Now there's a fun afternoon project: Rearrange the lyrics, but keep the beat and rhyme.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 August 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
Harry Mantle, Stalin X, Mafia, Chubby GoetzHula bomb, Moonstock, British Beatle monkey sex
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 August 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
BELGIANS IN THALIDOMIDE
"'Britney Spears' waffles" search yielded no worthwhile results, very surprised by this.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 August 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
Did find this though.
http://i.imgur.com/E3KGBoX.jpg
how could you not realize this was chronological?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 20 August 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
@we_didnt_start
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
I spent way too many years wondering who the 'Children of the Little Mind' were (see also 'Bacon Regan').
― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 June 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link
lol, "Children of the Little Mind" is SO close to being the title of a 1965-era Serious Adult Nonfiction Publication that became synonymous with an era/concern/issue, and thus got namechecked in "We Didn't Start The Fire."
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
Old Mist Junglin'TROUBLE IN THE SEWERS
― nashwan, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
my childhood spoof (warning: very funny!)
Superman and Lois LaneSpider-Man and Mary JaneHarry, Larry, Barry, GaryJerry, Cary, Billy Zane
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 10 June 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
and the only other part I still remember:
Nair, achy breaky hair, mullet, the electric chair
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 10 June 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
It’s been long enough that someone could do a “Millennial” version/update, starting where the original left off.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
(Note: I am not actually advocating this idea)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
a couple days before i faked speaking in tongues, a man in a sport coat stood in front of me and hundreds of other young teens and played a parody/cover of this song titled "we're gonna read the bible"
god i fucking hate this song
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Boy, now that would be a hard one.
Sons of Simeon, Jemuel, and Jamin,Ephraim and ManassehAhisamach, AholiabShelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai
― pplains, Monday, 11 June 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
My friend just saw him on a lark at MSG and live-streamed (so to speak) the walk from his seat to the bathroom when Billy started this song.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 June 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
It was always burnin', sister.World's been turnin'.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 June 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
took me a minute to realise msg didn't refer to monosodium glutamate there
or did it
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 June 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
karl i'm so sorry
There are also things in the song that I heard correctly but contextualized incorrectly, such as 'Chubby Checker (Psycho)' (suggesting that Chubby had severe mental instability) and 'Hula Hoops Castro' (presumably the daughter of Fidel).
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 June 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
'non sequitur list of things set to unengaging music' is a severely underutilized songwriting form imo.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 June 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rsmq4oJaiM
― pplains, Monday, 11 June 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch)
not by roger waters!
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Monday, 11 June 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
HyperloopFash broIncel is a no go
― nashwan, Monday, 11 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
no votes for leonard bernstein, leonid brezhnev, lenny bruce and lester bangs, hmm.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 11 June 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
hear me out. what if .. we did start the fire?
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
or it pretty much went out and we re-started it
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
i wish this song were called "Moments in Time"
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
What if this had been one of those songs like "The Horse" by Cliff Nobles where the instrumental was more famous than the side with the lyrics.
People would hear it at a football game and go, "Ever hear the version with the lyrics? It's really weird."
― pplains, Monday, 11 June 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g04jLd1b_mo
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 11 June 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
I know like a thousand times more about the history and culture of the 20th Century than I did when this song came out and I still don't understand like a quarter (maybe even a third) of these lyrics.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
THANK YOU. Its so wild that "cola wars" is what makes Billy Joel upend that table in the music video https://t.co/6kKkPQxq1w— 🍓 Camellia-Berry Grass 🍓 (@theCBGrass) June 18, 2021
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link
I’m sure he wrote it that way on purpose – it ends the rant on a note of irony/satire. Try ending it with a different line (e.g., “Hypodermics on the shore”); it sort of falls flat.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link
lol, i can remember some talking head on "I Love The 80s" making basically the same observation back in 2002. but maybe this points the way towards the best way of sequelizing/updating WDSTF: start with rock-n-roller cola wars, and go up to "I Love the 80s."
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:27 (two years ago) link
Betty CrockerMinistryAt Toys 'R' Us, a shopping spreeNipsy RussellMr. WhippleTootsie Roll PopSpaceballsMadballsHot Sam's in every shopping mallDaisy FuentesCrazytownGino Vanelli wants to stop
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
Can anyone tell me what Prokofiev did to be included in this litany of touchstones?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 19 June 2021 04:14 (two years ago) link
Wikipedia obliges:
Sergei Prokofiev, a popular Russian composer, dies.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Saturday, 19 June 2021 04:21 (two years ago) link
Now tell me what baseball didDid it start a fire
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 June 2021 09:14 (two years ago) link
i think "california baseball" refers to some teams moving to california. pretty flimsy/minor imo.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
I think Billy is talking about the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants moving to California. For a New York guy, that might have been epochal. (Honestly never clicked for me that for a span, New York had *three* baseball teams!)
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
Wouldn't it be funny if, after he dies, it's revealed that Billy Joel *did* start the fire, and the song was just mischievous misdirection?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 June 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
The list of Billy's accomplices remains incomplete, but I for one am shocked by his willingness to involve Keith Flint, then still a minor, in such matters as terror on the airlines and "Wheel of Fortune."
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
Also, young Drew Barrymore.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
Gavin Rossdale admitted his involvement in a Razorblade Suitcase deep cut.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:07 (two years ago) link
this song would have been better if Billy Joel had just listed all of the people that had aggrieved him in his life
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
isn't that everyone who isn't billy joel
― Left, Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
Tuna saladHam on ryeWith a pickle on the sidePatty meltBLTCantaloupe and cottage cheeseMeatloafOpen-facedCorned beef, if you like the tasteYour choice of salad,Soup or friesAnd a beverage of any size
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
We're eating at a dinerOh, we've heard such good thingsFrom Estelle and Irving
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
Eat your heart out Weird Albert
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 June 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link