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What is your favorite opening line from a song?

― gygax!, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"So messed up, (I) want you here" from The Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog".

Although I am partial to "I'd rather shoot a woman than a man" from Big Star's "O Dana".

― gygax!, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"son, i'm 30/i only went with your mother cuz she's dirty"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"The bugger in the short sleeves fucked my wife..."
John Cale

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

whoops, that's from happy monday's "kinky afro" btw.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoa... "Guts"!

― Simon, Thursday, 26 September 2002 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

gygax! got me thinking.. "i'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm" is as good an opening as "IWBYD", so it's hard... so hard...

― Simon, Thursday, 26 September 2002 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"Your forty-seventh birthday cake is peeing acid on your face."

from "If It Kills You" by Drive Like Jehu.

― Ian Johnson, Thursday, 26 September 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Facetious answer: "IIIIIIII AAAAM IROOOON MAAAAAAAN"
Serious answer: "I remember how the darkness doubled/I recall lightning struck itself" - Television, "Marquee Moon"
Answer pertaining to a song you'd have to hear to fully appreciate: "I'minlovewiththegirlwhoworksatthestorewhereI'mnothingbut aCUSTOMER!" - The Replacements, "Customer"

― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 26 September 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello"

from 'Public Image' by Public Image Ltd.

― Sasha Gabba Hey! (sgh), Thursday, 26 September 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"Watch out! - you might get what you're after"

from "Burning Down The House" by the Talking Heads. It also happens to be the only part of the song that's any good.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Thursday, 26 September 2002 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

on the stooges tip, TV eye - LLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 26 September 2002 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'I always flirt with death, I'll get killed but I don't care about it' -- Only Ones' "Another Girl, Another Planet"

and

'You have to have a party when you're in a state like this' psych furs' "president gas"

― Aaron A., Thursday, 26 September 2002 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

LLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWDDDDDDDD, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 September 2002 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

'I always flirt with death, I'll get killed but I don't care about it'

Tragedy! For 30 years I've heard 'I'll get Killed but...' as 'Out at Kilburn', and thought it was a nice London reference to hanging around stoned meeting women on the sunny boardwalk that is Kilburn High Road.

I feel a new thread coming on...

― jon (jon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 06:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Is she really going out with him?"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 26 September 2002 07:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"I met this girl, she looked like Axl Rose"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 September 2002 07:14 (twenty-three years ago)

the *flck!* noise at the start of She's Lost Control.

the *guitar fragment* 1, 2, a-1,2,3,4
at the start of 'white man in the hammersmith palais'

'I am the sun and the heir' in How soon is now'... it's downhill after that, though.

do the first two count?

― jon (jon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The Ramones: "1 2 3 4"

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"I..."

"I'm Straight" - Jonathan Richman

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"EFFICIENCY and PROGRESS is OURRRS ONCE-AH MORE/NOW that we HAVE THE NEUTEEERROOOOOON BOOOMB/It's NICE and QUICK and CLEAN and GEEETTTSS THINGS DONE!" -- "Kill the Poor" by Dead Kennedys

"And the first commandment reads that human flesh & blood is sacred......until there is no more food!" -- "Straighten Out" by the Stranglers

Jaz Coleman's implausibly phlegmy cough as the first sound on "Wardance" by Killing Joke

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

List monitors arrive with petition.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Bass! How low can you go?"

"It won't be easy - you'll think it's strange..."

(actually Jess' pick is best)

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"WELL YA TRIED IT JUST FOR ONCE -- FOUND IT ALRIGHT FOR KICKS! BUT NOW YA FINDING OUT THAT IT'S A HABIT THAT STICK!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Ladies, let me tell you about myself
I got a dick for a brain
And my brain is gonna sell my ass to you"
-AFGHAN WHIGS "Be Sweet"

― insectifly (insectifly), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"Now Mr. Wu was a laundry man in a shop with an old green door."

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"You got a lot of nerve to say that you're my friend/ When I was down, you just stood there grinning." - Positivly 4th Street, Bob Dylan

― Johnney B, Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...."

(runs, covering head...)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE AND I BRING YOU...

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son," Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on."
You know who.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Today, it's

"All your friends are cunts/ Your mother is a ballpoint pen thief" - McLusky, think it's 'Gareth Brown Says'

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"Even the dog that piss against the wall in Babylon will not escape Jah Wrath" which is from some track on the Lee Perry "Version like Rain" album.

