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Off Topic => Offtopic Discussion => Topic started by: Coilette on 03-11-2004 16:56
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In the style of Radio 2, suggestions for the best opening line in Rock Music:
Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver balls, from Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all.
The Who - Pinball Wizard.
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In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.
- Loser by Beck
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I thought I was smart, I thought I was right. I thought it better not to fight, I thought there was a virtue in always being cool.
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
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That reminds me "You're sorta stuck where you are but in your dreams you can buy expensive cars or live on mars and have it your way.
And you hate your boss at your job but in your dreams you can blow his head off. In your dreams show no mercy." - Bad Days by The Flaming Lips.
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You're right, that one is better... Haven't listened to it in a while tho. *starts going through cd rack* Thanks. :D
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He was a boy
She was a girl
Can i make it any more obvious
He was a punk
She did ballet
What more can i say
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Jeremy wins!!!!!
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No he doesn't.
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Bah.
It's you that I adore
You will always be my whore
You'll be a mother to my child
And a child to my heart
We must never be apart
- Smashing Pumpkins, "Ava Adore".
Nyah. Also:
Did you miss me?
I bet you did.
Did you miss me
And what I did?
How's it going, kid?
How's the lovelife?
Not good?
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Good.
- The Cooper Temple Clause, "Did you miss me?"
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This ain't rock'n'roll. This is genocide.
- David Bowie, "Diamond Dogs"
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Created from dust, you will soon return to the void - Vlad Tepes, "War Funeral March"
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Originally posted by Mercapto:
This ain't rock'n'roll. This is genocide.
- David Bowie, "Diamond Dogs"
Yeah, David Bowie has got to kill this category, unless Iggy & the Stooges or the Pogues have him somewhere, but he's got like a hundred contenders. I couldn't pick.
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"Jessica Simpson where has your love gone? It's not in your music no. You need vacation to wake up the cavemen and take them to Mexico."
- Jessica by Adam Green
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Originally posted by canned eggs:
Yeah, David Bowie has got to kill this category, unless Iggy & the Stooges or the Pogues have him somewhere, but he's got like a hundred contenders. I couldn't pick.
You remind me of the babe.
What babe?
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Okay, I'm sorry to bring him up again, but Wesley Willis pwns with It's Against the Law:
Don't kill people you don't know! Don't rob gas stations and banks!
...I can probably find something good later.
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I want it all. I want it all. I want it all, and I want it now!
--Queen "I Want It All"
Hey Hey Hey Hey...Hey, stupid!
--Alice in Chains "Hey Stupid"
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"Let it out/ your self inflicted pain/ is getting to routine/the crowds are catching on to the self inflicted songs/ Well here we go again, just the weak who fall in love to fail/to increase your cd sales"--Cursive "Art is Hard"
I can think of way more, but I will save that for another time
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Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind...
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
One word. Classic.
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Hobgoblins, hobgoblins,
What do you do with those hobgoblins?
They're over here,
They're over there,
Those darn hobgoblins are everywhere!
-MST3K :D
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"I got sick of my job, sick of my wife...sick of my future and sick of my life...packed up my car and I got some gas...told everybody they could kiss my ass..."-Glenn Frey-Partytown.
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Originally posted by jdan:
I thought I was smart, I thought I was right. I thought it better not to fight, I thought there was a virtue in always being cool.
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
I'll have to also say this one, for now anyway. I'm sure there's a better U2 one though! :p
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The perils of rock 'n roll decadence
- Guns N' Roses - Pretty Tied Up
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The spoken bit at the start of :
The Wolves - Busy
God, has a hard-on for marines, because we kill, everything we see
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i can't choose...
here are a few suggestions:
"sleeping in a van between a and b / sucking dick for ecstasy"
- the moldy peaches - downloading porn with davo
"there's no such thing as a harmless joke / there's no such thing as a gentle toke / there's no such thing as panama jack / who's got the crack?"
