The greatest first line to a song ever?

[carlzeiss]

Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent .

Jethro Tull

Aqualung

 

[somerset]

Son I'm thirty, Only Went With Your Mother ‘Cause she's dirty...... Happy Mondays.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

September '77 Port Elizabeth weather fine

 

[malcolmposkettspockets]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOHTPtB37gU

"Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news"

 

[Sussex on Leith]

A mile an a half on a bus takes a long time....

On a similar Scottish indie/shoegazing tip, the first song (Happy New Year) on the first Camera Obscura album begins, "Did the ironing in a cowboy hat". Love that image.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

If you don't wanna f*** me baby, baby f*** off - F*** Off, by Wayne County and the Electric Chairs.

Also

I always flirt with death, I look ill but I don't care about it - The Only Ones.

And

You disturb my natural emotions, you make me feel like dirt, and I'm hurt - Buzzcocks.

 

[kevtherev]

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said, I'd like to, smash every tooth in your head.

 

[lawros left foot]

The distant echo of far away voices boarding faraway trains

You can stop dreaming of that quiet life, cos its the one youll never know

 

[Munchkin]

"My breath smells of a thousand fags, and when I'm drunk I dance like my Dad"

 

[Dover]

Is it worth it, a new winters coat for the wife.

Shipbuilding. One of the best tunes ever made.

 

[loz]

Yes that's right, punk is dead, it's just another cheap product for the consumers head-Crass

 

[jemwillett]

There's no point in asking you'll get no reply

Which coupled with the best opening riff makes it pretty decent 30 seconds or so

 

[loz]

A distant echo of far away voices boarding far away trains.

That song also has the classic line... They smelt of pubs and wormwood scrubs and too many right wing meetings !

The jam.. Down in the tube station at midnight.

 

[Cosmic Joker]

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine

Patti Smith - Gloria

 

[1234andcounting]

I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said "You can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away."

 

[upthealbion1970]

Remember when you were young..... You shone like the sun

 

[El Presidente]

Mccormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands

 

[ferring seagull]

Now is the time for marching

Thread closed.

Beat me to it - Absolutely correct and appropriate on this board !

 

[Mowgli37]

"Sit on my face and tell me that you love me"

 

[PHCgull]

Actually, David Bowie is rather good at this

"(Let's Dance), put on your red shoes and dance the blues"

genius

I bless you sadly, madly as I tie my shoes


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