Worst version of "We Didn't Start The Fire"

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Of course they are all the worst really, but if you take the time to listen to all of them* then you will surely agree with me that Casey Simpson is the runaway loser here.

*no idea why you would do that to yourself, no idea why I just did that to myself.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Fall Out Boy (2023)	6
Billy Joel original (1989)	2
Cast of Avengers: Endgame (2019)	2
Casey Simpson (2021)	1
The Paul O'Sullivan Band (2022)	0
On Call Music (2012)	0
Dylan White (2021)	0
Holderness Family Music (2020)	0
Tessa Netting (2020)	0
It Lives, It Breathes (2015)	0
Elio Pace (2015)	0

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link

Ha the Casey Simpson one sounds like a kid singing something their dad wrote.

― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link

Only heard the first three on this list (can't imagine enduring the horror of "Cast of Avengers: Endgame") but voting for the Fall Out Boy, as it botches the basic premise of a chronological list of historical events.

― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 June 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link

Most of these are by amateurs and comedians, so I voted Fall Out Boy because their version is so bad it should actually kill their career.

― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link

if the quality of a song can be judged by who covers it then this list of chancers and ego vampires is pretty damning

― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djULDN0aubM

― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJBmKQpZ02k

― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRUe9xXin4

― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z41iLFhb3M4

― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link

Was the Avengers movie a comedy?

― brimstead, Thursday, 29 June 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTOBvGzurxA

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link

Found it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA6HBUSXc2A

― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxZOB9GxQM

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link

Dylan White (2021)

youtube is not allowing me to watch this version unless I confirm my age with a credit card or govt id, but it can't be worse than the It Lives, It Breathes version

― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Thursday, 29 June 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3_y9cYABU8

― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Thursday, 29 June 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link

I like his youtube channel, but don't think that even I have time to watch an 81-minute-long takedown of this record.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 June 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link

Why isn’t Conan O'Brien's “Cactus Chef Playing ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ on the Flute” here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxjMghLjOE

― Melomane, Friday, 30 June 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link

President Keyes, were you under the impression that Fall Out Boy would still have career prospects 2023 onward if it were not for this cover?

Like, if this kerfuffle has done anything, it has reminded me that FOB once existed - otherwise I might have forgotten!

And I think I saw them once in concert, opening for Green Day at Merriweather. Maybe 2006?

― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 June 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link

Was there a YouTube version where the only line apart from the chorus was "British Politicians Sex" ?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 03:53 (one year ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 6 July 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link

"Extreme weather. Georgia shooting. Student loans. Ukraine attack. Jane Birkin. Wimbledon. Weed testing."

The Washington Post has the cadence mostly right, but they need to work a little harder on lyrics.

https://wapo.st/3OgVNaB

Like how about "Student loans, Wimbledon, DeSantis wants to challenge Don." Maybe "Student loans, Ukraine attack, news gives me a heart attack."

It's like they're not even trying.

― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 July 2023 12:03 (one year ago) link

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