This is one of my fav Billy Joel songs partly because of the history in it (all events and things in his lifetime to the time he wrote the song) and just how darn catchy it is. I love Leo's take on it, too, great grunginess.
An amazing thing about this song is that it is EVER EVOLVING, if you ever see Billy perform this live, there are MORE VERSES that bring it up to "current date".
This is atleast the 5th time I've had a song stuck in my head and then it's Leo's cover on Friday. I was whistling this at work yesterday and have not listened to the song in years. Wtf man. Love the cover as always 😅
Another great redo of a classic. You are the only person in history who actually knows how to redo a song without ruining it. Fact is you make them better. Excellent work. I look forward to your next hit.
I love your music. I have shown some of it to my coworkers who now listen too. 168 hours from now I will be at a Billy Joel concert and I so hope he plays this song. Its one of my all time favorites of his, and your version is now on my play list too. Thank you
Given how difficult this song is to sing given the list of references in the song, I have to give you props for pulling this off. Billy Joel has commented how easy it to screw up just one line in this song and throw the whole song completely off the rails when playing it live which is why he doesn’t consider his favorite song to play live even though he still likes the song.
We can all go home, we found out who started the fire, it was Leo with a break down so fire it is present at every point of expansion, forward and back. Leo dun started the fire.
My wife and I were in a shopping center where we live last weekend and Billy Joel's version was on in one of the stores. I told my wife "This would be a cool song to metal up!" She agreed. You beat me to it! LOL! This is awesome!
"We didn't start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning" - Billy Joel, We Didn't Start The Fire. "Only from space, can you see how much earth is burning" - Billy Idol, Neuromancer
Gosh this brings back memories. I had to take an American Studies class in high school and we studied the lyrics of a couple songs and this was one of them. So I remember listening to this song in class and analyzing the lyrics. Too bad we didn't have this version 25 years ago
I did this in english in highschool i think, was learning about JFK for whatever reason, and the teacher put billys version on, been one of my favourite songs since!
I gave an AI to rewrite the song. Here it is. PROMPT: Rewrite the song "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel replacing the history of the last 20 years in the verses and keeping the chorus unchanged. Verse 1: We never switched the lightbulb on Apple released the iPod one Facebook was born, the world was stunned Google Maps had just begun 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 Verse 2: A new president was in command The iPhone brought a new demand Global warming made the scientists sigh The internet was in the sky 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 Verse 3: SpaceX made its maiden flight The gig economy took flight The #metoo movement rose up strong Netflix and chill became the song 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
I was always looking for a metal version of this song. You released it on my birthday too! Love you Leo. Your music is always brings out the best in me. :)💜
Opened youtube today and first i saw was this. Leo, thank you very much. I am so happy now. It was 3 years ago i wrote you first time asking to make cover for this song. Thank you, thank you, thank you
I feel like Billy Joel would be freaking the eff out about this…… I on the other hand think it rocks. Well done sir 🤘🤘 Now on to business: I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE (but I won’t do that). Epic is an overused term but would be completely appropriate…
I've seen Billy Joel 4 times in concert. But I'm also a metal head. .I've always wondered what Joel's music would sound like with a metal twist to it. Now I know and I love it.
Thank you. I've always loved this song and even won 2nd place in a solo contest playing it on clarinet when I was younger. This is now my favorite version 😊
Two weeks in a row, your weekly cover has been from the "I didn’t know that I needed this" file. This is great. Good job. By the way, did you skip a verse in there, when you played the solo?
There is a certain level of marketing genius at work here. Taking popular songs, making them metal(which is a fairly niche segment), and then making a humorous music video that keeps people watching. Bravo.
As a Billy Joel fan from childhood and playing all his songs on the piano from my house on Long Island - love love love this!!! More Billy PLEASE!!! Maybe Stilletto??!!?? Omg that would be incredible!!!!
! !! !!! !! !WoW LEO! !! !!! !! ! This was the first song as a child that helped me to realize how deep and essential music is for everyone regardless of their upbringing...I LOVE YOU{guys] homie...!!!!!!!TY!!!!!!!
