Showing posts with label Great opening lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great opening lines. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Great Opening Lines - 4: Ramones



"I don't wanna walk around with you. I don't wanna walk around with you. I don't wanna walk around with you. So why you wanna walk around with me?"

Monday, August 3, 2009

Great Opening Lines - 3: Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers



Perhaps not such an obvious one. But it is to me. Confusion and alienation and disorder and...Jonathan! It's Jonathan.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Great opening lines – 2: The Human League

human league

Suggested by my beautiful wife, Charlotte. Perhaps a little obvious, but still a killer opening...

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Great opening lines - 1: Magazine



"I am angry, I am ill and I am ugly as sin/My irritability keeps me alive and kicking/I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit" - 'A Song From Under The Floorboards' (Magazine, 1980)