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* ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'''s third season opening EXTERMINATE starts with Creator/NanaMizuki's powerful voice ringing within silence before the powerful instruments kick in.



* ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'''s third season opening EXTERMINATE starts with Creator/NanaMizuki's powerful voice ringing within silence before the powerful instruments kick in.

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* Both opening and closing themes of ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'' first season, "Someone Else" and "Heart no Edge ni Idomou Go to Heart Edge" respectively. Second season opening, "Coolish Walk."



* Both opening and closing themes of ''Manga/{{Working}}'' first season, "Someone Else" and "Heart no Edge ni Idomou Go to Heart Edge" respectively. Second season opening, "Coolish Walk."

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* The ''Series/PushingDaisies'' version of "Morning Has Broken". "Birdhouse in Your Soul" does this as well, although it's also true of the original version.

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* The ''Series/PushingDaisies'' version of "Morning Has Broken". "Birdhouse in Your Soul" does this as well, although it's also true of [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants the original version.]]



* Music/ArcticMonkeys - "From The Ritz to the Rubble", "Riot Van", and "Dancing Shoes" from ''Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatImNot'' all qualify.



* "Banana Co." by Music/{{Radiohead}}.



* "Banana Co." by Music/{{Radiohead}}


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* Music/LedZeppelin - "I Can't Quit You Baby", "What Is and What Shall Never Be"
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* Music/{{Erasure}} - "Oh L'amour".

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* Music/{{Erasure}} - "Oh L'amour".L'amour"(album version).
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* ''Anime/AttackOnTitan'''s first opening lets loose with a slew of GratuitousGerman. It's considered one of the most recognizable parts of the series, though no one's really sure exactly what it says.
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* Music/BillAnderson: "Still" and "For Loving You" (with Jan Howard). Both had backing vocalists do the honors.
* Eddy Arnold: "Make the World Go Away."

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* Music/BillAnderson: Music/BillAnderson – "Still" and "For Loving You" (with Jan Howard). Both had backing vocalists do the honors.
* Eddy Arnold: Arnold – "Make the World Go Away."



* Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers – "All the Gold in California."

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* Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers – "All the Gold in California."California," which hit No. 1 in 1979. Among non-No. 1s, "Broken Lady," "Statues Without Hearts," "Love Is Just a Game," "Nothing But Your Love Matters" and "She Used To Be Somebody's Lady" were all top-10 hits with cold opens.



* Emmylou Harris – "Together Again" (where she takes a very audible deep breath before opening) and "Beneath Still Waters." Also, her 1984 top 10 hit "Pledging My Love."

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* Emmylou Harris – "Together Again" (where she takes a very audible deep breath before opening) and "Beneath Still Waters." Also, her 1984 top 10 hit "Pledging My Love."Love," also where she takes a deep breath before the open.



* Music/DollyParton - "Why'd You Come In Here Looking Like That"

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* Music/DollyParton - "Why'd You Come In Here Looking Like That"That" from 1989, a No. 1 hit. Among non-No. 1 hits, "My Tennessee Mountain Home" was probably the most famous.



* Music/HankWilliamsJr – "Mind Your Own Business"[[note]]featuring Music/RebaMcEntire, Music/WillieNelson, Music/TomPetty, and Reverend Ike[[/note]]. Earlier recordings by Hank Williams Sr., Jimmy Dean and Charley Pride each used a standard opening. There was also an electronically created duet from the mid-1960s where Hank Jr. added new vocals to Hank Sr.'s original recording of "...Business" (for the album ''Father And Son''), and in its original honky-tonk style (instead of the hard-driving country rock version from 1986, some 20 years later).