Для первого пробного клипа не плохо получилось, желаю в дальнейшем продвинуться, контент то нормальный и набрать аудиторию, чувак попробуй в контакте свои клипы выглядывать, там в группах разных под творчество заточенных, это поможет продвижению, главное не забрасывай, потенциал то есть 🙂
This is probably the most cozy and sweetest studio in the world 😊 2:47 - Only a genius like you could make a guitar sing like a frog! This is beyond fantastic! 2:32- But this was dangerous (albeit impressive). Be careful please.😅❤
Let´s start with some fire going into the weekend! What do you wanna hear next? Let me know in the comments:)
Social Distortion or Mike Ness' songs - Ball and Chain, Winners and Losers, No Man's Friend, etc.
You're the best, Leo! Good luck!
It's been a few weeks so... Hotstepper? 🤣 pretty please?
KANSAS DUST IN THE WIND PLEASE LEO
SUNSET BY THE MIDNIGHT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Rapture by blondie please
Leo playing a tiny drum set will forever bring me happiness.
Oh and his amazing covers.
@Official_frog_leap_studios I hope your gift is an internet hug because that's all i need.
Love Billy Joel’s version, but Leo most certainly started a fire with this cover 🔥 awesome as always.
But he didn't light it, tried to fight it.
facts
Very nice!!!
He didn't start the fire, it was always burning.
This is why I keep coming back. You take a song, give it some edge, give it your style, and then blast it out of this world. Thanks Leo!
I will never get sick of seeing that mini drum kit 🤣. It makes me smile EVERY TIME ☺️
its the floppy wammy bar for me XD
Would love to see your daughter jamming on it along with you!
This is one of my fav Billy Joel songs partly because of the history in it (all events and things in his lifetime to the time he wrote the song) and just how darn catchy it is. I love Leo's take on it, too, great grunginess.
If you don't already know, someone did a version up to 2020 and it's really good, too!
An amazing thing about this song is that it is EVER EVOLVING, if you ever see Billy perform this live, there are MORE VERSES that bring it up to "current date".
Not only did you kill it, you brought it back to life then slayed it again 🤘🤘🤘
❤❤❤
I love the original of this, and you never disappoint. Thanks for another excellent cover.
Awesome solos / breakdowns!
Got chills as soon as I heard the opening riff.
This is atleast the 5th time I've had a song stuck in my head and then it's Leo's cover on Friday. I was whistling this at work yesterday and have not listened to the song in years. Wtf man. Love the cover as always 😅
Another great redo of a classic. You are the only person in history who actually knows how to redo a song without ruining it. Fact is you make them better. Excellent work. I look forward to your next hit.
Man, you just kill it everytime you've got something new to share. LOVED THIS!
I love your music. I have shown some of it to my coworkers who now listen too. 168 hours from now I will be at a Billy Joel concert and I so hope he plays this song. Its one of my all time favorites of his, and your version is now on my play list too. Thank you
1993 I used to listen to the Billy Joel version on cassette constantly. Thank you for brining the magic back to this song!
Given how difficult this song is to sing given the list of references in the song, I have to give you props for pulling this off. Billy Joel has commented how easy it to screw up just one line in this song and throw the whole song completely off the rails when playing it live which is why he doesn’t consider his favorite song to play live even though he still likes the song.
This man is fire, his music is fire and ALWAYS makes the day better a new song drops
We can all go home, we found out who started the fire, it was Leo with a break down so fire it is present at every point of expansion, forward and back. Leo dun started the fire.
I tune in a) to hear Leo's musical take on a song, and b) to see what kind of epic instrumental he always manages to sandwich into his covers!
My wife and I were in a shopping center where we live last weekend and Billy Joel's version was on in one of the stores. I told my wife "This would be a cool song to metal up!" She agreed. You beat me to it! LOL! This is awesome!
Bohemian Rhapsody would sound insane from you
Especially with his puppets 😂
Agreed
Same here🤟
Indeed
Agree
"We didn't start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning" - Billy Joel, We Didn't Start The Fire.
