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Re: Greatest opening lines of opening songs on albums?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:01 am
by foomanfat
"I am the only one who thinks I'm going crazy and I don't know what to do."
Manchester Orchestra - The Only One
"I want to be dead with my friends."
Every Time I Die - Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space
"I'm not mad. I'm just tired, and it makes me sad. At least it makes me something different."
Gatsbys American Dream - You All Everybody
Re: Greatest opening lines of opening songs on albums?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:39 am
by BoatRich
"I've been having a horrible time, pulling myself together; I've been closing my eyes just to find, your familiar failures"- Good Things by the Menzingers
"Nameless, this depressive disgust grows in cycles; the same conversations, the same faces; words of worth engulfed in dirt"- Cycles by Code Orange Kids
Also whoever said My War is completely correct
Re: Greatest opening lines of opening songs on albums?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:05 pm
by jrmy
“This next one is the first song on our new album…” Cheap Trick as sampled by The Beastie Boys
“Checkin’ in every morning to the sound of steam and caffeine, the sludge in the bottom of the cup just like the sludge in the stream…” Bob Mould, Black Sheets of Rain
“unhealing incisions, path that turns vicious,
a recurring sequence or an unbroken line,
it makes no difference to the one that's analyzed,
it's all fate so be resigned.” Jawbox, Cutoff
Good effing lord I'm dating myself here...
Re: Greatest opening lines of opening songs on albums?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:13 pm
by Muff_Diver
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM_iGi1ixzg[/youtube]
Not an album, but a bad ass opening nonetheless.
Re: Greatest opening lines of opening songs on albums?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:22 pm
by rustywire
"Excuse me (what) can I have your attention? There's just a few things that I've got to mention...these girlies out here, they seem appealing, but they'll come in your life and cold hurt your feelings" -Slick Rick
Treat Her Like A Prostitute - (The Great Adventures of Slick Rick)
"I've got the clock face down, guess I slept all day just so I could be awake right now" -Polvo
Fractured Like Chandeliers - (Celebrate The New Dark Age)
"The bed at night is a life raft, in the ocean of the dark." -Bedhead
Liferaft - (WhatFunLifeWas)