And so begins my quest to write a series of posts inspired by We Didn’t Start the Fire, by Billy Joel. Why? Because sometimes it’s hard to come up with something to write about. And because I want to. That’s Why.
If you aren’t familiar with the song, start here.
I will list the lyrics below. When I finish a post, I’ll link it here. That’s how I’ll keep track of what I’ve written about. (I won’t be going in order.)
I don’t make any claim that what I write about will be in any way related to the significance of the lyric in the song. Some may be only loosely related to the topic.
Oh, and I won’t retroactively apply the tag to old posts, though I may have covered some of these topics in the past.
Here goes:
- Harry Truman (Post 7, 5/27/09)
- Doris Day (Post 6, 4/29/09)
- Red China
- Johnny Ray
- South Pacific
- Walter Winchell
- Joe DiMaggio
- Joe McCarthy
- Richard Nixon
- Studebaker
- Television
- North Korea (Post 3, 4/6/09)
- South Korea (Post 3, 4/6/09)
- Marilyn Monroe
- Rosenbergs
- H-bomb (Post 4, 4/13/09)
- Sugar Ray
- Panmunjom (Post 3, 4/6/09)
- Brando
- The King and I
- And The Catcher In The Rye
- Eisenhower
- Vaccine
- England’s got a new queen
- Marciano
- Liberace
- Santayana goodbye
- Joseph Stalin
- Malenkov
- Nasser and Prokofiev
- Rockefeller
- Campanella
- Communist Bloc
- Roy Cohn
- Juan Peron
- Toscanini
- Dacron
- Dien Bien Phu Falls
- Rock Around the Clock
- Einstein
- James Dean
- Brooklyn’s got a winning team
- Davy Crockett
- Peter Pan
- Elvis Presley
- Disneyland
- Bardot (Post 5, 4/29/09)
- Budapest
- Alabama
- Khrushchev
- Princess Grace
- Peyton Place
- Trouble in the Suez
- Little Rock
- Pasternak
- Mickey Mantle
- Kerouac
- Sputnik
- Chou En-Lai
- Bridge On The River Kwai
- Lebanon
- Charles de Gaulle
- California baseball
- Starkweather homicides
- Children of Thalidomide
- Buddy Holly
- Ben Hur
- Space Monkey
- Mafia
- Hula Hoops
- Castro
- Edsel is a no-go
- U-2 (Post 1, 3/29/09)
- Syngman Rhee (Post 3, 4/6/09)
- payola and
- Kennedy
- Chubby Checker
- Psycho
- Belgians in the Congo
- Hemingway
- Eichman
- Stranger in a Strange Land (Post 8, 8/5/09)
- Dylan
- Berlin
- Bay of Pigs invasion
- Lawrence of Arabia
- British Beatlemania
- Ole Miss
- John Glenn
- Liston beats Patterson
- Pope Paul
- Malcolm X (Post 2, 3/31/09)
- British Politician sex
- J.F.K. blown away
- Birth control
- Ho Chi Minh
- Richard Nixon back again
- Moonshot
- Woodstock
- Watergate
- punk rock
- Begin
- Reagan
- Palestine
- Terror on the airline
- Ayatollah’s in Iran
- Russians in Afghanistan
- Wheel of Fortune
- Sally Ride
- heavy metal suicide
- Foreign debts
- Homeless Vets
- AIDS
- Crack
- Bernie Goetz
- Hypodermics on the shores
- China’s under martial law
- Rock and roller cola wars
I can’t take it anymore…
7/118
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How is this a song?
Can I pick 120 words from the dictionary, put them to a melody, and then call it a song?
Maybe you need to write about the significance of WDSTF so our… younger… audience will understand.
@Junior- They are 120 significant names, places or events from the 20th century, arranged in chronological order.
Plus they rhyme.
And it’s a got a great beat.
If you can’t see the artistic value in that, I can’t help you.
Kids these days. Show some respect…and get off my lawn!
Also
Ep0pEE, while I agree with your sentiment, I’d hardly call what you have around your house a ‘lawn.’
It is called a ‘Wild Lawn’ and it is the green thing to do. Now excuse me, I have a polar bear to save.
I dare you to try and say that with a straight face! It’s called a ‘wild dog’ who destroyed the yard (despite all that work we did to it when you were thinking of selling) and you are too lazy to do anything with the rest of it!
Wow, don’t hold back Tom. Is there anything else you need to get off your chest? Time to come out of the closet maybe?