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Lets hear your faviorte song openers.. ie. welcome to the jungle we got fun and  game... dig?

xoxo
suga

You mean lyrics or sounds?

lryics homes..
xo
suga

Hmmm....this'll be an ongoing thing.
First one that comes to mind is:
"Well he shot four men in a cocaine deal, and left em lyin' in an open field full of cars with bullet holes in the hoods...." - Neil Young "Tired Eyes".

One thing bout music, when it hits you feel no pain white folks say it controls yo brain, I know betta then that thats game/ Dead Prez

" You have to be black to be in the  dark" Helene Smith - ha can u say biiiiiiiimbo
You dont have to be black to be in the dark

Heres my story its sad but ture...

xo suga

Well I just don't know where to begin - Elvis Costello (Accidents Will Happen)

"I met a man / He was a good man / Sailing and shoring / Dancing the beta can-can."  Frank Black, "Los Angeles"

"I'm your only friend / I'm not your only friend" -- TMBG, "Birdhouse..." (o, Ian)

Anarchy in the UK!  Can you beat that?

You said it all.

Here I stand head in hand turn my face to the wall...

xox
suga

I'm not saying it's the greatest--too much thought to give anything just now--but I like:

"Charlie, I'm pregnant, livin' on 9th street above a dirty bookstore off Euclid Avenue."

- T. Waits, "Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis."

so messed up I wantcha here.....

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

(I can't believe I chose that one but boy does it get your attention quickly)

nice.. very nice......

Johnnys in the basement mixin up the medicine, Im on the pavement thinkin bout the government...

Girl, you really got me going, you got me so I don't know what I'm doing...The Kinks "You Really Got Me"

You wired me awake and hit me with a hand of broken nails...Johnny Cash "Rusty Cage"

Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime, in your prime... Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone"

It's knowin' that your door is always open and your path is free to walk...Glen Campbell "Gentle On My Mind"

Nice, Jeff!

How about some Bruce?

"Madman drummers, bummers, indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat" - Blinded By The Light

"The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways..." - Thunder Road
 
Sherriff, you know that Johnny is a Soundgarden tune, right?

I had to leave town for a little while, you said you'd be good while I was gone, but the look in your eye now told me you told a lie, I know there's been some carryin' on....

For Ian.  That may be the best opening line to an album I know of given the context it came in.

I never heard the original but I have a hard time imagining it better than Mr Cash's version.  That song alone converted me to Johnny Cash.

Aw, heck, that's genius, Jeff!
This is for you:

Here come old flat top, he come groooovin' up slowly...

My only weapon is my pen

;D

Steely Dan!

"Johnny's playroom / Is a bunker filled with sand / He's become a third world man."

"When Black Friday comes / I'll stand down by the door / And catch the grey men when they / Dive from the fourteenth floor."

"Kids if you want some fun / Mr. LaPage is your man"

And so on...

The Best things in life are free....

Whatchoo want baby I got it...

Sometimes I feel like I dont have a partner, sometimes I feel like my only friend is the city I live in.

Here comes the nice, he knows what I need, hes always there when I need some speed

Everyday is the same I feel it again Im a loser no chance to win

Southern trees bare a strange fruit blood on the leaves and blood at the roots

Actually, that's true.

So did Steely Dan know our moderator or something?

HEEEYYY.. Heeeey
yeaaaahhh,... Nooooooo
whoOOaoaa,....WHOOOAAAH
Abejjawunpunshaybe.....onefuhtwo, one for the money witha Pommadoo
Lieseran
oh heyahand
eennn rocker ana rollin, rockin ana readin
barbara ann

"Worked the bars and sideshows along the twilight zone / Only a crowd can make you feel so alone..."

Those Stones.

Go to Chuck's den, Jeff.

And get ready for the 8mm.

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here...Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett) "Jugband Blues"

Whiskey river take my mind, don't let a memory talk to me...Willie Nelson "Whiskey River"

Melinda was mine til the time that I found her, holding Jim, loving him...Neil Diamond "Solitary Man"

Hello darkness my old  friend Ive come to talk with you again...

candy says Ive come to hate my body and all that it requires in this world...

