"And the first commandment reads that human flesh & blood is sacred......until there is no more food!" -- "Straighten Out" by the Stranglers
Jaz Coleman's implausibly phlegmy cough as the first sound on "Wardance" by Killing Joke
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
"It won't be easy - you'll think it's strange..."
(actually Jess' pick is best)
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― insectifly (insectifly), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Johnney B, Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
(runs, covering head...)
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W (Jeff W), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
"All your friends are cunts/ Your mother is a ballpoint pen thief" - McLusky, think it's 'Gareth Brown Says'
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think its been sampled as well, no surprise there.
― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
"AOhhhhhhh-oh-ah-oh-ah-ohahoh, ah-ah-ahhhhh ah-ah ah-ah, ahahahaohahhh, ohahhoh!" - The Communards version of Don't Leave Me This Way.
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
from 'you've really got a hold of me'.
although i saw a terrible thing on one of those "i love motown' things where diana ross, trying to describe the genius of smokey robinson, quoted that line and said " you see, smokey's not just saying he LIKES his girl, he's saying he LOVES her, that's so romantic..."
AAAAAAARGH!
On the other hand.
She sang 'Love Hangover'. What have I ever done?
― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 26 September 2002 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Queen G (Queeng), Thursday, 26 September 2002 15:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
"LOUIE LOUIE! I never thought it would come to this baby..." [bottle flying by the microphone]
― gygax!, Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Marquee Moon" and "Another Girl, Another Planet." Especially the latter. What a great line.
― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
"It was the biggest cock you'd ever seen."
Not bad.
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Burr, Thursday, 26 September 2002 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Enid Roach (Enid Roach), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Enid Roach (Enid Roach), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 26 September 2002 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
"I was Underwhelmed if thats a word/ I know its not cause I looked it up"-this band called Sloan who for some strange reason are opening for the Str*k*s
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Could've sworn it was "RRRAAAPE!!"
― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― artiste, Friday, 27 September 2002 00:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 27 September 2002 00:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
"This goes out to all the woman in the world / Especially her" from Freak Nasty's "Da Dip"
― scott pl., Friday, 27 September 2002 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Max Eider, "Drink"
"Hello, my name is Billy Bob and I don't give a damnI got myself some white sheets straight from the Klu Klux KlanI got myself a daughter and she's a mongoloidBecause I married my sister and our gene pool's been destroyed."
Dead Milkmen, "Tiny Town"
"Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girlSo I could (oop) myself in the shower"
Robyn Hitchcock, "Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl"
"Uh oh, Chuck, they out to get us man.We gotta dust these boys off."
Public Enemy, "You're Gonna Get Yours"
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Friday, 27 September 2002 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
Marianne Faithfull - "Why'd ya do it"
― Saskia, Friday, 27 September 2002 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris j (chris j), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Magazine - "Song From Under the Floorboards."
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 September 2002 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jean, Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
we could do this just on Prince songs!
― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ess Kay (esskay), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Now you wanna know the reason why I cheated on you..." from "Sweet Surrender" gets my attention like no other.
― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
And waaaay too many more to mention here.
― Charlie (Charlie), Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― My name is Kenny, Monday, 30 September 2002 00:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
(haha & this doesn't count because it's a sample & it's the only voice on the track, but "This is a story / about being free . . ." is fucking amazing.)
― Ess Kay (esskay), Monday, 30 September 2002 01:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 30 September 2002 01:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maura (maura), Monday, 30 September 2002 01:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 September 2002 01:34 (twenty-one 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
Pushing a hoopty, bumping the Fugees, my life is a scary movie, your life is a male groupie
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 26 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Well I been watchin' you waltz all night, Diane
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 26 November 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
Nobody move, there's blood on the floor. And I can't find my heart.
(Earworm this week. Not sure about the rest of the song TBH)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 26 November 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
I fell asleep on a rooftopI woke up halfway down
--Stephen Fearing, "Me and Mr. Blue"
― SlimAndSlam, Sunday, 26 November 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
You ain't no punk, you punk
― StanM, Sunday, 26 November 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
'I've been contemplating suicide,'Though maybe its the combination with the 2nd line 'But it really doesn't suit my style'
― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 November 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
"LET ME TELL YOU 'BOUT THE FUCKIN' BITCH, DEAN-O!!"
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 26 November 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
Sur le trottoir d'en face une fille riait
― who says no to mentals? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 November 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
"Anyone caught speaking Esperanto was thought crazy or headed for jail..."
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
Nww
In little sunrise of goblin eyesI watch the coupling of the fliesUnder waving trees and bumble beesI strain to amputate my knees
The fall
When it happened we walked through all the estates, from Manchester right to Newcastle.In Darlington, helped a large man on his own chase off some kidsWho were chucking bricks andStuff through his flat window.
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link