It really is, apparently he had a big fascination with history and would have become a history teacher if his music career didn’t work out! I’m glad you liked the video :)
@@JHE_Box thank u for makin that comment. His first love of music was classical. Thank goodness he went his own way n made his own genre. No one compares.
I think what's interesting is he really captured what was important at the time and not just stuff that we remember now (or even in the 1980's). Such as the pop cultural mentions and the big presence of boxing and baseball which were probably two of the 3 biggest sports (along with horseracing) in America in the first half of the century.
What the original song does, that a lot of remix and parodies fail to do, is include things that might not be considered "important" or "historical" and might fall under "Pop Culture" for it's time. But because it does this, it really does feel like a recollection of that era, whereas with a lot of parodies that try to be a "sequel" to the original, ends up just feeling like the modern generation complaining about their current time, which was the impudence for Billy to make the original song in the first place.
5:34 Just to add Rocky Marciano is the only world champion heavyweight in history to retire without a loss, he is also one of the most powerful punchers in history and Sugar Ray is ranked as the greatest pound for pound in world history, so that's why those two specific boxers were chosen, as important enough to be mentioned by name.
I just thought it was due to Joel's interests, or things that stood out in his childhood, and life going forward. My father told me he was related to Rocky Graziano. Probably a lie. My memoir would probably include Air Raid Drills, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, the Impressions, 78 RPM records in our basement jukebox. The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind?
This is super great! I love that you made a breakdown! *That said, as regards 5:25; no she is not. King Louis XIV of France reigned for 72 years 110 days. Rama IX from Thailand reigned for 70 years and 126 days. As of this June 2022, Queen Elizabeth II will have reigned 70 years.
Awesome video set. In my opinion, this could be made into series, analyzing each event in depth. That's how I came across this and while this was educational, it was definitely not yet enough. I very rarely comment on videos, but this set of videos deserves a boost by the suppressing RUclips algorithm.
I've heard this song for years over the radio and had no idea about it's meaning, I could only understand the chorus :p Crazy how all of this just completely goes over kid's heads, thank you for these videos
When Billy Joel was asked if he would consider doing a sequel to ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’? he replied: "No, I wrote one song already, and I don’t think it was really that good to begin with, melodically”
One more notable point about The Catcher in the Rye is that John Lennon's killed claimed it was his motivation for doing so. He was obsessed with the protagonist and the concept of teenage rebellion, and just plain crazy of course.
Just now realizing how hilariously close and uncomfortably similar politicians strategies to gain power nearly led to them being in the same position as Hitler.
omg this video is amazing and hilarious and so helpful these days. all the visuals were great too! thanks for putting so much work into it! liked subbed commented. keep it up !
Hello. An outstanding piece of research. Most impressive. However, I'm going to have to challenge one contention: (Queen Elizabeth, still reigning) "The fact that this is the case makes her the longest reigning Monarch, in world history." Crowned queen on February 6, 1952; Elizabeth is the longest reigning CURRENT monarch, at just over 69 years. However, the monarch who still holds the record as of this date (April 20, 2021) is Louis XIV of France, who reigned from May 14, 1643, to September 1, 1715 - a total of 72 years and 110 days. If Elizabeth can hold on for just three more years - which is not unlikely - then she will take the top spot. One more thing of note. Louis XIV has a verifiable and undisputed time of reign as a monarch. There are a number of other monarchs in ancient times who ruled even longer - but they have been contested because the records are in dispute. According to figures, the longest reigning (contested) monarch is Pepin II, who ruled ancient Egypt from 2278 BC to 2184 BC - a total of 94 years. He was just six years old when he became pharaoh, so while this figure is contested, it is not impossible that he could have reigned that long.
I'm glad you liked the video, and thank you for your point! Duly noted :). After nearly 120 research points that seems like a disappointingly obvious mistake which managed to slip through!
@@supershinigami1 Yeah, I was disappointed too. I was really hoping that she would take the record away from Louis XIV. But as they say, when the man comes for you, there's no arguing.
