Best first line of an album?

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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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