Best first line of an album?

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

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

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

"Just bill me for the total cost."

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

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"We're the Beta Band and we're nice and clean"

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"We blew the doors, didn't we, pissed in their champagne and did a real thing, didn't we, gave ourselves a name and peeled away the shame, I wanted to explode, to pull my ribs apart, and let the sun inside"

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"Rat's foot, iron claw, neurosurgeons SCREEEEEAM for more"

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"Good evening. This is your captain. We are about to attempt a crash-landing."

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"Oh yeah, the world's turned upside-down"

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"AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

"I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, traveling, travlin', travlin'..." (Joni Mitchell, 'All I Want', Blue)

"Soft as snow but warm inside" (My Bloody Valentine, Isn't Anything)

"Forget our fate..." (Mark Hollis)

"When you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers" (Neutral Milk Hotel, 'King of Carrot Flowers', In The Aeroplane over the Sea)

but my absolute favourite:

"Why can't we all just walk away..." (Current 93, 'The Long Shadow Falls', All the Pretty Little Horses)

I'll second this one. Best opening line of a debut album.

also the first line of either/or by elliott smith. the track is 'speed trials'. for risk of misquoting it, i won't try and write anything down

"Welcome to Mu-World, bitch! I’m talking to the person who took [?indecipherable] from me off eBay...plus bitches who...?...without my permission...another shout-out to those bitches who keep my tampons backstage...and especially to the all [sic] haters...I’m about to KUNG-FU YOU!"

alternately, Deerhoof - Reveille:

"The trumpet scatters its awful sound over the graves of all lands..."

OR, Smog - Dongs of Sevotion:

It happens on a side street, maybe
It happens on a main street, maybe
Lion bites a zebra neck

"I was out late the other night, fear and whiskey kept me going." (Mekons - Chivalry)

"And it was just about time for the party to close, when the hinges went to flyin' off the motherfuckin' doors." (The Coup - Everythang)

"I went away to see an old friend of mine/His sister came over, she was out of her mind." (Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia)

Ryan Adams - Strawberry Wine

Pavement - "Summer Babe" (Winter version)

I'm never going back to Jackson