As a 15 year old dumass i really enjoyed learning about history. No really I mean that song is stuck in my head and I love it. Was properly born in the wrong time
Re: Walter Winchell. Joel was probably referencing a speech Winchell gave calling Communism the greatest threat to America. The Cold War is a theme that reoccurs in each verse.
I think you really should have started with Truman inheriting the presidency from Roosevelt in 1945, just months after being sworn in as Vice President. I think the song starts with him in 45 dropping the bombs on Japan.
Heyy one little tid bit for ya... Sobhuza II from Africa is the longest reigning monarch in recorded history. Not Queen Elizabeth... 😁😁 82 years and 254 days...
True! Sobhuza II was the longest reigning monarch ever, and Louis XIV was the longest reigning sovereign monarch. I think when I wrote this script I was thinking "longest reigning Queen" but I guess I messed that one up a little bit...
A delivery girl went to give me change and looked at me and said "Sorry, not good at math"; so I responded "Young Lady that is not math, that is counting---like on Sesame Street"! If this is a HX lesson to/for Americans, all I can say is 'what a pathetic mess we have made in our schools'!
Vietnam never got along with China nor the soviet union just because they were Vietnam was communist doesn't mean they were allies with China ho Chi min was a man who just wanted to see his people free from imperialist rule and he liked america and wanted their help but when they refused to help him he had no choice but to get aid from the soviet union
I take offense to the guy doing the voice over for this vid blaming Truman and by extension the United States for starting the Cold War and arms race. The U.S wasn't obligated to maintain troops in Europe after WW2 and could've withdrawn those forces after the war. In fact, the US wasn't ever obligated to fight a land war in Europe in either World Wars and could've simply told Britian and Western Europe to solve the Problem of Nazism and later Communism themselves. We chose to stay in Europe and in doing so saved Western Europe from being turned into what eastern Europe became. There's no way Britian and the rest of Western Europe could've prevented a Soviet takeover and even Britian itself would've been squeezed to death by the Eastern block without American financial and military support after the war. If the guy doing the voice over spent a week or 2 in North Korea, he would probably have a very different attitude towards the United States and actually appreciate what we did to keep the countries of Western Europe from becoming a Soviet slave camp. Had Britian, France and Germany not kept trying to commit suicide, those nations would still be credible world powers and not dependant on American power for protection from Putin's Russia which is trying to do in Ukraine what Stalin and the Soviets were planning to do to Western Europe. Not saying this guy would be speaking German without America getting dragged into WW2 but he would be speaking English with a Russian accent. Next time, fight and win your own wars and we won't have to get dragged into it, you piss ant, irrelevant island 🖕
I wouldn't call it trivia. The song is a lesson. I wish I went further. I see the problem as nuclear military power leaving the superpowers disengaged from sustainable and compassionate progress. All of the Billy Joel song events take place under the same era of bully policy, and now it has been repeated with the Israeli genocide, although thankfully not by means of nuclear bombs.
Its really impressive how much trivia is in this song, and even more impressive you decided to break it all down.
It really is, apparently he had a big fascination with history and would have become a history teacher if his music career didn’t work out!
I’m glad you liked the video :)
I agree, thank u!!!
@@JHE_Box thank u for makin that comment.
His first love of music was classical.
Thank goodness he went his own way n made his own genre. No one compares.
Real historical events, not quite trivial.
I think what's interesting is he really captured what was important at the time and not just stuff that we remember now (or even in the 1980's). Such as the pop cultural mentions and the big presence of boxing and baseball which were probably two of the 3 biggest sports (along with horseracing) in America in the first half of the century.
the amount of world history billy joel taught me blows my mind!!
That's the perfect explanation, thanks a lot for creating and uploading this!
Commenting in hopes this gets some love by the algorithm. Interesting and well made videos.
Your noble contributions are much appreciated…. Seriously though thank you, I’m very glad you liked them!
yes@@JHE_Box
"algorithm hurrdurr"
Get out of the internet and go back to school.
First time I heard someone pronounce Budapest right, hats off sir!
