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Best Album-Opening Lines

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I figured with the "best openers" and "best closers" threads, why not do a best opening lines to albums thread? I got a few:

 

Teenage angst has payed off well/ Now I'm bored and old

 

--Nirvana- "Serve the Servants"; In Utero

 

When I was young I was invincible/ I'd find myself not thinking twice

 

--Social Distortion- "Reach for the Sky"; Sex, Love & Rock N' Roll

 

In France a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name/ By chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same

 

--Prince- "Sign O' the Times"; Sign O' the Times

 

Tell me true, tell me why was Jesus crucified?/ Was it for this that daddy died?

 

--Pink Floyd- "The Postwar Dream"; The Final Cut

 

Hands on the Bible/ Scared liek a child/ God holds you libel/ For what you've done

 

--Local H- "Hands on the Bible"; Here Comes the Zoo

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Efficiency and progress are ours once more, now that we have the neutron bomb.

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When you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers.

- Neutral Milk Hotel - The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

 

I am an American aquarium drinker.

- Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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"What we've got here is a failure to communicate!" - Civil Wars from Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses (this is a sampled line from Cool Hand Luke)

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"You know the day destroys the night/Night divides the day/Tried to run, tried to hide/Break on through to the other side"-----"Break On Through" from the Doors self titled first album.

 

"Strange Days have found us/Strange Days have tracked us down/They're going to destroy our casual joys"-----"Strange Days" from The Doors 2nd album, titled, you guessed it, "Strange Days."

 

"Keep your eyes on the road/Your hands upon the wheel/Well we're going to the roadhouse/Gonna have a real good time"-----"Roadhouse Blues" from The Doors "Morrison Hotel"

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On certain Sundays in November/when the weather bothers me/I empty drawers of other summers/where my shadows used to be

 

-Counting Crows, "Hard Candy"

 

Put your hands on the wheel/let the golden age begin/the window down/and the moonlight on your skin

 

-Beck, "The Golden Age"

 

Sitting out on your house/watching hardcore UFOs/drawing pictures/playing solos 'till ten/are you amplified to rock/are you hoping for a contact/I'll be with you/without you again

 

Guided By Voices, "Hardcore UFOs"

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Let me tell you how it will be/There's one for you nineteen for me

 

- The Beatles 'Taxman'

 

All I can think of right now.

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I'm handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi/My girlfriend blows a boozy goodbye kiss/I see flying squirrels and nightmares of stigmata/Then awakening to find my Trans-Am gone

 

Jim White - 'Handcuffed to a Fence In Mississipi'.

 

I was born underwater/I dried out in the sun/I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young

 

Monster Magnet - Crop Circle

 

I'll chase the flies from your eyes and drag you to the sycamores/I'll hold a service just for you/I'll tell the vultures and crows to stay away just for the day/They can hunger in the dust

 

Red Star Belgrade - Favourite Thing

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In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.

'Slowly screwing my way across Europe/they had to make a correction'

 

Sorry, had to finish it.

 

That's a whole album full of great lines.

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"Here comes the revolutionist, executionist / See the triple six, inverted into three nine's, grab your crucifix"

Gang Starr - "1/2 & 1/2"

 

"Journey with me into the mind of a maniac / I was doomed to be a killer since I came out the nutsack"

Dr. Dre and Ice Cube - "Natural Born Killaz"

 

"He lied, connived, and passed the stress / Till 1600 was his address"

Stuck Mojo - "Crooked Figurehead"

 

"If you're gonna scream, scream with me"

The Misfits - "Hybrid Moments"

 

"Please allow me to adjust my pants / And let me dance the good times dance / And put all the innocent bystanders and onlookers into a trance"

Clutch - "The Mob Goes Wild"

 

"Now just sit right back, and I may tell you a tale / A tale of THREE little pigs / And a BIG...BAD...WOLF..."

Green Jelly - "Three Little Pigs"

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"We were just a pair of dice when I let you in

And the numbers were aligned as the wheel grinned"

 

"Daily Mutilation" by the Posies (from Amazing Disgrace)

 

"This song will become

The anthem of

Your underground"

 

"At Your Funeral" by Saves The Day (from Stay What You Are)

 

"Your friends keep telling me I bear a striking resemblance to someone you used to know/ But baby's it's me so why the hell do you keep calling me "Flo"?"

 

"Flo" by Smashmouth (from Fush Yu Mang)

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You fucked up!

You bitch!

You really fucked up!

AHHHH!

 

Ween- You fucked up.

 

A cheap holiday in other peoples' misery

I dont' want a holiday in the sun.

Sex Pistols- Holidays in the Sun.

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