I think its been sampled as well, no surprise there.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually -

"AOhhhhhhh-oh-ah-oh-ah-ohahoh, ah-ah-ahhhhh ah-ah ah-ah, ahahahaohahhh, ohahhoh!" - The Communards version of Don't Leave Me This Way.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"I don't like you, but I love you"

from 'you've really got a hold of me'.

although i saw a terrible thing on one of those "i love motown' things where diana ross, trying to describe the genius of smokey robinson, quoted that line and said " you see, smokey's not just saying he LIKES his girl, he's saying he LOVES her, that's so romantic..."

AAAAAAARGH!

On the other hand.

She sang 'Love Hangover'. What have I ever done?

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

― Queen G (Queeng), Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

another one:

"LOUIE LOUIE! I never thought it would come to this baby..." [bottle flying by the microphone]

― gygax!, Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"RRRRRAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!" "The Crusher"

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The two that popped into my head have already been mentioned:

"Marquee Moon" and "Another Girl, Another Planet." Especially the latter. What a great line.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

When we did this a while ago someone mentioned Arab Strap's "Packs of Three":

"It was the biggest cock you'd ever seen."

Not bad.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

"Just got home from Illinois . . . "
CCR.

― Burr, Thursday, 26 September 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

It's four in the morning, the end of December...

― Enid Roach (Enid Roach), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Lucifer son of the morning, I'm gonna chase you out of earth!

― Enid Roach (Enid Roach), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"got a pocket full of quartesr and I'm headed to the ARCade!"

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"We're on an Island Now"
-North of America - its not so much the line as the way the guitars start farting along with it. Its the greatest Pavement noise not made by Pavement.

"I was Underwhelmed if thats a word/ I know its not cause I looked it up"
-this band called Sloan who for some strange reason are opening for the Str*k*s

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

hey....been trying to meet you

― kephm, Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I like big butts and I cannot lie...

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"'RRRRRAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!' 'The Crusher'"

Could've sworn it was "RRRAAAPE!!"

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"do you feel ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLright?"

― artiste, Friday, 27 September 2002 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I quote 'this ain't rock n roll, it's genocide!' all the time; and another honorable mention to "when I say I'm in love you best believe I'm in love L-U-V"

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 27 September 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Early one morning, the sun was shining,
I was laying in bed
wondering if she'd changed at all
if her hair was still red.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Actuall, Bob Dylan and Sir Mix-a-lot OWN this thread.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, Bob Dylan and Sir Mix-a-lot OWN this thread.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"I had a shower / And then phoned my brother up" from the Associates' "Party Fears Two" (doesn't work as well on paper).

"This goes out to all the woman in the world / Especially her" from Freak Nasty's "Da Dip"

― scott pl., Friday, 27 September 2002 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm brokenhearted
with all this this entails
It takes some complicated drinking
to keep me on the rails"

Max Eider, "Drink"

"Hello, my name is Billy Bob and I don't give a damn
I got myself some white sheets straight from the Klu Klux Klan
I got myself a daughter and she's a mongoloid
Because I married my sister and our gene pool's been destroyed."

Dead Milkmen, "Tiny Town"

"Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could (oop) myself in the shower"

Robyn Hitchcock, "Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl"

"Uh oh, Chuck, they out to get us man.
We gotta dust these boys off."

Public Enemy, "You're Gonna Get Yours"

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Friday, 27 September 2002 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm tempted by the nerve of starting a love song with "I may not always love you", on God Only Knows, but I have to mention Jarvis Cocker, whose work is littered with magnificent openings. Maybe Razzmatazz: "The trouble with your brother / He's always sleeping with your mother."

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"An' I stole a twig from off the nest and gave it to a bird with nothing in her beak, I had my balls and my brain put into a vice and twisted around for a whole fuckin week"

Marianne Faithfull - "Why'd ya do it"

― Saskia, Friday, 27 September 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"I am the gum on your shoes, the prostitute who rings your family"
Dubstar - I Will Be Your Girlfriend

― chris j (chris j), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"I am angry I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin."

Magazine - "Song From Under the Floorboards."

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 September 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I WANT SURPRISES! Brand New Lover Dead or Alive

― jean, Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"All of my purple life..."

