We Didn't Start The Fire

i don't know if anyone has really thought about this, but, you know what? this song is horrible.

ha xp

Synthesized slap bass

I wish I had voted for "Belgians in the Congo" because he gets all growly on that part.

The cola wars are the straw that finally breaks the camel's back.

That's when he can't take it any more.

The song and video have been interpreted as a rebuttal to criticism of Joel's Baby Boomer generation, from both its preceding and succeeding generations, that they were responsible for much of the world's problems.[citation needed] The song's title and refrain imply that the frenzied and troubled state which others were criticizing had been the state of the world since long before his generation's time, but that this was (perhaps wilfully) being ignored by their critics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3PVHVn0kE

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Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex

JFK for sure though.

he got blown away

re-reading this I realize I have no fucking clue what at least a third of these things refer to. I suppose I didn't read a lot of newspapers in the seventies.

This song >>>>>>>>>>>> "American Pie"

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re-reading this I realize I have no fucking clue what at least a third of these things refer to. I suppose I didn't read a lot of newspapers in the seventies.

rong

-- Mr. Que, Thursday, November 1, 2007 4:23 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ RONG

POLL

For one thing, it's like one-tenth as long as "American Pie."

*the music is worse
*the delivery of the singer sounds like musical vomit

WHICH SONG ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

also, start the poll

talking about the song about the fire. i will now start the poll

we didn't start the poll

but we tried to fight it

Which song is worse American Pie or We Didn't Start The Fire

I'm quite partial to both of them, if truth be told

The drug dealer, what's his name, Manuel Noriega

this song would be a lot better if he changed the chords in the chorus

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There is no valid "We Didn't Start The Fire" thread without the requisite screenshot of Billy Joel in the "We Didn't Start The Fire" video wearing sunglasses staring at the camera pounding his fists on a table in orthogonal formation with, get this, two lit torches of fire on each side of him.

Who the fuck is/was Pope Paul? Did he have Pol Pot in there at one point and change it maybe?

I had to google him too.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Paul_sextus.jpg

Not sure where he hides his dildo.

I used to love the "Wayne's World" review of Oliver Stone's JFK where they just shrug "blown away...what else to I have to say?"

it's pretty weird to think that this song came out when I was 7, and was possibly around the time I was learning who JFK was.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

haw

Some friends and I used to riff on this song, but updated to include 90s/00s references.

All I remember is:

Richard Pryor/Hair on fire
MC Hammer/Email spammer

One noxious mf of a song, "We Didn't Start The Fire" is.

9/11, Anthrax Scare
Global warming polar bear

Gary Condit Y2K
Kozmo Flooz and eBay

scooty libby oink invites
people cavemen's on tonight

JFK
Blown away
Come again another day

9/11, Anthrax Scare
Britney has no pubic hair

Homo sex, Larry Craig
Where the hell is Al Haig?

CHILDREN OF THE FEDERLINE

coda: I have a dream (we didn't start the fire part 2)

Tragedies of Kennedys, refugees, AIDS disease
photos of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and Kosovo
Tim McVeigh, Saddam Hussein, the bombing of the World Trade
hostages in Bosnia, atrocities, South Africa,
abortion and Kevorkian, Vietnam, napalm,
Lady Di, and Lennon died a violent crime, Columbine,
"I have a dream that one day..." Rodney King, O.J.,
symbols of our lifes and times, "One giant leap for mankind"

beanie babies, kenneth starr
phantom menace and jar jar

cd's, napster, mp3
metallica in therapy

global warming, hurricanes
lolcats driving me insane