Best Opening Lyrics

Spinner has a list of the top 25 opening lyrics. I would add these gems…

DMX- Y'all gon' make me lose my mind

Foo Fighters- I thought I knew all it took to bother you

Nirvana - rape me, my friend

Others?

I wanna smoke crack
'cause you're never coming back

Caesars - "Sort It Out"

That list was hot. Liked a lot of those entries. Specifically "Jumpin' Jack Flash" & "Mama Said Knock You Out."

Two of my favorites . . .

"Allow me to re-introduce myself . . ."

Jay-Z - (Interlude) Public Service Announcement

That ^^^ song still near starts riots to this day. The party takes on another level when you throw that song on.

"Mr. Telephone Man . . . there's something wrong with my line . . . "

If you grew up in the 80s, the last one's fairly obvious.

"please allow me to adjust my pants…so that i may dance the good time dance…and put the onlookers and innocent bystanders into a trance."

clutch. "the mob goes wild"

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection

A few classics . . .

"She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back"

"I don't need to sell my soul . . . he's already in me"

"Welcome to the jungle, we've got fun and games"

"I read the news today, oh boy"

Prince has so many more:

"Dig if you will the picture"

"I was working part time at a five and dime"

"It was only last June when her old man ran away"

"U don't have to be beautiful, to turn me on"

etc . . .

Um, can you reference the bands / artists please?

Listen to the girl
As she takes on half the world
Moving up and so alive
In her honey dripping beehive

"Two trailer park girls go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside."

"here's the thing we started off friends
It was cool but it was all pretend"

"here's a little something bout a nigga like me/ never shoulda been let out the penitentiary"

Ice Cube (N.W.A. - "Gangsta Gangsta")

"Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy, and Alcohol."

Queens of the Stone Age

"Feel Good Hit Of The Summer"

Shaggs - Philosophy Of The World

Oh, the rich people want what the poor people's got
And the poor people want what the rich people's got
And the skinny people want what the fat people's got
And the fat people want what the skinny people's got

You can never please anybody in this world

The short people want what the tall people's got
And the tall people want what the short people's got
The little kids want what the big kid's got
And the big kids want what the little kid's got

You can never please anybody in this world

Oh, the girls with short hair want long hair
And the girls with long hair want short hair
Oh, the boys with cars want motorcycles
And the boys with motorcycles want cars

You can never please anybody in this world

Disclaimer: I couldn't stop after one line, sorry ;)

"Beside yourself if radios gonna stay, reason: it could polish up the grey."

– REM

"Turnaround, Every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming round" - Bonnie Tyler, "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

"If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?" - Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Freebird"

"Hah, sicka than your average Poppa
Twist cabbage off instinct niggaz don't think shit stink" - Notorious B.I.G., "Hypnotized"

"Every time I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer" - Aerosmith, "Dream On"

she said, she said
'you don't know shit,
because you've never been there'

"Hand in glove, the sun shines out of our behinds, no it's not like any other love, this one is different - because it's us"

or

"I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living"

As you may be able to tell I am listening to The Smiths brilliant, self-titled, debut album.

Some velvet morning when I'm straight, I'm gonna open up your gate.

–Lee Hazlewood

1. "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" - Patti Smith's version of Van Morrison's "Gloria"

2. "Mother told me yes she told me I'd meet girls like you / she also told me stay away you'll never know what you'll catch" - Cheap Trick's "Surrender"

3. "I read the news today, oh boy" - Beatles' "Day in the Life"

4. "This is a public service announcement / with guitars!" - The Clash's "Know Your Rights"

5. "Wop Bop alubop a wop bam boom" - Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti"

etc
etc

"she had a moist vagina…"

-Nirvana "MV"