Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
6/15/2005 10:54 AM |
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Listened to eels "PS: You Rock My World" yesterday and got thinking about great opening lines in songs.
"I was at a funeral the day I realised
I wanted to spend my life with you..."
Got a favourite opening line?
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
6/15/2005 1:05 PM |
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Not just from a song but the opening line to the second Tom McRae record is "Welcome back said the voice on the Radio" which I really like.
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
6/15/2005 1:57 PM |
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In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey!
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benniAdvanced Member Posts:947
6/15/2005 2:17 PM |
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Hmmm...
'I should just get out of here and start driving south on Interstate 5,
But I need to stay near
In case you suddenly remember that I'm alive'
Interstate 5 - The Wedding Present
I think everyone has felt like that at some point.
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
6/15/2005 2:22 PM |
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Nice.
SFA - Cityscape Skybaby - "She came in smelling of cabbages..."
I think everyone has felt like that at some point.
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benniAdvanced Member Posts:947
6/15/2005 2:23 PM |
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hahahaha!!! Dude you crack me up for real!!!!
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pocketsNew Member Posts:12
6/15/2005 2:25 PM |
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"Ive been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand,
Curve these sensations, make me feel the pleasures of a normal man"
Joy Divison - Disorder, Unknown pleasures
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
6/15/2005 2:26 PM |
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All I need is a coupla hundred thousand people like you and my TV show (watch this space) will be the talk of water coolers everywhere.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
6/15/2005 2:28 PM |
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the opening line to In Utero always comes back to me
"Teenaged angst has paid off well / now I'm bored and old"
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
6/15/2005 2:32 PM |
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"I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
Whose still around the morning after." - Say Yes / Elliott Smith
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6/15/2005 2:44 PM |
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we were lovers we were kissers we were holders of hands we were make believers
the stills
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ishrinkBasic Member Posts:195
6/15/2005 2:54 PM |
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What's with these homies dissin' my girl?
Why do they gotta front?
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
6/15/2005 2:57 PM |
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Ha! Was at Weezer with my mate and he said that those lines are the only reason he needs to love Weezer.
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AntistarAdvanced Member Posts:544
6/15/2005 3:11 PM |
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'WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
'Angel Of Death'
Slayer
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spurtacusBasic Member Posts:229
6/15/2005 3:16 PM |
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"Little Johnny's sad and f**ked, First he jumped and then he looked"
Come Together by Spiritualized
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benniAdvanced Member Posts:947
6/15/2005 3:28 PM |
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Obvious but goodies non the less...
'Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive'
There is a light that never goes out - The Smiths
'Are teenage dreams so hard to beat,
Every time she walks down the street.'
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
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caps lockNew Member Posts:35
6/15/2005 4:20 PM |
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Witless, humorless conversation
Has filled me up like an old gas station
I'm wallowing in a pool of gasoline
Hot Hot Heat
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mcgyverNew Member Posts:29
6/15/2005 4:41 PM |
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"Johnny's in the basement,mixing up the medicine,
I'm on the pavement thinkin' 'bout the government..."
Bob Dylan-Subteranean Homesick Blues
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aidanAdvanced Member Posts:638
6/15/2005 4:46 PM |
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"well they blew up the chickenman in philly last night...." (springsteen, 'atlantic city')
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roseanne barrs armpitNew Member Posts:40
6/15/2005 4:56 PM |
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"Nancy is a waif, a piece of cake, a blade of grass. Nancy takes it up the ass" Sun City Girls-Nancy Reagan. So i hear these chaps are supporting Devendra Banhart. Deadly
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
6/15/2005 6:53 PM |
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I don't think all of them will be there
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DaraghAdvanced Member Posts:666
6/15/2005 7:19 PM |
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"Standing on the corner,
Suitcase in my hand
Jack is in his corset, and jane is her vest,
And me I’m in a rock’n’roll band hah!"
sweet jane by the velvet underground, absolutely love the beginning of that song, lovely guitar, and that voice, aw yeah!
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KajagoogooNew Member Posts:19
6/16/2005 9:24 AM |
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Chewing out a rhythm on my bubblegum the sun is out and I want some
Rockaway Beach The Ramones
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off the postBasic Member Posts:284
6/16/2005 10:21 AM |
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"Stab a sorry heart,
With your favourite finger.."
The Bunnymen - Seven Seas.
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
6/16/2005 12:02 PM |
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"You say you want to take a break, slow it down some and have some space...f**k YOU TOO!"
- Ben Folds 5 "Song For The Dumped"
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DaraghAdvanced Member Posts:666
6/16/2005 12:02 PM |
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ha, thats a class line
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
6/16/2005 12:05 PM |
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The next line is the refrain: "Give me my money back, give me my money back you bitch!" :)
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EarthhorseNew Member Posts:55
6/16/2005 12:32 PM |
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"One baby to another says 'I'm lucky to've met you'".
Nirvana - Drain You
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vandalaBasic Member Posts:267
6/16/2005 1:36 PM |
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So, then, I got this idea about driving a cheesecake truck...
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sweetieBasic Member Posts:132
6/16/2005 1:56 PM |
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"When you're back in your old neighborhood,
The cigarettes taste so good,
But you're so misunderstood,
You're so misunderstood"
Wilco - Misunderstood
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off the postBasic Member Posts:284
6/17/2005 11:02 AM |
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"This is where the summer ends,
in a flash of pure destruction, no one wins".
Ryan Adams - Nuclear.
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6/18/2005 1:06 AM |
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She's a model and she's looking good
I'd like to take her home, it's understood
You're humming it already, aren't you?
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d.o.b.3New Member Posts:39
6/19/2005 4:04 PM |
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great first lines of albums
pavement wowee zowee
there is no castration fear
jape
we took our first pill when the music was s**t
i said f**k dancing all night
but that's just what we did
it felt like flo-o-o-o-o-o-oating
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LooseFirNew Member Posts:45
6/20/2005 8:27 AM |
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"I Dreamt about killing you again last night, and it felt alright to me"
Wilco - Via Chicago off Summerteeth
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6/21/2005 11:05 AM |
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I'm crawling, don't know where to or from
The centre of things from where everything stems
Is not where I belong
And the city sickness, growing inside me
Tindersticks - 'City Sickness'
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benniAdvanced Member Posts:947
6/21/2005 12:43 PM |
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'All night disco party.... Its an all night disco party!!!!'
Ok maybe not but that tune is in my brain BIG TIME!!!
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6/22/2005 12:45 PM |
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i’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
iggy pop
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PunchbowlBasic Member Posts:205
6/22/2005 3:42 PM |
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Dave Couse from A House's ' The Last to Know ' ...' Baby I know, you've been out behind my back.. If I catch you again, I'll break your leg.. '
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pocketsNew Member Posts:12
6/24/2005 2:39 AM |
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'we spoke one week after we laid eyes upon each other,
but i had to do a bunk cause i was drinking with my brother'
The Mighty Stef
or
'Everything, everthing, everything' .. etc
underworld - cowgirl
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6/26/2005 3:43 PM |
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"Oh, my ol man's a dustman, he wears a dustman's hat...."
Lonnie Donegan, the King of Skiffle
"Son, I'm 30
I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty"
Kinky Afro, Happy Mondays
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strollerAdvanced Member Posts:576
6/27/2005 5:27 PM |
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"Raw I'm gonna give it to ya, with no trivia,
Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
My hip-hop will rock and shock the nation,
like the Emancipation Proclamation."
Wu-Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
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