Best first line of an album?

"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."

godspeed you black emperor! - f#a#oo

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.

Hole, Celebtrity Skin

missy elliot

That is "1-2-3-fuck"

"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..."

Too obvious?

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

Hah, David. That's told you!

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

poe, via propaganda

-Pretenders, "Middle of the Road"

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

"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

The Wrens: Meadowlands

First line on EC's Armed Forces

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

"I got my second wind, pimp!"

They Might Be Giants, Lincoln.

"Teen-aged angst has paid off/Now I'm bored and old."

"My my, hey hey/Rock n roll is here to stay."

"Once upon a time/You looked so fine ..."

"It was twenty years ago today ..."

"Back in the day when I was a teen-ager ..."

Lucinda's "Car Wheels ..." album also begins with a beauty: "Not a day goes by/When I don't think about you/You left a mark on me/A permanent ... tattoo."

"Oh, I just don't know where to begin"

--Elvis Costello - "Accidents Will Happen," Armed Forces

FIRE!!! ...."
(Arthur Brown i think)

Once upon a time there was a man called Saul who persecuted Christians
He shows up at the party in a pair of dark glasses his grandfather wore in the war
God is a tender pervert and the angels are voyeurs
Trust me, I'm a doctor
Nobody is evil, nobody is good
I come from the jungle, from Popacatapetl
Take a voyage through the heart of darkness, to the sound of violins
The villains of vaudeville, young lovers' quarrels
If I told the truth I'd like to live my life again
I was born on a dashboard, toothbrush for a head
When you caress your little cat and stroke me with your hand
Ping pong the album, comedy cabaret
I went with a friend of mine I hadn't seen in years to a party
Mad music, sad music, totally bad and crazy music
Appalachian mountain girl, coming home to me
We are the pirates, we sail in silence
The man from the north enters the tube
Moop bears in the thunder, moop bears on the idiot sea