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
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Sample lyrics:Gays Have a Marriage Ban, Troops in AfghanistanMay be an Angry Turk, Health Insurance is a Perk
Wedgewood, Baptist Church, Hurricanes, Google SearchTerrorists in New York, No one has to Go to Work!
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
YEAH!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
What happened to that cute kid in the "End of the World" video? He must be like, 40 by now.
― Sara Sherr, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahahhahahahaha
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Just dropped by to say that these two songs can still fuck off
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
I had turned forty. It was 1989 and I said "Okay, what's happened in my life?" I wrote down the year 1949. Okay, Harry Truman was president. Popular singer of the day, Doris Day. China went Communist. Another popular singer, Johnnie Ray. Big Broadway show, South Pacific. Journalist, Walter Winchell. Athlete, Joe DiMaggio. Then I went on to 1950 [...]. It's one of the worst melodies I've ever written. I kind of like the lyric though
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Ha ha
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Terrified by that ellipsis and the suggestion that he went through each year of the song in the same droning fashion. "...the pill, that was birth control. The Vietnam War - Ho Chi Minh. The '68 election, Richard Nixon back again..."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 19 May 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/homersbarbershopquartet9.png
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 19 May 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
INDIE CRED
http://www.avclub.com/articles/milo-greene-covers-billy-joel,93875/
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
Milo Greene Is The Joel Machine
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
Matt H's history class story is incredible
― very sneaky cis (symsymsym), Thursday, 29 June 2023 04:14 (ten months ago) link