"Only from space, can you see how much earth is burning" - Billy Idol, Neuromancer
Gosh this brings back memories. I had to take an American Studies class in high school and we studied the lyrics of a couple songs and this was one of them. So I remember listening to this song in class and analyzing the lyrics. Too bad we didn't have this version 25 years ago
I did this in english in highschool i think, was learning about JFK for whatever reason, and the teacher put billys version on, been one of my favourite songs since!
It's a fast song packed with a lot of words normally. You pull it off so clean and distinctly, impressive.
Need an updated version of from where this one left off in history to current!
Exactly my thoughts evrytime I hear this song.
Steven Crowder would do it every August.
Catch any live show of Billy's where he performs this and you'll get to hear the "up to date version".
‼️🎸 Anything from any Metallica Album or some Hair Metal, how about the band Metal Church - Beyond the Black 🎸 ‼️
NEWCASTLE CALIFORNIA,USA 🇺🇸
I gave an AI to rewrite the song. Here it is.
PROMPT: Rewrite the song "We didn't start the fire" by Billy Joel replacing the history of the last 20 years in the verses and keeping the chorus unchanged.
Verse 1:
We never switched the lightbulb on
Apple released the iPod one
Facebook was born, the world was stunned
Google Maps had just begun
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
Verse 2:
A new president was in command
The iPhone brought a new demand
Global warming made the scientists sigh
The internet was in the sky
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
Verse 3:
SpaceX made its maiden flight
The gig economy took flight
The #metoo movement rose up strong
Netflix and chill became the song
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
You will never find someone that will love you as much as Leo loves whatever song he is currently playing at the moment.
Billy Joel is a legend and Leo covers legends so well...he always makes it his own 😎🤘♥️🔥👏
LOVING the new flavor palette of the breakdowns!
The first feels like a completely new approach, and the second one uses some great effects!
Billy Joel is one of my favorite artists and I love your style. This was amazing!
Touch and Go. Emerson, Lake, and Powell. Serious potential!!!!!! I think you could tear that song up!!!!!
Thanks for this Leo. I always loved this song. Totally needed the metal makeover.
Glad to see "Broccoli Studios" is still up and running the show 18 months later. Rock on Brocco-Leo eStudios!
One of my favorite songs, so glad to see this version!
Awesomeness! Always loved this song, but this puts the cherry on top!
When I was younger our band teacher played this constantly and wanted all of us to memorize every word.
The last titles don't knock me out of my seat. Take a break and reflect on what you've got! A life for noise and metal!
I learned this song in 8th grade. I can even remember most if it to the tune.
Great cover as always, Leo!
How timely and appropriate to bring this song back to life with the perfect amount of metal edge. Love it !
I was always looking for a metal version of this song. You released it on my birthday too! Love you Leo. Your music is always brings out the best in me. :)💜
Ahhh, the Billy Joel history lesson as sung by Leo. Great job.
I do this song at karaoke from time to time. Am I the only one who thinks Billy should have written a sequel every few years?
me too! i was kinda drunk so i had to watchg the words for first 2 verses but last verse i know by heart yay brad!
Thank you for that Jam. Its my ANTHEM as I walk out. New journey new year!
Love the original but Leo's take on is fun and amazing.
One of my childhood favorites 😍 ❤️ Billy Joel ❤️ 💙 ♥️ 💖 💕 💗 ❤️
Baita cover! Cada vez surpreendendo mais e mais!! Parabéns pelo trabalho realizado!!
Leo have been a fan for a long time my 7 year old daughter love hearing your transition from normal song to metal. Thank you!
Probably my favorite cover so far from this channel. seriously nice job.
Opened youtube today and first i saw was this. Leo, thank you very much. I am so happy now. It was 3 years ago i wrote you first time asking to make cover for this song. Thank you, thank you, thank you
Contrary to what the lyrics might lead you to believe, Leo's riffs DEFINITELY start fires!!!
/P.S.A.
Finally a Billy Joel cover, one of my fav artists. Leo, you nailed it...great job!!
Great cover, as always. Pleas make "I can`t dance" from Genesis, this would by awesome!
An exceptionally great talent.
Maybe we didn't, but Ryan did
Just seeing this, love it!
I was gonna comment something similar but ya beat me to it lmfao
Leo you did it again, your riffs are unbelievable man!! Your a musical genius!!!!
