The Indelicates.
'New Art For The People'
"But for the cum in your hair..."
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The Indelicates.
'New Art For The People'
"But for the cum in your hair..."
I would go out tonight...
Malcolm Middleton
Ah, Autumn. You fucking cunt
Well...
"Can I Scream?"
"Stop the show, listen up, because we've got something to say and it's important..."
"Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, put on your thinking caps, now here's a poser for you..."
"All of your friends are cunts..."
"Tonight I'm coming home in a coma if it fucking kills me!"
Anorak? Me? No!
Hear, hear...
On C. Thomas Howell!
Oh and...
Pornography for Cowards.
that's not the opening line!
i think you mean
"Punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate..."
Shut up
I was drunk. I like to start songs halfway though. It's much more fun.
.
"Its these sub-standard motels on the lalalala, corner of fourth and Freemont... STREET, appealing only coz they're just that unappealing, any practised catholic would cross themselves upon entering."
you missed out a 'la'.
good shout though.
I just googled this
Every time I've heard a bit of P!ATD I recoil - it's mainnly the voice - but I do quite like those lyrics. Might have to google some more.
Yeah but...
...there's this 'crazy' American trend at the minute of reading a Douglas Coupland book, deciding that makes you 'literate' and 'insightful' and regurgitating quotes from said author in ALL YOUR SONGS. See Panic At The Disco or Fall Out Boy.
obviously Gareth Brown Says
Yup
To Hell With Good Intentions has a great first line too.
Is that the
"all your friends are cunts" one?
i always vote 2+2=5 on these things. but that's right up there.
"arrrghhh"
from Kewpies Like Watermelon by Urusei Yatsura.
"Jesus fucking Christ, oh God, no!"
from Fear of Drowning by British Sea Power is quite a fabulous opening line.
surely
It was the biggest cock you'd ever seen / but you'd no idea where that cock had been"
is a contender
Totally
one of the greatest openings to an album
Uncle Vernon, Uncle Vernon, independent as a hog on ice
Cemetry Polka - Tom Waits
"the first time that I met her I was throwing up on the ladies room floor"
Album of the Year -The Good Life
"Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old"
...
"As I was saying," - Steven Smith by The Organ
Maybe even
"I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar"
Did you know you were going to shoot the top off a 4 year old girls head
Support Our Troops OH! (Black Angels OH!)-xiu xiu
Jesus Lizard - nub
So, since the surgery, how's that ghost limb?
I quite like the setup and payoff of:
"So you wanted to take a break / Slow it down and have some space
Well FUCK YOU TOO"
aaaarrre youuuu REEEAAAADOOOIIII!
he he
...
Korn. Ah, summer nights... spent denigrating Korn.
Off the top of my head: "I am an architect..."
Or
"Game over! I win!" - Hollywood Squares, Dillinger Escape Plan. Brutal.
give me my money back! give me my money back
yooooou bitch.
"Oh, I just don't know where to begin"
Or "In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection"
Or...
Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury and the Blockheads: "Arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks"
Good call.
McLusky - To Hell With Good Intentions
"My love is bigger than your love
We take more drugs than a touring funk band
Sing it"
Not to forget
Jesus fucking Christ, oh God No.
BSP - fear of drowning
there's a pavement song that starts
"maybe someone's gonna save me, my heart is made of gravy"
Also by Pavement...
'There is no ... castration fear' on We Dance
...
I smelt that whore.
dillinger - 43% burned
weezer
Goddamn you half-Japanese girls
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh MUTHAFUCKER!!
Jane's Addiction - Idiots Rule
...
ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, put on your thinking caps cause I've got a poser for you...etc, blah blah sexism
pornography for cowards - Million dead
...
or 'free your mind' by en vogue...
jokes.
I wear tight clothing!
High-heeled shooooz. It doesn't mean that I'm a prostitute, no no.
Is that the first line?
...
Ha, no. It starts:
'Prejudice! Like to hear a song about it?! Well, here goessssss...'!
.
And then it starts with 'I wear toght clothing...'
Looooooooooorrrrrrrrddddddd!
from TV eye by the stooges or
"Yeah I got busted but I used my last phone call to dedicate a song to you on the radio." by Jens Lekman.
Are 2 I thought of immediately.
YES YES YES
'Fuck you'
New Skin - Soiuxsie & the Banshees
In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection....