― Jody Beth Rosen, Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"I was dreaming when I wrote this/Forgive me if it goes astray"
"I was working part-time in a five-and-dime/My boss was Mr. McGee"
"When you were mine/I gave you all of my money"

we could do this just on Prince songs!

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You're quite right. Dig, if you will, a picture.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hips like cin-dah-rella . . ."

― Ess Kay (esskay), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"When Doves Cry" definitely wins the Prince category.

"Now you wanna know the reason why I cheated on you..." from "Sweet Surrender" gets my attention like no other.

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

"Punctured bicycle..."
"Let me take your hand, I'm shaking like milk"
"There was a guy, an underwater guy who controlled the sea"

And waaaay too many more to mention here.

― Charlie (Charlie), Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK!

― My name is Kenny, Monday, 30 September 2002 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, what My name is Kenny sed.

(haha & this doesn't count because it's a sample & it's the only voice on the track, but "This is a story / about being free . . ." is fucking amazing.)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Monday, 30 September 2002 01:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Vicious, you hit me with a flower....

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 30 September 2002 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't believe no one has posted 'i was like' yet.

― maura (maura), Monday, 30 September 2002 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

hah

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 September 2002 01:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"I've been chasing ghosts and I don't like it" John Cale

― Chris Krohn, Monday, 30 September 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hands up, who wants to die?"

― earlnash, Monday, 30 September 2002 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine", Gloria, Patti Smith

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 30 September 2002 07:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry I forgot my favourite opening line of the first song (Disorder) on the first album (Unknown Pleasures) of one of my all-time fave bands (Joy Division):

"I've been waiting for a guide to
come and take me by the hand ..."

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, my last post only makes sense if you replace the two "the" by two "a".

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:11 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU'RE AS COLD AS ICE!

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Jaz Coleman's implausibly phlegmy cough as the first sound on "Wardance" by Killing Joke"

Are you sure that's Jaz? I don't know why exactly, I've just always assumed that was Youth....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"Charlie, I'm pregnant..."

--Tom Waits, "Christmas Card to a Hooker in Minneapolis"

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 30 September 2002 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

--Tom Waits, "Christmas Card to a Hooker in Minneapolis"

Erm. FROM. Not TO. I haven't slept.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 30 September 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Pretty sure, Stew, as he repeats the signature gimmick on later albums like EXTREMIEITES (on "Money is Not Our God"). Could be Youth, I suppose, but I'd always assumed it was Jaz.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 30 September 2002 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourites are where the opening line falls in about halfway through a conversation - two particular examples are 'Burning airlines...' by Eno ("When I got back home I found a message on the door") and 'A new kind of water' by This Heat ("I don't know either, what is the answer?"). They just plunge you straight into the song's world and there's no escape, and I love it.

― Rob M, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

"you're gonna give me immunity"

another devoto line, this time give me everything

― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Wopbopalubopawopbamboom!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Dig if you will the picture, of you and I engaged in a kiss

U don't have 2 be beautiful 2 turn me on

I was dreamin' when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray

In France a skinny man. Died of a big disease with a little name

― ono, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"I FEEL UPTIGHT ON A SATURDAY NIGHT....."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Got me a movie, slicin' up eyeballs"

"He was lying banged and battered, skewered and bleeding, talking crippled on the cross"

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"Oh, the snot has caked against my pants/it has turned to crystal."

"Get off! And get your grandma outta here!"

"Rip them down hold them up tell them that I'm your gun pull my trigger I am bigger thaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn..."

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"I GOT SOMETHING TO SAAA-AAAAAAY, I KILLED YOUR BABY TODAAAY......"

Oh, bless you little Glen!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

". . . . . . . "

". . . . . . . . . . . . .. ..."

". . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . .. . . .*CLICK*"

". . . . . ... . *pufffffffffff*"

". . . sssilence is _sexxy_"

(einsturzende neubauten)

― mistersquiggle (mistersquiggle), Thursday, 3 October 2002 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Ubu has gotta be up there with Prince:

The girls won't touch me cause I got a misdirection,
and livin at night isn't helpin my complexion...

Or:

I've got these arms & legs that flipflop
flip flop

― Smith, Thursday, 3 October 2002 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

four weeks pass...

Either...

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

Or...

"Don't everybody like the smell of gasoline
well burn motherfucker burn American dream..."

