Best first line of an album?

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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

four months pass...

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"

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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"

erm

"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!!!!!!"

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"he had a stroke at the age of 24, it could have been a brilliant career"

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Ailsa's was the first to come to my mind as well. Also:

"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)

― Gerard (Gerard), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"I just want a holiday in the sun. I wanna go to the new Belsen."

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

WELL! IT'S! 50 CUPS OF KAWFEE AND YOU KNOW IT'S AW-UHN!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"

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

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"time has told me you're a rare rare find
a troubled cure for a troubled mind"

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

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Saturday, 19 August 2006 04:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Mu - Out of Breach:

"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

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

"OK folks, if you take a look out the right side of the plane, you'll see a cloud that looks exactly like... Badly Drawn Boy."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 19 August 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits
Raised on a diet of broken biscuits"

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 19 August 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"If you cut your lover slack you'll get a monster back"
The Auteurs - Light Aircraft on Fire

― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late." (Mekons - Memphis, Egypt)

"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)

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

"Last night in the street collapsed on itself.. in fact, it broke right in two"

Ryan Adams - Strawberry Wine

― Torgeir Hansen (MRZBW), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"Ice baby, I saw your girlfriend and she was eating her fingers like they were just another meal."

Pavement - "Summer Babe" (Winter version)

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Sunday, 20 August 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

I'm never going back to Jackson

― the pinefox, Monday, 23 March 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

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