didn't that make the locker room a little awkward?
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 21 February 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen, team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.Look at that low playing! Fine, then.Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.Save yourself, serve yourself.World serves its own needs, Marciano, Liberace, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right.You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched. Santayana goodbye.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 21 February 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
hahahah
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
UFF DA!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
"We Didn't Start the Fire" >>> "1985"
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 21 February 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 21 February 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 21 February 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
REM's is not really a list song, but a song cunningly delivered like a list!! Looks like the main listing bit is "Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs", grouped together for no better reason (??) than they share the initials LB!!! Which is borderline classic.
OR MAYBE: Breshnev > Khrushchev
the bio professor who heralded each test in her class with Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone," so as to alert us to the incipient worry of an exam.
This is just utterly superb Ned.
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 21 February 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
He also used to act out these weird sniper fantasies about people he hated. He would crouch down, hold his wooden pointer like a gun, and then simultaneously make a gunshot noise and lift the pointer up slightly to emulate the recoil. He did this several times throughout the year.
― Lingbertt, Monday, 21 February 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link
That REM song ain't so bad, but played too much so now it's just crap to me. "Stand is much better! Ha!
― Zombie Lisa, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Back to the topic, much as I love Billy Joel, his song SUCKS ASS. But please allow me to be the first to bring the Simpsons into this thread...how can you talk about "It's The End Of The World.." and not mention this:
Leonoid whatsis name, Herman Munster Motorcade;Birthday party cheetos, pogo sticks and lemonade;You symbiotic stupid jerk,That's right Flanders, I am talking about you!
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Every time I hear "We Didn't Start The Fire" I just want Billy Joel to be singing "Kevin Percy Kevin Percy Kevin Percy Kevin Percy Kevin Percy Kevin Percy Keving Percy Kevin Percy Kevin Percy Kevin Percy" etc.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
But only on this tour, though. They played it as the final song of the night on nearly every night of three consecutive world tours, and it was a set staple on the Green and Document tours.
Also, it was the first song at the Madison Square Garden show last year the day after Bush won a second term.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
B.i.l.l.y. J.o.e.l. = Big Idiotic Lazy Larcenous Yapper Jumping On Eel Lovers
― Sporf, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thunder Kitten, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
i don't even like Yo La Tengo much, but a friend made me listen to their live version of We Didn't Start the Fire (at the very end of the show linked to above) which J Blount mentioned, and i thought it was a truely brilliant and funny performance.
― slb3, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
And giving shoutouts to Lester Bangs is not exactly ground-breaking.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
"JFK, BLOWN AWAY..WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY?"
Well, maybe YOUR POINT? I mean, simply citing the Kennedy was assassinated....and? Where do you stand on that issue, William? Pro? Against? Am I supposed to fetch you a hanky after you went to the trouble of living through such an experience? Get the fuck over yourself.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www2.msstate.edu/~els4/billyjoelvideopic.gif
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Billy Joel is a ham-fisted choad. always has been always will be.*
*although I've always really dug Pressure and Allentown....I'm a Nylon Curtain kinda guy!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
No, they just changed the words to something about a Bad Day.
which is more annoying, and why?
This is like asking people to choose between different shades of shit.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, they haven't been playing that one much either. They were playing both every night on the 2003 tour.
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, for a start, Billy Joel is from LONG ISLAND, not NYC, so there goes your theory down the toilet, and I'm no transplant.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I have yet to see a single R.E.M. show where they don't play this song. And I've seen six or seven. As for reading lyrics off a sheet, Stipe always does that, and not just to this song. I find it a pretty innocuous affectation.
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
naw, it's Can You Dig It? by Pop Will Eat Itself!
― heywood jablomi (heywood), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link