― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― moriarty (moriarty), Saturday, 17 December 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― rajeev (rajeev), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
or
"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 (eighteen years ago) link
"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 (sixteen years ago) link
most of my fantasies are of making someone else come
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"You only got one finger left, and it's pointin' at the door"
― Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007
haha what's that from?!
― pisces, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Beck, "Lord Only Knows". Slate him all you like, the guy had prodigious talent.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
(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 (sixteen years ago) link
"ANTIQUES!" (Prefab Sprout)
― everything, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late
(Mekons)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
This is a simulation of a song, are you impressed or what?
(more Mekons!)
― dad a, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
-- ciderpress, Thursday, 8 November 2007
wow that's fantastic.
― pisces, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"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 (sixteen years ago) link
"You lack the minerals and vitamins irons and the niacin"
― carne asada, Thursday, 8 November 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"Won't you let me walk you home from school?"
― MRZBW, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Hand in glove, the sun shines out of our behinds
The Smiths
― shanissey, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"I still dream of Orgonon."
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
― Bus Driver Stu, Friday, 9 November 2007 08:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
And right now it's time to KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS
― Telephone thing, Friday, 9 November 2007 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"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 (sixteen years ago) link
"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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VhPHtKinmA
― Mr. Goodman, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Kate Bush "Saxophone Song"
"You'll find me in a Berlin bar, in a corner brooding"
― Surmounter, Friday, 9 November 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
HOW BOUT GETTING OFF THESE ANTIBIOTICS
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Monday, 29 July 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
"Why's it never light on my lawn?" - Elton John, 'Grey Seal'
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 October 2017 03:21 (six years ago) link
not my favorite ever but up there
"Captured effortlessly, that's the way it was."
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 20 October 2017 03:27 (six years ago) link
"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 (six years ago) link
'mmhmm' - pj harvey, long snake moan
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 October 2017 03:46 (six years ago) link
“You’re everybody’s second home” - Heatmiser, ‘Plainclothes Man’
― flappy bird, Sunday, 22 October 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
"All of your friends are cunts/ Your mother is a ballpoint pen thief"
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 22 October 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
"Well, some people ain't no damn good."
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 22 October 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
"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 (six years ago) link
"Ain't thou watchin my film"
― brimstead, Sunday, 22 October 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
i wrote a letter to a wild flower on a classic nitrogen afternoon
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 22 October 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
"William Butler Yeats in jeans"
― Eazy, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
He pauses shaving and tells himself that he is the bomb
― flappy bird, Sunday, 26 November 2017 08:28 (six years ago) link
they sentenced me ton twenty years of boredom/for trying to change the system from within
― banjoboy, Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
Hey kids, let me tell you how I met your Mum
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:51 (six years ago) link