Favourite opening line of a song

[belboid]

You do, you definitely do.

Everyone does.

 

[Iam]

What's the furthest place from here?
It hasn't been my day for a couple years.
What's a couple more?

 

[Andy the Don]

"caroline laughs and its raining all day
she longs to be one of the girls"
Psychadelic Furs - Pretty in Pink


*subtext: it makes me think of molly ringwald

Ah Molly, you total babe.. (Lustful smiliey..)

 

[Orangesanlemons]

What's yours?

I'd go for

"Guess I should've known, by the way she drove her car sideways, it wouldn't last.."

-Little Red Corvette by Prince

I've just noticed this. It's "parked your car sideways", not "drove"! Driving a car sideways would be pretty cool tho.

 

[Flashman]

Stand back Superman, Iceman, Spiderman, Batman and Robin too
Don’t wanna cause a fracas, but BA Baracas, have I got a match for you.
She makes them look like a bunch of fairies.
She’s got more bottle than United Dairies.

Hang about - Look out! For Supergraaaan.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Has anybody else noticed how uninteresting most of these favourite opening lines actually are?

 

[ivebeenhigh]

not only my favourite first line, but one of my favourite guitar intros too

"All men have secrets and here is mine, so let it be known"

What difference does it make? - The Smiths

C

 

[top_biller]

I got a letter from the government, the other day.
I opened and read it, it said they were suckers.
They wanted me for their army or whatever.
Picture me giving a damn, I said 'never'.

Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos - Public Enemy

 

[Phenol]

Has anybody else noticed how uninteresting most of these favourite opening lines actually are?

Absolutely!

I've got a good one:

"I woke up this morning and noticed my penis was missing..........."

Name the band!!?

 

[D'wards]

Agreed - this is a goodun though

"You only got one finger left, and it's pointing at the door"

Beck - Can't remember the name of the song.

 

[Wolfie]

King Missile?

 

[Phenol]

King Missile?

nope.

 

[Phenol]

King Missile?

Actually, YES!
Thought it was a Buttholes song until I checked. I got the lyric slightly wrong too! What a wanker I am!

 

[Wolfie]

s'funny - I thought it was the Butthole Surfers for ages too - I think Dub put me right

 

[Kaka Tim]

not a lyrics as such - but Ive always liked Ozzys cough intro to 'sabbath bloody sabbath'.

'All you punks and all you teds
National Front and Natti dreds
Mods, rockers, hippies and skinheads
Keep on fighting 'till you're dead'

Specials - Do the Dog.

Ian Dury's 'Arseholes, Bastards, Fucking cunts and Pricks' takes some beating.

However, Pilchard's nomination for 'Tutti Fruti' has to be the winner though.

 

[General Ludd]

what's their song that begins "I want you to die with my hands round your throat ..." ?

With me in the castle and you in the moat...

It's called Michelle and isn't out yet, it's on their next album which is coming out in January.

 

[Good Intentions]

There's always:

I would like to wrap your hair round your neck like a noose
I would like to wrap your legs around my neck like a lock

Big Black - Precious Thing

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Nice girls, not one with a defect
cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct
Red dogs under illegal legs,
She looks so good that he gets down and begs

Watching the detectives, Elvis Costello

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Eagles

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Hobo villa, Hobo need
Even dead, fear alone indeed
Even dead fear marble eye
He been living in a lullaby

Vambo Marble eye. Alex Harvey

 

[pilchardman]

Has anybody else noticed how uninteresting most of these favourite opening lines actually are?

A-Wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop-bam-boom is extremely interesting.