opening lines

25 Feb 2004

I've been listening to a poll on the radio, it was looking for the greatest opening lines in rock music. Among the contenders were:
"I MET A GIN SOAKED BAR ROOM QUEEN FROM MEMPHIS, SHE TRIED TO TAKE ME UPSTAIRS FOR A RIDE." (HONKY TONK WOMAN. BY ROLLING STONES.)
OR
"LIBRARYS GAVE US POWER AND THEN WORK CAME AND GAVE US LIFE".(DESIGN FOR LIFE, BY MANIC STREET PREACHERS).
Over to you smile

25 Feb 2004

"Son, I'm thirty/I only went with your mother 'cos she's dirty"
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
The winner. No contest.

25 Feb 2004

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Oh, there are so many great opening lines to rock songs - thing is I can never remember song lyrics redface

Pauses for thought
Nope. Still can't remember any rolleyes

25 Feb 2004

Come on Fun couple admit it ... you been listening to R2 and Jeremy Vine.... no shame but admit it
Gman an R2 groupie!!!!!

25 Feb 2004

Prepare to lose every last shred of dignity after you admit this, James
I'm a huge Radio 2 fan myself. I think Stuart Maconie is brilliant on Drivetime, the comedy on Saturday afternoons is hilarious and the documentaries and specialist stuff is always delivered impeccably. I bought myself a DAB radio over the summer (another gadget Jags!) and it's changed the way I listen to radio forever. I can fall asleep to crystal clear Radio 4 and wake up to the Today Show (compulsory with the university course) and John Humphrys delivering another monumental bollocking. Fantastic!
Anyway, another first line:
"Punctured bicycle, on a hillside desolate/Will nature make a man of me yet?"
The Smiths - This Charming Man

25 Feb 2004

gman it is indeed rare to find a person with taste, yes I admit R2 what else is there? Not everybody appreciates suuuuch good taste biggrin

so I thought I would share a little of a good thing amongst the potential converts!! :D :D :D

25 Feb 2004

Who could ask for more!!! wow !!! Radio2!! missus sad C....w likes all the modern stuff! rolleyes

I must train her better! anyone else have these prob's.
What could be better Ken Bruce good sarcasim and wit jeremie Vine, good music, good debats. Steve Wright good Factoids.
Spread the word!! :twisted: :twisted:

25 Feb 2004

I listen to Radio 2 a lot. I often start with Alex Lester when setting off into the early dawn, then Sarah Kennedy, then-highlight of the day-Wogan. The man is as batty as we are. I'm sure the programme is broadcast from somewhere in the GFZ-and nobody uses their real name, just adopted ones (ring any bells?) .Jeremy Vine is excellent, as is Steve Wright and then Stuart Maconie is spot on. I tend to dive over to Radio 4 for the comedy slot at ,and then The Archers, and get home to the relaxing strains of Classic FM.
What a boring fart I have become-and my teachers had such high hopes of me.

25 Feb 2004

Yes how could I forget Alex Lester, Brill!!!, and yes Love the aliases on wogan could it be anybody from here! biggrin

frfom Phil m Up confused

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25 Feb 2004

Oooohhhhhhhhhhh!
The radio in my car is stuck on Radio 4 - much to the sprogs and Wilma's disgust.
The only thing I turn it off for is the Archers! Can't stand any bloody soaps - telly or radio!
I like plain crisps more than the shite ones I used to love as a kid like Worcester Sauce, Prawn Cocktail, Hedgehog ....
I'm turning into my Father.......... Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhh! :cry: :cry: :cry:

25 Feb 2004

Oh dear fred.... I suspect male menopause approaches.... at least with R2 there is an ether transmitted oestrogen stream... somehow keeps the sap flowing!!!!...
but R4 only a half hour kick per week is permitted!!!!
So Fred try the Tribuus Terrestris and the Damina leaf... and ... will post more .... can't have you droppin off at importnat moments...
Gmanxxx
what would the devine say?

25 Feb 2004

If this is the male menopause - bring it on!
Full head of hair - no grey - losing weight - getting fitter - completely de-stressed and working 2 days a week!
Oh - and sex - lots of it! wink

I feel 24!
If the only penalty is listening to John Humphreys shredding some poor hapless twit on the Today Show then it is a pleasure to be here!
Life begins at 40 -F**king right it does! 8) 8) 8) 8)

26 Feb 2004

Hey Gman!!!!!
I like Radio 4 (mind you I love the archers too) dum di dum di dum di dum...........
But I love Radio 2 - Wogan (sorry James - I can see that wince from here) and Dr Pauly, Deady and Boggy marsh. I loved Jonny Walker (I do hope he recovers). Jeremy Vine is OK but nowhere near as good as Old JY (What's the recipe today Jim!). His interviewing techniques leave a lot to be desired.
hmmmmmmm - have I lost the plot on this one, what was the thread about?.

