I LEFT THE NORTH
― the pinefox, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
(BTW the answer to my earlier teaser: the album is XTC's "Skylarking", the song is "Summer's Cauldron", and the first line is "Drowning here in summer's cauldron").
― Robin Carmody, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Jake Becker, Thursday, 1 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Oh and Jake, strictly speaking the first line is "London, England, consider yourself WARNED!". Which is how I feel most times I'm there :).
― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 1 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Also 'Don't fall in love with me' is quite a nice start to an album about love.
― Ally C, Friday, 2 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Eibba, Saturday, 3 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
2. Cookie (1): great call on Elvis. Who could leave that one out?
3. Cookie (3): 'yet'. Don't forget 'yet'.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michaelangelo Matos, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
great line great album
― max dagenais, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Anas FK, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maryann, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"I dreamed I was an Eskimo ..." -- take a guess :-)
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
"All those whose mind entitles themselves,and whose main entitle is themselves,shall feel the wrath of my bombast!"
"It's approaching600 pounds gas and fleshRobes in tattersIt's approaching"
"Is there anybody there?Yeah!"
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
"Well you tried it just for once, found it all right for kicks/but now you found out that it's a habit that sticks/and you're an orgasm addict!"
― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Off the top of my head, I'd highly rate "I'm not afraid to say I'm scared" from Sonic Youth's "The Burning Spear" from their debut EP.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
AAAAAHHHH"
T-Rex "Futuristic Dragon"
Very daft, yes. But with that psychedelic funk backing music there is no better...
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 15 August 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Sunday, 15 August 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 August 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
- "Deny Everything" kicking off Group Sex by the Circle Jerks
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― nono, Monday, 16 August 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Mission of Burma's 'Secrets'.
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, Tales From Topographic Oceans
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link
(the greatness of this line wasn't apparent the first thousand or so times i heard it.)
(pretzel logic is thirty years old!)
― dan (dan), Friday, 1 October 2004 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 2 October 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
"Serious as a heart attack!"
"TALK — It's only talk!"
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 October 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orange, Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 2 October 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 2 October 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Weash, Sunday, 3 October 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
-1999, duh
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 October 2004 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link
or,
scientific, my hand kissed it
i've been waiting for a guide to take me by the hand
― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 3 October 2004 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection"
and "No I don't really wanna die/I only wanna die in your eyes."
Of course there's the classic Dylan:"Johnny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine/I'm on the pavement thinkin' bout the govermnet."
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― holojames (holojames), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
or one of my favorites
i am a patient boyi wait i wait i waitmy time is water down a drain- fugazi, 13 songs
― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
'Got me a movie/I want you to know/Slicing up eyeballs...'
― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link
"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
erm
"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