The "Self Control" thread ("I! I live among the creatures of the night!") got me thinking of other songs with a line starting the same way.
Another one: "I! I set my sights on you!" in "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)."
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Monday, 12 July 2021 18:23 (three years ago)
"I Can't Get Next to You" - The Temptations
― Josefa, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:30 (three years ago)
Turn It On Again
― frogbs, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:30 (three years ago)
Heroes
― 29 facepalms, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:31 (three years ago)
Doesn't get any more emphatic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6aozpeiAZA
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Monday, 12 July 2021 18:31 (three years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ze6kNIZkXU
― Left, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:32 (three years ago)
was supposed to be timestamped
also IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII NEVER HAD TO KNOCK ON WOOD
― Left, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:34 (three years ago)
Just learned last week that "Heroes" started out as Bowie covering "Waiting for the Man." He kept the I!
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 12 July 2021 18:36 (three years ago)
II live among the creatures of the nightI haven’t got the will to try and fight
― Siegbran, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:53 (three years ago)
Clearly I didn’t read the first post.
― Siegbran, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:56 (three years ago)
This then:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS5boLWIVPM
― Siegbran, Monday, 12 July 2021 18:57 (three years ago)
I, I, I.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_E96x0u3o
― Noel Emits, Monday, 12 July 2021 19:02 (three years ago)
Modern Lovers - I'm Straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_exvKnrK6g
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:12 (three years ago)
impossible for me to think of anything, Pete Burns and his stentorian voice will be occupying the “I” part of my brain for the foreseeable future
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:19 (three years ago)
Just to clarify the parameters here. There must be an emphatic "I!" Followed by a line also beginning with "I"?
― Noel Emits, Monday, 12 July 2021 19:19 (three years ago)
ah, so "rock and roll all nite" doesn't fit
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:20 (three years ago)
Bob Dylan, I and I. Two I's for the price of one.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:27 (three years ago)
The Dictators - Two Tub Man (I... I... I! I! I! I!)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:28 (three years ago)
was also thinking about "I Want To Hold Your Hand" which is an emphatic, but non-repetitive I
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:29 (three years ago)
No repeating required, just an I standing on its own.
I!Don’t know!Just where I’m going But I!Am gonna try!For the kingdom if I can
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:44 (three years ago)
Eye-e-eye got a feeling that I belong...
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 12 July 2021 19:47 (three years ago)
"Tonto" by Rosie Vela.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 12 July 2021 19:47 (three years ago)
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
will always love
yoooooooou
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 12 July 2021 20:38 (three years ago)
II just took a rideIn a silver machine
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 12 July 2021 20:41 (three years ago)
i, iiiiii, i'll do anythingthat you want me to do
(but i can't go for that)
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 July 2021 20:43 (three years ago)
morris day - "jungle love"
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:47 (three years ago)
I, I, I, IDon't wanna know your name
― henry s, Monday, 12 July 2021 20:48 (three years ago)
IIIIIII / I spent it all (Fugazi "Glue Man")
― orifex, Monday, 12 July 2021 20:54 (three years ago)
"I Wanna Destroy You" by the Soft Boys has that big drawn out IIIIIII with the delayed harmony doubling it halfway through
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 12 July 2021 21:00 (three years ago)
i can’t dancei can’t talk
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 00:20 (three years ago)
(Different song, to say the least)
I don’t eatI don’t sleepI don’t eatI let it consume me
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 00:26 (three years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJnR--IeiMc
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 01:18 (three years ago)
Stepping StoneI would also advocate for Me! I Disconnect From You
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 02:55 (three years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWRhBe-gV8Q
― Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Lynmouth, Ilfracome, etc. (SlimAndSlam), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 11:21 (three years ago)
i thought alice in chains - them bones did this but most of the lyric sites have him yelling "AAH!"
there's a drawn out IIIIIIII in it tho
― I Occasionally Post on ILX (2x5), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 13:30 (three years ago)
godsmack - i stand alone
first thought was
II love the colorful clothes she wears
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 14:55 (three years ago)
I I I I I I I I IShould've known better
(The chorus of a UK chart-topping single by Jim Diamond, 1984)
― I Advance Masked (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:03 (three years ago)
sesame street ftw
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:42 (three years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2PxwnqYUNw
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:45 (three years ago)
"You Oughta Know"
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 16:21 (three years ago)
Stacey Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBdGT4dn4E
― Kim, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 17:48 (three years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImxVWBwUla0
Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 18:30 (three years ago)