Awesome, as always!
Leo for president!
Love it!!!!! ❤️
I just can't stop myself, I keep clicking and clicking, each one is better than the last.
I feel like Billy Joel would be freaking the eff out about this……
I on the other hand think it rocks. Well done sir 🤘🤘
Now on to business:
I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE (but I won’t do that).
Epic is an overused term but would be completely appropriate…
I've seen Billy Joel 4 times in concert. But I'm also a metal head. .I've always wondered what Joel's music would sound like with a metal twist to it. Now I know and I love it.
Been hoping for this one for years, and you never, ever disappoint.
Thank you. I've always loved this song and even won 2nd place in a solo contest playing it on clarinet when I was younger. This is now my favorite version 😊
Two weeks in a row, your weekly cover has been from the "I didn’t know that I needed this" file. This is great. Good job.
By the way, did you skip a verse in there, when you played the solo?
YYYYYAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!! i honestly was just thinking you should do this after rebel yell!!!! and you read my mind!! WOOOO!!
RYAN STARTED THE FIRE!!!
2:33 we didn't start the fire! You did LM. YOU DID👍🏿
Leo has aged like an exquisite wine and I prophecy he will continue to do so.
I am a huge Billy Joel fan and have been hoping Leo would do one of his songs. This is absolutely amazing!!
Fantastic, Leo. Rock the 80's into awesome covers for us.
another amazing tune , by the best LEO ever
Great stuff ❤️🔥
There is a certain level of marketing genius at work here. Taking popular songs, making them metal(which is a fairly niche segment), and then making a humorous music video that keeps people watching. Bravo.
As a Billy Joel fan from childhood and playing all his songs on the piano from my house on Long Island - love love love this!!! More Billy PLEASE!!! Maybe Stilletto??!!?? Omg that would be incredible!!!!
Leo's version is always the best! I just don't know why 🔥
Always loved this song, now I love it even more!
С удовольствием вспомнил этот старый, но шикарный хит. Да и кавер, как всегда, на высоте.
Friday morning with Leo and a cup of coffee. It doesn't get any better 😆☕❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍
Спасибо большое, всегда радуете своим творчеством)))
! !! !!! !! !WoW LEO! !! !!! !! !
This was the first song as a child that helped me to realize how deep and essential music is for everyone regardless of their upbringing...I LOVE YOU{guys] homie...!!!!!!!TY!!!!!!!
You know what's funny, fallout boy brought me back here.
AGAIN with the KILLER breakdowns and a Guitar Solo!
Для первого пробного клипа не плохо получилось, желаю в дальнейшем продвинуться, контент то нормальный и набрать аудиторию, чувак попробуй в контакте свои клипы выглядывать, там в группах разных под творчество заточенных, это поможет продвижению, главное не забрасывай, потенциал то есть 🙂
I like Billy Joel a lot and this song and you did a great job with your version of this one! TY LEO!
Glory to Ukraine!
Героям слава!
Great song done with obvious passion and done well. Its honestly all I have to say.
Love all your remakes, they sound better than the originals! I would love to hear you do don't stop believing by journey 💗
He finally did it!! Let's go!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
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I like to listen to music Your cover is very from Thailand.
The Outro is back. Hell yeah! I missed it.
Solid cover especially your Leo-Parts inside.
This combines two of my favorite things: Billy Joel and awesome heavy metal covers.
Best parts of Leo's arrangements are always at the end.....
🏴excellent as always Leo 🏴
This is probably the most cozy and sweetest studio in the world 😊
2:47 - Only a genius like you could make a guitar sing like a frog! This is beyond fantastic!
2:32- But this was dangerous (albeit impressive). Be careful please.😅❤
I never tire of listening to it after so many years
Absolutely astounding cover of the old classic! Thanks!
The outro’s are always my favorite! Great job as always Leo!
Leo, Amazing!
This is the bomb!!!!!! Thank you Leo for ALL that you do and give us. You Sir are amazing
I always LOVE Leo's renditions.. ENTERTAINING to hear and see.. rock on Leo😎
The solo might be the best IMO Leo has ever dropped!