We Didn't Start The Fire (2)

[wolfman99913300]

HELL YES YOU ADDED POKEMON

[rockymarciano237]

suposed to be sugar ray robinson

[SuperHotLarry]

lots of errors?!?!?! i was younger than u when i uploaded my first vid and its still better

[vs367]

what about Derek Jeter huge deal best shortstop of all time

[osirisvirus8]

this would make an educational guitar hero song

[PointGiven007]

Good video, but Sugar Ray is supposed to refer to the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson

[bibigirl52895]

was your teacher mr. tuuttle cause i am doing this same project right now lolz!!!!!!!!

[prem73]

Anthony Kuske !!! Yours is probably the best video which shows the major events year by year. I remember watching clip long time back and I liked the way you did it. And you also included the extended version which was nice to watch.

Now this is one History Lesson Song which every body should try to understand the meaning and watch.

While watching this song give marks to your General Knowledge to the event you could recollect or understand and see how much marks in history you score hahaha

[LoSici88]

LOVE THIS SONG! :)

[LoSici88]

WOW! how did you get the up to 2004 on it to fit?!?!?!?! it is amazing. i love this song and the video, it must of taken ages to make!!! :) :) :) :)

[Phototropic00]

Nice job. I like the updates. Every time I take a long drive & hear this song I think about how it needs to be updated, so props to you for that!! :)

[Immortalclaw]

heavy metal suicide is ment to be together

[boxerinj]

wrong sugar ray

[davidng5000]

@SweetDragonful i didnt start the flame war... YOU DID!!! at least... tried to

[goldghast]

yea, wrong congo... the country on the map below that is Zaire (what the Belgians held).. after that, the song/pictures were great 5/5

[SSTTEEAALLTTHH]

Congo and Zaire are one and the same country, they just changed names a few times. I'm from Belgium

[ConorTheTaxiMan]

dont worry about the mistakes - when i was 14 i could barely write my own name. take a bow, kid :0)

[lakelowe]

lol Alabama.

[3media]

@moritzdasecke: there's a lot of things wrong with this, but the years are correct

[3cho911]

nice job

[Llclk]

awesome haha u did half of my homework for me dude

[4533halo]

@Llclk yeah im researching this today

[Kzzori]

@Llclk this is actually how i answered a question on my history test (the answer was Khrushchev)

[jordanhanlon11]

good vid man

[MultiGLaDOS]

Sputnik from scrapland LOL

[nick12506]

Wrong it was monkeys.

[mkv5000]

wrong south pacific. it should stand for the musical play.

[NateRiley3000]

Wrong Sugar Ray

[kasttt]

How is that funny?

[666Satyrias666]

It rhymes^^

[deltaninertango]

you know, I always thought it was "trouble in the sewers". Seriously. "Trouble in the Suez" makes more sense. Actually, if you asked me before watching this, "trouble in the sewers" was probably the only lyric I knew other than the chorus.

[killingfloor70]

Haha. I get that with alot of songs.

[MrMcMuffinz]

some of the lyrics are wrong

[draconicon2]

Very few of them. Only one that really jumps out at me is the comma between Starkweather and Homicide.

[TWisch]

whoever made this video... sugar ray in 1951, that should propably be Sugar Ray Robinson, not sugar ray the band......

[Twiggy9009]

FINALLY A FREAKIN SONG THAT STARTS SUDDENLY usually it takes me 20 seconds just to make it start ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!! lol

[mac10guy]

nothin hurts me more then see a good piece of history rot away

[irish89055]

keep trying...

[knoxvilleguy2]

How can anyone NOT love this song ????

Also, was it Billy Joels idea to update it?

Curious......

[BoundaryRoads]

I think it should be updated. YouTube, galipoka, and Obama.

[knoxvilleguy2]

galipoka...... ???

I'm not that ot of the loop, I HOPE !!!!!

But yeah, it should be udated, hopefully by Billy Joel himself.

He wrote after talking to John Lennon's son Julian about the way the present was.

[BoundaryRoads]

Harry Potter, Fred Phelps, Jesus Camp.

Actually, galipoka is your typical 21st century kid.

The Internet has been around longer than he has. He is reacting to things that I never dreamed about when I was his age.

[knoxvilleguy2]

Got ya, & I know where you're coming from !

God, there are kids out there who won't know about Watergate, Vietnam, the Apollo missions or life before the Internet & iPods, etc.

[mac10guy]

its sad enough that kids already odnt know about those before ipods

[knoxvilleguy2]

mac10guy:

That's an Amen!! from me !!

Anything over a year old is considered ancient......

It's scary when I think that Michael Jackson & I are the same age......

[mac10guy]

for god sakes i drive a 1979 ford pickup and i gotta work on it myself because most mechanics cant even figure out how it works whats sad about that is im only 22!

