Best first line of an album?

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"The way I see it, Barry, this should be a very dynamite show."

"Serious as a heart attack!"

"TALK — It's only talk!"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

"All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away." - Spiritualized
"It was supposed to be so easy..." - The Streets
"I've been mad for fucking years." - Pink Floyd

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 October 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

‘Wooouuuldn’t it be nice...’

― Orange, Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"Hey!"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I still think "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old" is classic despite excessive mentions in obits. (That's Nirvana BTW) But my favorite is "I wanna be forgotten" (Teh Strokes)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 2 October 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"why don't you be good for something and pull down the shade", from gratitude walks, american music club (album: mercury)

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 2 October 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

MY War, you're one of them.

― Weash, Sunday, 3 October 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Dont worry... I won't hurt you... I only want you to have some fun...

-1999, duh

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 October 2004 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link

niggaz be monkeyflippin with the funky rhythm i be kickin/musician, inflict the composition

or,

scientific, my hand kissed it

or,

i've been waiting for a guide to take me by the hand

― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 3 October 2004 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link

but the first line of NY State of Mind is "straight out the fucking dungeons of rap" which also qualifies

― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't bother to look through the whole thread to see if anyone posted these, but two Silver Jews albums come to mind:

"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection"

and "No I don't really wanna die/I only wanna die in your eyes."

Of course there's the classic Dylan:
"Johnny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine/I'm on the pavement thinkin' bout the govermnet."

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link

"You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous" - Bummed

― holojames (holojames), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

the car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel

godspeed you black emperor! - f#a#oo

― plast (plast), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

but somebody obviously beat me to it. great, just great.

― plast (plast), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

when you have no-one, no-one can hurt you
Palace brothers - Days in the wake.

Have just realised that it is exactly 10 years ago to the day that I first heard it. Bought to cheer me up on the first day of Fresher's week. There are no other records from that time that I listen to as regularly as I do this one.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

My breath smells of a thousand fags and when I get drunk I dance like my Dad, I 'm starting to dress a bit like him

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

"1-2-3-4."
--Please Please Me.

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

"Oh, make me over, I'm all I wanna be"

Hole, Celebtrity Skin

― I'm Rich, Monday, 4 October 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

My Smile is Stuck! I can not go back to your Frownland.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

'yo niggaz! stay focused, missy gonna be number one'

missy elliot

― bojan (bojanm), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"1-2-3-4."
--Please Please Me.

That is "1-2-3-fuck"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"Ground control to Major Tom"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

"We are the Jonzun Crew,
we are from your planet too"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

"Bob Wood, national program director of The Chum Group, worked with us in producing..."

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Seconded!:

"the car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel"
"there is no ... castration fear"
"i wanna be forgotten"

And I might as well throw in two big fat canon entries, probably my favorite opening lines of the lot:

"In the next world war"
"ice, baby..."

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

(Whispered) "Tonight's the night!"

Too obvious?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The snot has caked against my pants It has turned to crystal There's a bluebird sitting on a branch I guess I'll take my pistol
Love - 'Forever Changes'
-- David (david.si...) (webmail), January 26th, 2001 1:00 AM. (link)

.. except it doesn't, it starts "Yeah, said it's allright.."

Hah, David. That's told you!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

When you have no one
No one can hurt you

"You Will Miss Me when I Burn," Palace Brothers--Days in the Wake

― prince rupert, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

"I realized my fists were cleanched/I stretched my fingers to relax."
Also "New day rising!/New day rising!"

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?

poe, via propaganda

― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"The middle of the road is trying to find me/I'm standing in the middle of life with my past behind me"

-Pretenders, "Middle of the Road"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

What I want/I want now
Television, Marquee Moon

The screen door slams/Mary's dress waves
Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run

and a new one

Everything's so easy for Pauline
Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

"listen to the girl, as she takes on half the world"

"I don't need to sell my soul, he's already in me"

"there's mothin' more sinister as ministers in dresses" (not couting the opening "bullshit!" ramble

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

"I get back from m'tour and suddenly it doesn't seem like much fun to be off my face at four to eleven a.m."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection..."

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Pigs, they tend to wiggle when they walk

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

STUCK A PIN IN YOUR BACKBONE, CHOKED IT DOWN FROM THERE, ALL I EVER WANTED WAS TO BE YOUR SPINE

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

oops "spoke" it down from there

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

It's been so long since you've heard from me

The Wrens: Meadowlands

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm taking a crap, oh mm mm yeah

― watercup coffeeshed, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

'Daddy.' 'Yes son.' 'wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-what does regret mean?'

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling
Can never cut below the floor, nor penetrate the ceiling

― Palomino (Palomino), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

"Well I just don't know where to begin"

First line on EC's Armed Forces

― Dave Depper (Dave Depper), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

damn, beat me to it by thismuch. also, it's kind of ridiculous that it took years to come up with it

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Practice makes perfect, yes I can prove it; business or pleasure, the more that you DO IT.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I've always liked "When I got back home I found a message on the door."

Also: "Take the sun from my eyes, let me learn to despise."

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

A new favorite...

"I got my second wind, pimp!"

― A Licky Boom Boom Down (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"Don't say a word, the last one's still stinging"
Spoon, Girls Can Tell

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"Make a hole with a gun perpendicular"

They Might Be Giants, Lincoln.

― Viz (Viz), Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link

"Eat what you are while you're falling apart and it opened a can of worms!"

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 March 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link

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