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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...

2 hours

Last on

Sun 8 Nov 2020 18:00

Music Played

  • Arcade Fire

    Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

    • Rough Trade Records.
  • The Sugarhill Gang

    Rapper's Delight

    • The Seventies: A Very Special Collect.
    • Pickwick.
  • Fontaines D.C.

    Liberty Belle

    • PARTISAN RECORDS.
  • The Shangri鈥怢as

    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

  • Warpaint

    Disco//Very

    • Warpaint.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 001.
  • Death in Vegas

    Aisha

    • Concrete.
  • Love

    Live and Let Live

  • Billy Bragg

    Levi Stubb's Tears

  • 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 2020 18:00