― Nickalicious, Friday, 1 November 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

straight outta compton

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 1 November 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"IIIIIII WANT YOUR SOUL"

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 1 November 2002 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

nice,

also, the beasties: "i looked out the window and seen his bald head, i ran to the fridge and pulled out an egg."

and frank black: "waaaaiiiiiit, isn't it so great, since you learned karate chop chop chop chop"

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 1 November 2002 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

a propos of dyson's bald head quote:

"Are you with me on this, people?
Sam with the showing scalp-top..."

Donnie Vliet

― Dougie (citzfan), Saturday, 2 November 2002 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"can I have a taste of yr ice cream?/Can I lick the crumbs from yr table/can I interfere w/yr crisis ? NO Mind your Own Business!!" - Delta 5 (or the Chicks on Speed cover I first heard..)

― daria g, Saturday, 2 November 2002 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always been partial to "What's with these homies dissin' my girl/Why do they gotta front?"

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 2 November 2002 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"Wish everybody would leave me alone..."
-Roxy Music, "Street Life"

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 2 November 2002 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Y'all act like you've never seen a white person before." Eminem "The Real Slim Shady".
"Basically, I'm the worst nightmare you ever had." Pharoahe Monch "Fuck You".

― Nick H, Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"In my dreams I'm dying all the time" - "Porcelain" by Moby

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Nice to see Devoto well represented here. I think I'll add to his laurels with:

'Your clean-living, clear-eyed, clever, level-headed brother
Says he'll put all the screws upon your newest lover'

(Magazine, 'Philadelphia')

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

'you give me my number i call you up

you acting like your pussy's on interrupt'
(ODB - 'Got ya money)

'When i say bust that assss

you say bust that ass!

we gonna bust that ass! (we gonna bust that ass!)'
(Tha Onyx - 'Bust That Ass')

― s magnet, Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"LET ME TELL YOU 'BOUT THE FUCKIN' BITCH DEAN-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Ween - "Common Bitch"

NOTE: Thanks to Rich Bunnell for inspiration.

― Evan, Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

okay not *the favourite*, but "my wife's tired of fucking me" from nas's otherwise overy maudlin "drunk by myself" is quite affecting.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

"They got AIDS infectin the globe/laser weapons and clones..."

(at least that's how I think it goes)

Non-Phixion's "Futurama"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Kinky Afro so OTM I must weep now

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Pick a card, any card...... WRONG!"

-Jacket Hangs, Blue Aeroplanes

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

hee hee overy maudline = overly maudlin

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"from the goddamn first thing i do in the morning to the goddamn last thing i do at night..."

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Early one morning while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

you are hardcore
you make me hard

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"i was raised like a muslim" - think i've seen this before on the gang starr s/d thread... and of course

"white man came / across the sea"...

― kieron, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Total cliche, but "It doesn't matter if we all die".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Instead of all-time faves, here's a recent entry:

"Fire in the disco / fire in the Taco Bell" is a line I've never heard without smiling. If you ask me in six months, I might be over it, but for now, it's the Electric Six all the way.

― Erick H (Erick H), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"may i make my fond excuses/ for the lateness of the hour"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Met Jesus up on a hill
He confessed I was dressed to kill

Echo & the Bunnymen, King of Kings

― Tijn, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

My recent entry (and it's the opening line of the album, to boot):

"I was born as a sacrifice
To build a black man's hell
and a white man's paradise"
--Gregory Isaacs, "Sacrifice"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"how could one ever / think / anything's permanent..."

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

FUUCCKYOOOUU!! You call this a Hamburger- Killdozer -Hamburger Martyr

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

You are 18 year old girl
Who live in small city of Japan

― Alexis (Alexis), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Your butt is mine." -- Michael Jackson, "Bad"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

For pure melodrama, Dolly Parton singing "In this mental institution" at the start of "Daddy come get me".

For filth, "Darling come here, fuck me up the rear" by the Lords of Acid.

All time fave:
"Finished with my woman cos she couldn't help me with my mind" from "Paranoid".

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

never seen you looking so fine my funky one~pretzel logic

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"I am a patient boy. IwaitIwaitIwaitIwaitIwait.'

Sorry if that's a retread.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Josie's on a vacation far away...

