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"it was the biggest cock you'd ever seen" (Philophobia - Arab Strap)

Apols to those of you with an instrumental bent...

― carsmilesteve, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

i'm a streetwalkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm-

the stooges,

― jay adams, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

i'm a streetwalkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm-

the stooges,"search and destroy"

― jay adams, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

That Arab Strap line is quite the ice-breaker. My choice : "How long before you realize you stink", off Mott The Hoople's Brain Capers.

― Patrick, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

That Arab Strap line is quite the ice-breaker. My pick : "How long before you realize you stink", off Mott The Hoople's Brain Capers.

― Patrick, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touuuch"

Maybe not as impressive in print as the Arab Strap one -- I mean, he says COCK for Christ's sake, how cool is that? jk -- but you gotta love Elvis' delivery here.

― larmey, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

" This next one is the first song on our new album. . ."

- Beastie Boys

Because not only did this record kick ass in terms of stretching the Beastie's own style of hip hop (in a time when it wasn't all that it is today) they sampled Cheap Trick live at Budokan! Now THAT is an album!

― Amber, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"Once upon a TIME you dressed so FINE threw the bums a DIME in your PRIME didn't YEW" - it's Eminem! Or is it Dylan? Anyhow I dont know if I actually think this but I thought I'd fly the flag for classic rock at least temporarily.

― Tom, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"Er kominn aftur a ny inn I biq pad er svo gatt."

--Sigur Ros, Svefn-g-englar (not too into the lyrics these days!)

― Mark Richardson, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"You're now about to witness the strength of street knowledge!!!!!"

From NWA's "Straight Outta Compton"!!!!!

The album's dated not too well these days, but wot an opening declaration!!!!!!

BTW why concentrate on albums alone?!? There's been some brillibobs singles with memorable opening linbes as well... (What a shame I can't remember any at the mo!!!!!)

Old Fart!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!!, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

The snot has caked against my pants It has turned to crystal There's a bluebird sitting on a branch I guess I'll take my pistol

Love - 'Forever Changes'

― David, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Jesus died for somebody's sins...but not mine.

Horses - Patti Smith

― Omar, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

It's time that the tale were told / Of how you took a child and you made him old

Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools / Spineless bastards all

Farewell to this land's cheerless marshes / Hemmed in like a boar between arches / Her very Lowness with a head in a sling / I'm truly sorry but it sounds like a wonderful thing

I am the ghost of a troubled joe hung by his pretty white neck / Some eighteen months ago I travelled to a mystical time zone / And I missed my bed and I soon came home

Sorry to go on; but thinking about those four opening salvos has just made me want to go home and listen to the Smiths' albums being played one after the other, really loud.

― Nick Dastoor, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

'Opening salvos' - that's a horrible cliché. Sorry.

― Nick, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'm glad somebody brought up that Patti Smith opening line - "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" has to be the most annoying one ever - has any other line begged harder for a resounding "WHO CARES ??". She should have started by saying "hello, I'm Patti Smith and I'm pretentious" and gotten it over with.

― Patrick, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

My my...pretention, that's the whole point of Patti Smith, innit? It still stands as the greatest statement of intent in the history of rock 'n roll. Then again I'm not that impressed with those opening salvo's by The Smiths (I feel a Classic or Dud coming up ;)

― Omar, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Yeah, pretention was probably the point. Plus I love Patti's "Piss Factory", and it's not like that's any less pretentious. I guess I just find "I'm gonna move out of here, I'm gonna be a big star" a more likable sentiment than declarations that Jesus didn't die for Patti's sins.

― Patrick, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"Please allow me to introduce myself / I'm a man of wealth and taste" ('Beggar's Banquet' - The Rolling Stones)

"I wrote a poem on a dog biscuit / And your dog refused to look at it" ('This Is Our Music' - Galaxie 500

"I was surprised / I was happy for a day in 1975" ('Tigermilk' - Belle & Sebastian)

OK, it might sound *so* annoyingly Belle & Sebastian to you, but in 1996 (well, 1997 for me) this breathy, unaccompanied opening line seemed the perfect introduction to a new, joyful, refreshing chapter in pop music. In its own way, as bold a statement of intent as there has ever been.

