and ᴮᴵᴸᴸʸ ᴶᴼᴱᴸ is not afraid

This is the song Weird Al will sing from his five mouths as he plays the accordion that ends the world.

I can imagine a Cicierega-Yankovic stage performance with a keyboard and an accordion, essentially a parody battle.

You can tell he wasn't just making music. He heard this in his head. For years. It became a yearning. A drive. A unyielding feeling to release this. He could not hold it in any longer.

damn neil really made a song about those god awful monkey nfts 7 years before they happened.

REM in one corner, Billy Joel in the other, Al yankovich is the referee

"Are you afraid, Billy?" " ...no." "You should be."

This sounds like the credits theme for humanity.

This track contains the only text to speech edit Neil has done across the currently now 4 mouth albums. And it's "Billy Joel"

It's A. The end of the world as we know it B. Been one week since you looked at me C. A cool place, but they say it gets colder

So apparently Mr. Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny is actually one of the greatest musical minds of our generation.

It's like hearing both generations screaming at you at once as you're trying to work

if you wish to sing along, then simply summon your ethereal 2nd vocal orifice

this with stereo headphones gives me a sensory fucking overload

Everybody sees the parts of the song as fighting each other, but I think they're actually agreeing toward the same message: the world's ending and everything sucks, but we'll be fine because the world has always been ending, and everything sucking is a part of the human condition. It's oddly pessimistically peaceful.

I love how one song is all about it being the end of the world and the other song is all about it not being the end of the world.

Legend says Neil can sing this song.

As I lay on the hospital bed, tears stream down my family's face. They sob as I carefully lift my laptop into my lap. I turn on this song as they all stop their tears. Mid way through this song I die, my family cries in disappointment.

If anyone ever wants to know what it's like to have ADHD, just listen to this song and try to hold a conversation at the same time.

Billy Joel is a braver man than I.

The first time I listened to "Mouth Silence" was on headphones while cleaning my house. I intentionally didn't look at track listing or anything, so I could be surprised... This track came on, and it was such an assault on my brain, I had to just stop and stand there in shock and confusion. It was glorious... ...and it still is.

this... honestly feels like how 2020 is starting. but it also sounds like the theme tune for severe anxiety

And 🄱🄸🄻🄻🅈 🄹🄾🄴🄻 is not afraid

Both of the Mouth albums blew my mind. It's a blend of "OH GOD NO" and "OH GOD YES" at the same time.

First half sounds like two singers fighting over a single stage with a small organ player in-between them. The rest is just pure art.

Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice, giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake

I feel like I'm having a stroke.

I swear I heard this in a fever dream once.

aka, the hardest song to sing along to

We didn't start the end of the world as we know it

Almost exactly 6 Gregorian years later, this song feels extremely relevant. At least we can go out dancing.

Sorry I'm late. Here's hoping the formatting on this doesn't break after I post it. Lyrics: That's great it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane, and 𝙱𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 is not afraid Eye of a hurricane,              Harry Truman, Doris Day, listen to yourself churn            Red China, Johnnie Ray, World serves it's own needs          South Pacific, Walter Windhell, Don't mis-serve your own needs        Joe DiMaggio Speed it up a notch, speed,           Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, grunt, no strength               Studebaker, Television, The ladder starts to clatter           North Korea, South with a fear of height, down, height        Korea, Marilyn Monroe Wire in a fire, representing seven games     Rosenbergs, h-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, And a government for hire and a combat site   Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye Left of west and coming in a hurry       Eisenhower, vaccine, England's With the Furies breathing down your neck    got a new queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire It's the end of the world as we know it      It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin' It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire And I feel fine                No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it Team by team, reporters baffled        Joseph Stalin, Malenkov Trumped, tethered, cropped          Nasser and Prokofiev Look at that low plane             Rockefeller, Campanella, Fine then                  Communist bloc Uh-oh, overflow                Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, population, common group           Toscanini, Dacron but it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself,      Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the World serves its own needs           Clock, Einstein, Listen to your heart bleed            James Dean, Brooklyn's got a Tell me with the Rapture            winning team, Davy and the reverent in the right, right        Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light   Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Feeling pretty psyched             Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire It's the end of the world as we know it      It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin' It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire And I feel fine                No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it Six o'clock, TV hour              Little Rock, Pasternak, Don't get caught in a foreign tower       Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Slash and burn, return             Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Listen to yourself churn            Bridge On the River Kwai Lock him in a uniform             Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, Book burning, blood letting           California baseball, Every motive escalate             Starkweather homicide, Automotive incinerate             Children of Thalidomide, Light a candle, light a votive          Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Step down, step down             _Space Monkey Mafia_ Watch your heel crush, crush          Hula-hoops, Castro, uh-oh, this means               Edsel is a no-go no fear, cavalier                U-2, Syngman Rhee, renegade and steering clear          payola and Kennedy A tournament, a tournament,          Chubby Checker, Psycho, a tournament of lies              Belgians in the Congo It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire It's the end of the world as we know it      It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin' It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire And I feel fine                No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it And I feel fine [_Space Monkey Mafia_ x16] The other night I dreamt of knives,       Hemingway and Eichmann, continental drift divide             Stranger in a Strange Land, Mountains drift in a line,            Dylan, Berlin, Leonard Bernstein              Bay of Pigs invasion Leonid Brezhnev               Lawrence of Arabia, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs         British Beatlemania, Birthday party, cheesecake,          Ole Miss, John Glenn jelly bean, boom               Liston beats Patterson You symbiotic, patriotic            Pope Paul, Malcom X, slam but neck                British politician sex, Right? Right!                 JFK blown away, what else do I have to say? It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire It's the end of the world as we know it      It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin' It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire And I feel fine                No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire It's the end of the world as we know it      It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin' It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire And I feel fine                But when we are gone, it will still burn on, and on, and on... It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire It's the end of the world as we know it      It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin' It's the end of the world as we know it      We didn't start the fire And I feel fine                No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it I feel fine ...on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and o-

