Log in

View Full Version : Best opening lines to a song

Guy Incognito
11-12-2006, 09:15 AM
I cant think of many better than these three:

"Son I'm thirty, I only went with your mother cos shes dirty" - Kinky Afro by Happy Mondays

"I'm expressin with my full capabilities and now i'm livin in correctional facilities" - Express Yourself - NWA

"I was born in a crossfire hurricane, and I howled at my ma in the driving rain" - Jumpin Jack Flash - Rolling Stones

Got any better ones?
Mr Films
11-12-2006, 09:40 AM
Back when Mark Wahlberg was Marky Mark
This is How we use to get the party started
We used to mix in with Bacardi Dark
and when it kicks in, you can hardly talk.
Ally Al
11-12-2006, 09:48 AM
i got a letter from the government the other day, i opened and read it, it said they were suckers !!

well i'll stand up next to a mountain, and i'll chop it down with the edge of my hand

i don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me..

i'm an alligator, i'm a momma poppa calling for you, i'm a space invader, i'll be a rock n rollin' bitch for you
Lex Diamonds
11-12-2006, 10:29 AM
Word to I Wanna Be Adored, Drug Ballad, and Express Yourself. Good choices. (y)

I hang with a bunch of hippies and wacky tobacco planters
Who swallow lit roaches and light up like Jack-O-Lanterns
Outsiders baby, and we suing the courts
Cuz we dope as fuck and only get a 2 in The Source
b-grrrlie
11-12-2006, 10:34 AM
I know I'm getting drunk cause the mirror's looking good.


the Nomads
thegoodmrbrodie!
11-12-2006, 12:45 PM
i

seem to have a history
at missing the point
at this stuff

apparently

very absentmindedly

i care

but never
enough

for...

you
Ally Al
11-12-2006, 01:40 PM
come on all you big strong men
uncle sam needs your help again
got himself in a terrible jam
way down yonder in vietnam
put down your books and pick up a gun
we're gonna have a whole lot of fun


mother earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up.....


shut up already, damn!

turn off your mind, relax and float down stream
Guy Incognito
11-12-2006, 01:52 PM
Your gonna have to give me a clue on some of these - Mrbrodie - who is that? And Ally - whats the one about vietnam?

Another two from me:

Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing
I wanta get into it, man, you know....
Like a, like a sex machine, man,
Movin'... doin' it, you know
Can I count it off


This girl I know
Needs some shelter
She dont believe
anyone can help her
Ally Al
11-12-2006, 01:56 PM
And Ally - whats the one about vietnam?

feels like i'm fixing to die - country joe and the fish

great song

nice post btw
nypb
11-12-2006, 03:28 PM
"Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old..."

-nirvana
Planetary
11-12-2006, 04:17 PM
IM COMIN STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON! A CRAZY MUTHAFUCKA NAMED ICE CUBE!!!!
abcdefz
11-12-2006, 04:18 PM
Let's put our heads together and start a new country up.
Planetary
11-12-2006, 04:20 PM
i can drink a whole hennesy fifth, some call that a problem but i call it a gift
abcdefz
11-12-2006, 04:23 PM
I have made a big decision.
TAL
11-12-2006, 04:25 PM
feels like i'm fixing to die - country joe and the fish

great song

nice post btw
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag

But yes, great song.
Drederick Tatum
11-12-2006, 04:40 PM
IM COMIN STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON! A CRAZY MUTHAFUCKA NAMED ICE CUBE!!!!

yeah, when I saw Express Yourself, I was "whaaaaa?! nahhhhhhh."
Ally Al
11-12-2006, 04:41 PM
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag

But yes, great song.

whatever

if we're being picky

the fish cheer/i-feel-like-i'm-fixin'-to-die-rag

i hope that makes you feel better
Drederick Tatum
11-12-2006, 04:42 PM
"I was born in New York city on a Monday,
seems I was out shining shoes by Tuesday noon."

Down and Out in New York City -James Brown
Ally Al
11-12-2006, 04:47 PM
"I was born in New York city on a Monday,
seems I was out shining shoes by Tuesday noon."

all the bad cats in the bad hats doin' me a real big favour

nice choice
Guy Incognito
11-12-2006, 04:53 PM
yeah, when I saw Express Yourself, I was "whaaaaa?! nahhhhhhh."

Hey, I still stand by the fact that imo Express Yourself is the best thing they ever did. I like straight outta compton but I always think of straight outta locash because that song makes me laff a lot. I just really like the rhyme in express yourself
Ally Al
11-12-2006, 05:11 PM
in france a skinnyman died of a big disease with a little name
by chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same


i knew a girl named nikki i guess you could say she was a sex fiend
i met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine
icy manipulator
11-12-2006, 05:32 PM
in france a skinnyman died of a big disease with a little name
by chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same


i knew a girl named nikki i guess you could say she was a sex fiend
i met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine
i have this on a Breezeblock set, who's it by?
Guy Incognito
11-12-2006, 05:42 PM
i have this on a Breezeblock set, who's it by?

