We didn't start the fire 2023 update!

[Indus]

Incase you have been in a coma the last 34 years..

 

[Amused]

It's just sad how much irrational fear mongering ignorance surrounds GMO technology.

Anti-GMO and anti-vax propaganda Venn diagrams make a nearly perfect circle.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Wonder why Metroid made the list. Granted, Prime is an absolute masterpiece.
I feel like Zelda has evolved quite a bit more from its inception.

 

[VashHT]

Wonder why Metroid made the list. Granted, Prime is an absolute masterpiece.
I feel like Zelda has evolved quite a bit more from its inception.

I still like the 2D Metroids more personally.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Ugh nice guy and competent artist. I cannot listen to this song another time.

 

[Brainonska511]

It's just sad how much irrational fear mongering ignorance surrounds GMO technology.

Anti-GMO and anti-vax propaganda Venn diagrams make a nearly perfect circle.

I agree, but it was worth including on their headline list because it was just supposed to be reflective of the major headlines over time.

Allegedly, Billy Joel wrote the original when a young friend quipped to him that nothing major had happened during Joel's youth, so it made sense for this version to follow in that vein.

 

[nakedfrog]

It's just sad how much irrational fear mongering ignorance surrounds GMO technology.

Anti-GMO and anti-vax propaganda Venn diagrams make a nearly perfect circle.

When I see "No GMO" on a label it makes me want to buy the product less, for catering to that nonsense

 

[Amused]

When I see "No GMO" on a label it makes me want to buy the product less, for catering to that nonsense

Yep, "Organic" and "GMO free" are automatic passes for me unless no better option exists.

 

[IronWing]

The original song was lame boomer faux nostalgia and the new version doesn't improve in that respect.

 

[Drach]

The original song was lame boomer faux nostalgia and the new version doesn't improve in that respect.

More like GenX.
<-GenXer

 

[Moonbeam]

I never buy GMO foods because I don't want to eat plants or animals that have human genes in them because the people I would be eating never get paid for the use of their genes.

 

[UNCjigga]

I think they missed the mark. By a lot.

 

[nakedfrog]

More like GenX.
<-GenXer

Uh, no, it's definitely boomer-oriented.

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
...
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?

And so on... Gen X doesn't start until 1965, Beatlemania was mid-late 60s, JFK assassination was 1963. This stuff is before Gen Xers would have memory of events.

 

[Amused]

Uh, no, it's definitely boomer-oriented.

And so on... Gen X doesn't start until 1965, Beatlemania was mid-late 60s, JFK assassination was 1963. This stuff is before Gen Xers would have memory of events.

Yep, definitely boomer spanning 40s, 50s, 60s and early (barely) 70s.

Joel was born in 49.

BUT, it was written for the gen-xer generation.

Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-year-old friend of Sean Lennon who said "It's a terrible time to be 21!". Joel replied: "Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful". The friend replied: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's different for you. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties". Joel retorted: "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?". Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.

 

[zinfamous]

I still like the 2D Metroids more personally.

Dread is amazing. I've never had and still have zero interest in playing those 3D craps that aren't really Metroid, tbh.

 

[zinfamous]

Yep, definitely boomer spanning 40s, 50s, 60s and early (barely) 70s.

Joel was born in 49.

BUT, it was written for the gen-xer generation.

Joel conceived the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a 21-year-old friend of Sean Lennon who said "It's a terrible time to be 21!". Joel replied: "Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful". The friend replied: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's different for you. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties". Joel retorted: "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?". Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.

"Rock and Roller cola wars" was the mid-80s, though...being the only lyric I recall from the original, it definitely leaks well into middle-aged boomer territory.

 

[Vic]

Absolutely true story: back in 2019 I was on a business trip in Eastern PA and our flight flew in and out of Lehigh Valley. I had never been there before so I remarked to a younger co-worker that I was travelling with that I couldn't believe I was in Allentown right before they tore the old mill down.
And she looked at me quizically.
And I'm like yaknow, Billy Joel.. Allentown..
Dazed expression.
Just sayin.

 

[Amused]

"Rock and Roller cola wars" was the mid-80s, though...being the only lyric I recall from the original, it definitely leaks well into middle-aged boomer territory.

The Cola wars only reached their peak in the mid 80s. But started in earnest a decade earlier in 1975 when Pepsi started their blind taste test "Pepsi Challenge" commercials.

In reality, Coke and Pepsi had been at war for decades.

1975: Cola wars heat up with launch of Pepsi Challenge

www.thedrum.com

 

[Brainonska511]

One of the big things wrong with this adaptive cover is that the new events are not in chronological order. The original, as rote as it is, at least follows events chronologically.

 

[Indus]

Beau's inbox overflowed after the song came out:

 

[SMOGZINN]

The mention the Fermi Paradox, which was first stated in 1950, but fail to mention COVID19?

 

[Indus]

The mention the Fermi Paradox, which was first stated in 1950, but fail to mention COVID19?

They forgot to mention Manchester City getting double relegated and then recovering to win 7 English Titles and a European treble!

Much more relevant than 23 and 45

 

[Oyeve]

Yep, "Organic" and "GMO free" are automatic passes for me unless no better option exists.

Same here. BUT, recently I have been buying organic chopmeat at Costco and it is a much superior product than their regular beef. Expensive but worth it.

 

[hal2kilo]

Same here. BUT, recently I have been buying organic chopmeat at Costco and it is a much superior product than their regular beef. Expensive but worth it.

I was a kid when DDT was still being used widely. At this age, I just DGAF.

 

[Captante]

I was a kid when DDT was still being used widely. At this age, I just DGAF.

I still remember taking "Silent Spring" out from my local library as a kid ... it was quite an eye-opener.

Science has in reality understood we are destroying the environment with constant growth for a LONG time.

The sad reality in America is these days it's just 100% proof that capitalism doesn't work. (and humanity IS a virus!)