The flag is upside down tho...
I've known all of the lyrics since I was 12 and the Studebaker line helped me answer a trivial pursuit question when I was twelve. Thanks Billy Joel!
It is also a bear's natural habitat.
What the original song does, that a lot of remix and parodies fail to do, is include things that might not be considered "important" or "historical" and might fall under "Pop Culture" for it's time.
But because it does this, it really does feel like a recollection of that era, whereas with a lot of parodies that try to be a "sequel" to the original, ends up just feeling like the modern generation complaining about their current time, which was the impudence for Billy to make the original song in the first place.
Have you actually listened to the new versions? Doesn't seem so. They 100% have pop culture references. "Michael Jordan 23... Michael Jordan 45"
@@liquidfiretibby I wasn't referring to the new version, but talking about the tons of fan made parodies.
@@Tommy9834 ooohhh ok
Musical memoir of his life ~ and mine.
5:34 Just to add Rocky Marciano is the only world champion heavyweight in history to retire without a loss, he is also one of the most powerful punchers in history and Sugar Ray is ranked as the greatest pound for pound in world history, so that's why those two specific boxers were chosen, as important enough to be mentioned by name.
I just thought it was due to Joel's interests, or things that stood out in his childhood, and life going forward.
My father told me he was related to Rocky Graziano. Probably a lie.
My memoir would probably include Air Raid Drills, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, the Impressions, 78 RPM records in our basement jukebox.
The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind?
This channel is criminally underrated. I hope you keep growing brother
This is super great! I love that you made a breakdown!
*That said, as regards 5:25; no she is not.
King Louis XIV of France reigned for 72 years 110 days.
Rama IX from Thailand reigned for 70 years and 126 days.
As of this June 2022, Queen Elizabeth II will have reigned 70 years.
And now she's gone.70 years and 214 days
was about to just say this.
@@SuntopKinseeker So second to the Sun King. Not a bad run.
As a kid, I misheard trouble in the Suez as trouble in the sewers and said, "Call the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to take care of it!"
Awesome video set. In my opinion, this could be made into series, analyzing each event in depth. That's how I came across this and while this was educational, it was definitely not yet enough.
I very rarely comment on videos, but this set of videos deserves a boost by the suppressing RUclips algorithm.
This is a very underrated video. It should have more views and likes, and you should have more subscribers.
First time I saw it on the side bar. 12/2024
I've heard this song for years over the radio and had no idea about it's meaning, I could only understand the chorus :p
Crazy how all of this just completely goes over kid's heads, thank you for these videos
This is instructive, keep up the good work man.
The video I never knew I needed
this video helped me out a TON thank you so much for making it!!!!
Glad it helped you out, thank YOU for watching it! :)
When I heard Peter Pan, I thought Billy Joel was singing about the Disney animated movie which was released the same year.
When Billy Joel was asked if he would consider doing a sequel to ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’? he replied:
"No, I wrote one song already, and I don’t think it was really that good to begin with, melodically”
Just want to appreciate the puppy at 11:22
One more notable point about The Catcher in the Rye is that John Lennon's killed claimed it was his motivation for doing so. He was obsessed with the protagonist and the concept of teenage rebellion, and just plain crazy of course.
underrated channel, definitely deserves more subs
wasnt malenkov the deputy general secretary which made him rougly "in charge" at the time of stalins death
My guy, this is amazing!!
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
No, Billy Joel is amazing. This guy is a fool.
Bro I learned more here than in school
Pretty thorough explanations for such a short video. Liked.
11:40: All my respect is yours after pronouncing Budapest correctly as "Budapesht".
Dude? *DUDE*. Excellent work.
Forgot Bobby Kennedy not only supported but worked for McCarthy during his hearings.
5:20
Her Majesty the Queen has died
Rest in peace
LLTQ
Looked this up after The Boys on Amazon
Just now realizing how hilariously close and uncomfortably similar politicians strategies to gain power nearly led to them being in the same position as Hitler.
welp, time to do the new one!
i really liked it. Its like history but 10 times faster. greetings from germany
I fucking love Tyskland men dess historia har något som är bäst kvar i det förflutna
We didn't start the fire!