[knoxvilleguy2]

" Time rolls on. The wheels on the bus go 'round & 'round " - The Bucket List.

Hell, I saw where someone ditched a Chevy Impala in a church parking lot w / antique plates. A vintage auto, rotting / rusting away. Sad. The owner is doing time.

[elreenlynch]

0:55

Was that Mark McGrath from the band Sugar Ray? And that was in 1951? Yeah right. I think Billy Joel meant Sugar Ray Robinson, the professional boxer.

[cwcoyne]

South Pacific is a musical...

[BranBilar]

Tell us more lappy, your story about punk and ragheads sure was exciting

[jinzo2678]

douche bag, way to ruin a good song!

[Damemary]

Lappy you are a clever person but what a bore... just listen to the music and enjoy...Yes i am a teacher too but not entreanched in history

[lappy63]

Billy Joel was a history major in college, and each stanza deals with a separate decade in US/world history (each are very intertwined). Yes it is not a complete list, and each country's list would be different, but all of these references are historical and impact America or the world in some way.

This was Joel's bain to hsitory!

[racingfan2k10]

the extra 1s 4 2005-2009

7/7 21/7 windows vista im a pc alonso beats schumacher recession lewis hamilton stock market hudson river global warming nhs gordon brown alistair darling and more lol

[Zuifan]

to those who are trying to correct this video: no one cares about accuracy, people watch these things for entertainment

to 3media: awesome job, new fave ^_^

[DresdenStarwing]

...Obviously people care about accuracy, otherwise we wouldn't be commenting about some of the inaccuracy.

[Zuifan]

no one likes a smartass, wisen up you moron I was saying that inaccuracy is not important in a SONG, if it were a genuine historical artical, or anything of knowledge based importance sure, but it's a song

[DresdenStarwing]

I wasn't trying to be a smart ass, only commenting on the fact that some people do actually care about accuracy, not just the entertainment value of the 'song'...

[Zuifan]

some people need to get a life

[DresdenStarwing]

Some people need to realize that there are people who like history out there

[Zuifan]

this is a song, I don't think Billy Joel even cared about historical accuracy

[DresdenStarwing]

It mentions people, locations, events (et al) that actually happened...hence the to do about the accuracy of the song...

[Zuifan]

funniest thing about it is that it's just a song, historical accuracy, references or not, is unimportant, a song is created to either send a message, or for entertainment purposes

[kc2158]

Sugar Ray Robinson was a boxer some say he was the best pound for pound fighter of all time had classic fights against jack lamotta

[holypoop0]

yay, somebody who hasn't forgotten boxing! yeah, but i have to say george foreman was one of the best pount for pound fighter.

[mccainiscool]

Best Song Ever

[winglessepyon]

sugar ray was a boxer I highly doubt he is referring to the 90's band.

[007teamfire]

yeah prolly not since he wrote this song in 1984

[Jermicheal1]

Also, i think sugar ray was a boxer, not a guitarist, and the Ole miss is the University of Mississippi admitting it's first black student. Or thats what i have come up in research.

[Jermicheal1]

I have this project now, we have to get a picture and identify every single event or person. Extra credit if we add up events to now

[dadecountyhustler305]

Please. The last thing America needs is a German lecturing us about our racial past. ROFLMAO!!!!!!

[draconicon2]

Hmmm, perhaps if we can't learn it here, we could learn from those that know.

[275149]

nice one!

[whollybologna]

the new verses are awesome! keep up the good work!

[ergfff]

Don't want to be shitting on details, but just for the record. The Congo Billy Joel meant was the Democratical Republic, not the little country just above.

[torturedklown]

not to ruin your correction, but when the song was written the Democratic Republic of the Congo was still know to the world as Zaire.

[KevinVO]

When Belgium colonised it, it was still known as Congo though. It wouldn't make any sense to say "Belgians in Zaire".

[DresdenStarwing]

It fits the rhythm better that 'Belgians in Congo'

[rmar67]

The video showed the wrong Congo. The DR of Congo, also called Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Zaire, and before that Belgian Congo) is the larger Congo. That picture was of the Republic of Congo, or Congo-Brazzaville, formerly the French Congo.

[S7RlK3R]

I liked the part at the end too. good job

[asukapyro]

think it would be better if the last bit instead of 69-89 you put the individual lines in for what year it was

[passthefries]

damn this is one fucked up world history

[DresdenStarwing]

It's just American, and American interference, 'history' of the past 50 odd years...Not 'world history'...

Hate to be an ass about it, but the US =/= 'the world'

[lappy63]

That is not the point of this video-- if you actually listened to it, a good third of the historical references are "world" references, not just American history.

