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Best Opening Lyrics: No. 25

Posted Aug 6th 2007 5:00PM by Spinner Staff
Filed under: The Hit List

"You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar"
--Human League's 'Don't You Want Me'

Thanks to lyrics that crack like silver-screen dialogue, the New Wave adaptation of 'A Star Is Born' is a classic in its own right.

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1. what about:

"it's been seven hours and fifteen days" -- sinead o'connor "nothing compares 2 u"

"at first I was afraid, I was petrified" -- gloria gaynor "i will survive"

"well i'm runnin down the road tryin to loosen my load, i've got seven women on my mind" -- the eagles "take it easy"

"i made it through the wilderness" -- madonna "like a virgin"

thecubiclebug at 5:19PM on Aug 6th 2007

2. Reminds me of loves

Sid at 8:09PM on Aug 6th 2007

3. Pistol Shots ring out in the barroom night - Bob dylans hurricane

Rob at 8:14PM on Aug 6th 2007

4. How about "I was feeling real legless, I was feeling no pain" "Barroom Boogie" by Y & T!

LAURETTA KLIEST at 8:28PM on Aug 6th 2007

5. what about.... "welcome to the f-shop"
2 live crew

scott at 8:34PM on Aug 6th 2007

6. what about "I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as i ever was" Toby Keith

phillip mckenzie at 8:44PM on Aug 6th 2007

7. Ignore the early pop greats and it shows your ignorance. Like: You're the cream in my coffee," I've got you under my skin," Wave your little hand and whisper so-long dearie, you ain't gonna see me anymore," And of course, Slim Willet's memorable, "I've got tears in my ears from lying on my back a-cryin' my dear over you."

Benblanken at 8:51PM on Aug 6th 2007

8. sinead o'connor anti America bitch.

marion at 8:54PM on Aug 6th 2007

9. Who could forget: "Salutiferous exaltation, through fusty spatterings I sift, cauterizing proud flesh, pyogenic cortex I just yearn to rip." -Carcass

Erik at 8:55PM on Aug 6th 2007

10. sinead o'connor anti-America bitch.

marion at 8:58PM on Aug 6th 2007

11. "pistol shots ring out in a barroom night" is pretty tough to beat but im leaning toward "kissing like a bandit stealing time underneath a sycamore tree" or possibly "darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying"

chris at 8:59PM on Aug 6th 2007

12. go shorty its your birthday????????????

chris at 9:02PM on Aug 6th 2007

13. i would say 'jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine'...'gloria' by patti smith....it's so jarring and original.

ken at 9:13PM on Aug 6th 2007

14. not a first line, but the my fav line in a rock song has to be...send lawyers, guns and money...the shit has hit the fan.

marc at 9:14PM on Aug 6th 2007

15. Well I used to be disgusted.....but now I try to be amused. - Elis Costello

Sam at 9:15PM on Aug 6th 2007

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