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Great Opening Lines
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Norman Schwarzkopf
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6/15/2005 10:54 AM
    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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    6/15/2005 1:05 PM
    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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    6/15/2005 1:57 PM
    In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey!
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    6/15/2005 2:17 PM
    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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    6/15/2005 2:22 PM
    Nice. SFA - Cityscape Skybaby - "She came in smelling of cabbages..." I think everyone has felt like that at some point.
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    6/15/2005 2:23 PM
    hahahaha!!! Dude you crack me up for real!!!!
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    6/15/2005 2:25 PM
    "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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    6/15/2005 2:26 PM
    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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    6/15/2005 2:28 PM
    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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    6/15/2005 2:32 PM
    "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
    we were lovers we were kissers we were holders of hands we were make believers the stills
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    6/15/2005 2:54 PM
    What's with these homies dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front?
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    6/15/2005 2:57 PM
    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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    6/15/2005 3:11 PM
    'WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' 'Angel Of Death' Slayer
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    6/15/2005 3:16 PM
    "Little Johnny's sad and f**ked, First he jumped and then he looked" Come Together by Spiritualized
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    6/15/2005 3:28 PM
    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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    6/15/2005 4:20 PM
    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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    6/15/2005 4:41 PM
    "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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    6/15/2005 4:46 PM
    "well they blew up the chickenman in philly last night...." (springsteen, 'atlantic city')
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    6/15/2005 4:56 PM
    "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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    6/15/2005 6:53 PM
    I don't think all of them will be there
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    6/15/2005 7:19 PM
    "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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    6/16/2005 9:24 AM
    Chewing out a rhythm on my bubblegum the sun is out and I want some Rockaway Beach The Ramones
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    6/16/2005 10:21 AM
    "Stab a sorry heart, With your favourite finger.." The Bunnymen - Seven Seas.
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    6/16/2005 12:02 PM
    "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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    6/16/2005 12:02 PM
    ha, thats a class line
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    6/16/2005 12:05 PM
    The next line is the refrain: "Give me my money back, give me my money back you bitch!" :)
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    6/16/2005 12:32 PM
    "One baby to another says 'I'm lucky to've met you'". Nirvana - Drain You
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    6/16/2005 1:36 PM
    So, then, I got this idea about driving a cheesecake truck...
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    6/16/2005 1:56 PM
    "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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    6/17/2005 11:02 AM
    "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
    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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    6/19/2005 4:04 PM
    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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    6/20/2005 8:27 AM
    "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
    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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    6/21/2005 12:43 PM
    '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
    i’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm iggy pop
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    6/22/2005 3:42 PM
    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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    6/24/2005 2:39 AM
    '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
    "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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    6/27/2005 5:27 PM
    "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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