Who can name this album Great anti-war album that takes a jab at the Beatles. I love it. Yet, you can't really even be quite certain it is anti-war, can ya?
This isn't the best opening line of a song, but it was perfectly used in the "Apocalypse Now" soundtrack: Slowly fade in to view of a tropical river shoreline, gradually show the trees napalmed and helicopters worrying the wound like so many fat flies; Martin Sheen's upside-down face is superimposed, and you hear the Doors: "This is the end...." Maybe that's for a thread called "perfect marriage of music and movie".
When I see "opening line", I'm reminded of "The world is a vampire ..." from that Smashing Pumpkins song. I don't particularly like the song or even remember much of it, but the opening has always been stuck in my head.
Best opening bit: The harvest appeared less plentiful than last season I imagine sloppy seed handling evoked a stroke of tardy planting And the crops we'd have harnessed mid-November Had only brushed the blossom bracket Then soon sacrificed lives to icicle jackets when the frost hit I sunk to find the warmth beneath the mosses With a plan to tunnel past after the rains have run their courses But alas, the portraits of these frostbit corpses tortured in the grass Offered this torch supporter one tall glass and nauseous
"The stars at night, are big and bright, Deep in the heart of Texas." "Texas! Our Texas! All hail the mighty state!" "Who let the dogs out?" "Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars" "Seven AM waking up in the morning." "We're no strangers to love."
Well, I woke up Sunday morning With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad So I had one more for dessert
I don't know if it is the best opening line, but it is a good one. It's from the The Judys "All The Pretty Girls" "when they were in junior high never wanted to be with the guys and now they're going to graduate won't date anyone under 28."
No, it was a jab. Strummer did always like the Beatles, but that doesn't mean they weren't making taking a jab at the hype. It is a fact, that they never liked the Beatles hype, and they wanted to sing about it. And they didn't care about ppl misinterpreting the line. Let's not get side tracked by semantics.
I'm not a country music fan, but this has got to be the best opening line: "Dear penis, I don't think I like you any more." "... with a face that I knew like my own, reflected in my window." Chris Rea's other big hit, Texas, was good, too. ... "Warm winds blowing, heating blue sky, and a road that goes forever. I'm going to Texas."
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