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"I feel so extraordinary..." - New Order 'True Faith'
"Whose sticky hands are these?" - Alison Moyet 'This House'

― russ t, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"This world is big and wild and half insane!"
-Kinks "Animal Farm"

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

"Something about the way you taste makes me want to clear my throat"

- Devo "Gut Feeling"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

"I know you want to leave me, but I refuse to let you go."

-"Ain't Too Proud To Beg," Temptations

It's not as much the line itself as the way it's sung. Honestly, if hearing it doesn't get you jazzed you need to check your pulse.

― musically (musically), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

no sufjan, no credibility.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

"Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack/I went out for a ride and I never went back."

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

"Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir, so that every mouth can be fed." (Desmond Dekker, "Israelites")

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

"While you were lost in France we were stranded in the British Isles"

― moriarty (moriarty), Saturday, 17 December 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

"Destroy your safe and happy life before it is too late."

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

"in 1984 i was hospitalized for approaching perfection."

― rajeev (rajeev), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Baby I've been breaking glass in your room again...listen

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

my current favorite for the current 10 minute interval is the opening verse of "Supermodel" by Juliana Hatfield
"The highest paid peice of ass/
you know its not gonna last/
'cuz magazines end up in the trash..."

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

"SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK! — makes me feel this way..."

"As I look out over this beautiful land, I can't help but realize that I am alone."

"Our band could be your life — real names be proof."

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

"Five names that I can hardly stand to hear/
including yours and mine and one more chimp who isn't here"

― pisces, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

most of my fantasies are of
making someone else come

― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

"You only got one finger left, and it's pointin' at the door"

― Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

"You only got one finger left, and it's pointin' at the door"

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007

haha what's that from?!

― pisces, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Beck, "Lord Only Knows". Slate him all you like, the guy had prodigious talent.

― Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

(One can argue that the opening line of that song is actually "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHH", which works almost as well.)

― Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

"ANTIQUES!" (Prefab Sprout)

― everything, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late

(Mekons)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

This is a simulation of a song, are you impressed or what?

(more Mekons!)

― dad a, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

I've got these arms & legs that flipflop
flip flop

yeh, 'bsolutely! that pere ubu opening was one of those i was a-gonna post also...

more faves:
"it's not that funny, is it?" (the sizzling buckingham sneer on tusk

"if your mem'ry serves you well ..." (yep, boberman zimmer & the band)

― t**t, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

Here's a penny for your thoughts, incidently, you may keep the change.

Orange Juice - Flesh of My Flesh

― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

most of my fantasies are of
making someone else come

-- ciderpress, Thursday, 8 November 2007

wow that's fantastic.

― pisces, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

"A cheap 'oliday in other people's misery"
"It was Christmas Eve, babe--in the drunk tank"
"I'll let a train be my feet if it's too far to walk to you"

This one's a little long but I think it's great, and savage--from la Mitchell:

Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, "constantly in the darkness?
Where’s that at?
If you want me I’ll be in the bar."

― ellaguru, Thursday, 8 November 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

"You lack the minerals and vitamins irons and the niacin"

― carne asada, Thursday, 8 November 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

"Won't you let me walk you home from school?"

― MRZBW, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hand in glove, the sun shines out of our behinds

The Smiths

― shanissey, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

"I still dream of Orgonon."

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

― Bus Driver Stu, Friday, 9 November 2007 08:20 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, the snot has caked against my pants

I walk 47 miles of barbwire

OK, I'minlovewiththegirlwhoworksatthestorebutI'mnothing but a customer!

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 9 November 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

And right now it's time to KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS

― Telephone thing, Friday, 9 November 2007 08:50 (eighteen years ago)

"CAT'S FOOT IRON CLAW/NEAURAL SURGEONS SCREAM FOR MORE"

"I'm a rompin' dead boy on a long road"

"IIIII, I AM A TIMEBOMB"

"Hope came to him/as it had a hundred times in many shapes"

― Cliftonb, Friday, 9 November 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

"Well you wish upon a star...
that turns into a plane"

(Replacements, "Valentine")

"I've got six things on my mind...
you're no longer one of them"

(Prefab Sprout, "Desire As")

"Listen to the girl...
as she takes on half the world"

(Jesus & Mary Chain, "Just Like Honey")

― henry s, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

There's loads of great first lines here, but the best one is the Fugazi line from 4 years ago.

