lmao dude I was thinking this exact same thing just yesterday it needs about fifteen new verses covering the 90s, the noughties, the awkward teens and lets face it this decade isn't turning into any prize either
The coolest history teacher that I ever had, had everyone in our class assigned a different verse of the song and we had to choose an event from one of those verses to write an entire essay on and as a result it turned into a couple 100 kids giving a very long-winded speech about all the different historical events throughout that time period and became one huge history lesson for all of us. At the end we got to watch the music video for the song and discuss why we chose the verse that we did. There were many events that some of us didn't live through because we were still children and without that context we may never have looked into them
Same here, my history teacher brought his old vintage music/radio player, started blasting the music and made us choose a topic in this song and did a project about it
To write a song that borders on "rap", containing a history of the 20th century, arranging the lyrics chronologically, AND making them rhyme... Who else could do it but this man? SHEER FUCKING GENIUS!!
As a history nerd this song is my favorite song of all time, it exemplifies why I love history so much, we didn’t start the fire but we’re trying to contain the inherent chaos that is the history of our species
I’d like to hear We Didn’t Start The Fire 2020 w/ lyrics picking up where the original song left off. (Berlin Wall, Bosnia, Desert Storm, Ross Perot...)
This is my Dad´s favorite song!, when I was little, he always explained me every part of the lyrics, I learned a lot and loved the moments I spend with him talking about history, and that is why, this song has a very deep meaning for me. PD: Sorry for the bad english :), I just wanted to share this little story. :)
I have a much more positive interpretation of this song. I think Billy Joel heard someone say something along the lines of "It's so much harder growing up in the 80s than the 50s." The world didn't get to burning in your generation, it was always like this. So no need to get fussed about the world going to shit
@@defectivesickle5643 Tbh the way I see it, the world's always been shit, it's just the shit has been changing and adapting with what the world's going with.
After a ten year break from a failed attempt at college, I decided to go back and do it right at 29. I nervously walked into my very first class, History, and the professor had this as a blaring welcome. I'll never forget it!
Since this song came out in 1989 and documented all the major historical events Billy Joel lived through, we should remake it for its forty-year anniversary. EDIT: Because everyone keeps telling me about the FOB one, I'll say this: it's hot garbage and shouldn't have been made.
It's good, sure, I wouldn't personally use it as a benchmark though, it depends on what the client is after and what will fit the genre, just my 2 cents after studying audio engineering for the last 2 years
As someone who has done live audio mixing for 48-input events... no. Theres really not a whole lot happening here mixing-wise, 2 vocalists, and not a full complement of instruments.
So i had this dream there was a Billy Joel movie like an old rock opera animated like heavy metal, it was one of the most awesome things i had ever seen
Now THIS aged fantastically well! Problems are everywhere and exist in any time, no matter when you lived, but there are people who always fight the fire.
This song came out when I was like 9 years old and its one of the first songs I really remembering liking. Almost 40 now and still love some Billy Joel.
I often wonder how this would have sounded had it been a rap song, as Billy said it started out to be. Being Billy Joel, I know it would have been excellent.
I would like to thank the boys for introducing a brilliant song I can't believe I haven't heard this in only 22 and know some of the things that has on about
Obviously you didn't listen to it. He is saying that we didn't start these violent events, and evil has been around since humanity started, and we are trying to fix it.
I'm not sure where you're getting your info from.. but Jaden is pretty spot on with the meaning to this song hahaha. www.quora.com/Is-We-Didnt-Start-the-Fire-by-Billy-Joel-historical-gibberish-or-does-it-make-sense Give that a read and see what his fans know about the song.
You sound pretty god damn ignorant if you don't realize the meaning of this song is that we didn't start all these violent events around the world Jaden Peterson is spot on on this one :)
It really makes this songs point that 30 years on half of the solvable issues in this song have either not been solved at all, or were solved and then happened a second time.
My 7th grade teacher had us do this song for an assembly. FANTASTIC! What a great teacher! Thanks, Mrs. Larkin! Still know every last word to this day!!!
When I'm on my way to work at 6:30 in the morning, getting ready for a 12 hour shift, and when this song, Let's Go Crazy or Back in Black come on the radio..... MAX VOLUME!!!!
I like how at the start he says Harry Truman all calm and by the time he gets to rock and roller cola wars, he's going nuts. It's like half way through, he started to lose his mind and by the time he got to the end, he lost all semblance of sanity.
The lyrics are so easy to change I actually switched them up to my notes in science and used that to study. It did work! Would recommend :). Story: So one day I found out I had two tests the next week... and of course I was worried. The next day in class, I thought of this song, then decided to switch up the lyrics. It worked! Do use this if you have 3-5 days to study for a test or quiz. Aaand I am about to do it again!! It got tedious sadly :( but this is an awesome song :DD Also back in 2020 I kept hearing this in my dad's office, and I eventually learned the song title. I never thought of the song again. Then a few months ago I heard this on a video I was watching so I checked it out!
