We Didn't Start The Fire

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?

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...)

Found it

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?

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

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J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

lol @ billy's idea of subtle intimation

Have we even mentioned the video yet?

Neil Diamond did this a lot better on "Done Too Soon"

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)

OK, so I fucked up the link. Cuntpaste: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(The_Memories_song)

oh wait, the link mysteriously excludes the last ) for no obvious reason.

anyway, as you where - back to Billy Joel.

Don't blame yourself DV

Surely it is "Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, Suicide" as in Vega and Rev, yes?

I always thought it was "heavy metal suicide." This was the age when Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne were being held responsible for such things, remember.

It would have been nice, though.

I had to google Sally Ride because of this thread.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/SallyRide.jpeg

I think I've spotted where she hides her dildo.

It breaks up on re-entry.

I bet she thought Mustang Sally was about her.

Yeah, unfortunately she only got this old codswallop from Billy Joel.

Why did the lyrics stop before the mid 80s?

Because the song came out in 1989?

When Diana died Billy and Elton did a coin flip to decide whether it'd be "Candle In The Wind '97" or "We Didn't Start The Fire '97."

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we need to track down an a cappella of this shit mach stat

Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez ain't so bad either.

we need to track down an a cappella of this shit mach stat

YES YES YES YES YES

Or I could record myself chanting the lyrics...?

that would also be fucking awesome

There's a great 12" inversion produced by Trevor Horn, with string arrangements by Anne Dudley and a Holly Johnson cameo; he sings the JFK line.

Q: What is "the fire"

you should start all your posts with Q:

Then your handle would make sense

Q: Will someone answer the question?

(my handle comes from my wife, who is known around here as quincie. heh heh get it?)

no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_%28Seinfeld_episode%29

http://pomomusings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/billyjoel.jpg

I kind of like this song.

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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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"