Very well made video
Thank you! Glad you like it 😊
omg this video is amazing and hilarious and so helpful these days. all the visuals were great too! thanks for putting so much work into it! liked subbed commented. keep it up !
Hello. An outstanding piece of research. Most impressive.
However, I'm going to have to challenge one contention: (Queen Elizabeth, still reigning) "The fact that this is the case makes her the longest reigning Monarch, in world history."
Crowned queen on February 6, 1952; Elizabeth is the longest reigning CURRENT monarch, at just over 69 years.
However, the monarch who still holds the record as of this date (April 20, 2021) is Louis XIV of France, who reigned from May 14, 1643, to September 1, 1715 - a total of 72 years and 110 days. If Elizabeth can hold on for just three more years - which is not unlikely - then she will take the top spot.
One more thing of note. Louis XIV has a verifiable and undisputed time of reign as a monarch. There are a number of other monarchs in ancient times who ruled even longer - but they have been contested because the records are in dispute. According to figures, the longest reigning (contested) monarch is Pepin II, who ruled ancient Egypt from 2278 BC to 2184 BC - a total of 94 years. He was just six years old when he became pharaoh, so while this figure is contested, it is not impossible that he could have reigned that long.
I'm glad you liked the video, and thank you for your point! Duly noted :). After nearly 120 research points that seems like a disappointingly obvious mistake which managed to slip through!
just 2 more years to go I guess!
oops
@@supershinigami1 Yeah, I was disappointed too. I was really hoping that she would take the record away from Louis XIV. But as they say, when the man comes for you, there's no arguing.
Now she’s kicking in her grave and Charles and Camilla will have a coronation
Not the picture of the puppy😂 I thought “what was that movie about? 😅” hahahahaha 11:20
Update: she's no longer the queen
5:20 mhm
As a 15 year old dumass i really enjoyed learning about history. No really I mean that song is stuck in my head and I love it. Was properly born in the wrong time
Could Davy Crockett be a hint on the Davy Crockett nuclear bomb mortar?
Is it just me or does the guy at 10:13 look like Marty Mcfly?
It's just you.
Yes, cause it was. 😁
The quote from 5:30 aged like milk
5:24 well that sure was a long reign
RIP Queen Elizabeth.
5:29 Rip
Thank you. I pretty much got the references; but good for younger generations who did not.
When is the second part coming 🥲
Excellent breakdown
History nicely explained!! thank you!!
I wonder what events would be included in a sequel song of the next forty years.
It was all good till the end, the Suez Crisis had a huge amount of international backlash, there is no way they could've continued.
I swear I looked up the meaning of the song and I find a dude that sounds like the first trader you meet in the fable game
I'm watching this 3 days after the Queens Death
thumbs up on the BTTF reference
Do the one fall out boys did, please
You cant make song out of events. Billy Joel: Hold my beer
Thanks from New Zealand
5:32 this still hurts
Are you going to do one for the new fallout boy version? That would be so cool!
Good Work I love history and this Song
Was really nice to learn more about it thx 👌
You’re welcome, glad you liked it 😊
I thought Truman won the election in 44 not 49. In the film Oppenheimer, he is played by Gary Oldman.
But thanks for the explanation.
Thank you so much for this video/videos!
5:28 she ended up dying as the second longest reigning confirmed monarch besides king Louis XIV
Really awesome video :)
I'm glad you liked it! :)
5:32 Not anymore.
The Death of Stalin movie is a masterpiece. It'll leave you in splits. XD
3:!5 what movie is that from?
It's from "All About Eve": www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/
Re: Walter Winchell.
Joel was probably referencing a speech Winchell gave calling Communism the greatest threat to America.
The Cold War is a theme that reoccurs in each verse.
This ia a wonderful video! I have loved this sonf for years now I know what Im sing about. Thanks!
