According to Spinner.com, at least. I'm not sure how you really define best in this case, but whatever.. it's a list.
25. "You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar..." (Human League, "Don't You Want Me?")
24. "I've been a bad, bad girl..." (Fiona Apple, "Criminal")
23. "You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips..." (The Righteous Brothers, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling")
22. "Go shorty. It's your birthday..." (50 Cent, "In Da Club")
21. "Hello darkness, my old friend..." (Simon and Garfunkel, "The Sounds of Silence")
20. "I am an antichrist...." (The Sex Pistols, "Anarchy In The U.K.")
19. "Well I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body..." (George Michael, "Faith")
18. "We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee.." (Merle Haggard, "Okie From Muskokee")
17. "I was dreaming when I wrote this..." (Prince, "1999")
16. "Pigs, they tend to wiggle when they walk" (Pavement, "Stereo")
15. "She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene..." (Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean")
14. "There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief..." (Bob Dylan, "All Along The Watchtower")
13. "What's with these homies dissin' my girl?" (Weezer, "Buddy Holly")
12. "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman tiptoes to my room every night..." (Roy Orbison, "In Dreams")
11. "Oh I just don't know where to begin..." (Elvis Costello, "Accidents Will Happen")
10. "Tommy used to work on the docks..." (Bon Jovi, "Livin' On A Prayer")
9. "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine..." (Patti Smith, "Gloria")
8. "Well it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go, cat, go" (Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes")
7. "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey..." (Beck, "Loser")
6. "Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?" (The Carpenters, "Close To You")
5. "Don't call it a comeback..." (LL Cool J, "Mama Said Knock You Out")
4. "Well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean" (The Beatles, "I Saw Her Standing There")
3. "Hey, ho, let's go!" (The Ramones, "Blitzkrieg Bop")
2. "I was born in a crossfire hurricane..." (The Rolling Stones, "Jumpin' Jack Flash")
1. "She's a very kinky girl..." (Rick James, "Superfreak")
Yeah, I'm not really feeling it with this list. There are about 8 good picks here, and the rest are throwaways. Human League? Bon Jovi? Meh. What about...
"She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean..."
"Hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me."
"If you knew Peggy Sue, then you'd know why I feel blue..."
"Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack, I went out for a ride and I never came back..."
"I went home with the waitress the way I always do, how was I to know she was with the Russians, too?"
"Southern man, better keep your head, don't forget what your good book said..."
"We'll be fighting in the street, with our children at our feet..."
"Da da da.. uh huh uh huh uh huh... da da da... uh huh uh huh uh huh..."
Which others belong on the list?
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hm. How about:
"Ziggy played guitar"
or
"Ground Control to Major Tom"
or
"Got your mother in whirl she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl..."
or
"Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel..."
sheesh. Not a Bowie lyric anywhere?
"In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream"
Also, "you're damn right I've got the blues"
-Buddy Guy
"Here's to good friends, tonight is kinda special..."
Chalkdust Torture by Phish
"Come stumble my mirth beaten worker
Im jezmund the family berzerker"
Cold Rain and Snow Grateful Dead
"Well I married me a wife,
shes been trouble all my life"
Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
"I hear the train a comin'
It's rolling round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when"
Can't you see Marshall Tucker Band
"I'm gonna take a freight train down at the station, Lord
I don't care where it goes
Gonna climb a mountain, the highest mountain, Lord
And gonna jump off, ain�t nobody gonna know"
We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
-Van Morrison "Into the Mystic"
The festival was over, the boys were all plannin' for a fall,
The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall.
-Bob Dylan "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.
The Lowenbrau jingle? HA HA HA HA HA! :D
Hungry Heart was actually written by Bruce FOR the Ramones. His manager convinced him to keep it for himself.
"The world is a vampire..."
Teenage angst makes a comeback!
Pigs Pink Floyd
"Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are."
Your time is gonna come Led Zep
"Lyin', cheatin', hurtin, that's all you seem to do"
Run to the hills Iron Maiden
"White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery"
Ball and Chain Social Distortion
"Well it's been ten years, and a thousand tears
And look at the mess I'm in-
A broken nose and a broken heart,
An empty bottle of gin"
"hey hey mama said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove..." -classic
"now who elected you judge and jury in the body of a beautiful girl? and i suspect there'll be gerrymandering at the singles bar..." -electric six "i'm the bomb" great song
T-Ro... ahh, Floyd. For sure.
"So... so you think you can tell,
Heaven from hell..."
My soulful side coming out:
"What you want? Baby, I've got it."
"I know you want to leave me but I refuse to let you go."
"I-I-I-I, I'm so in love with you."
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" - I Am the Walrus, The Beatles
The preacher man says it's the end of time and the Mississippi river she's a going dry - Hank Williams Jr.
"if you like to gamble, you know that i'm your man. win some, lose some, it's all the same to me"
also,
"YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!"
13. "What's with these homies dissin' my girl?" (Weezer, "Buddy Holly")
The video for this one, filmed at Al's Diner on the set of "Happy Days," is fun.
"Hey, I was just a skinny lad, Never knew no good from bad. But I knew life before I left my nursery."
--Queen "Fat Bottomed Girls"
"Midnight, gettin' uptight. Where are you?
You said you'd meet me, now it's quarter to two"
--Joan Jett "I Hate Myself for Lovin' You"
"Woo Hoo Hooooo!
Woo hoo hooooo!
hoo hooooooooo!
Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all"
-- Bowling for Soup "1985"
"Mommy, Can I go out and kill tonight?"
Misfits
She unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle
And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel,
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
She smells like the cat and the neighbors she sickens.-Squeeze
I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you
In worn out shoes.