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* Music/HankWilliamsJr – "Mind Your Own Business"[[note]]featuring Music/RebaMcEntire, Music/WillieNelson, Music/TomPetty, and Reverend Ike[[/note]]. Earlier recordings by Hank Williams Sr., Jimmy Dean and Charley Pride each used a standard opening. There was also an electronically created duet from the mid-1960s where Hank Jr. added new vocals to Hank Sr.'s original recording of "...Business" (for the album ''Father And Son''), and in its original honky-tonk style although updated for the time (instead of the hard-driving country rock version from 1986, some 20 years later).later); the Jr./Sr. duet also had a regular standard open.
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* Music/Shakira - “Waka Waka”

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* Music/Shakira Music/{{Shakira}} - “Waka Waka”
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* Music/Shakira - “Waka Waka”
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* Music/TheyMightBeGiants - "Bangs", "Birdhouse in Your Soul", "Narrow Your Eyes", "On The Drag", "Thunderbird", "You're On Fire"

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* Music/TheyMightBeGiants - "Bangs", "Birdhouse in Your Soul", "Narrow Your Eyes", "On The Drag", "Thunderbird", "You're On Fire"Fire", "Stuff is Way"
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* "Head over Feet" by Music/AlanisMorissette.
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* Lagwagon - "Bombs Away"

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* Lagwagon Music/{{Lagwagon}} - "Bombs Away"
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* Glen Campbell — His 1970 cover of “It’s Only Make Believe.” (Conway Twitty’s 1958 original and subsequent remakes began with a short three-note guitar chord at the beginning.)
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* Charlie Rich — “I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore” (backing vocalists); this was a song originally recorded in 1963 but released in 1974 to become a No. 1 country hit and a minor pop hit.
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* Music/TheStatlerBrothers – "Elizabeth"

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* Music/TheStatlerBrothers – "Elizabeth""Elizabeth" and “Don’t Wait On Me.”
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* Music/RandyTravis - "I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever)" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dX3yFkLVE&ob=av2e I Told You So]]." Subsequent cover versions, including the 2009 hit by Music/CarrieUndewood, had a standard opening.

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* Music/RandyTravis - "I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever)" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dX3yFkLVE&ob=av2e I Told You So]]." Subsequent cover versions, including the 2009 hit by Music/CarrieUndewood, Music/CarrieUnderwood, had a standard opening.



* Music/ConwayTwitty - "Hello Darlin'" and "I Can't Stop Lovin' You."

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* Music/ConwayTwitty - "Hello Darlin'" and "I Can't Stop Lovin' You."" His 1971 duet with Loretta Lynn, "Lead Me On," also has a cold lyrical open.



* Music/HankWilliamsJr – "Mind Your Own Business"[[note]]featuring Music/RebaMcEntire, Music/WillieNelson, Music/TomPetty, and Reverend Ike[[/note]]. Earlier recordings by Hank Williams Sr., Jimmy Dean and Charley Pride each used a standard opening, as did an electronically created duet from the mid-1960s where new vocals by ''Hank Jr.'' were added to Hank Sr.'s original recording (for the album ''Father And Son'').

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* Music/HankWilliamsJr – "Mind Your Own Business"[[note]]featuring Music/RebaMcEntire, Music/WillieNelson, Music/TomPetty, and Reverend Ike[[/note]]. Earlier recordings by Hank Williams Sr., Jimmy Dean and Charley Pride each used a standard opening, as did opening. There was also an electronically created duet from the mid-1960s where Hank Jr. added new vocals by ''Hank Jr.'' were added to Hank Sr.'s original recording of "...Business" (for the album ''Father And Son'').Son''), and in its original honky-tonk style (instead of the hard-driving country rock version from 1986, some 20 years later).
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* Webb Pierce – "In the Jailhouse Now."

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* Webb Pierce – "In the Jailhouse Now."" Applies to the 1955 hit version; Pierce's 1960 rockabilly remake has a standard electric guitar opening.



* Jim Reeves – "I Guess I'm Crazy" (which went No. 1 shortly after his 1964 death).

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* Jim Reeves – "I Guess I'm Crazy" (which went No. 1 shortly after his 1964 death).death); also, "Snowflake," his No. 2 hit from 1966 where backing vocalists do the honors.



* Music/RandyTravis - "I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever)" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dX3yFkLVE&ob=av2e I Told You So]]"

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* Music/RandyTravis - "I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever)" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dX3yFkLVE&ob=av2e I Told You So]]"So]]." Subsequent cover versions, including the 2009 hit by Music/CarrieUndewood, had a standard opening.



