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
Who will be the asshole who creates the "American Pie" poll?
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
where is "I hate this song and I want to die" option
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
DEEEEEEEY lin BUUUUUUUHR lin
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
would nixon have appreciated being mentioned twice?
― electricsound, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
BAY OF PIGS INVAZJHEEEEEYIN
xpost
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
SHAKEY MO RIP
I'm afraid "Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion" was the one I went for immediately, without even thinking about it. God help me.
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
for the ultra-flat delivery, of course
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I went with my hometown, though we're mentioned because of some rather nasty events. I just like how he sings it, all exasperated by that point"
Little ROCK! PASTERNAK! Mickey Mantle, KEROUAC!
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 1 November 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide" is the one that grabbed me the most--this one's for "mah schweet Saytun," y'all. The aids/crack follow-up for 2nd place.
― JN$OT, Thursday, 1 November 2007 09:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Surely it is "Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, Suicide" as in Vega and Rev, yes?
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 1 November 2007 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Trouble in the Suez, for its out-of-the-blue growly delivery.
― JimD, Thursday, 1 November 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
What exactly is this fire anyway? Was it really caused in part by The King and I, Hoola Hoops, and Brooklyn having a winning team?
― JimD, Thursday, 1 November 2007 10:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I frequently defend ("...The Indefensible") Joel; but wow, those are awesomely awful aren't they? But I actually do quite like "Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye" for sounding like a '65-vintage Dylan lyric. (Also reads like a great title for a way-short-lived high-concept sitcom depicting the zany exploits of the four individuals in question.)
Someone should link to the thread where we made up our own lyrics. (Guess I'll look for it...)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 1 November 2007 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Found it
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 1 November 2007 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't take it anymore
front-runner
-- dmr, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 19:29 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
Too true..
Wasn't there a line about REM in the original?
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 November 2007 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, the entire thing sounds like the work of a lobotomized Dylan to me--and that's very likely what makes it such a "great" piece of cheesy folk-pop determinism.
xp
― JN$OT, Thursday, 1 November 2007 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Mac_Tonight.PNG/200px-Mac_Tonight.PNG
― maura, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
lol @ billy's idea of subtle intimation
― m coleman, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Have we even mentioned the video yet?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Neil Diamond did this a lot better on "Done Too Soon"
― Tom D., Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
There was an Irish cash in version of this done by The Memories, with all the people being members of Ireland's Italia 90 world cup team. Famously, when playing Ireland around then Joel sang more than none of this instead of his song.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(The_Memories_song)
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:23 (sixteen years 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GP6jDp5oN8
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:20 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
Update? It's been done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTOBvGzurxA
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:40 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
Needs a Soviet Childrens' Choir
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:47 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link