When the truth is found to be lies and all the joy within you dies...

I love the colorful clothes your wear, and the way the sunlight plays  upon her hair

How could he not find the baggie with his hand in me shoe....

Turn off your mind relax and float down stream....

Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night blew up his house too....

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You too, Chris.

Well let tell you how it will be heres one for you nineteen for me..

Gonna fake it through the day with some help from Johhny Walker Red

Theres a time for living, the time keeps on trying....

People  say Im no good and crazy as a loon cause I get  stoned in the morning and drunk in the afternoon

Straight out the fuckin dungeons of rap where fake niggas dont make it back

1234 ...The Ramones (many songs)

ahhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooahhhhhhhhhhh...The Beach Boys "Our Prayer"

Something must have happened over Manhattan...The New York Dolls "Frankenstein"

I been in this town so long that back in this city I've been taken as lost and gone and unknown for a long long time....

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?

Well she got her daddy's car and she drove to the hamburger stand now....

3 separate lyricists - all great!

I'll give you a 4th:
Well it's been building up inside of me for oh I don't know how long...

 I got a non dairy creamer exspilitly laid out like a fruit cake....

Sleepin is givin in, no matter what the time is....

Shiny Shiny Boots of Leather

Mother you  had me, but I never had you...

God is a concept by which we measure our pain

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide

Drink up baby stay up all night....

like a kaleidoscope I am turned and Im turning

Who loves the sun, who cares that it makes plants grow

Wouldnt it be nice to get on with me neighbours...(but they make it very clear theyve got no room for ravers)

Last night I dreamed that I was a child

Lines form on my face and hands....

So so you think you can tell heaven  from hell

Well you can tell by the way I walk Im a womans man no time to talk...

Well I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul...

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free...

I finally broke into the prison, I found my place in the chain...

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom...

Yes!!!  I'll give you a 5th:

In the night time, when it's dark and cold, I find peace of mind, cause I have you to hold...

Every finger in the room is pointing at me...

You were the first thing that I thought of when I thought Id drink you off my mind

Some people say a man is made outta mud a poor mans made outta muscle and blood

They say our love wont pay the rent...

Very supertious the writing on the wall

This is getting ridiculous.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head "I've been in this town so long that back in the city, I've been taken for a lost and gone and unknown for a long long time"

Heh heh.

I like "there was this dude on the message board that was always a day late and a dollar short now.....".  ;D

"Nobody feels any pain"

"Half of what I say is meaningless"

"I love you Jesus Christ"

"Outside another yellow moon has punched a hole in the night time"

"Seven lonely days and a dozen towns ago, I reached out one night and you were gone"

 I dunno I like when you were young you were the king of carrot flowers  bettter

but thats a good opener too

xoxoxo
suga

I almost used King Of Carrot Flowers. :D Then I thought it was more striking to hear someone cry out so plaintively that they love Jesus the way that he does.

i always thought he was speaking in spite of jesus christ

I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long

Let's go away for awhile, you and I, to a strange and distant land

When I'm stable long enough I start to look around for love

Blast off to the stars we go, to leave behind everything I used to know

The Mellotron and Hammond organ intro on one of the greatest openings to a song:
 
  "Watcher Of The Skies"  Genesis   1972 off of Foxtrot!!
Nothing could set the "tone" for the beginning of a Genesis concert quite like that!
Brian

Amen.  Tony Banks did a great job on that.

BOY: On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?
GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth?
BOY: Yes
GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth?
BOY: Yes
GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws?
BOY: Yes
GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger?
BOY: Yes
GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger?
BOY: Yes!
GIRL: And will he starve without me?
BOY: Yes!
GIRL: And does he love me?
BOY: Yes
GIRL: Yes
BOY: On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?
GIRL: Yes
BOY: I bet you to say that to all the boys.

There must be some way out of here said the joker to the thief

Johnny's in the basement mixin up the medicine I'm on the pavement thinkin bout the government

You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend

Crimson flames tied through my ears rollin high and mighty traps pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps

best opening non lyrical/lyrical:

Nazz "Open My Eyes"

y'know the guitar part before: underneath your gaze I was found in the haze I'm wandering around in...

