I remember this song well. I have always been a big Joel fan. I especially like his ex wife.
1 posted on
12/09/2010 12:42:41 PM PST by
Tom Hawks
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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray....
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3 posted on
12/09/2010 12:45:22 PM PST by
Personal Responsibility
(The more the plans fail the more the planners plan - Ronald Reagan)
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4 posted on
12/09/2010 12:45:34 PM PST by
TomGuy
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I love this song ! its the best !
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The best was the Rush/Shanklin parody of this,
Clinton's Butt's on Fire. My guess is that there were copyright problems, because Rush never resurrects it from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites.
ML/NJ
7 posted on
12/09/2010 12:49:55 PM PST by
ml/nj
To: Tom Hawks
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix ..."
Wait ... that's not it.
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Zanzibar is my favorite B. Joel song. Would have LOVED to have seen him & Elton when they toured. :)
9 posted on
12/09/2010 12:49:58 PM PST by
MissTed
( Do women in burqas have fun tagging each other in Facebook photos?)
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JFK
blown away
What else do I have to say?
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On SNL Waynes World did a short bit about this song. They said it sounds sort of accusatory. Hey we didn't start the fire so you just shut up.
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16 posted on
12/09/2010 12:57:56 PM PST by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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“Trouble in the Suez”...
Geez, Billy, we’re still having lots of trouble in the Suez Canal...
To: Tom Hawks
Trivia: The next to last line was supposed to be:
"Poison apples in the store", a reference to Alar,
but they took the apples out of the stores pretty quickly.
And then, just as quickly, China was under martial law.
They recorded the song as released it "before something else happens".
27 posted on
12/09/2010 1:08:01 PM PST by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Tom Hawks
To: Tom Hawks
"We Didn't Start The Fire" Which was nothing more than a thinly veiled ripoff of REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know It" which came out a couple years prior (which by their own admission was heavily influenced by Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues"). I despised (and still do) that song (BJ's) since day 1.
To: Tom Hawks
The song is on my regular playlists. I’ve used it as background to family photo shows from the era. It is like a boomer anthem.
21 years on, it could use updating.
40 posted on
12/09/2010 2:04:39 PM PST by
cicero2k
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41 posted on
12/09/2010 2:29:01 PM PST by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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43 posted on
12/09/2010 4:57:45 PM PST by
exile
(I will NOT submit.)
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44 posted on
12/09/2010 7:40:10 PM PST by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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45 posted on
12/09/2010 8:43:36 PM PST by
AnnaZ
(I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
To: Tom Hawks
Thanks for reminding me I am older than dirt.... LOL
51 posted on
12/11/2010 6:37:42 AM PST by
Nat Turner
(I can see NOVEMBER from my house....)
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