'Random Rules' by Silver Jews
"Burn these sheets that we just fucked in"
Stink. Arab Strap.
In fact anything lyric-related by Arab Strap is pretty fantastic.
"For sale? Dumb cunt's same dumb questions"
"Yes" by the Manics.
And
"It's not me/I represent someone that died during the conversation"
from 'Want More' by Carina Round. Although that's two lines.
And "Excuse me, but can I be you for a while?" from 'Silent All These Years' by Tori Amos.
Pigs they tend to wiggle when they walk
Iiiii, want your soul
When the doors part the heads at the bar swivel like pooches to a snatch
My favourite is probably 'Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time...for y'all have knocked her up'.
"I remember how the darkness doubled"
Marquee Moon - Television
.
"nothing comes undone for your one and only time you're right"
brapple youknowsits ;)
"ten twenty thirty forty, tell me that you wanna hold me"
"Why can't, we let, our mouths,
devour, each other?"
Life is hard, but so am I
...You'd better give me something, so I don't die
I just can't get used to the smell...
this little place I call my private hell
(Groop Dogdrill)
"This is the story
of three Texas boys..."
"I live out yonder,
where the snakes and scorpions run..."
in agreement on We Dance by Pavement
You aint no punk you PUNK!
Garbageman-The Cramps
How about
Page three girls get you excited, You support Rangers and Man United.....
Sash My Father Wore by Ballboy
I like Ballboy
but I really fucking hate that song. Sixth-form lyrics to the max.
cannibal ox
"my mother said 'you licked my pussy when you came out'"
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.
Oi oi oi Lee Satchell you bastard Stop trying to shag the birds and fight the geezers!
this
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of themself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "If I live I will kill you, if I die you are forgiven". Such is the Rule of Honor.
To sing you must first open your mouth...
Refused quoting Henry Miller, can't remember which song now.
Pretty women....
out walking with gorillas down my street
Joe Jackson
Oh, the snot has caked against my pants
"it has turned into crystal..."
Great line.
"YOU KNOW THE ERROR WAS YOURS"
!
...
"Intravenously polite, it was the walkie-talkies that knocked the pins down / These shoes gripped the floor in the silhouette of dying..."
Are you honest, when noone's looking?
Can you summon honey from a telephone?
Spunkfight's "Bad song"
Can I come round your house and fuck your kids, fuck your kids, fuck your kids/They're only young and they wont remember.
Anything by...
Therapy? on Troublegum. They were great with lyrics.
Or "I'm bitter, I'm twisted, James Joyce is fucking my sister"
therapy are godawful
for lyrics, don't you dare praise them
.
Its gotta be, "Can I scream"
Not the greatets lyrics ever but the way they are delivered just fires something up inside every person.
You're wrong.
.
I'm never wrong, I am an oracle of sorts.
Not you!
Bobj, of course!
I would never doubt your judgement!
.
Ahhhhh good good, for a minute there I thought we had a non-beleiver.
.
all of your friends are cunts
...
"I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker"
"Poetry has no place for a heart that's a whore..."
"What the hell do these flashing red lights mean?"
"This is a public service announcement...WITH GUITARS!"
"Don't go fucking in the barn, because the barn's on fire."
"Put the cheddar in me pocket, put the rest under the jacket..."
"I'm eternally grateful to my past influences, but they will not free me, I have a disease..."
etc.
wheres the public service announcement from?
?
"Know Your Rights" by the Clash
.
"yeah, but..."
"the first time that I met her I was throwing up in a ladies room stall.."
" I don't even know...what...I'm doing here...YEAH YEAH YEAH!"
Pulp - Razzmatazz
"The trouble with your brother: he's always sleeping with your mother"
Manic Street Preachers - Design for Life
"Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free"
Ben Folds - Julianne
"I met this girl - she looked like Axl Rose, got drunk and took her home and we slept in her clothes..."
Beat that.
Masturbation Saved My Life!
Opening line of "Femtex" by Therapy? I don't know why I didn't think of this before, because that one line is almost my complete autobiography!
I'M A STREET WALKIN' CHEETAH WITH A HEART FULL OF NAPALM!
ive always liked
that Slipknot song that starts with 'i'm gonna slit your throat and fuck the wound'.
^^^^^
I looked at this to make sure i'd posted this and I hadn't. That's at the start of the album too so extra bonus points.