"Didn't start the fire" my ass. This song IS the fire
bro me knowing full well i did start the fire 👁👄👁
Whats with the emojies
Word!💯💯💯💯
We didn't start the fire, we just added more fuel to it.
Yes
Well said...
Have to agree
It's easy to hide the real intentions with political correct answers...Thanks for to reply...
Yeah anytime!, And I agree
4 minutes and 51 seconds of Billy Joel explaining that he is not an arsonist.
Drastic on purpose misunderstanding, but funny.
🤣🤣🤣
@@Oper8Fur07 We call it... _humour_
@@ayyylmao101 simply genius, we should patent and sell this invention. just imagine the sheer coinage!
@@Oper8Fur07 The coin, the copper, the cash! Call it _penance._
We need a 2000-2030 version of this song. Infact we should have a version of this song for every 3 decades.
Can you sing? I can do the editing
Something is about to throw down i can feel it
this should become a world tradition. the official theme song of the 3 decades.
lmao dude I was thinking this exact same thing just yesterday
it needs about fifteen new verses covering the 90s, the noughties, the awkward teens and lets face it this decade isn't turning into any prize either
coronavirus, microplastics, identity politics
pogs, alf, youtube, kurt cobains shotgun
twitter being bought by musk, hypernormalisation
saddam hiding underground, electing donald j trump
I really liked how it was coincidental that the album's name is "Storm Front."
Maybe the directors of the series made on porpose
The Boys!
Well crap, I did not realize that at all!
@@stefanocanicchio7278 r/facepalm
@@mik3y448 Oh ur are so funny...
The coolest history teacher that I ever had, had everyone in our class assigned a different verse of the song and we had to choose an event from one of those verses to write an entire essay on and as a result it turned into a couple 100 kids giving a very long-winded speech about all the different historical events throughout that time period and became one huge history lesson for all of us. At the end we got to watch the music video for the song and discuss why we chose the verse that we did. There were many events that some of us didn't live through because we were still children and without that context we may never have looked into them
Hey.. that's what the other person said somewhere else...
Same here 🤗
Same here, my history teacher brought his old vintage music/radio player, started blasting the music and made us choose a topic in this song and did a project about it
Do U speak about Juan Peron?
@beeroth3093 Bro all teachers need to do something like this because this is crazy cool
To write a song that borders on "rap", containing a history of the 20th century, arranging the lyrics chronologically, AND making them rhyme...
Who else could do it but this man?
SHEER
FUCKING
GENIUS!!
I Googled "Starkweather" homicide to find out what that was and I was shocked.
I failed that the assignment in high school soooo hard lol
He is among the top rated artists ' just magic.
He was born in 1949 ' this covers events of his first 40 years.
Someone clearly has no idea what rap is
As a history nerd this song is my favorite song of all time, it exemplifies why I love history so much, we didn’t start the fire but we’re trying to contain the inherent chaos that is the history of our species
this song went to #1 on the pop charts in 1989!!!
NO WONDER
I wonder if he should do an updated version of this song.
@@rae-raetheturtledemon. YES.
WOOO also my friend has the same pfp u do
Fun fact this was the last number 1 of the 80s and Billy joels career
Way to start the year with a wildfire!...prayers for LA
2:59 “JFK Blown Away What Else Do I Have To Say!!!???” It Never Gets Old
We're Starting The Fire With This One🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥👁👄👁🔥🔥🔥
Poet, storyteller, songwritter, musician - Billy Joel. National treasure!
I’d like to hear We Didn’t Start The Fire 2020 w/ lyrics picking up where the original song left off. (Berlin Wall, Bosnia, Desert Storm, Ross Perot...)
Great first line for it!
It'd also be nice if the whole song had the same level of detail it started off with. Basically skips over the 1970s and 1980s almost completely.
@@BeeKay5150 shouldn't it rhyme though!
Corona....
2029. 40 years
Can't get enough of billy, his music is just too good.
agreed
Neither can I… and you’ve got that right.
Especially since my parents and I also happen to like a lot of his old great songs so much.
It's still rock and roll to me. :-)
Wow
fr
born in 88 and still know every word to this day. We still got a lot of fires to fight in 2024...
This is my Dad´s favorite song!, when I was little, he always explained me every part of the lyrics, I learned a lot and loved the moments I spend with him talking about history, and that is why, this song has a very deep meaning for me.
PD: Sorry for the bad english :), I just wanted to share this little story. :)
And a great story it is. 😃👍
@@ss-gv1te thanks!
That's actually very good English, about 2 or 3 small mistakes. I've seen native speakers write worse.
yo te entendi pero soy de mexico
It's a great story!
