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Best Opening Line in A Song

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
Buffon II wrote:
[QUOTE=Buffon II]

How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man

 
 
 
Agreed. thats probably the best..

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
GI_Joe wrote:
giddyup wrote:
"i'm on the drug that killed river phoenix "    tism

 
 
Jesus wept, someone else who knows of TISM!!!
 
Hmm I know I already put one down, but TISM reminded me:
"Everyone ELse Has HAd More Sex Than Me"
 
Make that 3 of us!!!
 
 
"I know his dad's abusive
And his mum prefers the daughter;
I know he's got an Attention Deficiency Disorder;
He's culturally excluded
And he's genetically inbred;
But the reason he's a homeboy
Is because he's a dickhead."
 
(All Homeboys are D!ckheads)
 
Aaahhhh! So True! 

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
And who can forget the TISM's touching ode to Jim Morrison...
 
"Jimbo, boy, you're a croc of sh*t,
You're a boozed, selfish thug;
Why don't you give your mouth a go
And in the other hole put a plug?"
 
"Morrison Hostel"
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"Hello im from Essex in case you couldn't tell

My given name Dickey i come from Biliricay and im doing very well"

BillBiliricay  Dickey
Ian Dury(rip) and the Blockheads
 Kiwi Jambo2007-08-02 19:08:17

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
Kiwi Jambo wrote:
"Hello im from Essex in case you couldn't tell

My given name Dickey i come from Biliricay and im doing very well"

BillBiliricay  Dickey
Ian Dury(rip) and the Blockheads


Unfortunately this song or at least the tune has been hijacked for a tv add by some company that makes cleaning products for bogs and kitchens ,which must be why they sanitised a brilliant song with sh*te lyrics its sacrilege i reckon!! And Telecon using the Beatles come together ,is nothing sacred in the eyes of the corporates,oh dont start me wheres ma tablets ,i need a lie doon!!
Kiwi Jambo2007-08-02 19:15:32

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
Arseholes, Bastards, f**king c**ts and Pricks
 
 
As mentioned before Ian Dury
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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
"I was twenty one years when I wrote this song
I'm twenty two now but I won't be for long"
 
Billy Bragg - "New England"
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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
"one good thing about music, when hits you feel ok"  - trenchtown rock, Bob Marley
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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
Ever since i was a young boy ive played the silver ball
from Soho down to Brighton i must have played them all
But i aint seen nothing like it in any pin ball hall
that deaf dumb and blind kid
sure plays a mean pin ball

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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kiwi pie wrote:
And who can forget the TISM's touching ode to Jim Morrison...
 
"Jimbo, boy, you're a croc of sh*t,
You're a boozed, selfish thug;
Why don't you give your mouth a go
And in the other hole put a plug?"
 
"Morrison Hostel"
 
Woohoo!! TISM it up people!
 
Come home tired, what a day I've had
News ain't good from Stalingrad
I've been busy protecting the German race
So come on baby, defecate on my face
TISM - Defectate On My Face
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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
Good times for a change
See the luck ive had made a good man turn bad
So please please please let me get what i want
Lord knows
It would be the first time
<The Smiths>

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
C-Diddy wrote:
GI_Joe wrote:
giddyup wrote:
"i'm on the drug that killed river phoenix " �� tism�

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Jesus wept, someone else who knows of TISM!!!

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Hmm I know I already put one down, but TISM reminded me:

"Everyone ELse Has HAd More Sex Than Me"

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Make that 3 of us!!!

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<FONT face=Arial size=2>"I know his dad's abusiveAnd his mum prefers the daughter;I know he's got an Attention Deficiency Disorder;He's culturally excludedAnd he's genetically inbred;But the reason he's a homeboyIs because he's a dickhead."

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(All Homeboys are D!ckheads)

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<FONT face=Arial size=2>Aaahhhh! So True!�


First post.

Make that 4 of us.

"All that's good, all that's right;
Everything hot, all that's tight;
Women, men, pubescent girls,
Never again to finger their curls
On their heads so exquisite -
Never again to visit
The palace, the palace of love.

