25 Best Opening Lyrics of All Time

Spinner came out with a list of 25 best opening lines. It's a pretty pop oriented list—"Superfreak"'s "She's a very kinky girl" ranked #1, which is debatable, but I'm mildly annoyed by the inclusion of "Buddy Holly" and "In da Club" over some more obscure, but better opening lines. My fanatic love of Wire leads me to be partial to "Our own correspondent is sorry to tell, of an uneasy time, that all is not well" from "Reuters," and what about "I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm" from "Search & Destroy"? Though I suppose with Patti Smith, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and Elvis Costello included, there's enough punk to go around. Thoughts?

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