The Best Album Opening Lines
1 January 2020, 12:00 | Updated: 1 January 2020, 12:01
We pick a selection of great lyrics that kicked off classic albums.
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Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Apparently, the opening line on the sixth Monkeys album, from the song Star Treatment, is: “I just wanted to be one of The Strokes, now look at the mess you made me make.” How does it fare against these classics…?
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The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
"I don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me" - I Wanna Be Adored
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The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
"Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools" - The Headmaster Ritual
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Nirvana – Nevermind
"Load up on guns, bring your friends / It's fun to lose and to pretend" - Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
"I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand" - Disorder
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Oasis - Definitely Maybe
"I live my life in the city, there's no easy way out" - Rock 'N' Roll Star
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Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
"Anticipation has the habit to set you up / For disappointment in evening entertainment / But tonight there'll be some love" - The View From The Afternoon
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Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
"Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol." - Feel Good Hit of The Summer
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Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
"Time is never time at all / You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth." - Tonight Tonight
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Florence And The Machine - Lungs
“Happiness, hit her like a train on a track” - Dog Days Are Over
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The White Stripes - Elephant
"I'm gonna fight 'em off / A seven nation army couldn't hold me back" - Seven Nation Army
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Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
"20 foot high on Blackpool promenade / Fake royalty second hand sequin facade” - Elvis Impersonator, Blackpool Pier
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Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
"He's a Twentieth Century Boy, with his hands on the rails / Trying not to be sick again and holding on for tomorrow." - For Tomorrow
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Primal Scream – Screamadelica
"I was blind, now I can see, you made a believer out of me." - Movin' On Up
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The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
"Oh, a storm is threatening / My very life today" - Gimme Shelter
