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If someone were to make a modern interpretation of "We didnt start the fire"

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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, 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, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, 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

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
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what people, things, places, inventions etc. would be talked about?

(1989-current day)
 
That song covers a good chunk of modern history.
You want to try and continue it from the 1980s.

Honestly gotta say it's a good thread idea.
 
Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
Do your own homework?
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im in college with the following classes, tell me where that would fit in

ECET 233 (electronics)
Stat 225
Phys 221
CPT 272 (database design)
CPT 280 (UML)
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
That song covers a good chunk of modern history.
You want to try and continue it from the 1980s.

Honestly gotta say it's a good thread idea.
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it would actually have to be 1989 to current day.
 
mp3, hong kong, hybrids, michael jackson, internet, katrina, laci peterson, robert blake, desert storm/shield, 9/11 (and related war), SARS, bird flu, etc...
 
Originally posted by: Bozono
Gay marriage, multinationals, ever-expanding telecom monopolies, melting glaciers
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Ever Expanding telecom monopolies? 😕

You're obviously too young to remember the 80s and Ma Bell. We aren't anywhere close to that.
 
Thats a great song, and I don't think it needs to be modified. Its really just about human nature. We forget what happens and only think about the present. It reminds us to think about the past and how much it means in the present and the future.
 
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
Ronnie Reagan, Kurt Cobain, Failed State, ????
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Spamalot, Sharon Stone, Mark Maquire

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, ??????, ??????
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
North Korea South Korea, Jessica Alba

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Aldridge Ames, SDI, Mike Tyson, Guantonimo
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Clooney, ??????, ???????

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Bush One and Two, HIV England's still got the same queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
???????????????????????

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Saddam Hussein, Milosevitch, Arafat and Netenyahu
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Microsoft, Oracle, ???????

Roy hn, 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, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, 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

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
Click to expand...

what people, things, places, inventions etc. would be talked about?

(1989-current day)
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i remember my local news station, i think channel 7 back in 1999 or 1998 made a version of that song with up2 date names and news stories. it was pretty kewl
ill try 2 find it
 
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