JayJamJah

In my opinion this is a really crappy list (with a few good ones) and I think we can do way better!

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So what are some of y'all favorites

I like...

"Hello Darkness my Old Friend" Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence

"As I walk through, this wicked world, Searching for light in the darkness of insanity." Elvis Costello's Peace, Love and Understanding

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a Monkey" Beck's Loser

"Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste" The Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil

"My Name it is nothing my age it means less" Bob Dylan's With God on Our Side

"In the Days of my Youth I was told what it means to be a Man" Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times

"There's Something Happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear" Buffalo Springfield's For What it's Worth

"Pretty Women Walking with Gorillas Down My Street" Joe Jackson's "Is she really going out with him"

"Relax and Take Notes" Biggie Small's Dead Wrong

"I knew a Girl, her Name was Truth, She was a horrible Liar" Ben Harper's Diamonds on the Inside

"Well I thought about the Army, Dad said Son your fucking High" Ben Fold's Army

"Drove downtown in the rain, 9:30 on a Tuesday Night" The Barenaked Ladie's Brian Wilson

I'm Sure there are more too, what do you guys and gals like?

sleepy jack

Kick out the jams, motherfuckers



Anyway i'll limit myself to one per band otherwise i'd be repeating the same artists over and over. Off the top of my head..

"I'd say you make a perfect angel in the snow."
Elliott Smith "Angel in the Snow"

"Over the moor, take me to the moor, dig a shallow grave and I'll lay me down"
The Smiths "Suffer Little Children"

"Eating snow flakes with plastic forks and a paper plate of course."
Modest Mouse "Trailer Trash"

"Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand?"
Bright Eyes "An Attempt to Tip the Scales"

"What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all around the sun."
Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"

"Remember when our so-called friend would not call out to you while tumbling loosely out a hole punched through your home?"
Okkervil River "Song For Our So-Called Friend"

"Teignmouth on the night train from the city to the south I saw spirits."
Patrick Wolf "Teignmouth"

"Hey coffee eyes you got me coughing up my cookie heart."
Cap'n Jazz "Little League"

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Frances

They Found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed, a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head - Nick Cave

I'll think of more later.

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Yup.

LesPaul43

"Summer came and I lost my shoes" - Portugal. The Man - Telling Tellers Tell
"Duh duh duh duh duhhh, duhduhduhduh duh duh duuuuuh duuuuh duh duh, duh duh duh, you bitch ass nigga, as high as wu tang get" - Wu Tang - As High as Wu Tang get.

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Life's not a bitch life is a beautiful woman
You only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests

Blain

Bright Eyes - At The Bottom of Everything

So there was this woman and
she was on an airplane and
she's flying to meet her fiancé
sailing high above the largest ocean
on planet earth and she was seated
next to this man who you know
she had tried to start conversation with
but really the only thing
she heard him say was to order his bloody mary
and she's sitting there and she's reading
this really arduous magazine article about this
third world country that she couldn't
even pronounce the name of and
she's feeling very bored and very despondent
and then suddenly there's this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out
and they started just falling thirty thousand feet
and the pilots on the microphone and he's saying,
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Oh My God, I'm Sorry"
and apologizing and she looks at the man and she says,
"Where are we going?" and he looks at her and he says,
"We're going to a party, it's a birthday party.
It's your birthday party, happy birthday darling.
We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much."

Frances

That's a pretty long opening line!

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LesPaul43

It really is the opening for the song..you'd have to hear it to understand.

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Life's not a bitch life is a beautiful woman
You only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests

Frances

I'm not doubting, just sayin'.

It's long!

Edit: I think I've seen the clip.

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CityLightsLikeRain

"Everyone in high school will worship the ****ing ground I walk on"
Prom by MSI

"It's an elusive thing, this love of which we sing. What are we doing?"
Such a Lovely Thing by DeVotchKa

"Good bye to sleep. I think this staying up is exactly what I need. We'll take apart your head. Take apart the counting and the flock it has bred."
Degausser by Brand New

I might have a few more later.

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sleepy jack

"So long everything!" he shouted. Then he ran next door to Margot's house. "I'm moving" he said. "Where?" asked Margot. "Two weeks away," he said. "Mitchell, where is that?" asked Margot. "It's everywhere I will be after I walk for two weeks," said Mitchell, "I have lived in the same place for a long time, it is time for me to go someplace else." "No," said Margot, "You have only lived next door for fifty years." "Sixty," said Mitchell, "Fifty, sixty. What's the difference?" said Margot, "I want you to stay next door forever." "I can't," said Mitchell, " I do not want to go wake up in the same old bed and eat breakfast in the same old kitchen. Every room in my house is the same old room, because I have lived there too long."

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