― Nick, Friday, 26 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'm so 'appy that I didn't have the contribute the first lins of The Smiths' albums....

― Phil Paterson, Saturday, 27 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Since my early angsty years as a tortured teenager, I have had a special fondness for a record starting with "It doesnt matter if we all die" and ending with "I must fight this sickness, find a cure"...

Yeah, I know. It is indeed FatBobSmith & Co's "Pornography". I apologize.

― simon, Sunday, 28 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection"

Silver Jews, "Random Rules" from _American Water_. That's a pretty good one.

― Mark Richardson, Sunday, 28 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"HANDS UP WHO WANTS TO DIE!!?" (The Birthday Party-Bad Seed)

― gabe, Sunday, 28 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Not revealing the *first* line, but the *sixth* line is "Please don't heed my shout, I'm relax in the undertow."

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 29 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"It doesn't matter if we all die." - The Cure, _Pornography_

The Smiths lines, yes.

"Now, turn on, tune in, freak out, this is a game" - Meat Beat Manifesto, _99%_

"Easily I approach the microphone because I ain't no joke." - Eazy-E, _Eazy Duz It_ (although, in all fairness, it's all about the SECOND line)

"I don't wanna be hostile..." - Tool, _Undertow_

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

rock boy answer: "nobody's gonna get my car - i'm gonna race it to the ground nobody's gonna get my car - i'm gonna break the speed of sound" (deep purple -- _machine head_)

more-in-character answer: second "reel around the fountain"

― sundar subramanian, Sunday, 11 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

An "Album"? What is this archaic device of which you speak?

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 11 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Sex!/It's a regular practice/Don't make it fell like a roundabout process/Don't think that it's loooove --12 Rods "Separation Anxieties." Pitiably obscure -- a real gem of an album, insanely catchy and insanely well-written, in a nerdy/cool kinda way.

― Jack Redelfs, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I was going to contribute to this all properly like, then I saw what la Dastoor had written: and it couldn't really be topped. Mind you,

I LEFT THE NORTH

― the pinefox, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

And, erm, from whence does that come, Pinefox?

(BTW the answer to my earlier teaser: the album is XTC's "Skylarking", the song is "Summer's Cauldron", and the first line is "Drowning here in summer's cauldron").

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

It's the first line of LOUDER THAN BOMBS - OK, not a proper album, I know - I was just edging towards completism on Dastoor's line of thinking...

― the pinefox, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Thanks. Is "I LEFT THE NORTH" metaphorical / autobiographical for you, Pinefox?

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'm afraid not. Nothing as interesting as that. I hardly even left the South. I do think it's a good opening line, though - esp. in a Morrissey / Smiths context. (That's not to say it's as good as his other opening lines. I mean, I like the song, but it's relatively middling work, non?)

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

BASS! How low can you go? Death row, what a brother know ...

― Jake Becker, Thursday, 1 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Of course for me London is up North. The equivalent for me would be "I left the far South again, I travelled North again" (and the North being London).

Oh and Jake, strictly speaking the first line is "London, England, consider yourself WARNED!". Which is how I feel most times I'm there :).

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 1 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

'Oh, I just don't know where to begin..' (Armed Forces), 'They crowded up to Lenin with their noses worn off', (Reckoning) 'Always at the foot of the photograph' (Cake).

Also 'Don't fall in love with me' is quite a nice start to an album about love.

― Ally C, Friday, 2 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-five years ago)

"I want to hold the hand inside you/I want to take a breath that's true" -Mazzy Star I'd feel a bit silly if people knew how much that makes me swoon.

― Eibba, Saturday, 3 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Eibba: but we do, now, silly!