The way this song does "we didn't start the fire and I feel fine" really speaks to me

One time, years ago, I had this sneaking notion that someone could do a mashup of these two songs, then dismissed the idea because it's clearly insane. Little did I know...

i used this for my end-of-year ap us history project got an a on it too thanks mrs smith

see this song is weird because you feel compelled to listen to the whole song before you switch to something else, but it cuts off so abruptly that when you think youre finally done, you have to sit through another play, then youre stuck in this infinite loop of thinking the song is over and it ends up not being and so you just sit there for 6 and a half hours trying to get yourself to change songs but you CANT because if you dont hear him say space monkey mafia exactly 9 times youre gonna lose your mind

these two songs are the exact same..... ive been sayin this for years.....

Need to spice up your DnD miniboss encounter? This. On loop. Get a second speaker, borrow a friend's phone. This. On loop. Slightly offset. Thank me later.

Headphones really help make the chaos a little more navigable.

This is my go-to song for when i need to check if one of my earphones is broken

This is the bounciest song I have ever heard in my entire existence. When I listen to this I NEED to bounce at least some part of my body or else I will explode. I just spent the last 3 minutes and 49 seconds violently spazzing out on my couch. Utterly beautiful experience 11/10 would recommend

Neil is the only one who can harness the Internet to its fullest and create these masterpieces.

and _BILLY JOEL_ is not afraid Neil is literally the second coming of Jesus

It's been almost 6 years and that BILLY JOEL still gets me every single time

Finally, a song that says "It's the end of the world" and actually sounds like it.

This song feels like "The world is ending but at least it's not my fault!" So its 2020 Edit: Also every year up to 2023 (so far)

did I imagine another version of this song where it continues repeating "Space Monkey Mafia" for like a whole extra minute or

Billy Joel is not afraid *but i sure as hell am*

I AM VINDICATED, ALL MY LIFE I MIXED THESE TWO MY FAMILY EVEN CALL ME CRAZY FOR MIXING THEM UP... WELL WHOSE LAUGHING NOW , HUH, THATS RIGHT NO ONE!

The craziest part of this is how the writing process must have gone... I mean with regular music you can play it out and kinda know what you're doing before you start producing the track. With this NC must've just thought to himself, "what 2 songs would work together in a mashup?" and then made it happen even if they shouldn't have worked (like with Crocodile Chop... seriously wtf) This would take waaay too much confidence in your ability as a musician for me to ever attempt. Respect.

that fucking wonderwall at the end

bruh the final build up with the bass, the guitar, the absolute crescendo of sound that just gets louder and louder and despite all that if you listen.. you can hear whatever part of it you want. The Drums, the Bass, the guitar, the lyrics. I live for that build up, that crescendo, and the best part all it comes from a meme song about A Space Monkey Mafia.

Listening to this as earwash after the FOB cover. Still holds up. Anyone else here in 2023?

This is like cramming for two exams at the same time.

Its the end of the world as (we) know it Its the end of the worl(d) as we know (i)t Its the end of the worl(d) as we k(n)ow i(t) It(s) (t)he end of the world (a)s we know it Its the end of the wo(r)ld as we know i(t) Its (the) end o(f) the world as we know (i)t Its the end of the wo(r)ld as w(e) know it

This is legitimately amazing and impressive. As good as it is as a meme song I love it just as much as a legitimate mashup.

