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"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

there is no castration fear...

― arjun (arjun), Thursday, 30 March 2006 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 30 March 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

A few come to mind ...

"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."

― Chris O., Thursday, 30 March 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Yet another vote for...

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

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

― Mama Roux (Mama Roux), Thursday, 30 March 2006 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"i'm gonna beat you up at the end of this" - squirrel bait

― cb, Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link

"I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE, AND I BRING YOU....

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

― cody cod, Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

she's a devil in disguise....
Flying Burrito

― certain, Friday, 31 March 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I've done so many albums now that my first lines, all put together, make a novel. Well, an epic poem:

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

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 31 March 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

whos gonna follow that?

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't fall in love with me yet
We've only recently met
True I'm in love with you but
you might decide I'm a nut
Give me a week or two to
go absolutley cuckoo
then, when you see your error,
then, you can flee in terror
like everybody else does
- magnetic fields, 69 love songs

or one of my favorites

i am a patient boy
i wait i wait i wait
my time is water down a drain
- fugazi, 13 songs

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

'Dog man star took a suck on a pill/ And stabbed a cerebellum with a curious quill'

'Got me a movie/I want you to know/Slicing up eyeballs...'

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

On Momus's cue... my first and only album to date:

"Just bill me for the total cost."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 1 April 2006 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link

"There's a time to FUCK and a time to CRAVE
But the Shah sleeps IN LEE HARVEY'S GRAVE!!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 2 April 2006 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link

"Daddy?"
"Yes, son?"
"W-w-w-what does regret mean?"
"Well son, a funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her... SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!"

I have no clue what that means, but I know it rules.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 2 April 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"She puts those lips like a leech up to the Sex on the Beach..."
- Lifter Puller / Fiestas + Fiascos

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time.

― latebloomer: a power and finesse vocalist (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

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