Opening Vocal Salvo

Ladies and gentlemen, how do
Hey man, what’s happening?

Love Song - the Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette

 

Not to mention, “Dearly Beloved, we are here to get through...”

 

Joe Walsh

Meadows

1973

[email protected] - Clyp

 

They do the same thing with "Looking for someone, I guess I'm doing that" on Trespass

 

"Well, heh-a-heh-a the little things you say and do..."

 

Around 3:18 is where it really kicks in..
A years conditional discharge!

 

I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb ...

 

John Prine is usually noted more for his songwriting than his singing, but I love the way he leans into the first line of this:

 

“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends”

 

Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen.

Dave Mac

 

"Please!"

It's the opening word on Stevie Wonder's 1972 masterpiece Music Of My Mind. This was the second LP where Wonder had complete artistic control, and his introductory holler serves as notice that 1). He's broken far away from any Motown "formula" and 2). He's going to indulge himself and do whatever he feels like. Again.

The LP's nine songs run the gamut from trippy jazzy pieces ("Girl Blue") to McCartney-esque pop ("Happier Than The Morning Sun") to dance numbers ("Keep On Running") to those eccentric melodic funk numbers than could only be called "Stevie Music." There's even a rather unfunny comedy tune ("Sweet Little Girl") which is actually pretty good because it's just so ridiculous, plus the non-comic segments are fantastic. The album spawned a minor hit with the acerbic ballad "Superwoman."

Wonder's "classic period" albums overshadowed a lot of great things he didn't that weren't as popular. So people shouldn't sleep on this album...or the one before it (Where I'm Coming From) or even the one before that (Signed, Sealed & Delivered). Unlike some '70s artists I could name, his deep cuts are often as good if not better than his hits...and you could go to virtually any album in his catalog and find this.

 

I'd like to do a "close the thread" post.

 

Matching Mole - "Starting in the middle of the day we can drink our politics away"

Freaked me out first time I heard it playing in a record store...

 

I'd forgotten this one and I don' t know why that is because it may be the best one...
" Once upon a time you dressed so fine , threw the bums a dime didn' t you? "

 

Whatever this is
Front 242 Never Stop! V1.1, 1988/1989

 

I know it's nobody's favorite Beatles song, but Lennon's vocal intro in "Mr. Moonlight" is second to none.

 

Starting out on a few beautiful high notes:

"Leeeeeeeeeeheheaaah, leahaha..."

Roy Orbison - Leah

 

How about "A-wop-bop-ba-loo-wop, A-wop-bam-boom"

 

Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.

 

" Ahhh--ahhh--aahh--ahhh! We come from the land of ice and snow..."

 

I don't recognize either of these.

 

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