2. Cookie (1): great call on Elvis. Who could leave that one out?

3. Cookie (3): 'yet'. Don't forget 'yet'.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[whistle going WHEEEDLE-WHEE!] C'mon, boys! (New York Dolls, In Too Much Too Soon)

― Michaelangelo Matos, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

from modest mouse's album 'the moon and the antartica' --everything thats keeping me togheter is falling apart/i got this thing that i concider my only art and it's fucking people over.--

great line great album

― max dagenais, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The Moon and Antarctica" is a largely terrible album with countless cringeworthy lyrical missteps. Perhaps the only CD that has actually angered me. And I wanted to like it, too. The first track is the best on the album, though.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Easter Woman came today and took away my wife
took her through an open doorway to the afterlife"
the residents , commercial album

― Anas FK, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My favourite first line is 'yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, no no no no' by New York Dolls. Why is it pretentious for Patti Smith to say 'Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine', whereas Iggy says 'I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a hide full of napalm' and it's not pretentious? That's not a rhetorical question - I find P. Smith's lyrics a little studied. Maybe cos Iggy's lyrics are funny!! Nick Dastoor or somebody, what are the rules for the use of 'fill' and 'full'?

― maryann, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"You are about to witness the strength of street knowledge" -- NWA, "Straight Outta Compton."

"I dreamed I was an Eskimo ..." -- take a guess :-)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dont you mean inuit ?

― anthony, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

What will happen in the morning when the world it gets so crowded that you can't look out the window in the morning?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"There is no culture is my brag,
Your taste for bullshit reveals a lust for a home of office
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
Where are the obligatory niggers?*
HEY THERE FUCKFACE!!
HEY THERE FUCKFACE!!"

"All those whose mind entitles themselves,
and whose main entitle is themselves,
shall feel the wrath of my bombast!"

"It's approaching
600 pounds gas and flesh
Robes in tatters
It's approaching"

"Is there anybody there?
Yeah!"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

now that the compilation taboo has been broken:

"Well you tried it just for once, found it all right for kicks/but now you found out that it's a habit that sticks/and you're an orgasm addict!"

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time... for y'all have knocked her up...

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I just knew that I'd open this thread and that damned Arab Strap line would be there.

Off the top of my head, I'd highly rate "I'm not afraid to say I'm scared" from Sonic Youth's "The Burning Spear" from their debut EP.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

'The car is on fire and there is no driver at the wheel.'

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"It just so happens I've many concerns..."

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Deep beneath an ancient shadow
Stunned with age and too much wisdom
Reclined in glass, with eyes too steep
Relentless dimensions of quadraphonic sleep
Dwelt the wild grinning cyclopean pagan
Screaming destruction in sheer dazzling raiment
A thunderbolt master electronic savior
A gold galactic raver, the Futuristic Dragon
Yes, and I do mean yes
AAAAAHHHH"

T-Rex "Futuristic Dragon"

Very daft, yes. But with that psychedelic funk backing music there is no better...

― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 15 August 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mooooooooon don't come up toniiiiight." - Patty Waters, Sings

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Sunday, 15 August 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"You are now about to witness the strenth of street knowledge" - NWA, Straight Outta Compton

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 August 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

stop your messing around
better think of your future
time to straighten right out
bringing problems to town

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pick a card, any card .... WRONG! ..Jacket Hangs, Blue Aeroplanes

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"INNOCENT, UNTIL I'M PROVEN GUILTY....DENY EVERYTHING DENY EVERYTHING..."

- "Deny Everything" kicking off Group Sex by the Circle Jerks

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Certainly not the best, but I was very impressed by the opening of Pavement's "Wowee Zowee" the first time I heard it (song is "We Dance"). "There is no... castration fear."

― nono, Monday, 16 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

'Waaauaauauauuuauuauuuugghghghh!'

Mission of Burma's 'Secrets'.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
Coloured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge,
Amused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole."

Yes, Tales From Topographic Oceans

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

We hear you're leaving, that's OK.

(the greatness of this line wasn't apparent the first thousand or so times i heard it.)

(pretzel logic is thirty years old!)