- the moldy peaches - who's got the crack
...no, but seriously. here are some interesting ones:
"fortunes fine advance ici, the last line's standing"
- north of america - speech is an experiment
just because of the way they sing it:
"s-o-f-t p-y-r-a-m-i-d-s e-v-p-o-r-a-t-e at daylight"
- q and not u - soft pyramids
"all your friends are cunts, your mother is a ballpoint-pen-thief"
- mclusky - gareth brown says
and this is by far the weirdest one:
"neonecropopulace has no reflection / neocaeczaristic phallic ruins"
- the mars volta - cut that city
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I want to kiss you every minute every hour every day!
The Darkness – I believe in a thing called love
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I have to go with the already mentioned "Loser" But here are some other faves:
"You wired me awake, and hit me with a hand of broken nails." - Johnny CashSoundgarden, Rusty Cage
"Something's wrong because my mind is fading, and everywhere I look there's a dead-end waiting." - Beck, Devils Haircut.
"Any of you fucking pigs move, him and I will execute every mother-fucking last one of you." - Fun lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks (Doesn't really count)
"Wake up in the morning, clock says half past one." - Sublime, What happened?
"Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh, totaly motionless except for her heart." - P.U.S.A.
"All aboaaaaaaaaaaard! AHAHAHAHAHA!" - Ozzy, crazy train
"Flys in the Vasolene, we are." - STP, Vasoline
And here's a good one:
"Woo-Hoo!" - Blur, Song 2
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Some personal favourites:
I am standing up at the water's edge in my dream,
I cannot make a single sound as you scream,
It can't be that cold,
The ground is still warm to touch ...
- Red Rain by Peter Gabriel.
Welcome to your life, there's no turning back ...
- Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears.
You get a shiver in the dark, it's a-raining in the park in the meantime ...
- Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits.
I have climbed the highest mountain,
I have run through the fields,
Only to be with you ...
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2 :)
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Originally posted by Pitt Clemens:
"Something's wrong because my mind is fading, and everywhere I look there's a dead-end waiting." - Beck, Devils Haircut.
Wait, what was that song about again?
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Forgive me for being a flag-burning hippie, but most anything by Dylan is good...
Bob Dylan - With God on Our Side
Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I was taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.
...this is a lot of lyrics, but it's kind of stream-of-consciousness, so it'd be hard to break apart...
Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex
And the first one tore a picture
Of a dead and hanging man
Who was kissing foreign fishes
That flew right out from this hands
And when I put my arms around him
I felt the blushing blood run through my cheeks
And an eeriness surrounded when his tongue began to speak
And he said, "Oh boy you are so pretty
Enough to wrap tight in rice-paper string..."
And when I finally kissed him the whole world began to ring
Lost like a bell that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
And I knew the world was over so I took a look outside
And watched the fires that were reaching
Up to the weather vane and the tops of trees
And the waiting scene and the Sunday dream
They're all waiting here for me
...okay, anything by Neutral Milk Hotel.
Neutral Milk Hotel - You've Passed
The lady is dying
She bends back like a wave
As her spirit is climbing
Through the hospital wall and away
Bright Eyes - Make War
Our love is dead but without limit
Like the surface of the moon
Or the land between here and the mountains
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to smash every tooth
In your head
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"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces" One Of These Days Pink Floyd. Primeraly chosen as it's the only lyric in the song, and I'm in a stupid mood. Also it's a damn fine song
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Aaaaare Yoooouuuu Reeeaaddy!!!
KoRn - Blind
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My all time fave by Electric Six:
You!
I wanna take you to a gay bar,
I wanna take you to a gay bar,
I wanna take you to a gay bar,
gay bar, gay bar.
Let's start a war, start a nuclear war,
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Waah,
At the gay bar.
Now tell me, do ya, a do ya have any money?
I wanna spend all your money,
at the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
I've got something to put in you,
I've got something to put in you,
I've got something to put in you,
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Hah!
You're a superstar at the gay bar.