Chorus
Forty years of livin' - then death,
That's all that's left;
Forty years - then death.
Forty years - all that's left."

"Sharing rewards the weak"- Steven Colbert

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
"Cheap holidays in other peoples misery's"
Holidays in the Sun >The Sex Pistols 

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
I like this post and was thinking for ages about my favourite opening lines-
This jumped into my head this morning in the lift:
 
"Geezers need excitement, if their lives don't provide it they incite violence, its commonsense
simple commonsense" 
 
lad culture apologism from The Streets

Salmon swim upstream

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
Traitor wrote:
C-Diddy wrote:
GI_Joe wrote:
giddyup wrote:
"i'm on the drug that killed river phoenix "    tism 

 Thought it was meant to be the first line not the whole rock anthology and best of album  !!

Jesus wept, someone else who knows of TISM!!!

 

Hmm I know I already put one down, but TISM reminded me:

"Everyone ELse Has HAd More Sex Than Me"

 

Make that 3 of us!!!

 

 

<FONT face=Arial size=2>"I know his dad's abusiveAnd his mum prefers the daughter;I know he's got an Attention Deficiency Disorder;He's culturally excludedAnd he's genetically inbred;But the reason he's a homeboyIs because he's a dickhead."

 

(All Homeboys are D!ckheads)

 

<FONT face=Arial size=2>Aaahhhh! So True! 


First post.

Make that 4 of us.

"All that's good, all that's right;
Everything hot, all that's tight;
Women, men, pubescent girls,
Never again to finger their curls
On their heads so exquisite -
Never again to visit
The palace, the palace of love.

Chorus
Forty years of livin' - then death,
That's all that's left;
Forty years - then death.
Forty years - all that's left."
Kiwi Jambo2007-08-24 10:59:24

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
"I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now"

Great stuff, Moz!
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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
It's not an opening line, but here's one more from the mighty Moz:
 
"So, I broke into the palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said : "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing"
I said : "That's nothing - you should hear me play piano"
 
from The Queen is Dead by The Smiths

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
"I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar it meant that you were a protest singer...I can smile about it now but at the time it was terrible..."
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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
Kiwi Jambo wrote:
Ever since i was a young boy ive played the silver ball
from Soho down to Brighton i must have played them all
But i aint seen nothing like it in any pin ball hall
that deaf dumb and blind kid
sure plays a mean pin ball
 
I think should be any amusement hall.
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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
I used to love her, but I had to kill her: G'N'R
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about 19 years ago · edited about 14 years ago
"Midnight to six man" - White man in Hammersmith Palais, The Clash.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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over 8 years ago

And I found this thread interesting. 11 years ago. It must be the "off season".

"A long time ago a man on a track,"

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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C-Diddy
over 8 years ago · edited over 8 years ago · History

Still love TISM but this one also comes to mind:

Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West end town
Call the police there's a mad man around
Running down underground
To a dive bar in a West end town

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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over 8 years ago

"Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me" 


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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LGpaulm
over 8 years ago

"White man came across the sea, he brought us pain and misery"

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Endorsed by
LG
over 8 years ago

"Remember when you were young?"

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 8 years ago · edited over 8 years ago · History

Some iconic ones that come to mind... 

"All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey"

"Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again"

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away"

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LG
over 8 years ago

The times they are a changing.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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Endorsed by
LG
over 8 years ago

"There'll be fighting in the street" (Hint - The Who)

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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Leggy
over 8 years ago

https://youtu.be/HS8nPKISZhQ

I popped a tramadol before the show so now I'm feeling wavy...

You know we belong together...

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Co
over 8 years ago

"We put this festival on you bastards, with a lotta love."

And I've always liked:

"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces."

E + R + O

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over 8 years ago

"You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you"

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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over 8 years ago

"All is quiet on New Years Day"

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over 8 years ago

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey..."

"...sure beats doin' stuff."

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over 8 years ago

"Show me how to lie"

I'm an optimistic pessimist. 
I'm positive things will go wrong.
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over 8 years ago

kept in line with truncheons, rifle butts and truncheons THIS IS state control!

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over 8 years ago

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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