Haze", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" ~ Jimi
"Don't Stop Believin'" ~ Journey
"Carry on Wayward Son", "Song for America", "Dust in the Wind" ~ Kansas
"Good Times, Bad Times", "Heartbreaker", "Immigrant Song", "Black Dog", "Rock & Roll", "Stairway to Heaven", "Kashmir" ~ Led Zeppelin
"Sweet Home Alabama", "Free Bird", "Simple Man" ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Hair of the Dog" ~ Nazareth
"Crazy Train", "Bark at the Moon" ~ Ozzy
"Black Betty" ~ Ram Jam
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" (long version), "Start Me Up" ~ Rolling Stones
"Tom Sawyer", "YYZ", "The Spirit of Radio", "Freewill", "Xanadu", "Bastille Day", "Closer to the Heart", "2112", "Fly By Night", "The Big Money", "The Analog Kid", "Time Stand Still", "Distant Early Warning", "The Body Electric" ~ Rush
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" ~ Scorpions
"Magic Carpet Ride", "Born to be Wild" ~ Steppenwolf
"Superstition" ~ Stevie Wonder
"Light Up", "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)", "Come Sail Away" ~Styx
"Stranglehold" ~ Ted Nugent
"Hunger Strike" ~ Temple of the Dog
"Roisin Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend", "Jailbreak", "The Boys are Back in Town" ~ Thin Lizzy
"Eulogy" ~ Tool
"We're Not Gonna Take It", "I Wanna Rock" ~ Twisted Sister
"Where the Streets Have No Name", "Bullet the Blue Sky" ~ U2
"Baba O'Riley", "Won't Get Fooled Again" ~ The Who
other good ones, more current:
"Never Let Down" ~ Andrew W.K.
"Cochise" ~ Audioslave
"Loser" ~ Beck
"Shekina" ~ Blindside
"Hook" ~ Blues Traveler
"Far Behind" ~ Candlebox
"Shine" ~ Collective Soul
"I Believe in a thing Called Love" ~ The Darkness
"My Heartstrings Come Undone" ~ Demon Hunter
"Got You (Where I Want You)" ~ The Flys
"My Hero" ~ Foo Fighters
"Hand Me Down", "Push" ~ matchbox twenty
"Eden" (later radio edit) ~ Mayfield Four
"Mr. Moon" ~ O.A.R.
"Put Your Lights On" ~ Santana feat. Everlast
"Ain't Coming Home" ~ Silvertide
"Today", "1979" ~ Smashing Pumpkins
"Intro", "Epiphany" ~ Staind
"Bittersweet Symphony" ~ The Verve
"Mississippi" ~ Train