• CassowaryTom@lemmy.one
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    3 months ago

    That was a hard upvote, man. You 100% just stole 20 seconds of my time. On the other hand, I wasn’t doomscrolling.

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    3 months ago

    I’m amazed other people can actually do that. I’ve heard that song hundreds of times, but I can neither recall the tune nor the lyrics. I don’t think there is any song I could hum more than 10s of.

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      3 months ago

      I memorized the lyrics just so I could tell people I did it.

      As for the tune, the melody is like three notes repeating and the chorus so not too bad.

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      3 months ago

      The title in the post is misleading in that it refers to the chorus/title of the song.

      These game titles are supposed to match the verse of the song, so they won’t match with “we didn’t start the fire” but rather the obscure lyrics in the verse, which is just a ramble of words fitting a simple rhythm:

      “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”

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        I’ve got that far, after all, I know the song. I’m just so bad at anything rhythmic, I cannot read any lyrics as anything else but plain text. In my head, even my favorite songs lyrics are read like an essay about the cultural importance of potatoes in China.

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          Jokes on you, I hate this song. Same goes for “It’s the end of the world as we know it” by REM. I don’t know why, but those two songs get under my skin

          Not to say it’s a bad song, but I absolutely hate it :)

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            3 months ago

            That’s is perfectly fine, there are plenty of songs that I know are masterpieces that I hate and will refuse to listen to.

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          Brilliant concept. Will check it out later, hope it’s good.

          In 2021, a weekly podcast began, hosted by Katie Puckrik and Tom Fordyce, entitled We Didn’t Start the Fire. Each week they examine a subject mentioned in the Billy Joel song, in lyric order, and discuss its importance and cultural significance with an expert guest.

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      3 months ago

      I should be able to do this but it isn’t working. Another commenter fixed.mr moskeeto but I found other problems after that like Madagascar.

  • Bye@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Needs one more syllable before The Simpsons Hit and Run. Like if the game “Black” was right before it.

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      I just sang it with a syllable pause after “Simpsons.” Either that, or just slip in the word, “and” at the beginning.

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      3 months ago

      It’s not perfect, but neither were the syllables in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”