HP Lovecraft Poem Nemesis set to Billy Joel’s Piano Man is Special
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Ok, no comment on this, haven't listened yet, but I was just mulling some Billy Joel minutiae in my head today, particularly in regard to "We Didn't Start the Fire". And this comes from a place of love...as I'm one of the one person who likes that song.
So, what's always perplexed me a bit is how he blows right by the 70s. So weird. He's got like 2.5 verses at least on the 1950s. And 1.5-2.25 verses on the 1960s. And the better part of one verse on the 1980s.
Now, what year you peg something is debatable...in many cases it could role over multiple years and therefore decades. But I would argue he has only a single entry that is strictly, and definitively, the 1970s..."Watergate".
I think you could give partial credit if you're generous to "Punk Rock." I don't think it's outrageous to peg this to the 1970s. The other potential attribute is "Terror on the airlines"...but I'm less generous to this one. Yes, the 1970s was the golden age of highjacking, but I'm going to say by the use of "terror" instead of "highjacking" and the placement, that he's clearly referring more to the planes brought down by bombings in the 1980s.
So...he's got at most two tags for the entire decade of the 1970s, while he rips off like 17 things from the 1980s.
Has anyone every asked him what that's about? Does he hate the 70s for some reason? Did he have to cut a verse? I find it perplexing.
And one final note...LOL at the idea of "rock and roller cola wars" being worthy of inclusion in this song. He much cringe every time he sings that, that he picked something of such historical irrelevance. How did he possibly read something in people about Madonna signing with Pepsi, and think, "Man, people are going to be talking about this for a long time." Such an incredible whiff, and not only in retrospect. How on earth did he think that was an appropriate pull?
So, what's always perplexed me a bit is how he blows right by the 70s. So weird. He's got like 2.5 verses at least on the 1950s. And 1.5-2.25 verses on the 1960s. And the better part of one verse on the 1980s.
Now, what year you peg something is debatable...in many cases it could role over multiple years and therefore decades. But I would argue he has only a single entry that is strictly, and definitively, the 1970s..."Watergate".
I think you could give partial credit if you're generous to "Punk Rock." I don't think it's outrageous to peg this to the 1970s. The other potential attribute is "Terror on the airlines"...but I'm less generous to this one. Yes, the 1970s was the golden age of highjacking, but I'm going to say by the use of "terror" instead of "highjacking" and the placement, that he's clearly referring more to the planes brought down by bombings in the 1980s.
So...he's got at most two tags for the entire decade of the 1970s, while he rips off like 17 things from the 1980s.
Has anyone every asked him what that's about? Does he hate the 70s for some reason? Did he have to cut a verse? I find it perplexing.
And one final note...LOL at the idea of "rock and roller cola wars" being worthy of inclusion in this song. He much cringe every time he sings that, that he picked something of such historical irrelevance. How did he possibly read something in people about Madonna signing with Pepsi, and think, "Man, people are going to be talking about this for a long time." Such an incredible whiff, and not only in retrospect. How on earth did he think that was an appropriate pull?
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