December 24, 2004

Friday Flash Fun Most monkeys I'm sure remember Billy Joel's hit song "We Didn't Start The Fire" - it looks like someone's found images to go along with the words. [Flash - duh]
posted by jaypro22 20 years ago
  • That was really enjoyable. I used to get so annoyed with people who thought that the song had any depth to it. The depth of the song is contained in "We didn't start the fire/it's been always burning/since the world was turning." The rest of the song is a fucking list. The song never bothered me much, but people thinking it was brilliant sure did.
  • REM's "It's The End Of The World" is ripe for picking.
  • So is "88 Lines About 44 Women".
  • I feel inclined to say that the picture that accompanies "terror on the airlines" isn't a terrorist act. It's PSA flight 182 shortly after it hit a Cessna 172 that strayed into its airspace. Dumbass Cessna pilot jacked up the PSA flight and knocked it out of the sky, killing nearly 200 people and destroying a shitload of houses on the ground. Also, the thing that always bothered me about this song was that he spends the first 3/4 of the song singing about events from 1950 to 1963, and then the last 1/4 spans 1963 to 1989. A little weighted in favor of things that boomers went through as chijjren, but maybe that's the point.
  • I like the post but Billy Joel sucks donkey balls. The-Most-Heinous-Crap-Ever-Produced.
  • He made a boatload of money..... he can afford a mansion and a yacht yet he goes out and gets drunk and wrecks his car into a tree? Billy Joel ROFL
  • SamJooky - I made the same observation about the airliner. You know you're an Ob-Comp airplane geek when you see a picture like that in this context and can not only name the incident, but it bugs ya a little bit. I'd have used the Jordanian Air planes that were blown up in 1970 in Saudi Arabia, just sayin'.
  • Heh... I'm not the only person who owns Macarthur Job's Air Disaster series, am I? (Has an excellent chapter on the PSA 727 crash)