This is the kind of song me and my evil clone would sing at each other in an epic battle to decide the fate of the world

Sometimes you don't know what you have till it's billy joel .

a month ago, i had to go up to philly so my mom could see her dying cousin. he died about a day after she visited him, which was a relief to us because the entire time he’d been super aggressive to everyone involved. but yeah, back to the story, we had left dc cuz we stayed there for a night to not drive for 12 hours, and we were driving for a while. i was oscillating between listening to a playlist on youtube with all songs from the mouth albums and my itunes library (aka all lemon demon/neil cic stuff). when we were in the middle of sc, i was on the youtube playlist, and i got to this song. i was tired, sweaty, and had not moved for the last 8 or so hours. at that point, i just wanted to sob. so, i just decided to listen on loop until i got home. everything was so surreal, and i just sat there, listening to this song. i probably looped it for an hour and a half.

This song predicted the year 2020

i’m genuinely on the verge of crying right now, and i’m just so confused because i can’t tell if this makes me wanna cry more or if i’m gonna stop??

This is everything the internet should be.

Whenever i listen to this song, i flip a coin to decide which half i sing along to.

I've heard _legends_ about this mashup. Tailsteak mentioned it once in a footnote to his webcomic. I'm like 5 years late, but it was worth it just to hear it now. Listened at work with my headphones turned up to max. I regret nothing.

I give up. The Internet wins.

ive been astral projecting through my day with a 100.3° fever and this song playing incessantly in my head and it's been hell in the best way possible thanks

This song makes me imagine an argument between a Baby Boomer (Billy Joel) and a Gen Xer (R.E.M) about the state of the world. Meanwhile, the millennial (Neil) is the only one actually trying to fight the fire.

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AND IT'S GONNA BE FIRE

First time listening: Wtf, it's just two songs mashed and I can barely understand either. 6th time listening: THIS IS ART.

When it turns out something you've wanted for years is actually already out

WHERE IS THE KARAOKE VERSION

I wanna marry the internet

I came here because it was stuck in my head while I was cooking this morning and I needed to have this on. Over any other ear worm, it’s SPACE MONKEY MAFIA SPACE MONKEY MAFIA over and over

My god, this is freaky as hell... I'm amazed that I'm actually able to follow along with both sets of lyrics.

2020's theme. Neil was a prophet.

Well, there's always gotta be someone dissecting a weird deep message out of Niels mashups so here's my take. This probably wasn't meant to be taken this way when it came out but in light of how this year has gone down so far this song is actually a bit comforting. It's the end of the world as we know it (but i feel fine) saying everything is going wrong and all you can do is accept it and move on, the other track We didn't start the fire listing many of the major events of the mid 20th century but things still go on and on, It gives a sense that even if it feels like the end of the world, it's not. everyone that's ever lived on this earth has had to deal with their share of problems. The fire was always burning, it didn't just start when you were born and it's not gonna go out by the time you're gone. Take your punches when you need to and have a laugh whenever you can.

This song needs some Hardware Store by Weird Al.

You have to either have a surround-sound system or stereo headphones to properly experience this.

so i didn't know that "you can't fight the homestuck" is in fact, not an original song and is a cover, so the first time i heard this i was fully going to believe neil used a homestuck song in this

MY EARS ARE FIGHTING

I feel like this and "The Murder Mystery" by The Velvet Underground deserve their own genre - multiplevoicestalkingatthesametimecore

As someone who is a schizo effective bipolar adhd person, this song is just daily life. God damn.

I listen to Neil Cicierega when I want to listen to four or five songs but I only have time to listen to one.

Whenever I need to find this, I just type in “Billy Joel is not afraid” in the search bar

Im telling my kids this was the real We Didn't Star the Fire part 2

The music video for this in my head is just a dude looking at the moon falling, tears in his eyes as he smiles and waits.

It's the peak of COVID, Dad took me to get pizza in a rental car and let me choose the playlist, on the way home it started pouring like you've never fucking seen, we were stuck on the highway behind a mail truck being towed, and this was playing the entire time. Cathartic.

imagine this but with you cant fight the homestuck

Billy Joel is not afraid.

Yep, this is going on my _"songs to play as the world ends"_ playlist

why does this have so much emotion in it

This song makes my ADD happy

When I first listened to this song I only used the left cup of my headphones. I just listened to this with both sides for the first time and my mind exploded.

And ßiʟʟㄚ joㅌʟ is not afraid

The Mayans prophecied that this song will start playing on every speaker in the world at 11:55 December 31st 2020, and the cycle will restart.

When we got to the chorus, this became the "blue-and-gold dress" of music.

this is like the highest energy song and i love it

In case anyone was wondering, this song is what being on Aderall feels like.

Billy Joel: “I’m not afraid!” Neil: “Then you will die braver than most.”

2 songs that I used to listen to a lot in early 2020 being mashed up together is actually epic