I think you really should have started with Truman inheriting the presidency from Roosevelt in 1945, just months after being sworn in as Vice President. I think the song starts with him in 45 dropping the bombs on Japan.
Hope someone does this for the fall out boy one too
Well done. Very interesting!
Someone should remix this song but nothing is different except England got a new queen is changed to king
Well you're going to have a make a video covering fall out boy's cover too now
THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Heyy one little tid bit for ya... Sobhuza II from Africa is the longest reigning monarch in recorded history. Not Queen Elizabeth... 😁😁
82 years and 254 days...
True! Sobhuza II was the longest reigning monarch ever, and Louis XIV was the longest reigning sovereign monarch. I think when I wrote this script I was thinking "longest reigning Queen" but I guess I messed that one up a little bit...
No worries, homie :) just gotta give credit where it's due (:
She is gaining on that
Virtually every comment about American politics is wrong.
Can you imagine if the polio vaccine was as politically weaponizesd as the Corona vaccine was????
THIS WAS AMAZING
5:30 bad news bud
no longer the case.
Wow. This is awesome!
Thank you, really glad you liked it!
Greetings from your new subscriber in India
Welcome to the gang! There aren’t many of us yet but I’m very happy to have you all here :)
Still wont be able to remember the lyrics
Pro tip, make nearly 30 minutes worth of videos explaining every lyric in the song. Trust me, you’ll never forget them ever again…
Dacron lining the inside of fish???????
You're right. It was Ryan.
If you go to chapters you get the lyrics
A delivery girl went to give me change and looked at me and said "Sorry, not good at math"; so I responded "Young Lady that is not math, that is counting---like on Sesame Street"! If this is a HX lesson to/for Americans, all I can say is 'what a pathetic mess we have made in our schools'!
Elvis never drove an 18 wheeler. He delivered auto parts in a pickup truck after school.
Now do the one by Fall Out Boy but the events in the lyrics aren't in chronological order
Were Rosenbergs really guilty?
Vietnam never got along with China nor the soviet union just because they were Vietnam was communist doesn't mean they were allies with China ho Chi min was a man who just wanted to see his people free from imperialist rule and he liked america and wanted their help but when they refused to help him he had no choice but to get aid from the soviet union
This man is a genius
There is a technique to it called "Slow the song down, then google the words"
@@Rahhahahahahah272 yes
great vid, liked
I thought trouble in the Suez was evergreen
I take offense to the guy doing the voice over for this vid blaming Truman and by extension the United States for starting the Cold War and arms race. The U.S wasn't obligated to maintain troops in Europe after WW2 and could've withdrawn those forces after the war. In fact, the US wasn't ever obligated to fight a land war in Europe in either World Wars and could've simply told Britian and Western Europe to solve the Problem of Nazism and later Communism themselves. We chose to stay in Europe and in doing so saved Western Europe from being turned into what eastern Europe became. There's no way Britian and the rest of Western Europe could've prevented a Soviet takeover and even Britian itself would've been squeezed to death by the Eastern block without American financial and military support after the war.
If the guy doing the voice over spent a week or 2 in North Korea, he would probably have a very different attitude towards the United States and actually appreciate what we did to keep the countries of Western Europe from becoming a Soviet slave camp.
Had Britian, France and Germany not kept trying to commit suicide, those nations would still be credible world powers and not dependant on American power for protection from Putin's Russia which is trying to do in Ukraine what Stalin and the Soviets were planning to do to Western Europe.
Not saying this guy would be speaking German without America getting dragged into WW2 but he would be speaking English with a Russian accent.
Next time, fight and win your own wars and we won't have to get dragged into it, you piss ant, irrelevant island 🖕
I wouldn't call it trivia.
The song is a lesson. I wish I went further.
I see the problem as nuclear military power leaving the superpowers disengaged from sustainable and compassionate progress.
All of the Billy Joel song events take place under the same era of bully policy, and now it has been repeated with the Israeli genocide, although thankfully not by means of nuclear bombs.
For the Suez it was a peace deal. Not a humiliating withdrawal.