Even though it's a ripoff of I Can't Explain?

yeah, yeah, but the Who ain't from Philly

But they love the Who in Philly! I got the bootlegs to prove it!

Open your heart, open your mind....
(someone guess that one)

Awopbopaloobopawopbamboo!

Beat that Mr Dylan!

Even better:

Ah-papa-papa-papa-oom-mow-mow-papa-oom-mow-mow-mow.

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream

I think I’m gonna be sad,
I think it’s today, yeah,
The girl that’s driving me mad,
Is going away.

Which ripped off the Kinks sound?

It only sounds like Kinks to me. The tune itself doesn't really remind me of the Kinks.
In the same way that Harrison/Lennon used Spector, but the songs don't sound like Ronettes.

Wouldn't It Be Nice by far.

Serge Gainsbourg's Black and White has an awesome fuzz guitar intro.

Delia, oh, Delia, Delia all my life
If I hadn't have shot poor Delia I'd have had her for my wife

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry,
And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.

Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring.

Damn, I forgot about Cash! Ian, you have my permission to shoot me.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine...

20. Islands In The Sun - Weezer
19. At My Most Beautiful - REM
18. California Nights - Lesley Gore
17. Butterflies - Alicia Keys
16. Something Beautiful (unplugged version) - Jars Of Clay
15. Goin' To California - Led Zeplin
14. Dare You To Move - Switchfoot
13. I Feel Fine - The Beatles
12. I'm Going Out Of My Way - Stereolab
11. Roll Plymouth Rock - Brian Wilson
10. Follow Through (unplugged version) - Gavin DeGraw
9. In The Ghetto - Elvis
8. Scarbrough Fair/Canticle - Simon & Garfunkel
7. To Have and Not To Hold - Madonna
6. New Slang - The Shins
5. Sweet Mountain - American Spring
4. Only If - Enya
3. Be My Baby - The Ronnettes
2. The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
1. California Girls - The Beach Boys

Nice list.  That definitely works.  I love that piano intro to At My Most Beautiful, then again, I like every track on that album. haha

Paper back.....
  Paper back writer..
     Paper back writer............
(all together) Paperback Writer!

"Come gather 'round people wherever you roam"

"Every time we have a fight, we flip a coin to see who's riiiight"

"Don't want your love anymore, don't want your kisses, that's for sure"

"Row us out from Desenzano to your Sirmione row"

"In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina"

"Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies"

"Let's go trippin!"

"Step off a train all alone at dawn, back into the hole where I was born."

"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together."

"Dawn is a feeling, a beautiful ceiling. The smell of grass just makes you pass into a dream."

"Came the night, a mist dissolved the trees. And in the broken light colours fly, fading by."

"Holy cow, I think I got one here. Now just what am I supposed to do?"

Tell me just one more time the reason why you must leave....

You know, Roger Christian never gets his just due. The Don't Worry Baby lyrics alone should put him in the ranks of an Asher or a Parks. 

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and its Eastertime too . . .

"there was once a prince who acted strangely in that he thought life was stupid and it was for him,"

"in the west life is a parking lot, find your space, think about what you got,"

"the summer is here at last, the sky is overcast and no one brings a rose for emily,"

"close your eyes and i'll kiss you, tomorrow i'll miss you,"

My favorite is that one that goes: duh da dun dun dun, duh do dah!!!!

As for musical openings to songs, it's all Monkees for me:

The opening bass lick on 'You Just May Be The One.'

The opening guitar riff on 'Plesent Valley Sunday.'

The descending chords that begin 'Circle Sky.'

The piano on 'Daydream Believer.'

That wicked riff at the beginning of 'You & I.'

And my all time fave: The kick ass banjo on 'You Told Me.'


I could keep going, but I don't want to steal them all.

PapaNez, you gotta go check out our Monkees album review thread on the new Smile Shop board.  Your input would be greatly valued.  We have a big Monkees thing going on this month.

I didn't know of such thread (I haven't been on much lately as usual) but will head there at current time. Thanks for the heads up Jeff.

Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called..... life

Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron
Under mats of flower lava
Please don't pull me out this is how I would want to go.

"Porpoise Song" Monkees- the Theme from HEAD.

 Please pass the LSD. . . . .
 "My,my the top of the sky is falling away
  there's so much to say........."
Brian

"Well........"

the beginning of several Beach Boys songs

Dont Worry Baby
California Girls
Help Me Rhonda  etc

You Can Dance
For Inspiration
Come On
I'm Waiting

Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury & The Blockheads - anyone here not know that first line?

I can't believe I forgot to mention (although someone else might have, and I may have missed it):

Standing on the corner,
suitcase in my hand.
Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest,
and me? I'm in a rock 'n' roll band.

F yeah! I absolutely melt when Lou Reed sings that last line. It is the whole totality of rock and roll for me.

A lot of great choices here!
But in my mind nothing beats Richard Manuel singing this line:

"We carried you in our arms on independance day"

I watched you fall /
I think I pushed

You Got a lot of nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinnin'....

Amen. That's one of the best openings ever, Alan.

and it just carries on like that all the way. Boy that's a great song.

"I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole"

Mama Tried - by Merle Haggard?  Good song!

"There must be some kinda way outa here, Said the joker to the thief"

"Turn off your mind relax and float downstream"

"Where did your long hair go, Where is the girl I used to know..."

"Long as I remember, the rain's been coming down, Clouds of mystery pouring confusion on the ground"


Best final line: "Take anything you want from me........Anything!"

"You took off your clothes
That's when I started to laugh"

from "You Stupid Asshole"
by The Angry Samoans

Oops, I forgot:

"She's got everything she needs, she's anrtist, she don't look back"

Meanwhile back in the year...1

You make me come
You make me complete
You make me completely miserable

I was dreamin' when I wrote this
Forgive me if it goes astray

I like big butts and I can not lie

Right on, J.

We sit and watch umbrellas fly.

Once again my favorite song:

"Well she didn't look as pretty as some others I have known"

I went to a party last Saturday night/I didn't get laid/I got in fight.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never meant to cause you any sorrow, never meant to cause you any pain....

Round round get around, I get around...

11 bees, 4 wasps, a turtle / 11 bees and a bumblebee

Run-a-run-a-doo-run-run-whoah-ohh  ;)

 :D

How could I not have seen that coming, Laurie?  :D

Ne me quitte pas, Il faut oublier, Tout peut s'oublier, Qui s'enfuit déjà

I know you wanna leave me, but I refuse to let you go

Remember when you ran away, And I got on my knees, And begged you not to leave, Because I'd go berserk?

YES!

"Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun..."

Ain't that 7 minutes in?

"Pigs(Three Different One's)  Pink Floyd
Can't ya just hear that Pig at the beginning already.
Ha,ha charade you are. . . . . . . .

Well, it sounds better than "Long proggy introduction....blah blah blah..."

There ain't no good in our good-bye, True love takes a lot of tryin oh I'm cryin

My story is much to sad to be told, But practically everything leaves me totally cold

I am the god of hell fire, and I bring you.....

The air attack warning sounds like, This is the sound.

Honkin' honkin' down the gosh darn highway

Holy smokes, land sakes alive, I never thought this could happen to me.

"I have always thought in the back of my mind cheese and onions, I have always thought that the world was unkind cheese and onions"

"My temperature's rising my fingers are tingling they started to shake, I look in the mirror and everything's funny, I think you're a fake"

"I'm a streetwalkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm"

"Bittersweet Symphony" has a great opening. 

and in the spirit of the last couple pages

"daa daa dooo daaaap You shake my nerves, and you rattle my brain"

Yeah...it's great because they took it from someone else.  It's Andrew Loog Oldham's orchestrated version of the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time".

Wilco's "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart": "I am an American aquarium drinker..."

If I needed Someone - The Beatles

Peter Gabriel - "Signal To Noise". I always fear that my speakers explode when the bass hits in...  8)

"Down and Out"  Genesis  from "And Then There Were Three..."
  and
"Moribund The Burgermeister"  Peter Gabriel's 1st album.