This song is probably up there at the top with songs with the most words.
History In Song ----
And in art (painting) prophetic painting!
I love the message that this song ends about the problems of a generation being blamed on their kids. It’s already happening with ours
*sends
When, exactly, did the exception happened?
I have a much more positive interpretation of this song. I think Billy Joel heard someone say something along the lines of "It's so much harder growing up in the 80s than the 50s."
The world didn't get to burning in your generation, it was always like this. So no need to get fussed about the world going to shit
@@defectivesickle5643
Tbh the way I see it, the world's always been shit, it's just the shit has been changing and adapting with what the world's going with.
Catchiest song of all time ?
Yes.
We didn't start the fire 🔥 Billy Joel classic
After a ten year break from a failed attempt at college, I decided to go back and do it right at 29. I nervously walked into my very first class, History, and the professor had this as a blaring welcome. I'll never forget it!
How are you doing now?
@R T
@@bladegriggs4090 Great, thanks!
Awesome! 😅
Your welcome!
What do you mean blaring?
Since this song came out in 1989 and documented all the major historical events Billy Joel lived through, we should remake it for its forty-year anniversary.
EDIT: Because everyone keeps telling me about the FOB one, I'll say this: it's hot garbage and shouldn't have been made.
That would be unironically awesome aldfkja
there it is again... that funny feeling.
Yes COVID is the name 😂😂😂
agree
I second this motion
The history lesson we didn't know we needed
...almost 30 years on and i am still discovering some of the cultural references in this song!
Not surprising given how many are in this song. 🙂
it’s 31 years now! I wish i was born in the 90s!
England's got a new king
Someone in a bar: nobody can sing about the second half of the century!!!
Billy Joel: hold my beer...
so true
🤣
The Boys.... are back. That fits perfectly💣💣
When your lyricist is a rapper but your producer is a rocker.
You know, my 5th grade ELA teacher showed us this.
He was the best guy I think I've ever had as a teacher.
I sang this with my 7th grade choir. My group's part started at 1:59 and the ONLY ONE people heard singing was me!❤
Based choir
Who here has memorized the full song and can recite it without music
I did I was really bored
I did that with half, or at least 1/3 of the words in Finnish.
Thank you, Billy, for not trying to rap this song like you said it came to you in a dream.
its a jumble of so many big names, global events, epidemics, musical genres, in no particular order, and it's still an amazing song!
it was in chronological order
He's right, it is in chronological order
@@donovanweiss159 it is indeed in chronological order
@@patrickk6331That's why it's superior to the Green Day version.
THIS IS STILL A BIG HIT IN 2023! GOOD JOB NEVER STOP!
I guess you could say this song is FIRE!!!
So much has happened since 1989, I'd love to hear a version capturing everything from that point to now.
Boy ive got good news for you, Fall Out Boy did it just today!
lucky guy you are that this entire reality was constructed for you- fall out boy made one.
now that you think about it, this song is just a good song that history teachers like using
I heard this song yesterday for the first time, I’ve been sleeping on Billy Joel. Great tune 🎵
I first listened to this recently too, in October, been obsessed with this song ever since
quite sad this song still rings true 35 years later
My favorite Billy Joel song!!
just never besmirch his name
ITS THE GREATEST FANDOM
almost 30 years later, and it still makes my hair stand
U started the fire by making this fire song
Billy Joel After Inventing History For This Song: 🤤
The best lyric of all time.
I think every forty years, a new version of this song needs to be made
Not if it sucks like the new ome does. FOB blows.
@@Frog_Mob_Bossding dong your opinion is wrong
Fair enough have a nice day
10 stars respect to Billy Joel for this song from the year of 1989.
That sound production is AMAZING!
If I was an audio engineer, this record would be my benchmark for mixing
It's good, sure, I wouldn't personally use it as a benchmark though, it depends on what the client is after and what will fit the genre, just my 2 cents after studying audio engineering for the last 2 years
@@TheCrashx it’s decent
As someone who has done live audio mixing for 48-input events... no. Theres really not a whole lot happening here mixing-wise, 2 vocalists, and not a full complement of instruments.
It was mixed by Tom Lord-Alge, so no surprise there
So i had this dream there was a Billy Joel movie like an old rock opera animated like heavy metal, it was one of the most awesome things i had ever seen
oh and there was version of this song sung by the jingle cats.
I'd pay good cash to see that live in theatres
I grew up with this type of music 🎧 thanks to my parents
“England’s got a new queen”
Few months late but that ages well
this song went to #1 on the pop charts in 1989!!!
Love the meaning to this song
Now THIS aged fantastically well! Problems are everywhere and exist in any time, no matter when you lived, but there are people who always fight the fire.
This music is fire, even if Billy didn't start it.
This song came out when I was like 9 years old and its one of the first songs I really remembering liking. Almost 40 now and still love some Billy Joel.
