All are equal in the eyes of the Lord.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
i like to imagine 'space monkey mafia' is one thing
― and what, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I was going to split each individual thing out on a seperate line but realized NO.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
so many classic lines
― 69, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i like having to choose them as a lot
― 69, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
so hard
― gff, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
TO FIND A GOOD ONE
― gff, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't take it anymore
front-runner
― dmr, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
I like how Billy understands that there's such a thing as British polician sex.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I love how there are 30 lines representing something like 15 years (1948-63), and then only 8 lines for the remaining 26 years.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
for rhyming those last two
xp!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i voted for i can't take it anymore
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
jaymc, the point is that the boomers didn't start the fire, that the boomers didn't stop it is just a passing acknowledgement.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
If "CHILDREN OF THALIDOMIDE!!!" was separate I'd probably vote for that
― da croupier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
This one is kind of poignant.
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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
^^^^^
― 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rsmq4oJaiM
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:06 (eight months ago) link
who gets blown away in this one
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:09 (eight months ago) link
Just what the world needed: MORE of this terrible song
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:10 (eight months ago) link
Donald Trump's tiny hands, COVID, meth, Julian Sands
― omar little, Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:29 (eight months ago) link
xxpost Shinzo Abe
I’m not joking
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:32 (eight months ago) link
Fall out boy racking their brains for 40 seconds trying to figure out what rhymes with George Floyd before finally settling on Metroid pic.twitter.com/4WOEYYLOM0— John Halo (@EpicMasterChief) June 28, 2023
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:33 (eight months ago) link
I might have gone with something like "Bamiyan Buddhas get destroyed," seeing as how they weren't even trying to put things in sequence.
One can make up rhymes all day, the artistry (such as it is) is being choosy.
Wildfires, Lilibet, is Donald Trump in prison yet, Vladimir Zelensky, everybody's mask-free, Tina Turner, where's the beef, Ed Sheeran's not a thief. That took me far less than 40 seconds.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 11:50 (eight months ago) link
Tik Tok, Planet Rock, Hunter Biden, Poop Sock; Snowden, Melania, Trump has diarrhea.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 June 2023 12:17 (eight months ago) link
Sorry, “where's the beef” is an ‘80s reference. (See, it’s harder than it looks!!)
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Thursday, 29 June 2023 12:59 (eight months ago) link
The original covered 40 years so this one is really jumping the gun.
― ledge, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:06 (eight months ago) link
Ok fine morrisp, sub in "fake beef."
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:11 (eight months ago) link
Low bar, easy rhymes, we'll be done in seconds time; bad song, sing along, take a hit from the bong. No end, once again, let them ask what happens next; GPT wrote this for me, couldn't be more easy.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:11 (eight months ago) link
I did ask Chat GPT to "write a new version of We Didn't Start the Fire," and it spit this out:
Antarctica, melting ice, climate change's deadly vice,Greta Thunberg takes the stage, rallying for a world engaged,Pandemic strikes, COVID's reign, global lockdown, lives in pain,Vaccines bring a glimmer of hope, but variants make us cope.(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.(Verse 2)Crypto rise, Bitcoin's high, blockchain changing the finance sky,NFTs and digital art, a new era playing its part,SpaceX launches to the stars, Mars colonization not too far,Jeff Bezos, space tourism, a new frontier to consume.(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.(Verse 3)Black Lives Matter, racial fight, justice sought with all our might,Protests for equality, breaking chains of history,Women's rights, gender is fluid, voices rise, no longer muted,LGBTQ+ love, acceptance, a world embracing difference.(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.(Bridge)Technological revolution, AI's grand evolution,Automation, jobs at risk, reimagining our societal mix,Renewable energy race, green solutions we embrace,Education, innovation, building bridges for each nation.(Verse 4)Terror strikes, conflicts rise, seeking peace through compromise,Refugees seeking a home, compassion shouldn't be overthrown,Space exploration, mysteries unfold, seeking knowledge untold,Scientific breakthroughs galore, unraveling the universe's core.(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.(Outro)In this ever-changing world, where challenges are hurled,We'll face them hand in hand, united we will stand,For the fire may keep on burning, but our spirit keeps on yearning,To build a world that's just and free, a beacon of hope for you and me.
(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.
(Verse 2)Crypto rise, Bitcoin's high, blockchain changing the finance sky,NFTs and digital art, a new era playing its part,SpaceX launches to the stars, Mars colonization not too far,Jeff Bezos, space tourism, a new frontier to consume.
(Verse 3)Black Lives Matter, racial fight, justice sought with all our might,Protests for equality, breaking chains of history,Women's rights, gender is fluid, voices rise, no longer muted,LGBTQ+ love, acceptance, a world embracing difference.
(Bridge)Technological revolution, AI's grand evolution,Automation, jobs at risk, reimagining our societal mix,Renewable energy race, green solutions we embrace,Education, innovation, building bridges for each nation.
(Verse 4)Terror strikes, conflicts rise, seeking peace through compromise,Refugees seeking a home, compassion shouldn't be overthrown,Space exploration, mysteries unfold, seeking knowledge untold,Scientific breakthroughs galore, unraveling the universe's core.
(Outro)In this ever-changing world, where challenges are hurled,We'll face them hand in hand, united we will stand,For the fire may keep on burning, but our spirit keeps on yearning,To build a world that's just and free, a beacon of hope for you and me.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:13 (eight months ago) link
the flow is awful. this is such lazy songwriting. craft matters!
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:14 (eight months ago) link
Deepfake, yellowcake, Bill Clinton's trousersnake
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:16 (eight months ago) link
someone has convinced chatgpt that every single song has to have an "outro" and, worse, it has to tie the song up in an inspirational bow, and it might be the single worst thing about the entire field of artificial intelligence.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:17 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
(this was about fob, not ai, in case that wasn't clear!)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:18 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
AI didn't start the fire, Eric H
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:13 (eight months ago) link
AI CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:14 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
this was shopped around to multiple bands, right?
― brimstead, Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:42 (eight months ago) link
Barenaked Ladies passed
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:46 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
Cf. Amy Winehouse, back 2 black lives matter
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:34 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
Area 51 is Billy Joel territory
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:53 (eight months ago) link
Did Blink 182 play a show there?
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:54 (eight months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/tom-delonge-ufo-research.html
― ivy (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:56 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GP6jDp5oN8
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:20 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
Update? It's been done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTOBvGzurxA
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:40 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link
I take it back, the revised chorus is actually quite a feat
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:46 (eight months ago) link
Needs a Soviet Childrens' Choir
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:47 (eight 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 (eight months ago) link