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Favourite opening lyrics to an album....

veddertownveddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
edited December 2011 in Other Music
I have many, these are a few that spring to mind:

Jethro Tull - Aqualung
"Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent..."

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
"For sale, dumb c**ts same dumb questions, all virgins listen, all virgins are liars honey..."

Masters Of Reality - Welcome To The Western Lodge
"It's shit, you wouldn't ever want to kiss it..."

Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
"Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol, c,c,c,c,c,cocaiiiinnnne...."

The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
"If you feel like a riot then don't you deny it, put your good foot forward..."

Nirvana - In Utero
"Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old..."
Like a book among the many on a shelf...

Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
Manchester MEN - 20/06/12. Manchester MEN - 21/06/12
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  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
    "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste"

    Pink Floyd - The Wall
    "So ya, thought ya, might like to go to the show. To feel the warm thrill of confusion. That space cadet glow."

    The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    "It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. They've been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile"

    Pearl Jam - Yield
    "Who's got the brain of JFK? What's it mean to us now?"
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    edited December 2011
    AH AHAAAAAHAAAAAAAH AAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!AH AHAAAAAHAAAAAAAH AAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Standing in line to see the show tonight and there's a light on....heavy glow

    Where the grudge like a crown of negativity

    Small fingers pushin' paint

    Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun

    I'm gonna fight 'em off...A 7 Nation Army couldn't hold me back

    Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste
    Post edited by DewieCox on
  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    DewieCox wrote:
    AH AHAAAAAHAAAAAAAH AAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
    AH AHAAAAAHAAAAAAAH AAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Led Zeppelin III?
    "See a broad to get dat booty yak 'em, leg 'er down, a smack 'em yak 'em!"
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    Pearl Jam- Binaural
    "There's a girl on a ledge, who's got nowhere to turn"

    The Killers-Sam's Town
    "Nobody ever had a dream 'round here but I don't really mind that it's starting to get to me."

    Foo Fighters-Wasting Light
    "These are my famous last words! My number's up, bridges all burned."

    Tom Petty-She's the One Soundtrack
    "Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are open, some roads are blocked."

    Eddie Vedder-Into the Wild
    "Be of no concern, point of no return, go forward and reverse."
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
  • dccrash23dccrash23 Posts: 160
    I think I saw you in my sleep, darling,
    I think I saw you in my dreams you were
    Stitching up the seams on every broken promise
    That your body couldn't keep.
    I think I saw you in my sleep.

    Somewhere at the bottom of the river between Vega and Altair by La Dispute
    Calgary 08/08/09
    Calgary 21/09/11
    Edmonton 23/09/11
  • mensanemensane Posts: 912
    Tonight, tonight I say goodbye
    To everyone who loves me
    Stick it to my enemies, tonight
    Then I disappear
    Bathe my path in shining light
    Set the dials to thrill me
    Every secret has it's price
    This one's set to kill

    Afghan Whigs- "Crime Scene Part One" from Black Love
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,612
    mensane wrote:
    Tonight, tonight I say goodbye
    To everyone who loves me
    Stick it to my enemies, tonight
    Then I disappear
    Bathe my path in shining light
    Set the dials to thrill me
    Every secret has it's price
    This one's set to kill

    Afghan Whigs- "Crime Scene Part One" from Black Love
    Nice!

    Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

    "My my, hey hey
    Rock and roll is here to stay
    It's better to burn out than to fade away
    My my, hey hey"

    Neil Young - Neil Young

    "He's a perfect stranger,
    Like a cross of himself and a fox.
    He's a feeling arranger
    And a changer of the ways he talks.
    He's the unforeseen danger
    The keeper of the key to the locks"

    Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps

    "Whenever you're here, you're alive
    The devil says you can do what you like
    Come what may, come what might
    You'll see me there"
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 11,889
    Cool thread. Some of my favorites have been mentioned. I like AAAAHHHHH. AAAAAAAHHHHH. :lol:


    How about:
    Hey kids rock and roll, nobody tells you where to go, baby.


    And of course,

    Oh please, oh please don't go on me now...
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila, PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13;
    Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22;
    Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • apirk72apirk72 Posts: 506
    I'm a street walking cheetah With a heart full of napalm I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 11,889
    Johnny Abruzzo wrote:
    How about:
    Hey kids rock and roll, nobody tells you where to go.

    Oops that's later in the song. It's:
    Smack, crack, bushwhacked
    Tie another one to the racks, baby
    :oops:
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila, PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13;
    Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22;
    Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,055
    Most of the best have been mentioned, but let me throw this out there...