― dan (dan), Friday, 1 October 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

white LIGHT

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

As she pulled me out of the oxygen tent,
I asked for the lastest party

― sexyDancer, Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Garage sale, Saturday, I need to pay / My heart's outstanding bill"
- "Everything Must Go!", Left & Leaving, The Weakerthans

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 2 October 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"The way I see it, Barry, this should be a very dynamite show."

"Serious as a heart attack!"

"TALK — It's only talk!"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away." - Spiritualized
"It was supposed to be so easy..." - The Streets
"I've been mad for fucking years." - Pink Floyd

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 October 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

‘Wooouuuldn’t it be nice...’

― Orange, Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey!"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I still think "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old" is classic despite excessive mentions in obits. (That's Nirvana BTW) But my favorite is "I wanna be forgotten" (Teh Strokes)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 2 October 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"why don't you be good for something and pull down the shade", from gratitude walks, american music club (album: mercury)

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 2 October 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

MY War, you're one of them.

― Weash, Sunday, 3 October 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dont worry... I won't hurt you... I only want you to have some fun...

-1999, duh

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 October 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

niggaz be monkeyflippin with the funky rhythm i be kickin/musician, inflict the composition

or,

scientific, my hand kissed it

or,

i've been waiting for a guide to take me by the hand

― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 3 October 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

but the first line of NY State of Mind is "straight out the fucking dungeons of rap" which also qualifies

― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't bother to look through the whole thread to see if anyone posted these, but two Silver Jews albums come to mind:

"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection"

and "No I don't really wanna die/I only wanna die in your eyes."

Of course there's the classic Dylan:
"Johnny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine/I'm on the pavement thinkin' bout the govermnet."

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous" - Bummed

― holojames (holojames), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel

godspeed you black emperor! - f#a#oo

― plast (plast), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

but somebody obviously beat me to it. great, just great.

― plast (plast), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

when you have no-one, no-one can hurt you
Palace brothers - Days in the wake.

Have just realised that it is exactly 10 years ago to the day that I first heard it. Bought to cheer me up on the first day of Fresher's week. There are no other records from that time that I listen to as regularly as I do this one.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My breath smells of a thousand fags and when I get drunk I dance like my Dad, I 'm starting to dress a bit like him

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"1-2-3-4."
--Please Please Me.

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh, make me over, I'm all I wanna be"

Hole, Celebtrity Skin

― I'm Rich, Monday, 4 October 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

My Smile is Stuck! I can not go back to your Frownland.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

'yo niggaz! stay focused, missy gonna be number one'

missy elliot

― bojan (bojanm), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"1-2-3-4."
--Please Please Me.

That is "1-2-3-fuck"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ground control to Major Tom"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"We are the Jonzun Crew,
we are from your planet too"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bob Wood, national program director of The Chum Group, worked with us in producing..."

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Seconded!:

"the car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel"
"there is no ... castration fear"
"i wanna be forgotten"

And I might as well throw in two big fat canon entries, probably my favorite opening lines of the lot:

"In the next world war"
"ice, baby..."

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

(Whispered) "Tonight's the night!"

Too obvious?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

The snot has caked against my pants It has turned to crystal There's a bluebird sitting on a branch I guess I'll take my pistol
Love - 'Forever Changes'
-- David (david.si...) (webmail), January 26th, 2001 1:00 AM. (link)

.. except it doesn't, it starts "Yeah, said it's allright.."

Hah, David. That's told you!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

When you have no one
No one can hurt you

"You Will Miss Me when I Burn," Palace Brothers--Days in the Wake

― prince rupert, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

"I realized my fists were cleanched/I stretched my fingers to relax."
Also "New day rising!/New day rising!"

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?

poe, via propaganda

― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

"The middle of the road is trying to find me/I'm standing in the middle of life with my past behind me"

-Pretenders, "Middle of the Road"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

What I want/I want now
Television, Marquee Moon

The screen door slams/Mary's dress waves
Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run

and a new one

Everything's so easy for Pauline
Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

"listen to the girl, as she takes on half the world"

"I don't need to sell my soul, he's already in me"

"there's mothin' more sinister as ministers in dresses" (not couting the opening "bullshit!" ramble

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

"I get back from m'tour and suddenly it doesn't seem like much fun to be off my face at four to eleven a.m."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection..."