By the way, what country in the world has influenced world culture, music, literature, arts, politics, technology and life in general MORE than the USA? Hmmm.. can't name too many, can you?

[DresdenStarwing]

Actually, I can...England, Germany (in all of it's different forms), France, Japan, China, India, Iraq, Iran, Eygpt....I could go on....The US has actually done diddly-squat to world culture....

[ToastmasterB]

Those countries certainly have the advantage of a head start, but to say that the United States has done 'diddly squat' in the world is patently untrue.

America's political system, sometimes labeled 'The Grand Experiment,' was so dubbed because it was unprecedented--the idea had its roots in Europe, but America was the test case. Now most countries have some form of democracy in place, including Germany.

We're also the reason 'Coca-Cola' is the most recognized word in the English language. :)

[DresdenStarwing]

^Sighs^ How much history have you actually taken? The US is barely 250 years old....You borrow a lot from other cultures, but you have no ONE defining 'American Culture.' There is no new synthesis of material that does not heavily rely on another country's pre-existing culture....

Even your politics...

[lappy63]

As a history teacher, I have an acute awareness of world cultures, but their influences are mostly within its own region, not world-wide influences (ie. China's dynasties largely influenced China, not, say Africa, except for some trading).

Most of the countries you mentioned have cultures that took thousands of years to develop; incidentally, the USA had native cultures 5000 years before the USA was established (when Columbus "discovered" America, there were 2,000,000 people living here!).

[lappy63]

To say USA has given "diddly squat" to world culture is simply ignorant, an example of jealousy, or both. American art and literature has not been surpassed since say, 1910, and America has contributed two types of music ("Jazz" and "Rock") to history (what form of music has GB contributed?), and its modern art has not been surpassed (it is widely acknowledged that the MMA in NYC is the greatest modern art building in the world-- sorry Tate, Louvre, Bilbao, etc).

[DresdenStarwing]

Erm...Jazz and Rock are based off of African roots music...so it's due to the heavy slave trade that America 'created' those forms of music.

Music that the UK has influance: The marches of Holst, Edward Elgar (thousand's of grads march to his music every year), the thousands of folk songs that the US has adapted and rearanged into 'their' music, the entire punk movement (The Clash and their ilk), Radiohead...I could go on.

Literature: Tolkien (1930s), Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman...

[lappy63]

Oh yeah.. the folk music started by mostly Irish (Clancy Brothers, etc) and didn;t take off until America adopted it and refined it (Dylan, Baez, etc).. Ask any English band worth their salt and they will attribute their love of music to American influences (blues, rock and roll, Motown, etc)-- without American influences you have no Beatles and Stones-- they all listened to Amer music and influenced them greatly.

[metalskaters123]

well arguably GB created punk rock lol

velvet underground?

[lappy63]

And lastly, being from GB you would not know this, but America has always just done her thing when it comes to art, technology, literature, style, fashion, ingenuity, creativity, etc. It is the rest of the world who follows us and laps up our stuff... we are always surprised when we hear Iranian kids wearing AMerican jeans and hoodies...

[lappy63]

g hoodies and American jeans and watching American TV on Hulu...(they LOVE USA and emulate us, not GB or France btw.. a good friend's husband is Iranian and each time they visit, the kids lap up our culture and music.. they do not pine for French rap (another copy of American music!)...Go pound sand, you jealous lymie bastard!

[DresdenStarwing]

Gods, it's spelt "Limey" as in the fruit, if you're going to insult me, at least do it correctly you bloody yank....

[lappy63]

Well, according to those who first used the term, they spelled it "Limy" (and "Limie" too).. it has only been amended to fit modern sensibilities...

Also, the slave trade was begun by the Dutch and English (there you go again!) and exported to America with English settlers.. (more contributions to the world.. slavery and imperialism... go Limies!)

[lappy63]

Also, Punk was a movement born from the slums of London, and was more of a political movement than a musical one, in response to the demeaning class system in England and the lack of upward mobility of the lower classes there. It became a musical movement only after it spread to the suburbian bourgeois of London.. it was a movement, and was based on American Rock and Roll. More of an avenue to express frustration than music.

God Save the Queens!

[cl0ckt0wer]

lappy, you're not apathetic enough to be american

[pimppangwin2]

You got the U2 part right though. GOOD JOB!

[twobitmage]

I get the impression that "sugar ray" was a reference to the boxer, not to the earl 2000's band.

Nice work, otherwise, though.

[pimppangwin2]

thats because it is.

[KnightOfTheSeal]

Argh, my history teacher wants me to memorize all these names. Time to watch it about 20+ more times!

[blizzard493]

not bad for more material added to the song.

[MegatronYES]

lol without tallstriders

[TehDah]

Lebanon looks like Darkshore