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greatest opening line in rock

 
 
cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 02:25 pm
Every line in this one is a starter:

OCTOPUS
Syd Barrett

Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro
You have no word
Trip, trip to a dream dragon
Hide your wings in a ghost tower
Sails crackiling at ev'ry plate we break
Cracked by scattered needles
Little minute gong
Coughs and clears his throat
Madam you see before you stand
Hey ho, never be still
The old original favourite gran
Grasshoppers green herbarian band
And the tune they play in us confide...
So trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
You have no word
Please leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!
Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
Twenty even less to me than I thought
With a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
Clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
Well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
Hey ho, huff the talbot
Cheetah he cried shouted kangaroo
So through their tree they cried
Please leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!
The madcap laughed at the man on the border
Hey ho, huff the talbot
The winds they blew and the leaves did wag
And they'll never put me in their bag
The seas will reach and always see
So high you go, so low you creep
The winds it blows in tropical heat
The drones they throng on mossy seats
The squeaking door will always creep
Two up, two down we'll never meet
So merrily trip for good my side
Please leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!
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kickycan
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 02:34 pm
My my, hey hey rock and roll is here to stay.
It's better to burn out than to fade away . . .
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patiodog
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 04:24 pm
What, no one for, "She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean"?
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 04:29 pm
now, it's time, it's time to....
KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS

kick out the jams - the mc5
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 04:51 pm
One of the best lines I ever heard in a rock bar...and forgive me in advance for digressing.

At the Seagull in Baltimore a girl in Jordache jeans with a FABULOUS ass walked by and some wit said "Boy I'd like to get in your pants" Without missing a beat she said "Why? Did you **** in yours?"

Did I mention she had a FABULOUS ass?
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kickycan
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 04:52 pm
patiodog wrote:
What, no one for, "She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean"?


I'm in for that one too!
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 4 May, 2004 05:15 pm
Peek....
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 05:03 am
How about: "Diarrhea! Diarrhea! People think it's funny cuz it's stinky, brown and runny, diarrhea!"

Although not rock, I am fond of this Red Peters opening line: "You promised the moon, but I prefered uranus."
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 05:17 am
Quote:
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated,
Nothing to do nowhere to go I wanna be sedated,
Just get me to the airport and put me in a plane,
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane,

The Ramones


Such passion! Such poetry! Laughing
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 05:20 am
I must say, I've always been a fan of:

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
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Wilso
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 06:09 am
Gimme ****-the Radiators.


Gimme **** baby
Gimme **** like you did just last night, ah ah ah

You got me steamin at a hundred degrees
Each time I see you i go weak at the knees
You sink me under bring me under
The words I said, words I said
but this time ah I'll love to gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****

You gimme stretch marks down the length of my back
You gimme beat marks at the start of my neck
You are so sweeters, gimme beaters
You wreck my bed (wreck my bed)
But this time ah I'll love to gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****

Ah so
Ah say you'll never leave me
Promise me you'll stay
'Cos now that im in heaven dont slip away ow!

I like it

You got me steamin at a hundred degrees
Each time I see you i go weak at the knees
You sink me under bring me under
The words I said, words I said
but this time ah I'll love to gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****
You gimme ****
S**k!
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 06:17 am
"They saved Hitler's cock" -The Angry Samoans
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djjd62
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 06:01 pm
welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends - emerson lake and palmer

yesterday, love was such an easy game to play - the beatles
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 06:18 pm
I hear the crystal raindrops fall, on the window down the hall - Bill Withers
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Jarlaxle
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 06:35 pm
Quote:
welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends - emerson lake and palmer


Whoever wrote this one had some SERIOUS issues.
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 06:56 pm
aaah, a timely song begins like this:

Generals gathered in their masses
just like witches at black masses
evil minds that plot destruction
sorcerers of death's construction

Black Sabbath, War Pigs.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 07:20 pm
Jarlaxle wrote:
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welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends - emerson lake and palmer


Whoever wrote this one had some SERIOUS issues.


you mean me, or elp

both statements are true
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Jarlaxle
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 07:32 pm
The song, so that'd be ELP.

Alexander's Ragtime Band?
Gypsy Queen in a glaze of Vaseline?
7 virgins and a mule?!
Yikes!
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chiso
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 11:20 pm
Uh huh, I like Big Tits!
~Joe Walsh~



PS - They come in twos, hard to choose - your favorite tit.
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chiso
 
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Reply Wed 5 May, 2004 11:24 pm
Breathe it in, and breathe it out, and pass it on it's almost out.
~K's Choice~
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