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Great Opening Lines

Tom and the team curate a listener-led playlist of songs that draw you in with a killer opening lyric...

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Sun 8 Nov 202018:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Arcade Fire

    Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • Now 100 Hits 70s (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Liberty Belle

    • PARTISAN RECORDS.

  • The Shangri‐Las

    Give Him A Great Big Kiss

    • Red Bird.

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

    • (Single).
    • ZTT.

  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Into My Arms

    • Mute.

  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    The Tears Of A Clown

  • Belle and Sebastian

    The State I Am In

    • Jeepster.

  • NewDad

    Blue

    • Self-released.

  • Gene

    Olympian

    • Costermonger.

  • Grace Jones

    This Is

  • Little Richard

    Rip It Up

    • Little Richard 22 Classic Cuts.
    • Ace.

  • Magazine

    A Song From Under The Floorboards

    • Virgin.

  • Arab Strap

    The First Big Weekend

    • Chemikal Underground Records.

  • Warpaint

    Disco//Very

    • Warpaint.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 001.

  • Death in Vegas

    Aisha

    • Concrete.

  • Love

    Live and Let Live

  • Billy Bragg

    Levi Stubb's Tears

    • Go! Discs.

  • The Libertines

    Time for Heroes

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Bikini Kill

    Rebel Girl

    • Kill Rock Stars.

  • Sleaford Mods & Billy Nomates

    Mork and Mindy by Sleaford Mods & Billy

    • Mork and Mindy.
    • Norman Records.

  • Public Enemy

    Bring The Noise

    • Def Jam.

  • The Smiths

    Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

    • The Sound Of The Smiths.
    • Rhino.
    • 5.

  • Yova

    An Innocent Man

    • Yova Music.

  • Thomas Dolby

    Hyperactive!

    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Nov 202018:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music