Best first line of an album?

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1. Eibba: but we do, now, silly!

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

[whistle going WHEEEDLE-WHEE!] C'mon, boys! (New York Dolls, In Too Much Too Soon)

― Michaelangelo Matos, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

five months pass...

from modest mouse's album 'the moon and the antartica' --everything thats keeping me togheter is falling apart/i got this thing that i concider my only art and it's fucking people over.--

great line great album

― max dagenais, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"The Moon and Antarctica" is a largely terrible album with countless cringeworthy lyrical missteps. Perhaps the only CD that has actually angered me. And I wanted to like it, too. The first track is the best on the album, though.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Easter Woman came today and took away my wife
took her through an open doorway to the afterlife"
the residents , commercial album

― Anas FK, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My favourite first line is 'yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, no no no no' by New York Dolls. Why is it pretentious for Patti Smith to say 'Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine', whereas Iggy says 'I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a hide full of napalm' and it's not pretentious? That's not a rhetorical question - I find P. Smith's lyrics a little studied. Maybe cos Iggy's lyrics are funny!! Nick Dastoor or somebody, what are the rules for the use of 'fill' and 'full'?

― maryann, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"You are about to witness the strength of street knowledge" -- NWA, "Straight Outta Compton."

"I dreamed I was an Eskimo ..." -- take a guess :-)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dont you mean inuit ?

― anthony, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two years pass...

What will happen in the morning when the world it gets so crowded that you can't look out the window in the morning?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

"There is no culture is my brag,
Your taste for bullshit reveals a lust for a home of office
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
Where are the obligatory niggers?*
HEY THERE FUCKFACE!!
HEY THERE FUCKFACE!!"

"All those whose mind entitles themselves,
and whose main entitle is themselves,
shall feel the wrath of my bombast!"

"It's approaching
600 pounds gas and flesh
Robes in tatters
It's approaching"

"Is there anybody there?
Yeah!"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

now that the compilation taboo has been broken:

"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

Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time... for y'all have knocked her up...

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I just knew that I'd open this thread and that damned Arab Strap line would be there.

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

'The car is on fire and there is no driver at the wheel.'

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

"It just so happens I've many concerns..."

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

"Deep beneath an ancient shadow
Stunned with age and too much wisdom
Reclined in glass, with eyes too steep
Relentless dimensions of quadraphonic sleep
Dwelt the wild grinning cyclopean pagan
Screaming destruction in sheer dazzling raiment
A thunderbolt master electronic savior
A gold galactic raver, the Futuristic Dragon
Yes, and I do mean yes
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

"Mooooooooon don't come up toniiiiight." - Patty Waters, Sings

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Sunday, 15 August 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

"You are now about to witness the strenth of street knowledge" - NWA, Straight Outta Compton

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 August 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

stop your messing around
better think of your future
time to straighten right out
bringing problems to town

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"Pick a card, any card .... WRONG! ..Jacket Hangs, Blue Aeroplanes

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

"INNOCENT, UNTIL I'M PROVEN GUILTY....DENY EVERYTHING DENY EVERYTHING..."

- "Deny Everything" kicking off Group Sex by the Circle Jerks

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Certainly not the best, but I was very impressed by the opening of Pavement's "Wowee Zowee" the first time I heard it (song is "We Dance"). "There is no... castration fear."

― nono, Monday, 16 August 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

"I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

'Waaauaauauauuuauuauuuugghghghh!'

Mission of Burma's 'Secrets'.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
Coloured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge,
Amused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole."

Yes, Tales From Topographic Oceans

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

We hear you're leaving, that's OK.

(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

white LIGHT

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

As she pulled me out of the oxygen tent,
I asked for the lastest party

― sexyDancer, Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

"Garage sale, Saturday, I need to pay / My heart's outstanding bill"
- "Everything Must Go!", Left & Leaving, The Weakerthans

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 2 October 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

"The way I see it, Barry, this should be a very dynamite show."

"Serious as a heart attack!"

"TALK — It's only talk!"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 October 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

"All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away." - Spiritualized
"It was supposed to be so easy..." - The Streets
"I've been mad for fucking years." - Pink Floyd

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 2 October 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

‘Wooouuuldn’t it be nice...’

― Orange, Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"Hey!"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 October 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I still think "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old" is classic despite excessive mentions in obits. (That's Nirvana BTW) But my favorite is "I wanna be forgotten" (Teh Strokes)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 2 October 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"why don't you be good for something and pull down the shade", from gratitude walks, american music club (album: mercury)

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 2 October 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

MY War, you're one of them.

― Weash, Sunday, 3 October 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Dont worry... I won't hurt you... I only want you to have some fun...

-1999, duh

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 October 2004 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link

niggaz be monkeyflippin with the funky rhythm i be kickin/musician, inflict the composition

or,

scientific, my hand kissed it

or,

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

but the first line of NY State of Mind is "straight out the fucking dungeons of rap" which also qualifies

― Symplistic (shmuel), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't bother to look through the whole thread to see if anyone posted these, but two Silver Jews albums come to mind:

"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

"You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous" - Bummed

― holojames (holojames), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

the car's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel

godspeed you black emperor! - f#a#oo

― plast (plast), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

but somebody obviously beat me to it. great, just great.

― plast (plast), Monday, 4 October 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

when you have no-one, no-one can hurt you
Palace brothers - Days in the wake.

Have just realised that it is exactly 10 years ago to the day that I first heard it. Bought to cheer me up on the first day of Fresher's week. There are no other records from that time that I listen to as regularly as I do this one.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

My breath smells of a thousand fags and when I get drunk I dance like my Dad, I 'm starting to dress a bit like him

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

"1-2-3-4."
--Please Please Me.

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 4 October 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

"Oh, make me over, I'm all I wanna be"

Hole, Celebtrity Skin

― I'm Rich, Monday, 4 October 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

My Smile is Stuck! I can not go back to your Frownland.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

'yo niggaz! stay focused, missy gonna be number one'

missy elliot

― bojan (bojanm), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"1-2-3-4."
--Please Please Me.

That is "1-2-3-fuck"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

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"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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