Best song I've ever heard
I often wonder how this would have sounded had it been a rap song, as Billy said it started out to be. Being Billy Joel, I know it would have been excellent.
i guess, if rap is your thing.
It basically is. The lyrics are rapped/chanted, not sung.
I like this beat better and I was born in 96 ✌😎
When I was a kid my dad told me that this was white rap. Sounds like he's rapping.
Cant believe this classic is nearly 30 yrs old !!!!!. Come on Billy, you must do part 2,, so much has happened since 1989.
I would like to thank the boys for introducing a brilliant song
I can't believe I haven't heard this in only 22 and know some of the things that has on about
The boys definitely did the song right
When we are gone, it will still go on and on...
Love the meaning to this song
Obviously you didn't listen to it. He is saying that we didn't start these violent events, and evil has been around since humanity started, and we are trying to fix it.
I'm not sure where you're getting your info from.. but Jaden is pretty spot on with the meaning to this song hahaha.
www.quora.com/Is-We-Didnt-Start-the-Fire-by-Billy-Joel-historical-gibberish-or-does-it-make-sense
Give that a read and see what his fans know about the song.
To each their own
You sound pretty god damn ignorant if you don't realize the meaning of this song is that we didn't start all these violent events around the world Jaden Peterson is spot on on this one :)
Your explanation of the meaning of this song is pretty spot on in my opinion Mr. /Ms. Peterson.
something about that intro, with the drums and electric guitar before the beat drops, I love it
Back in my junior year in high school my history shows us the song. That's the reason how I got to this song.
i dont care what year this is this song is a BOP
joel was right. world is turning.. still fire....
This is mighty relevant now…..
First heard this in history class. The coach teaching the class was the best history teacher ive ever seen. Awesome
Speed explaining however many we have progressed throughout our many years on earth
This song still applies today, and for as long as freedom is a thing, it will.
And the flames grow to a towering inferno as of 2024!
It really makes this songs point that 30 years on half of the solvable issues in this song have either not been solved at all, or were solved and then happened a second time.
Y'know... in a way... it is like an ode to freedom of expression
Awesome song! Best played Loud!
agreed
this song feels more appropriate every day
My 7th grade teacher had us do this song for an assembly. FANTASTIC!
What a great teacher!
Thanks, Mrs. Larkin! Still know every last word to this day!!!
When I'm on my way to work at 6:30 in the morning, getting ready for a 12 hour shift, and when this song, Let's Go Crazy or Back in Black come on the radio..... MAX VOLUME!!!!
This song is perfect for the boys for so many reasons. For one the cover has the name Stormfront which is the name of a villain in the show
My tribute to the Notre Dame Cathedral on fire.
Hahaha You are funny
He's in notre dame touring rn lmao
Such a Powerful statement,
in a song~
ikr
Many lines need to be added to this song
30 years and still rocking harder on my country. Cheers From Costa Rica.🇨🇷
Quarantine brought me here.... hell yeah what a nice song
- greetings from germany !!
This song will always be good to listen to and it might help with history class
Great! Do use it to memorize multiple definitions in more than one subject (that's what I did)
I ❤ the way this Billy Joel song starts! 🎵.....
I’m using this song to study for my APUSH exam right now
This is theme song for this planet then and now.
I like how at the start he says Harry Truman all calm and by the time he gets to rock and roller cola wars, he's going nuts. It's like half way through, he started to lose his mind and by the time he got to the end, he lost all semblance of sanity.
Billy Joel, you need to write part 2 for the 21st century... soon
Fall Out Boy already did that
@@joewhitehead3that song sucks
@@SitDownStandUp- It’s the same song just with different lyrics in the verses
God, how did he even made this lyrics... amazing!
Phil used to put this music on before his live. Hope he will put this song on again
This song and its lyrics are timeless
To think this song always will be relevant
The lyrics are so easy to change I actually switched them up to my notes in science and used that to study. It did work! Would recommend :). Story: So one day I found out I had two tests the next week... and of course I was worried. The next day in class, I thought of this song, then decided to switch up the lyrics. It worked! Do use this if you have 3-5 days to study for a test or quiz.
Aaand I am about to do it again!!
It got tedious sadly :( but this is an awesome song :DD
Also back in 2020 I kept hearing this in my dad's office, and I eventually learned the song title. I never thought of the song again. Then a few months ago I heard this on a video I was watching so I checked it out!
Wow 😮
it's been years since I've heard this song, This is a CLASSIC ✨
I LOVE THIS❤️💯
This song is 27 years old! Wow
the last part was a warning, but when we are gone is creepy.
1:01 now we have a new king
I remember this being a popular hit song back in the day growing up and hearing it on radio in Jamaica. Still a hit today in my opinion.
Billy Joel is great at creating catchy songs like this and Why Should I Worry?