* Music/HankWilliamsJr – "Mind Your Own Business"[[note]]featuring Music/RebaMcEntire, Music/WillieNelson, Music/TomPetty, and Reverend Ike[[/note]]

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* Music/HankWilliamsJr – "Mind Your Own Business"[[note]]featuring Music/RebaMcEntire, Music/WillieNelson, Music/TomPetty, and Reverend Ike[[/note]]Ike[[/note]]. Earlier recordings by Hank Williams Sr., Jimmy Dean and Charley Pride each used a standard opening, as did an electronically created duet from the mid-1960s where new vocals by ''Hank Jr.'' were added to Hank Sr.'s original recording (for the album ''Father And Son'').
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* Music/DwightYoakam – "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" (CoveredUp Lefty Frizzell; a remix of his original is also an example, although the original version was not), "The Pocket of a Clown"

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* Music/DwightYoakam – "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" (CoveredUp Lefty Frizzell; a remix the 1958 re-recording of his original is also an example, although the 1951 original version was not), "The Pocket of a Clown"

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* Lagwagon - "Bombs Away"



* "I Went Out With A Hippy" & "Now I Love Everyone Except For Her" by FrenzalRhomb
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Author Existence Failure (now renamed to Died During Production) is a trope for dying before finishing a work, not anytime a creator died.


* The Davis Sisters – "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know." Notable as the only chart-topper in the career of Skeeter Davis, one half of the Davis sisters, and only single release in their short career (as the other half of the duo [[AuthorExistenceFailure died in a car accident]] shortly after the song was released and became a hit).

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* The Davis Sisters – "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know." Notable as the only chart-topper in the career of Skeeter Davis, one half of the Davis sisters, and only single release in their short career (as the other half of the duo [[AuthorExistenceFailure died in a car accident]] accident shortly after the song was released and became a hit).
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* Music/{{Tool}} - "The Pot"
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* Pam Tillis - "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLjcWH6v6I Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)]]"

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* Pam Tillis Music/PamTillis - "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLjcWH6v6I Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)]]"



* Trick Pony: "Just What I Do", [[StepUpToTheMicrophone their only single not sung by Heidi Newfield]], opens with a TitleDrop. Their 2005 cover of Bonnie Tyler's "It's a Heartache" also uses one, although the original doesn't.]

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* Trick Pony: "Just What I Do", [[StepUpToTheMicrophone their only single not sung by Heidi Newfield]], opens with a TitleDrop. Their 2005 cover of Bonnie Tyler's "It's a Heartache" also uses one, although the original doesn't.]



* Steve Wariner - "Every Little Whisper"

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* Steve Wariner Music/SteveWariner - "Every Little Whisper"
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** By extension, Music/JasonDerulo's "Don't Wanna Go Home".
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* Sash!: "Encore une Fois", "Ecuador", "Stay".
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* Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds: "Obsessions", "I am Not a Robot", "Hollywood", "Numb", "Teen Idle" and "Primadonna".

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* Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds: Music/MarinaDiamandis: "Obsessions", "I am Not a Robot", "Hollywood", "Numb", "Teen Idle" and "Primadonna".
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* Blue Swede - their cover of B.J. Thomas' "Hooked On A Feeling" begins with the "hooga chaka" chant.
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* Music/ElvisCostello is fond of this trope: his first three albums open with lyrical cold opens, "Welcome to the Working Week", "No Action", and "Accidents Will Happen", respectively.
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* The opening of ''LightNovel/SeitokaiNoIchizon'' first season, "Treasure."


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* The opening of ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' first season, "Treasure."
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I meant to say intro, oops
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"La la la la, wait 'till I get my money right" on "Can't Tell Me Nothing". Even if it's just a chorus, it still counts as a Lyrical Cold Open


* Music/KanyeWest - "Gold Digger" (albeit it's JamieFoxx doing the singing), "Dark Fantasy", "All of the Lights" (if not counting the album's interlude)

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* Music/KanyeWest - "Gold Digger" (albeit it's JamieFoxx doing the singing), "Can't Tell Me Nothing", "Dark Fantasy", "All of the Lights" (if not counting the album's interlude)
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* Music/DonMcLean - "American Pie"

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* Music/DonMcLean - "American Pie"Pie" and "Vincent"

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