Favorite Opening Line From A Song

you are hardcore
you make me hard

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

"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.

Echo & the Bunnymen, King of Kings

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

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".

Sorry if that's a retread.

- Devo "Gut Feeling"

-"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.

or

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

or

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

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

most of my fantasies are of
making someone else come

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

"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?!

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

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

"ANTIQUES!" (Prefab Sprout)

Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late

(Mekons)

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

(more Mekons!)

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)

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

Orange Juice - Flesh of My Flesh

most of my fantasies are of
making someone else come

-- ciderpress, Thursday, 8 November 2007

wow that's fantastic.

"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."

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

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

Hand in glove, the sun shines out of our behinds

The Smiths

"I still dream of Orgonon."

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

Oh, the snot has caked against my pants

I walk 47 miles of barbwire

OK, I'minlovewiththegirlwhoworksatthestorebutI'mnothing but a customer!

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

"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"