26 Feb 2004

I have always thought that beginning to drift onto a permanent R2 setting signalled the end - middle/old age had arrived. But maybe not.
I still avoid it though and I also think The Archers is probably the most stoopid thing ever mad

I've gone from R4 to LBC.
Great opening lines to songs?
"I read the news today oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade."
Alls I can think of for now redface

26 Feb 2004

Talk Sport for me.
I think we can safely say this thread has been well and truly Hi-jacked : :shock: :shock: lol: lol

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26 Feb 2004

When I was growing up it was 199-Caroline!!!!!!
And Luxembourg - but only after 7 and it used to fade in and out!
oh happy memories!

26 Feb 2004

Quote by Mark
Again, I'm with you on that one. The Archers theme tune goes something like this here... dum di dum di dum di daaa, dum di dum di daaaa ~CLICK~ ;)

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As long as that? :shock:
For me it is dum di du ~CLICK~
Funnily enough though if I do get to hear a little of the tune it takes me right back to days working in the North Sea when the shipping forecast was sacrosanct - having the radio on on the bridge so you could just hear the theme tune when The Archers finished meant you had to get ready to scribe the forecast!
Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight................
Still bloody know em all of by heart!
Humber, Thames, Dover, Wight, Poretland, Plymouth ........
Aaaaarrrgggggghhhhhhhh!

26 Feb 2004

Quote by Mr Writer
I'm a huge Radio 2 fan myself. I think Stuart Maconie is brilliant on Drivetime, the comedy on Saturday afternoons is hilarious and the documentaries and specialist stuff is always delivered impeccably. I bought myself a DAB radio over the summer (another gadget Jags!) and it's changed the way I listen to radio forever. I can fall asleep to crystal clear Radio 4 and wake up to the Today Show (compulsory with the university course) and John Humphrys delivering another monumental bollocking. Fantastic!

Radio 2 is great... Terry Wogan is just the bees bollocks - he should have been in Monty Python cos he's nuttier than them all put together!
JAMES - what makes you think I haven't got DAB radio???? Flipping heck! I've got one in the bedroom which is my alarm clock too - it's almost always tuned to Radio 5 Live, Matthew Bannister at night and Nicky Campbell in the morning. I spent too much time shouting at John Humpheys for my own sanity. AND I have a DAB radio hooked up to the hi-fi system in living room AND a small portable Ministry of Sound one for when I go walking! Gadget Queen here.
Radio 7 is brilliant too, oh, and Asian Network!!

26 Feb 2004

Teenage dreams, so hard to beat, everytime you walk down the street...

26 Feb 2004

It's not the opening line, but I don't care.

An hour goes by; she doesn't.
If you don't cry, it isn't love.

26 Feb 2004

From an America cratsman:
The Mississippi Delta was shining
Like a National guitar
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war
Genius :idea:

26 Feb 2004

tonight theres going to be a Jailbreak,somewhere in the town ..........by Thin Lizzy ..........why not check the jail Mr Policeman .......................
Thin Lizzy were a great Band

26 Feb 2004

sup up your beer and collect your things , theres a row going on down in Slough ....by The Jam ................ ive been to slough a few times and Paul weller was right theres always trouble there .................

26 Feb 2004

last one was Eton Rifles

26 Feb 2004

Quote by HORNYLONDON123
sup up your beer and collect your things , theres a row going on down in Slough ....by The Jam ................ ive been to slough a few times and Paul weller was right theres always trouble there .................

Much as I hate to be a pedant, the opening line is actually "Sup up your beer and collect your fags/There's a row going on down in Slough"

26 Feb 2004

thanks for that i always thought it was something else that the jam were singing ..........................ive got another one
baby when i think about you i think about love ,darling dont live without you and your love ,if i had those golden dreams of my yesterdays, i would wrap you in the heaven and feel like dying on the way , feel like making love ...........by paul rodgers of bad company and free probably the best voice in music

26 Feb 2004

A cheap holiday in other people's misery
I don't wanna holiday in the sun
I wanna go to the new Belsen
I wanna see some history
'cause now t got a reasonable economy
Sex Pistols
This threads dead - lets slash the seats
Yosarian

26 Feb 2004

Hopefully I'm not being too morbid today (reaches for another ciggie)
Chris Rea is one of my favourites
Opening verse from Tell me there's a heaven
The little girl she said to me
What are those things that I can see
Each night when I come home from school
When mama calls me in for tea
On every night a baby dies
And every night a mama cries
What makes those men do what they do
To make that person black and blue
It is, for me, Rea's best song... full of emotion. Reduces me to tears
Paul

26 Feb 2004

Last one - I promise
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed
Kashmir - Led Zep
Yosarian