Has anyone else heard this political song on the radio?

[LoZoccolo]

I caught this really catchy rock tune on a rock station today; I think it's called "We Didn't Start The Fire". The singer sings of all these events which have happened since World War II, listing them in roughly chronological order, offering a history lesson for today's generation. I sure hope that it catches on as "hip" and "cool" with today's youth, and causes them to expand their minds with history books rather than trying to do it with LSD and other drugs as I suspect 95% of today's teenagers are trying to do. History is always "fab"!

[hippiechick]

1. It's not new ....

It's a Billy Joel song from, oh ... 1990 ? ...

[Shrubhater]

4. 1989.

[yewberry]

2. Argh.

My upstairs neighbor plays that CD loud enough for me to hear it.

[LoZoccolo]

5. That's good to hear!

Today's hipsters will be enriched with a knowledge of their past, and how it reflects on today!

[yewberry]

8. Not through the ceiling, it's not.

Oooh, and I'm a hipster of today? Nicest thing I've heard all day. Thanks.

[LoZoccolo]

11. You and the guy upstairs.

You're welcome, but you should also be thanking that guy.

[Shrubhater]

3. Yes, I've heard that song many times.

It's by Billy Joel, he's singing all major events from 1949-1989 (the song was made in 1989) Not all of them are political. And yes, that's what the song is called. You can find that song in his greatest hits volume 3 album.

[Telly Savalas]

6. In some states you can do 5-10 years of hard time...

for inducement of offensive earworms with malicious intent.

[LoZoccolo]

7. Not if it's an "edu-tainment" earworm!

Maybe the federal school system can provide CDs of this song to high-school history students!

[Pinboy]

9. I'd settle for them teaching the Constitution. n/t

[Droopy]

10. Not this shit again.

[deutsey]

12. Has anyone heard this song about four dead in Ohio?

Why isn't there more outrage about this? They're gunning us down and nobody cares! And who's this Nikchon fellow?

[LoZoccolo]

13. I think that's an old song.

My dad said that there were protests even at his campus in Illinois about that, but that was a long time ago! It was in the sixties or something.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. The sixties?

They had music back then?

[deutsey]

15. Whew. Thanks for clarifying.

I thought we were under the boot of some kind of autocratic regime or something.

Now I'll just get back to watching reality TV.

[LoZoccolo]

16. Also, Nixon was a president.

So yeah, I think it was the sixties or early seventies, because that's when Nixon was president.

They talk about Nixon in that "We Didn't Start The Fire" too!

[deutsey]

19. Oh. Nixon.

I thought it was either Nikchon or Nick Chung...I thought he was an Asian drummer or something.

[LoZoccolo]

22. I think he was president twice.

In the song it says "Richard Nixon" during one era of history, and then later says "Richard Nixon back again" later in the song during another era of history. So he must have been president twice.

[deutsey]

24. All them presidents...you can't tell them apart, as far as I'm concerned

There were all those guys with beards and then the ones that got shot and the other ones who said things that everyone remembers.

They're all the same to me.

[Lauri16]

17. Neil Young

Ohio. The four young protesters that were killed at Kent State.

Didn't Neil get the boot from this country for a while over that song? I'm not sure about that but I think I read it somewhere.

[LoZoccolo]

18. Did you hear the other song?

The "We Didn't Start The Fire"? What did you think of it? I think it's cool!

[Lauri16]

20. I remember when it came out

It's a good song. One of those that fits every generation.

[deutsey]

21. I always thought that song was about pyromania.

[LoZoccolo]

25. That might be another song that you're talking about.

I think the name of that song is "Glooten Gleeben Glauten Globen".

[deutsey]

27. Yeah, that drum solo kicked ass!

[Lauri16]

23. About Ohio

Here's a link about the song Ohio:

Ohio

[xmas74]

28. That's a fantastic song!

I still listen to it all the time.

[xmas74]

26. It came out in the late eighties.

many history teachers have used it as a tool to get their students to discuss events in modern history (by either having them list the lines of the song that they catch or giving them the lyric sheet and having them discuss it).

[LoZoccolo]

29. I heard this one on the radio today though.

I think you're talking about the INXS song where he lists a bunch of things. I remember that because they had this video where they had all these cards with the words of the song on it, and they would flip to the card that they were singing as they went along. Whoever came up with the idea for that video for them was a genius.

[xmas74]

30. Are you just trying to make me feel old?

Cuz I used to have that INXS song-on cassette. And I did wear it out. I thought that Michael Hutchins was hot.
But the other song that you referred to is still used in history classes to this day (my best friend is a history teacher. She even has used it in the past).

[LoZoccolo]

33. That's weird that they would use an INXS song in history classes.

This is a guy who had a jacket that said "SEX" on it; I would think some school boards would get upset about that.

[xmas74]

34. I bet they would.

[deutsey]

32. I think you're thinking of Matt Dillon.

He did a video using cards, I think. And harmonicas, maybe.

[Nevernose]

31. You got something against LSD?

'Cause when you start knocking LSD, I take it personally.

And then I meditate upon it. As a matter of fact: once, when I was meditating while high on LSD, I watched a turkey bake through the oven window for three and a half hours. The bubbling on the skin was fascinating, and I suspect was the turkey's God's way of communing with me. Nine Inch Nails' first album was on, or maybe it was Abbey Road -- they kind of blur together. I was finally broken out of my trance when I got into a knife fight with a Mexican gangster. I won, and there were no serious injuries. I still talk to him once a twice a year (the gangster, not the turkey). Good guy, especially when his probation officer is in a drug-testing mood.

Sorry about the rant. Every time I see the acronym "LSD" on DU, I feel an involuntary urge to reminisce.