So who DID start the fire?

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If it wasn't the Billy Joels of this world, then who?

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

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― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch?

― Myontee Von Bonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

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― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

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― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Chicago Mad Cow #1.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)

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― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Dammit.

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― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Well, it was always burnin', since the world's been turnin'. I think Joel's point was that reality blazes forward with one dramatic event after another, and not only is this nothing new; it is a cosmic principle. Was it Heraclitus who said 'All is powered by the thunderbolt'? Perhaps he was making the same point. This song is intended to be, i think, a wake up call for the baby boomers, for whom Joel is a sort of pop poet: he's saying, hey, history rexisted before us, and will exist after us.

― rattusnorvegicus (ratty!!), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:43 (twenty years ago)

rexisted = existed

― rattusnorvegicus (ratty!!), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Marmot OTM with first response, thread could well have been locked there, although props to rattus for making me think for a whole ten seconds that maybe Billy Joel had actually thought this song through and wasn't just naming a bunch of random crap in anticipation of the "One Week" phenomenon where the number of records you sell is in exact proportion to the number of high-profile name drops in your song....

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:45 (twenty years ago)

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― naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

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― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Or maybe it had something to do with one of dude's car crashes.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

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― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:13 (twenty years ago)

The same guy who stole the keeshka?

― xhuxk (xheddy), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 10:23 (twenty years ago)

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― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

David Koresh

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

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― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

No idea, but David Bowie is attempting to put the fire out with gasolin.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

In my ass, Fresca Tortilla. Elsewhere, I'm not sure.

― Butt Dickus (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Mrs. O'leary's Cow

LLLLOCK ONE THREADDDD

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Come ride the fiery breeze of Galaxie 500!

http://www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/~sanderso/music/on_fire.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

A grim inevitability, this

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― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

"we didn't start the arcade fire"

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jegsworks.com/project/prometheus.jpg

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

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― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

I didn't start it, but I might be able to help out:

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― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

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― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Stephen King probably thinks it was some ridiculous ancient space/time crystal spider or some crap.

― after all these years, still bitter about the ending to IT (Kim), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

This song is intended to be, i think, a wake up call for the baby boomers, for whom Joel is a sort of pop poet: he's saying, hey, history rexisted before us, and will exist after us.

Whoa. That makes a LOT of sense. Suddenly I have respect for Billy Joel.

As to who started the fire: IT WAS GOD. AND IT BEGAN WITH A SINGLE BUSH. BURN BABY BURN, PRE-DISCO INFERNO.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

There was fire before that.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it was Hotlips Hoolihan.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

As to who started the fire: IT WAS GOD. AND IT BEGAN WITH A SINGLE BUSH.

haha, God + Bush

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

they're basically a transposed Batman + Robin

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

louis learnin le ilmisms

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 11 August 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

There was fire before that.

DETAILS.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 11 August 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

MINOR DETAILS.

And yes, I suppose I should've said "shrub" instead of "bush" and hey, these are just thoughts. Why don't we ask Billy Joel whom he feels started the fire? Anyone here with connections to the Long Island Police Department?

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 11 August 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

This song seems heavily influenced by a certain Tim Curry song of the late 70s. So Tim started "We Didn't Start," though not the actual fire: that was MELZBOLLAH (Gibson), warming up.

― don (dow), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Now that I reflect on this, the song does say "it was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'." So really, on this view, the big bang/God started the fire.

I still think it was Hendrix (though I'm sad that I fluffed up that photo).

God = kind of lame at times. Hendrix = awesome.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 August 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

There is also water (at the bottom of the ocean (same as it ever was)).

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Saturday, 12 August 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

This song seems heavily influenced by a certain Tim Curry song of the late 70s. So Tim started

and An Innnocent Man is Heroes & Villains

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 12 August 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

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