Oh no, Frank! HA!
nice one, Frank.
On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses.......
Ooh - Korrnee! Love the Meat Loaf reference!
"Will he offer me his mouth?"
Packs of Three by Arab Strap:
"It was the biggest cock you'd ever seen, but you'd no idea where that cock had been"
God said to Abraham, kill me a son,
Abe said, Man you must be putting me on
God said No
Abe said what?
Gad said, Listen, Abe, you can do what you want but the next time you see me you'd better run
Actually, almost all of the songs from that album could make this list.
my fave all time opening line is-
'you look just like an elvis from hell' for the love of ivy
also from the same band...
'i asked for water and she gave me gasoline' cool water
'touch me through your screen door, i want to remember you' secret fires
courtesy of jeffrey lee pierce of the gun club. may he r.i.p.
"I went home with the waitress the way I always do, how was I to know she was with the Russians, too?"
That's wonderful!
How about "The devil went down to Georgia; he was lookin for a soul to steal."
or
"Sarah spelled without an H was getting bored on a Peavey amp in 1984."
or
"I had tender feelings that you made hard, but it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred."
"A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile."
American Pie - Don McLean
"Welcome back, my friends
To the show that never ends
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside, come inside"
Emerson Lake & Palmer, Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part II
"Peter said to Paul, 'you know all those words we wrote? are just the rules to the game and the rules are the first to go."
"They're selling postcards of the hanging..." - Dylan
"Inflammation of the foreskin, reminds me of your smile"
- Monty Python
Nice choice, Secondsout, but isn't it, "The redness of my foreskin..."?
Oops. No, you're right. I should've googled it before posting. :-(
"I don't want a pickle... just wanna ride on my motor-sickle"
Arlo Guthrie
Look it up if you havent heard it yet. It's brilliant.
"I like big butts and I cannot lie."
Thanks for sharing, Samsmama, but do you have a lyric to contribute?
Song lyric? What? Oh...I read this wrong.
"Oh, me so horny."
Frank - nice.
btw "Mr. Bojangles" is a wonderful song and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is my favorite group. And I take care of my electronics.
Gotta agree with Margie on her choice of Dylan's "Jack of Hearts". My other nominees:
"Call me a joker, call me a fool
Right at this moment I'm totally cool."
-- Billy Joel, "I Go To Extremes"
"Well, I'm running down the road
tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind"
-- Glenn Frey & Jackson Browne, "Take It Easy"
And my other favorite is actually SIX lines. The rest of the song ain't so great, but I've always liked the imagery in these opening lyrics:
"On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain..."
-- Al Stewart, "Year of the Cat"
"Baby cried the day the circus came to town,
'Cause she didn't want parades just passin' by her."
or
"Give it to me baby.
Uh huh, uh huh."
You're pretty fly for a white guy, Cary.
You have no idea, Smama. Fly, def, phat -- all of it.
"My friend's got a girlfriend and he hates that bitch." -Offspring
"And now, the end is near, i'll state my case, of which i'm certain." -Frank Sinatra
We got married in a fever
Hotter than a pepper sprout
We've been talkin bout Jackson
ever since the fire went out
Oh my oh my,
What a wretched life,
I was born on the day,
That my poor mother died,
I was cut from her belly,
With a stanley knife,
My daddy did a jig,
With the drunk midwife...
I'll add...
"Early one morning the sun was shining
I was layin' in bed
Wondering if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red."
and my sentimental choices is...
"You come from far away with pictures in your eyes..."
"I got a black skin suit, alligator shoes,Now I've found success,and Ive paid my dues.."
The Cramps
I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the lord
But you don't really care for music do you?
If you leave me, can I come too?
- Mental as Anything (yes, really)
"Oh baby don't it feel like heaven right now, don't it feel like somethin from a dream?"
Tom Petty-THE WAITING
"Crossroads seem to gome and go... the gypsy flies from coast to coast"
Gregg Allman-MELISSA
"Mother you had me but I never had you"
Mother by Johnny Lennon
"When I was a baby I looked like a pig/My nose was a snout and my ears were too big"
The Donner Party (made "famous" by the New Pornographers)
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain . . . . your kind of love drives a man insane . . . .you broke my will, but what a thrill . . . . goodness, gracious, great balls of fire . ......
YOU LOVE HER . SHE LOVES HIM. HE LOVES SOMEBODY ELSE. YOU JUST CAN'T WIN!
The screen door slams
Pulled into Nazareth, feeling about half-past dead. Just need to find a place where I can lay my head.
Robbie Robertson
"I walked 47 miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie. A brand new house on the road side, and it's made outta rattlesnake hide."
Who Do You Love - George Thorogood
Some people call me a space cowboy...some call me the gangsta of love. Some people call me Maurice, 'cuz I speak of the {insert word here} of love...
"The problem is all inside your head she said to me, the answer is easy if you take it logically..."
Paul Simon, 50 ways to leave your lover
"Love, Love, Love. (da na na na na) Love, love, love. (da na na na na)
Love love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done..."
The Beatles, All You Need is Love
"Early in the morning, rising to the street, light me up a cigarette and slap shoes on my feet."
What I got, Sublime
"So long ago I don't remember when, thats when it seems I lost my only friend"
One Headlight, Wallflowers
The lunatic is on the grass -
Brain Damage -
Pink Floyd
I was lonelier than Kunta Kinte at a Merle Haggard concert
"The Lat Dance is So Much Better When the Tripper is Crying" The Bloodhouse Gang
"We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more."
A Whiter Shade of Pale
by: Procol Harem
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
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