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Pigs, they tend to wiggle when they walk

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

STUCK A PIN IN YOUR BACKBONE, CHOKED IT DOWN FROM THERE, ALL I EVER WANTED WAS TO BE YOUR SPINE

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

oops "spoke" it down from there

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's been so long since you've heard from me

The Wrens: Meadowlands

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm taking a crap, oh mm mm yeah

― watercup coffeeshed, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

'Daddy.' 'Yes son.' 'wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-what does regret mean?'

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling
Can never cut below the floor, nor penetrate the ceiling

― Palomino (Palomino), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Well I just don't know where to begin"

First line on EC's Armed Forces

― Dave Depper (Dave Depper), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

damn, beat me to it by thismuch. also, it's kind of ridiculous that it took years to come up with it

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Practice makes perfect, yes I can prove it; business or pleasure, the more that you DO IT.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

I've always liked "When I got back home I found a message on the door."

Also: "Take the sun from my eyes, let me learn to despise."

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

A new favorite...

"I got my second wind, pimp!"

― A Licky Boom Boom Down (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't say a word, the last one's still stinging"
Spoon, Girls Can Tell

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Make a hole with a gun perpendicular"

They Might Be Giants, Lincoln.

― Viz (Viz), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Eat what you are while you're falling apart and it opened a can of worms!"

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 March 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

there is no castration fear...

― arjun (arjun), Thursday, 30 March 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 30 March 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

A few come to mind ...

"Teen-aged angst has paid off/Now I'm bored and old."

"My my, hey hey/Rock n roll is here to stay."

"Once upon a time/You looked so fine ..."

"It was twenty years ago today ..."

"Back in the day when I was a teen-ager ..."

Lucinda's "Car Wheels ..." album also begins with a beauty: "Not a day goes by/When I don't think about you/You left a mark on me/A permanent ... tattoo."

― Chris O., Thursday, 30 March 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yet another vote for...

"Oh, I just don't know where to begin"

--Elvis Costello - "Accidents Will Happen," Armed Forces

― Mama Roux (Mama Roux), Thursday, 30 March 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

"i'm gonna beat you up at the end of this" - squirrel bait

― cb, Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

"I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE, AND I BRING YOU....

FIRE!!! ...."
(Arthur Brown i think)

― cody cod, Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

she's a devil in disguise....
Flying Burrito

― certain, Friday, 31 March 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've done so many albums now that my first lines, all put together, make a novel. Well, an epic poem:

Once upon a time there was a man called Saul who persecuted Christians
He shows up at the party in a pair of dark glasses his grandfather wore in the war
God is a tender pervert and the angels are voyeurs
Trust me, I'm a doctor
Nobody is evil, nobody is good
I come from the jungle, from Popacatapetl
Take a voyage through the heart of darkness, to the sound of violins
The villains of vaudeville, young lovers' quarrels
If I told the truth I'd like to live my life again
I was born on a dashboard, toothbrush for a head
When you caress your little cat and stroke me with your hand
Ping pong the album, comedy cabaret
I went with a friend of mine I hadn't seen in years to a party
Mad music, sad music, totally bad and crazy music
Appalachian mountain girl, coming home to me
We are the pirates, we sail in silence
The man from the north enters the tube
Moop bears in the thunder, moop bears on the idiot sea

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 31 March 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

whos gonna follow that?

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Don't fall in love with me yet
We've only recently met
True I'm in love with you but
you might decide I'm a nut
Give me a week or two to
go absolutley cuckoo
then, when you see your error,
then, you can flee in terror
like everybody else does
- magnetic fields, 69 love songs

or one of my favorites

i am a patient boy
i wait i wait i wait
my time is water down a drain
- fugazi, 13 songs

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

'Dog man star took a suck on a pill/ And stabbed a cerebellum with a curious quill'

'Got me a movie/I want you to know/Slicing up eyeballs...'