― nate woolls, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VhPHtKinmA

― Mr. Goodman, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

"I really don't mind if you sit this one out" - "Thick As A Brick", Jethro Tull.
"So you want to be a rock'n'roll star, then listen now to what I say...", "Rock'N'Roll Star", The Byrds.
"Shady politician in my bed", "Rabbit Fighter", T.Rex.
"Sometimes you're better off dead, there's a gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head.", "West End Girls", Pet Shop Boys.

― snoball, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

inspirational thread!

"you said you wanted some space / well is this enough for you?" (Pulp - Space)

"i never thought it would happen / with me and the girl from Clapham" (Squeeze - Up The Junction)

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Kate Bush "Saxophone Song"

"You'll find me in a Berlin bar, in a corner brooding"

― Surmounter, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

Old 97's "Victoria"

“This is the story of Victoria Lee/She started off on Percodan and ended up with me."

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 01:01 (twelve years ago)

HOW BOUT GETTING OFF THESE ANTIBIOTICS

― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Monday, 29 July 2013 01:03 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

"Why's it never light on my lawn?" - Elton John, 'Grey Seal'

― flappy bird, Friday, 20 October 2017 03:21 (eight years ago)

not my favorite ever but up there

― flappy bird, Friday, 20 October 2017 03:21 (eight years ago)

"Captured effortlessly, that's the way it was."

― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 20 October 2017 03:27 (eight years ago)

"did you see her walking, did she come around here, Sir?" - pj harvey, my beautiful leah

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 20 October 2017 03:44 (eight years ago)

'mmhmm' - pj harvey, long snake moan

― mookieproof, Friday, 20 October 2017 03:46 (eight years ago)

“You’re everybody’s second home” - Heatmiser, ‘Plainclothes Man’

― flappy bird, Sunday, 22 October 2017 15:25 (eight years ago)

"All of your friends are cunts/ Your mother is a ballpoint pen thief"

― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 22 October 2017 15:34 (eight years ago)

"Well, some people ain't no damn good."

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 22 October 2017 15:53 (eight years ago)

"As I went out one morning, to breathe the air around Tom Paine's"

― by the light of the burning Citroën, Sunday, 22 October 2017 16:11 (eight years ago)

"Ain't thou watchin my film"

― brimstead, Sunday, 22 October 2017 16:33 (eight years ago)

i wrote a letter to a wild flower on a classic nitrogen afternoon

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 22 October 2017 19:58 (eight years ago)

"William Butler Yeats in jeans"

― Eazy, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:15 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

He pauses shaving and tells himself that he is the bomb

― flappy bird, Sunday, 26 November 2017 08:28 (eight years ago)

they sentenced me ton twenty years of boredom/for trying to change the system from within

― banjoboy, Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:32 (eight years ago)

Hey kids, let me tell you how I met your Mum

― Mark G, Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:51 (eight years ago)

Pushing a hoopty, bumping the Fugees, my life is a scary movie, your life is a male groupie

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 26 November 2017 19:58 (eight years ago)

Well I been watchin' you waltz all night, Diane

― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 26 November 2017 20:04 (eight years ago)

Nobody move, there's blood on the floor. And I can't find my heart.

(Earworm this week. Not sure about the rest of the song TBH)

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 26 November 2017 20:33 (eight years ago)

I fell asleep on a rooftop
I woke up halfway down

--Stephen Fearing, "Me and Mr. Blue"

― SlimAndSlam, Sunday, 26 November 2017 21:53 (eight years ago)

You ain't no punk, you punk

― StanM, Sunday, 26 November 2017 22:00 (eight years ago)

'I've been contemplating suicide,'
Though maybe its the combination with the 2nd line
'But it really doesn't suit my style'

― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 November 2017 22:19 (eight years ago)

"LET ME TELL YOU 'BOUT THE FUCKIN' BITCH, DEAN-O!!"

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 26 November 2017 22:22 (eight years ago)

Sur le trottoir d'en face une fille riait

― who says no to mentals? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 November 2017 22:24 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

"Anyone caught speaking Esperanto was thought crazy or headed for jail..."

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:20 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

Nww

In little sunrise of goblin eyes
I watch the coupling of the flies
Under waving trees and bumble bees
I strain to amputate my knees

The fall

When it happened we walked through all the estates, from Manchester right to Newcastle.
In Darlington, helped a large man on his own chase off some kids
Who were chucking bricks and
Stuff through his flat window.

― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 14:44 (three years ago)

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