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"We Didn't Start the Fire", like Billy Joel's original version released in 1989, is a catalog of major events in world history through a certain time period. Joel's original mainly centers around the events during and surrounding the Cold War, and Fall Out Boy's version continues where Joel's ends, covering the events from 1989 to 2023.
On June 28, 2023, Fall Out Boy released their own version of the song with updated lyrics that references events that happened from 1989 to 2023. Unlike Joel's original, Fall Out Boy's version did not list events in chronological order. On September 12, 2023, the band performed it at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. [23]
The original lyrics [8] were composed on February 23, 1940, in Guthrie's room at the Hanover House hotel at 43rd St. and 6th Ave. (101 West 43rd St.) in New York. The line "This land was made for you and me" does not appear in the original manuscript at the end of each verse, but is implied by Guthrie's writing of those words at the top of the page and by his subsequent singing of the line ...
Vic Chesnutt, a folk singer discovered by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, recorded a very loose cover of the song for the 1992 R.E.M. tribute album Surprise Your Pig. Newfoundland folk-rockers Great Big Sea covered the song on their 1997 album Play under the title "End of the World".
Combichrist covered the song on their album One Fire, with lyrics updated with the year 1984 changed to 2024. Thrash metal band Vio-lence released a cover version of this song in 2020. [6] In 1991 czech punk rock band Tři sestry (Czech band) released album Alkáč je největší kocour, aneb několik písní o lásce that consist only of covers.
Stephen C. Foster. " My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night! ", typically shortened to " My Old Kentucky Home ", is a sentimental ballad written by Stephen Foster, probably composed in 1852. [1] [2] [3] It was published in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York. [1] [4] Foster was likely inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe 's anti-slavery novel ...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated. " The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated " (otherwise known as " The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date) ") was written in 1900 [ 1] by Mark Twain, as a parody of American imperialism, in the wake of the Philippine–American War. It is written in the same tune and cadence as the ...
In 1968 the Eli Radish Band recorded an updated Outlaw Country Rock version of the song to protest the Vietnam War. Their Capitol Records album bore the same title. Hamish Imlach released a version of the song on his 1987 album Sonny's Dream. The lyrics were altered for context, including reference to the British Empire.