Yeah you're a superstar at the gay bar.
You're a superstar at the gay bar.
Superstar.
Super, superstar!
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I always thought Gay Bar started with "Girl!". And I still think so. Why did the money verse get consored? (I Invented the Night and Improper Dancing are great as well- plus all the others)
Best rock opener is: NIN- Piggy
Hey pig
Yeah you
Hey pig piggy pig pig pig
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One opening I particuarly like is Bring Me To Life by Evenescence, I've always liked the opening
How can you see into my eyes like open doors,
Leading you down into my core where I've become so numb
:)
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"Got me the strangest woman,
Believe it, this chick’s no sinch,
When I wanna get her goin’,
Then I whip out my big ten inch!!"
Aerosmith - Big Ten Inch Record.
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"Got the goods brother bring it on, my mother done brought me up wrong, and you can use my dick for a walking stick as well."
Supersuckers - Born With A Tail
"You say you hate corporations but you were on NBC, London's calling and they're calling you gay"
Anal Cunt - Rancid Sucks(And The Clash Sucked Too)
"What if Christmas didn't come this year, and no one paid their Christmas cheer, who would cry the biggest tear, the child or the store?"
Primus - To Defy The Laws of Tradition
"Stupid ass punk sold for popularity, drink or preach yourself into stupidity, self assured and pompous, say you don't want us, unity is everything but only among your own kind"
Capitalist Casualties - Stupid Ass Punk
"If only your mom knew you wear bandanas and boots, or that you traded your tennis racquet for a camouflage jacket"
D.R.I. - Closet Punk(while we were on the subject...)
The fact that As The Sun Sets has a song called "I've Run Over Black Cats That Were Luckier Than Me" after Fry's quote of course
"There was this friend of mine need something we couldn't give convinient answers and a cheap way out killed himself without actually dying, took a blunt lie and gouged out his mind and I can't accept that he's found the answers to those questions I'll be trying to solve until I die and I can't accept that he's somehow 'better off' because the answers aren't that simple we always assumed he wasn't either and I want his beautiful religion to burn because Steve's dead and I wasn't offered the chance to say goodbye."
Born Against - Eulogy(says in the liner notes that this song got them in a lot of trouble...gee, I wonder why, it's great though)
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I hear more than I like to
So I boil my head in a sense of humor
Laugh at what I cannot change
I throw it all on the pyre again.
Dave Matthews Band - Drive In Drive Out
Because let's face it, that pretty much summarizes my outlook on life.
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Your outlook on life sucks.
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So I've been told.
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Originally posted by SixByNine:
"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces" One Of These Days Pink Floyd. Primeraly chosen as it's the only lyric in the song, and I'm in a stupid mood. Also it's a damn fine song
oh that so rocks too!
Dream Theater covered that in Rotterdam hehe that rocked
also:
peace sells, but who's buying
- Megadeth - Peace Sells
oh i wanted to put more song thingies but i have to go to work
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what we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone
past yourself forget the light, things look dirty when it’s on
funny how it comes to pass, that all the good slips away
and there’s no one around you can remember being good to you
Matchbox Twenty - Shame
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Is this for best opening lines, or best opening several-verses?
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How does it feel
To treat me like you do?
- Blue Monday by New Order. Also the biggest selling 12" record in the UK :)
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Originally posted by DrThunder88:
Is this for best opening lines, or best opening several-verses?
I think several people are just posting their favourite song whether the opening line is good or not :hmpf:
Weird but cool:
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
I am the Walrus
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Originally posted by Pikka Bird:
I always thought Gay Bar started with "Girl!". And I still think so. Why did the money verse get consored?
It was the war verse which was censored, and yes it does start with "Girl!"
On-Topic:
Hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me...
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
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"Soon I discovered, that this rock thing was true. Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil. Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet. All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world, so there is but one thing I could do: It was ding-a-ding dang my dang-a-long ling-long."
From Jesus Built My Hotrod
by Ministry (?)