    "Time is never time at all"

    from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've always thought that album started perfectly with the instrumental setting the mood to the way the momentum shifts with the opening notes of Tonight, Tonight. By the time Billy starts singing you just know this is going to be an incredible adventure.
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    "They shot a movie once in my hometown. Everybody was in it from miles around. Out at the speedway, some kind of Elvis thing. Well I ain't no movie star, but I can get behind anything."
    The Tragically Hip- Blow at High Dough

    "Garage sale, Saturday. I need to pay my heart's outstanding bills."
    - The Weakerthans- Everything Must Go

    "There's a man goin' around takin' names. And he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same..."
    Johnny Cash- The Man Comes Around

    "Born down in a dead man's town. The first kick I took was when I hit the ground."
    -Bruce Springsteen- Born in the U.S.A.

    "This is a public service announcement...with guitar."

    -The Clash- Know Your Rights
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • DiRtyFranK38DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    Large fingers pushing paint, you're god and you've got big hands
    2006: Hartford
    2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
    2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
    2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
    2011: Ed Solo Hartford
    2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
    2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
  • frazbafrazba Posts: 601
    'Can you tell me where my country lies? Said the unifaun to his true loves eyes'

    Name that song, my favourite opening line ever (no googling!)
  • frazbafrazba Posts: 601
    Forgot about this one,

    'When I sat down on the bed next to you, you started to cry'
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    Its a Beautiful day - It's a Beautiful Day
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    frazba wrote:
    'Can you tell me where my country lies? Said the unifaun to his true loves eyes'

    Name that song, my favourite opening line ever (no googling!)

    Can't remember the song, but is it from Selling England By the Pound by Genesis?
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    frazba wrote:
    Forgot about this one,

    'When I sat down on the bed next to you, you started to cry'

    I thought about that one too.
  • frazbafrazba Posts: 601
    DewieCox wrote:
    frazba wrote:
    'Can you tell me where my country lies? Said the unifaun to his true loves eyes'

    Name that song, my favourite opening line ever (no googling!)

    Can't remember the song, but is it from Selling England By the Pound by Genesis?

    It is indeed, Track one, 'Dancing with the Moonlit Knight'
  • kellanazziekellanazzie Posts: 1,484
    Open up your mind & let me step inside
    Rest your weary head & let your heart decide
    It's so easy when you know the rules
    It's so easy all you have to do
    Is fall in Love
    Play the Game - Queen



    If I had a mind to
    I wouldn't want to think like you
    And if I had time to
    I wouldn't want to talk to you
    I don't care
    What you do
    I wouldn't want to be like you - Alan Parsons

    Although...first song..I Robot....no lyrics other than operatic AAAHHHhhhhh AAAHHhhhhh.....love me some of that there.....
  • uninnocent-uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    what, no Blind Melon love?

    Gotta go with Hello Goodbye opening up Soup:

    I'm entering a frame bombarded by indecision
    Where a man like me can easily let the day get out of control
    Down this far in the quarter
    I'm pushed hard upon the border
    But, I'd rather be caught 'round now instead of oh, say, 'round the month of June
    But if I can leave with a little bit of explanation
    Then anywhere in the world I choose to go
    I'll have it made.
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    "You know the day destroys the night, the night divides the day....."
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • Skeleton KeySkeleton Key Posts: 130
    veddertown wrote:

    Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
    "Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol, c,c,c,c,c,cocaiiiinnnne...."

    This one immediately came to mind when I saw the thread title. Hard to top that.
  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    edited December 2011
    YIELD Track 1 - BRAIN OF J - turn it way way up
    "1,2,3,4...1,2,3,4!"
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  • ML2899ML2899 Posts: 6
    "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."
  • Planet of SoundPlanet of Sound UK Posts: 630
    Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

    "Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
    For y'all have knocked her up.
    I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
    I was not offended
    For I knew I had to rise above it all
    Or drown in my own shit."

    ...cue one of the best guitar solos going
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,203
    Spirit of Radio

    Begin the day
    Wth a friendly voice,
    A companion, unobtrusive
    Plays the song that's so elusive
    And the magic music makes your morning mood.


    Rush....Permanent Waves album

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,203
    Bump
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • EdLawEdLaw Posts: 194
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call

    “I don't believe in an interventionist God. But I know, darling, that you do.”
    And I planted my bolo knife in the neck of mad John Finn. I took his wretched life.
    Now I'm over near the bandstand, every hand moving on John Finn's wife...
  • mikalinamikalina Posts: 7,206
    Wait a minute baby,
    Stay with me awhile...
    Said you'd give me light
    But you never told me about the fire....
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