"Just bill me for the total cost."
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 1 April 2006 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 2 April 2006 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: a power and finesse vocalist (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
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"We're the Beta Band and we're nice and clean"
"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"
"Rat's foot, iron claw, neurosurgeons SCREEEEEAM for more"
"Good evening. This is your captain. We are about to attempt a crash-landing."
"Oh yeah, the world's turned upside-down"
"AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"
― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"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
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
"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, maybeIt happens on a main street, maybeLion bites a zebra neck
― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 19 August 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 19 August 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 19 August 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
"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
Ryan Adams - Strawberry Wine
― Torgeir Hansen (MRZBW), Saturday, 19 August 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Pavement - "Summer Babe" (Winter version)
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Sunday, 20 August 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm never going back to Jackson
― the pinefox, Monday, 23 March 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link