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
I think lines like “California baseball” and “Wheel of Fortune” are good, b/c it gives you a sense of the 20th Century piling up, and creates a whiplash btw the historic and the banal (and he ends on the banal: cola wars). Don’t know why I’m playing mr. save-a-fire this weekend, lol.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Saturday, 19 June 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
You’re so right, though, that having it build to banal “cola wars” instead of “needles on the shore” makes it a pop song.
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
"British politician sex" sounds like the most awkward, stilted, worst imaginable kind of sex.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 19 June 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
JFK, blown away
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
L'Oreal, hair's gone grey
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
two of the biggest teams in america's only sport of the 1950s® moving from new york to california was huge! not just for the sport but as a symbol of postwar capitalism, there's a reason bernie cites the dodgers moving as his great socialist origin story
― ✖, Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
arguably a bigger deal than the other 50 baseball references in the song
― ✖, Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
okay, actually, i'll buy that! shorthand for the whole sunbelt shift, military-industrial boom in socal specifically, etc. something the video is "about" more than the song is, but the signpost is there.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
For the longest time I think I thought 'Hula Hoops' Castro was the name of some sports figure with whom I was unfamiliar.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
hahahahahahahahaha that's wonderful
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
I'd love to read a really good book about the Cola Wars. There must be one i'm sure..
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
Always struck me as odd that Billy thought suicide was invented in the 80s.
― chap, Sunday, 20 June 2021 11:55 (two years ago) link
Unless he's talking about the band?
He's talking about the combination of fountain drinks.
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Sunday, 20 June 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
Other lyrics I misunderstood as a dumb kid:'Alabama, Krushchev' as 'Alabama cruise jet''trouble in the Suez' as 'trouble in the sewage''children of thalidomide' as 'children of the little mind'(I thought 'Space Monkey Mafia' was like a gang or something)'Payola and Kennedy' as 'KOA a Kennedy' (presumably something about taking a Kennedy camping?)'Begin, Reagan' as 'Bacon Reagan' (maybe like a roadside attraction featuring a life-sized Ronnie made of bacon)'AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz' as 'AIDS, crack, Bernie gets' (a weirdly-constructed lyric about someone named Bernie who both contracted AIDS and procured some crack)'China's under martial law' as 'China's under Martian law'And then there were lines where I thought he was basically just scatting (whatever 'dim bim foo faw' was).
― Jerome Percival Jesus (Old Lunch), Sunday, 20 June 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
all excellent
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 20 June 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
i assumed the suicide thing is "heavy metal suicide," like something to do with the churchy panic about heavy metal driving teens to bad ends etc.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 20 June 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
yeah, the Ozzy Osbourne song "Suicide Solution" and the related case I think, or Judas Priest "Better by You, Better Than Me" trial
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
Yes - check out the song’s Wikipedia page… it details every reference.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
get the gunget the gunSHOOTSHOOTSHOOT
that lawyer was such a clown
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
This song is irredeemable shit, but it could be worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_16Ws1vYoc0
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
song is irredeemable shitcould be worse, couldn't it?compact discs, Chex MixPee Wee's Playhouse rocks
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
I have to stop searching for these, this fucking song is a transmissible disease
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-hy715XWeY
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
Think I would recast my vote for "Birth control, Ho Chi Minh"
― pplains, Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
How exactly was this song received by non-American listeners? Wikipedia claims it charted in the UK.
― with hidden noise, Monday, 21 June 2021 01:59 (two years ago) link
From my UK youth, I just remember it as being another quirky list song, though none of us knew exactly what Joel was trying to get at with 'starting the fire'.
Remember being baffled however by the references to 'Dacron' and 'Starkweather homicide'.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Monday, 21 June 2021 06:37 (two years ago) link
Yeah, a big hit here. Enough "world" and "British" references to fly, the "US local" ones pass by at speed.
Xpost
― Mark G, Monday, 21 June 2021 06:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah I was a pre-teen in Britain when this dropped and was really into it for a bit. My mum was a big fan of his. I remember learning about eg Bay of Pigs years later in secondary school and piecing things together from it which was cool.
― chap, Monday, 21 June 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
🔥 We Didn't Start the Fire 🔥 Tomorrow 🔥 pic.twitter.com/zlON4uSEDv— Fall Out Boy (@falloutboy) June 27, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 19:33 (ten months ago) link
So glad I don't live in Hawaii, or I'd be up all night!
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 19:46 (ten months ago) link
i like to imagine 'space monkey mafia' is one thing
― and what, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:26 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
we should poll these. the guy who does the shift after me a couple of days a week is named Castr0, he has no idea why i call him 'Hula Hoops'
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 20:34 (ten months ago) link
what is this bullshit
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:07 (ten months ago) link
terrible
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:08 (ten months ago) link
luv FOB but yeah makes weezer's africa look like the rite of spring
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:23 (ten months ago) link
WDSTF was in rough chronological order. That was kind of the point. This one is all “Waco, Qanon, Y2K, Snoop Dogg”
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:28 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rsmq4oJaiM
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:06 (ten months ago) link
who gets blown away in this one
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:09 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
Donald Trump's tiny hands, COVID, meth, Julian Sands
― omar little, Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:29 (ten months ago) link
xxpost Shinzo Abe
I’m not joking
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:32 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link