They are both by Prince

Sign of the times
and the second one is darling nikki - the foo fighters cover of that is top (if you like the foo fighters)
Planetary
11-12-2006, 06:05 PM
yeah, when I saw Express Yourself, I was "whaaaaa?! nahhhhhhh."
my thoughts exactly!
Ally Al
11-12-2006, 06:17 PM
They are both by Prince

Sign of the times
and the second one is darling nikki - the foo fighters cover of that is top (if you like the foo fighters)


well spotted

although i haven't heard the foo's version, can't see it touching the original though
pshabi
11-12-2006, 06:22 PM
The microphone explodes,
Shatterin' the molds...
Ally Al
11-12-2006, 06:32 PM
thinking of a masterplan....
yeahwho
11-12-2006, 08:29 PM
1-2-3-4,
Well, she was just 17,
You know what I mean.











close thread. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1882984516749376996)
mickill
11-13-2006, 01:42 AM
I heard that you were talking shit
And you didn't think that I would hear it
Tzar
11-13-2006, 03:04 AM
back in the days when i was a teenage,
before i had status and before i had a pager... etc etc

i find the whole verse up until the snare beat comes in as an opening.
HEIRESS
11-13-2006, 03:23 AM
I want to live
I want to give
Ive been a miner for a heart of gold

think ill pack it in
and buy a pickup
take it down to LA
Drederick Tatum
11-13-2006, 03:46 AM
I'll see your Heart of Gold and Out on the Weekend and raise you a "Ain't it hard when you wake up in the morning and you find out that those other days are gone. All you have is memories of happiness, lingerin' on."

way to depress me, Neil.
icy manipulator
11-13-2006, 04:29 AM
on a perth bound train with no valid ticket, i'm broke as a joke with no smokes i cant kick it
Ally Al
11-13-2006, 01:01 PM
don't call it a comeback, i've been here for years
mickill
11-13-2006, 01:11 PM
Two years ago, a friend of mine....
Guy Incognito
11-13-2006, 01:55 PM
I am the antichrist, I am an arnarchist.


Picture yourself on a boat on a river with plasticine trees and marmalade skies


Wouldnt it be nice to get on with me neighbours
Ally Al
11-13-2006, 02:22 PM
it's been a long time, i shouldn't of left you, without a strong rhyme to step to
Lex Diamonds
11-13-2006, 03:05 PM
I don't know what life would be
In H-I-P
H-O-P
WIthout the boy H-O-V

OK it's not one of the best of all time but it's one of the best I've heard recently. Jay-Z is usually quite good at opening lines. Another good one of his is

Lord forgive him, he got them dark forces in him,
But he also got a righteous cause for sinning.
HEIRESS
11-13-2006, 05:56 PM
I'll see your Heart of Gold and Out on the Weekend and raise you a "Ain't it hard when you wake up in the morning and you find out that those other days are gone. All you have is memories of happiness, lingerin' on."

way to depress me, Neil.

goddamn you!
MC Moot
11-16-2006, 03:39 PM
I got nasty habits, I take tea at three
Yes, and the meat I eat for dinner
must be hung up for a week
My best friend he shoots water rats,
and feeds them to his geese
Doncha think there's a place for you,
in between the sheets?
EN[i]GMA
11-16-2006, 04:56 PM
"When you were young you were the King of Carrot Flowers"
Brother McDuff
11-16-2006, 04:59 PM
"Don't tell your right hand, baby, what your left hand do..."
- "Peaches and Cream"/ Beck

"Finally someone let me outta my cage..."
- "Clint Eastwood"/ Gorillaz
dirtydan11
11-16-2006, 08:19 PM
"It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunktank,
An old man said to me, "won't see another one.",
and then he sang a song, The rare Old Mountain Dew,
I turned my face away, and dreamed about you"

"Fairytale of New York" -The Pogues
beastiedan
11-17-2006, 12:48 AM
(Fuck all you hoes) Get a grip motherfucker.

Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me
I'd never amount to nothin', to all the people that lived above
the buildings that I was hustlin' in front of that called the police
on me when I was just tryin' to make some money to feed my
daughters, and all the niggaz in the struggle, you know what I'm sayin'?

Uh-ha, it's all good baby bay-bee, uh

It was all a dream
I used to read Word Up magazine
Salt'n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine
Hangin' pictures on my wall
Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl
I let my tape rock 'til my tape popped
Smokin' weed and bamboo, sippin' on private stock
Way back, when I had the red and black lumberjack
With the hat to match