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We Didn't Start The Fire

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Chef2, Oct 23, 2019.

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  1. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Edmunds has a cover of Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk" that smokes the original. And I love the original.


     
    PCLoadLetter, Oct 28, 2019
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  2. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    I was gonna mention this in my original post. I was in my late teens when this album came out and I played the shit out it.
     
    HC, Oct 28, 2019
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  3. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    When this came on during morning drive, writing the news got preempted for four fabulous minutes. Sometimes I'd be out of breath when the jock flipped my mic hot.

     
    maumann, Oct 28, 2019
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  4. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I hate, hate "We Didn't Start The Fire." That song came out when I was 14, not driving yet, so I was in a neighbor's carpool to school every day and they had a Mercedes wagon with speakers in the back door armrests. Weird design, and sound coming from there really made me dizzy. And for months on end, that song was always on. I can never hear it now and think of anything else.
     
    playthrough, Oct 28, 2019
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  5. Flip Wilson

    Flip Wilson Well-Known Member

    Totally agree. It’s an awful song. It’s almost as bad as Joel’s Uptown Girl.
     
    Flip Wilson, Oct 28, 2019
    #53
  6. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    When it comes to just excruciatingly bad songs Billy Joel is the 1927 Yankees.

    We Didn't Start the Fire
    Uptown Girl
    Goodnight Saigon
    Piano Man
    Allentown

    We once had a lively newsroom debate on the worst Billy Joel song. I think "Goodnight Saigon" was the consensus.
     
    PCLoadLetter, Oct 29, 2019
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  7. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    "Big Shot" is horribly horrendous. And then some.
     
    Slacker, Oct 29, 2019
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  8. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    Twice legendary...

    I remember listening to this live and Stern just asked them to give it a try acoustically.

     
    Scout, Oct 29, 2019
    #56
  9. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    Father John Misty's "Holy Shit" is another one. Kinda want to sing it at karaoke just so I can be branded a nihilistic twit.
     
    Cosmo, Oct 29, 2019
    #57
  10. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    'Behind Blue Eyes' and the Violent Femmes first album.
     
    justgladtobehere, Oct 29, 2019
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  11. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    "Repeat When Necessary". I was a little older, but ditto. Recorded at the same time as Nick Lowe's "Labor of Lust", and both are Rockpile records.
     
    Neutral Corner, Oct 29, 2019
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  12. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Then there are the covers that make your skin crawl...



     
    Neutral Corner, Oct 29, 2019
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