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Greatest opening line......
Posted by Karlos on 11 January 2011 - 10:32pm.
I'll kick off with this....
'He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in' from Billy Bragg 'King James Version'
Better that if you can........
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http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/greatest-opening-lines
my favourite Bragg opening line atm is
One of them's off her food
And the other one's off his head
And both of them are off down the boozer
although his finest is probably
With the money from her accident she bought herself a mobile home
So at least she could get some enjoyment out of being alone
The answer, as always, is...
"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."
Patti Smith - Gloria.
First song! First album!
I believe that's what marketing might call a mission statement.
Yes, that one's pretty
Yes, that one's pretty definitive. The other one I like is, 'Oh trouble becomes you / It cuts you down to my size', from Richard Thompson's 'Jennie' (the miserable git).
Roxy Music - Pyjamarama
'Couldn't sleep a wink last night, Oh how I'd love to hold you tight'.
Pop fact......that line is also....
....the opening line to Simple Minds "Speed Your Love To Me".
The Cure - Inbetween Days
Yesterday I got so old, I felt like I could die
"She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean"...
Pure bloody poetry.
Some one else did this recently
and the winner is....
"Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news"
Reward - Teardrop Explodes
The friend I have
Is a passionate friend.
That was guaranteed to cause a stampede of overcoats towards the dance floor back in the day.
For me, it has to be:
"I met a gin-soaked bar-room queen in Memphis".
And also: "Just before our love got lost you said 'I am as constant as the Northern Star' and I said 'Constantly in the darkness? Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar".
I'll always go with
The day breaks, your mind aches.
God, I've been there. You're going through a bad time, you wake in the morning and there is a split second before the crap descends on you. But it does and then, well as the song says....
As any fule no....
...'Punctured bicycle, on a hillside desolate'
And one of the worst lines evah ...
... "Why pamper life's complexities ..."? Why pamper them indeed?
Oh mother
I can feel the soil falling over my head
Peerless.
I love the cheeky audacity of
"I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving,
England is mine and it owes me a living".
i received your letter yesterday,
about the time time door knob broke
or
help me in my weakness
I heard the drifter say
or
help me in my weakness
I heard the drifter say
This is the end, beautiful friend ...
is the first one that came to mind, so I'm going with that.
'There must be some kind of way out of here
said the Joker to the Thief'.
Surely.
I'd humbly suggest...
A struck match faded like a nervous laugh beyond the halo of a naked bulb.
- Del Amitri, Move Away Jimmy Blue
I saw a werewolf with a chinese menu in his hand
WZ
I'm positively 4th street that it's....
You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend
It's a God awful small affair...
said the girl with the mousey hair.
one of my personal favourites but surely, surely, surely the BEST EVER (tm) opening line has to be
"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah"
or
"Warden threw a party at the County Jail"
I have posted this before but...
"Son, I'm thirty, I only went with your mother cos she's dirty."
Oh God said to Abraham,
"Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on".
Grabs the attention rather.
I have one
"I hurt myself today
To see if I could feel"
Maybe the ultimate emo opener.
Dylan's emo opening line.....
"They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown"
as covered quite brilliantly by My Chemical Romance on the Watchmen soundtrack. Perfect fit.
"Things you never thought you'd read" - one in a series...
"...as covered quite brilliantly by My Chemical Romance..."
*wink*
Here's one I've always liked...
"I'm not in love... but I'm open to persuasion..."
tres seductif!
The answer is...
If you're looking for trouble, you came to the right place.
'I've been waiting for a guide...
...to come and take me by the hand'
A cracker which also ticks the 'first song, first album' box.
And again from Mr Jones
Once upon a time
You dressed so fine,
You threw the bums a dime,
In your prime,
Didn’t you?
I could go on.
Ron Sexsmith
from Hard Bargain:
"I'm a bit run down but I'm OK"
that's it. You probably have to hear it...
"Someone`s got it in for me
"Someone`s got it in for me , they `re planting stories in the press"
(Idiot Wind -Dylan )
Wonderfully novelistic - like being button holed by a deranged drunkard
When I had my loft/Converted back into a loft
The neighbours came around and scoffed
And called me retro
Half Man Half Biscuit's Friday Night And The Gates Are Low
Just listened to this.
Depends on how you define Greatest of course, but this is interesting:
Album: Angels and Cigarettes
Song: The Company of Men
Artist: Eliza Carthy
" I've given blow jobs on couches
To men who didn't want me anymore
Why they didn't tell me before
I have never been sure"
Written by: Eliza Carthy, Ben Ivitsky and Martin Carthy
That's right, written with her dad.
Greatest opening line of an album never mind a song
Screen door slams, Mary's dress waves.
Like a vision she dances across the floor just the radio playing.
You all know how the rest goes.......
a lovely calypso tune about the atom bomb
Sir Lancelot - Atomic Energy [1947]
Some men with brains in their cranium.
Took a piece of uranium