Great opening lines to songs...

[Pubey]

I was listening to some Arab Strap in the car today and love the opening line (and all the lines) to My Favourite Muse.

"I pulled the ex last night."

[video=youtube;La6qctvT4Uc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La6qctvT4Uc[/video]

Any other favourites?

 

[Uncle Leo]

"she was just seventeen, if you know what I mean"

I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles. Still sounds great now, must have been pretty shocking back in the early 60s.

And as a Canvey boy, I love the start to All Through The City by Dr Feelgood, really evocative of arriving back at The Estuary after a long night

"Stand and watch the towers, burning at the break of day"

Good thread by the way!

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

I was listening to some Arab Strap in the car today and love the opening line (and all the lines) to My Favourite Muse.

"I pulled the ex last night."

[video=youtube;La6qctvT4Uc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La6qctvT4Uc[/video]

Any other favourites?

I like the fact that the Bell End Sebastian song 'Boy with the Arab Strap' is about one of them.

I once saw Arab Strap play at the tiny Covent Garden Rough Trade shop and Moffat was really freaked about being right in the face of the audience and spent a long time debating whether to stand or sit then when singing 'I ****ed her on the sofa' or whatever that line is he mumbled the f word so it was in audible - was funny to see such a foul mouthed tyke so visibly shy about his own words.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

[SUP]
opening line prob Roy Orbison 'In Dreams':
Some people call me the candy coloured sandman
tiptoeing softly through the night...

mid song line Bob Tilton 'Butterfly':
If I hold the needle steady, we can sew our eyes shut

the singer would pretty much have a breakdown on stage, fascinating to watch, and he would write pure poetry and scream it out. I'd love them to reform.[/SUP]

 

[Mad Cyril]

Son I'm thirty, I only went with your mother cos she's dirty.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I was a PFC on a search patrol, huntin' Charlie down

 

[dingleydangley]

Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news.

 

[Napster]

*******s, arseholes, ****ing ***** and pricks. Aerosol, the bricks.

 

[Napster]

I sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles. Geto Boys, Mind's playing tricks on me.

 

[Napster]

Just wakin up in the mornin gotta thank God
I don't know but today seems kinda odd

 

[steveo]

Inflammable material planted up ahead

 

[Napster]

Oh what the heck, let's get married and have a son named Erick
No big deal, no sweat

 

[maninasuitcase]

Opening lines to song and album:

Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again - Simon and Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence

I don't like you, but I love you - Smokey Robinson, You Really Got A Hold On Me

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine - Patti Smith, Gloria

You can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man. No time to talk -The Bee Gees, Stayin' Alive

I met her in a club down in old Soho where they drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola – The Kinks, Lola

You never close you eyes any more when I kiss your lips - Righteous Brothers, You've Lost That Loving Feeling

I’ll be your mirror, reflect what you are in case you don’t know - The Velvet Underground, I'll Be Your Mirror

People try to put us down, just because we get around - The Who, My Generation

 

[Firestorm]

You cant have a lyric thread without Squeeze

I never thought it would happen
With me and that girl from Clapham

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste

 

[Seasick Steve]

You cant have a lyric thread without Squeeze

I never thought it would happen
With me and that girl from Clapham

The writer of that very lyric is performing in Hullbridge later this month.
http://touchlinelivemusic.co.uk/gig-guide-july-2014/chris-difford-fri-25th-july/

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows I'm miserable now

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The taxman’s taken all my dough

 

[Pubey]

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows I'm miserable now

yeah great call.