as it is I'm stuck between "rock'n'roller cola wars" "dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion" and "JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say?!?!!"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz"
so good!
but i voted for JFK with no second thought
― 69, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
This song should just be "Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide" 74 times in a row.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
edsel is a no-go
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
AIDS/Crack is pretty great
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, I think that's a Front Line Assembly B-side. xpost to myself.
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz may have the best rhyme, but i think i'm voting Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
I mean, this line alone is like 1969-77 (sure, you could argue that punk started earlier, but the next line begins with Begin, who became prime minister in 1977 and is probably in there for his role at the Camp David Accords of 1978, anyway).
― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Chubby Checker/Psycho is great because in the real song, you hear the Hitchcock strings for a second or two and it makes the song even scarier.
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
It's kind of astonishing when you look at the lyrics and remember the awful awful music to which they are set.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't believe I've never done this at karaoke yet. I did "Modern Woman" a month ago, though!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I think we've all done modern woman.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
^^^^^
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah where's the shred solo? after JFK, right?
― 69, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I went for "J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say". It's cheap and lazy, like the rest of the song.
― Euler, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Who will be the asshole who creates the "American Pie" poll?
― John Justen, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't it a keyboard solo/breakdown?
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
keyboards can shred dogg!
― 69, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
TRUE^^^^^^^
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Now I wish I could vote for the guitar fill that follows "thalidomide"
x-post!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish i had speakers at work, i would do nothing for the rest of the day except listen to this song/watch the video
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
This sounds like a dare!
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
British Beatlemania
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The first time I heard this song was at the barber shop. I was 10 years old and thought that it was like the best thing ever. "He's just saying random stuff!"
― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
the doubling of the "ands" in line 6 is rather awkward
I totally owned Storm Front back in elementary school
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
shit was deep
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish I could change my screen name to "Space Monkey Mafia".
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
da croupier, it's cool. i too, once sailed the cheesy seas on the Downeaster Alexa.
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"Santayana goodbye" always gave me a lol/fantasy of killing Joel.
LOVE the "Get a Life" episode where Chris Elliott is stuck upside down on rollercoaster for hours, making up new verses to this.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
If I had the know-how I'd do a dub remix of the song, slowing the vocal waaaaaaaay down. The vocal is pretty monotonous so I bet it would scare small kids etc.
― Euler, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Sweet sugar cane, on my brain I don't wanna, I don't wanna Go insane
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Is this one of those "one of these things is not like the other" tests?
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
marilyn MONROE
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I really wanna do a "second verse of Kid Rock's American Bad Ass" poll now
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
This is one of the most insidious songs ever written, isn't it.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
correct. the question is: is it worse than Piano Man? I say yes.
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure this got Billy a history chair at Nassau Community College
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm amazed he hasn't written a sequel yet.
― mike a, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
after this and But Seriously, boomers lost the script on some MTV Unplugged shit. They stopped trying to stop the fire, and I'll never forgive them.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
-- John Justen, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:37
My Sociology of Pop Music professor spent 1.5 hours going over EVERY SINGLE REFERENCE in the song today.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
more like Suckiology of Pop Music
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
The time between The End Of The Innocence and that fucking Eagles Hell Freezes Over? THAT was the death of music that mattered.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Ever since posting this, I have been humming "doo doo-doo-doo doo-doo DOO" to myself.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Euler, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:43 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
screw and chop this shit and it would be probably something amazing
― 69, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Anthony, how are you not voting for Rock and Roller cola wars? You bring that up at least once a month.
― James, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
ha i never realized "Richard Nixon back again" was a callback to a Nixon mention in the first verse
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Why did the lyrics stop before the mid 80s?
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
this is one of at least four or five songs that has my name in it
― electricsound, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Not enough Space Monkey Mafia randomness in those ai lyrics.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:18 (ten months ago) link
the flow is awful. this is such lazy songwriting. craft matters!
(this was about fob, not ai, in case that wasn't clear!)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:18 (ten months ago) link
I thought this, from a few years back, was a sort of clever take on the same idea (diff song, obv): https://godisinthetvzine.bandcamp.com/track/it-s-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine-2021-version
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:28 (ten months ago) link
next up, a version of this that lists all of the influencers that got cancelled between 2018-2023
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:32 (ten months ago) link
I don’t even recognize some of the shit in the Fall Out Boy version. Like why is some guy from Blink 182 name checked?
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:33 (ten months ago) link
AI has done the impossible. It made me respect this song.
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:33 (ten months ago) link
AI didn't start the fire, Eric H
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:13 (ten months ago) link
AI CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:14 (ten months ago) link
Confirmed recently that I still know every single word to this song. You can take the girl outta Long Island etc etc.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:38 (ten months ago) link
this was shopped around to multiple bands, right?
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:42 (ten months ago) link
Barenaked Ladies passed
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:46 (ten months ago) link
The pitch email was redirected to Smash Mouth's spam folder.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:00 (ten months ago) link
Post Malone was approached but he hit the guy before he could finish talking
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:08 (ten months ago) link
20. It’s also very funny that My Chemical Romance’s album The Black Parade is deemed worthy of inclusion on this list.
21. Not gonna lie, at least one person at Slate very nervously asked if “Black Parade” was a ham-handed reference to Black Lives Matter.
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:14 (ten months ago) link
Cf. Amy Winehouse, back 2 black lives matter
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:34 (ten months ago) link
Like why is some guy from Blink 182 name checked?
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, June 29, 2023 6:33 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
because area 51
― ivy (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:52 (ten months ago) link
Area 51 is Billy Joel territory
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:53 (ten months ago) link
Did Blink 182 play a show there?
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:54 (ten months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/tom-delonge-ufo-research.html
― ivy (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:56 (ten months ago) link
Oh. How did I miss this significant event from the past 30 years
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:57 (ten months ago) link
Dr Disrespect is banned, "jet fuel can't melt steal beams, mannn"Rockapella, Miles TellerMorrow has no head
No one warned Duke FerdinandHumankind just learned to standJesus died, people criedGuy from Matlock's dead
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:02 (ten months ago) link
Mose makes the sea divideCleopatra suicideA dinosaur took a bathsomebody invented math
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:05 (ten months ago) link
Moses
Is there a version of this song with only "JFK blown away" as lyrics
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:14 (ten months ago) link
Perhaps not, Neanderthal, but we will always have "suckin on chili dogs."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QX57aIDbDU
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:19 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GP6jDp5oN8
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:20 (ten months ago) link
Okay I see that and raise you with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K4oym9Pw48
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:25 (ten months ago) link
Update? It's been done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTOBvGzurxA
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:40 (ten months ago) link
Seems like they missed a shot by not using something like "DeSantis Hey, Don't Say 'Gay', What Else Do I Have To Say?"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:45 (ten months ago) link
(I'm sure I just ruined my YouTube recommendation algorithm by searching for that video.)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:45 (ten months ago) link
Hideous Lump, thank you for posting this important corrective
I am sure we will all reflect on its messaging and totally change our minds now
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:45 (ten months ago) link
I take it back, the revised chorus is actually quite a feat
(Chorus)We didn't start the fire, but it's burning brighter,From crisis to crisis, in this world we're living,Through the chaos and the pain, we'll rise again,Together we'll ignite, a future shining bright.
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:46 (ten months ago) link
Needs a Soviet Childrens' Choir
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:47 (ten months ago) link
The video to The 1975’s Love It If We Made It was already a modern-day update of this song, kinda.
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 June 2023 19:23 (ten months ago) link