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

On Momus's cue... my first and only album to date:

"Just bill me for the total cost."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 1 April 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

"There's a time to FUCK and a time to CRAVE
But the Shah sleeps IN LEE HARVEY'S GRAVE!!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 2 April 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

"Daddy?"
"Yes, son?"
"W-w-w-what does regret mean?"
"Well son, a funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her... SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!"

I have no clue what that means, but I know it rules.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 2 April 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

"She puts those lips like a leech up to the Sex on the Beach..."
- Lifter Puller / Fiestas + Fiascos

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time.

― latebloomer: a power and finesse vocalist (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"

erm

"We're the Beta Band and we're nice and clean"

erm

"We blew the doors, didn't we, pissed in their champagne and did a real thing, didn't we, gave ourselves a name and peeled away the shame, I wanted to explode, to pull my ribs apart, and let the sun inside"

erm

"Rat's foot, iron claw, neurosurgeons SCREEEEEAM for more"

erm

"Good evening. This is your captain. We are about to attempt a crash-landing."

erm

"Oh yeah, the world's turned upside-down"

erm

"AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

"he had a stroke at the age of 24, it could have been a brilliant career"

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa's was the first to come to my mind as well. Also:

"I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, traveling, travlin', travlin'..." (Joni Mitchell, 'All I Want', Blue)

"Soft as snow but warm inside" (My Bloody Valentine, Isn't Anything)

"Forget our fate..." (Mark Hollis)

"When you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers" (Neutral Milk Hotel, 'King of Carrot Flowers', In The Aeroplane over the Sea)

but my absolute favourite:

"Why can't we all just walk away..." (Current 93, 'The Long Shadow Falls', All the Pretty Little Horses)

― Gerard (Gerard), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

"I just want a holiday in the sun. I wanna go to the new Belsen."

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

WELL! IT'S! 50 CUPS OF KAWFEE AND YOU KNOW IT'S AW-UHN!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"

I'll second this one. Best opening line of a debut album.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

"time has told me you're a rare rare find
a troubled cure for a troubled mind"

also the first line of either/or by elliott smith. the track is 'speed trials'. for risk of misquoting it, i won't try and write anything down

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Saturday, 19 August 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

Mu - Out of Breach:

"Welcome to Mu-World, bitch! I’m talking to the person who took [?indecipherable] from me off eBay...plus bitches who...?...without my permission...another shout-out to those bitches who keep my tampons backstage...and especially to the all [sic] haters...I’m about to KUNG-FU YOU!"

alternately, Deerhoof - Reveille:

"The trumpet scatters its awful sound over the graves of all lands..."

OR, Smog - Dongs of Sevotion:

It happens on a side street, maybe
It happens on a main street, maybe
Lion bites a zebra neck

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

"OK folks, if you take a look out the right side of the plane, you'll see a cloud that looks exactly like... Badly Drawn Boy."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 19 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits
Raised on a diet of broken biscuits"

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 19 August 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

"If you cut your lover slack you'll get a monster back"
The Auteurs - Light Aircraft on Fire

― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late." (Mekons - Memphis, Egypt)

"I was out late the other night, fear and whiskey kept me going." (Mekons - Chivalry)

"And it was just about time for the party to close, when the hinges went to flyin' off the motherfuckin' doors." (The Coup - Everythang)

"I went away to see an old friend of mine/His sister came over, she was out of her mind." (Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia)

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Last night in the street collapsed on itself.. in fact, it broke right in two"

Ryan Adams - Strawberry Wine

― Torgeir Hansen (MRZBW), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Ice baby, I saw your girlfriend and she was eating her fingers like they were just another meal."

Pavement - "Summer Babe" (Winter version)

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Sunday, 20 August 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

I'm never going back to Jackson

― the pinefox, Monday, 23 March 2009 16:35 (sixteen years ago)

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