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The Dead Kennedys have good openers.
Ain't goin' to party. Ain't goin' to the game.
Ain't goin' to the disco. Ain't gonna cruise down main.
We're stealin' people's mail!
"Take this job and shove it!"
"Step right up folks, there anarchy for sale!"
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uhhh
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized(?) as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life from another planet. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes. And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us
(i don't know if i got all that right though)
Jeff Wayne - The Eve Of The War
but that's not really rock is it?
also it's not really 1 line
oh well
I was looking for trouble, and boy, i found her
Type O Negative - Christian Woman
but that's not really rock either is it?
man i need a rock song... hmm
errr... what's the definition of rock?
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Pretty much anything, from the 60's to today. On Radio 2 they had entries like
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Guns n Roses - Sweet child of mine
It is meant to be the opening line only, but what the heck, if you really like a particular verse then go ahead and post it.
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"You don't want me anymore, so I just walk right out the door, played a game right from the start, I trust you, you used me, now my heart's all torn apart"
Bad Brains - Sailin' On
That "walk right out the door" line makes it sound like such a cool and casual verse to me.
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"If you ate my shit,then you'd probably talk twice as good as you do now"
Throwdown-'No More Hate'
"Ohhh,
Meet the man that made me
Greet the can I came from
Oh the fucking sacred heart of Jesus
BLEW it in the back room
Feelin' like a real goon
Slam the fuck aside, man
I'M ON - YOU'RE NOT"
-Slipknot, 'Eeyore'
one of the best opening verses ever:
"I don't like a fuckin' thing! Music sucks dick
Suck the snot end of the tip of my prick
You fucking cunts, get off of my back
I don't wanna do a show with your shitty
fuckin' band - You suck, they suck, guess what, get fucked
I can't think of any other words to say but fuck
Don't drag our opinions, our opinions are great
It's new school face muthafuckers I hate"
-Slipknot, 'Get This'
"Alright!
Hey what's the matter with you,
what are you trying to do, I'm wrecking my brain
Still I don't get it. Did i ever hurt you in any way?
If I did, then hear my apology: FUCK YOU!"
-Children Of Bodom, 'You're Better Off Dead'
"You hold me inside your iris like a terminal stain on life."
-Stone Sour, 'Orchid'
"GODDAMN YOU!"
-Stone Sour, 'Tumult'
"I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound"
-Slipknot, 'Disasterpieces'
"TROGDORRRRRR!"
-Strong Bad, 'Trogdor the Burninator'
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Originally posted by Melllvar:
It was the war verse which was censored, and yes it does start with "Girl!"
I can't believe they'd censor that line. What a bunch of wishy washy idiots. Ranks right up there with the "industry watchdogs" trying to censor the word "higher" from the Doors' "Light My Fire"
Please! Save us from ourselves.
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Apparently, it's wrong to say the word "war", it might upset people. :rolleyes:
Meanwhile:
"I am the god of hell-fire, and I bring you....
"Fire" - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.
Arthur Brown is coming to York and guess who's band is going to support him. Cool huh?!
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I have two different versions of Gay Bar- one has the "money" verse, the other doesn't. Both have the "nuclear war" verse... strange.
I open up my head inside and find another person's mind
-30 Seconds to Mars - The Mission
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Hey kid wanna have some fun, choose your side, and here's your gun
Extreme - 'Warheads'
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Originally posted by Melllvar:
Apparently, it's wrong to say the word "war", it might upset people. :rolleyes:
Meanwhile:
"I am the god of hell-fire, and I bring you....
"Fire" - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.
Arthur Brown is coming to York and guess who's band is going to support him. Cool huh?!
That's awesome! I was watching TOTP2 some months ago, and that song came on. My mum said she remembers it from when she was my age! :D
On-topic...
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill,
I could see the city lights,
Wind was blowing, time stood still,
Eagle flew out of the night...
- Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill. Another favourite song of mine :)