BARRY MCGUIRE - Eve Of Destruction | FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION

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@PlutoAnn 3 месяца назад

Great song for Memorial Day. Thank you to the Veterans this day and everyday. The Vietnam war was the war at the time, still applies today. Such an appropriate song for today. Thanks Shawn.

@dennisgschmidt6167 3 месяца назад

This day was set aside for the dead Veterans not for those of us that came home. We have Veterans day. Nearly 60 thousand young fellas didn't come back from Vietnam alone. No offense is meant to you, but that's what the day is for.

@PlutoAnn 3 месяца назад

@@dennisgschmidt6167 There are so many songs protesting war. Yes I realize it's a Memorial Day for vets killed. But to honor only the dead to me is not enough. To have one day called Veterans Day is simply not enough for the honor and pride I feel for every Vet living or dead. God Bless you sir for serving, all apologies extended if offended.

@HeidiDenoble 3 месяца назад

This came out when the voting age was 21. The first election where 18 was the age was 72.

@tomasbaker1912 3 месяца назад

And we were drafted at 18 I was.

@jamesferris4573 3 месяца назад

Barry McGuire was a member of the New Christy Minstrels, a folk music group. I don't see any correlation between the song "In The Year 2525" and this song. This song was written during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and the fear of attack came from abroad. Today the fear of attack comes from people who are extremist and are threatening to overthrow our government which will cause the downfall of this country.

@tinapatterson5022 3 месяца назад

Well Said !! ✌

@mikerichards67 3 месяца назад

Listen closely to this song and learn. It’s time to start thinking about what he’s saying and hope that we don’t go down this road because we are on the brink I’m afraid.

@richardcranium5048 3 месяца назад

My friend, we have achieved terminal velocity. I most sincerely regret to inform you. There can be no reconciliation

@scottmeeks662 3 месяца назад

Almost 60 years later, and sadly the world has learned nothing

@drums4b 3 месяца назад

@@scottmeeks662 The message in the song is still relevant today as ever! Very sad. Times change but humans are the same in chaos, corruption, and greed.

@dougca7086 3 месяца назад

I'm 75 I asked you to play that song because it's still relevant today and we were getting drafted at the age of 18 and couldn't vote until we were 21 but we got the boat changed with a lot of work after we got out of the army

@JohnH.Sturgis 3 месяца назад

And it turned out it didn't matter, except that the voting public became even dumber.

@CharCanuck14 3 месяца назад

Almost 60 years later & I still remember all the lyrics.....and they're still so relevant!!

@subwaygoddess1 3 месяца назад

I remember all the lyrics, too, after all these years

@jeffreythaw3333 3 месяца назад

"Eve of Destruction" is a song much like Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" where the historical references might now seem rather obscure. But at the time - 1965 - we all knew what was being discussed. It was a potent song back then, and sadly, it still resonates! I should add that far too many young people have no historical perspective and therefore believe history began with them.

@stevetournay6103 3 месяца назад

Obscure? Perhaps in the specific...but in general most of this song could've been written last week...sadly...

@jeffreythaw3333 3 месяца назад

@@stevetournay6103 ...my point exactly.

@Cobalt_Dragon0716 3 месяца назад

The quintessential protest song. Good choice to react to for Memorial Day.

@NoviJimB 3 месяца назад

'hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace' - it sums up so much of the hypocrisy in this world. My brother Tom was a folk singer/guitarist in the mid-late 60's and he used to sing songs for us younger kids (I was born in 1960). This was one of my big favorites, though back then I didn't really think about or truly understand the lyrics. Hearing this always really brings me back in time. Barry sang the original version of 'California Dreamin', with the Mamas and the Papas singing background vocals. It was just an album cut, then producer Lou Adler re-recorded the lead vocals with Denny Doherty singing and it became a hit for the Mamas and the Papas.

@susanliltz3875 3 месяца назад

Need to hear the song : “WAR” sung by Edwin Starr

@JayCross 3 месяца назад

From Creeque Alley by the Momas & the Popas, "McGuinn and McGuire just a gettin' higher In L.A., you know where that's at" McGuinn was from the Byrds. McGuire was this guy.

@jamesdagenais6494 3 месяца назад

Great song that came out during the Vietnam War protest! There's also a good video with scenes from the time.

@ronnie237 3 месяца назад

Fits today, doesn’t it. I remember when it first came out. I was in college.

@joannerichards1750 3 месяца назад

Listen to Barry McGuire sing with the New Christy Minstrels - he's the lead singer on "Denver", "Green Green", "Fire", and "The Dying Convict".

@jamescobb2624 3 месяца назад

My generation was born into a cold war wherein we were told that the only thing protecting us from atomic radiation was our pressed wood desks. When we quickly saw the absurdity of this, a song about the END was just par for the course.

@markgallemore8856 3 месяца назад

Another early 70s protest song that is extremely good is Jonathan Edwards song called sunshine with the extension of sunshine go away today

@kentclark6420 3 месяца назад

To some extent, we're all guilty, because everyone is judgmental. It's what makes us human. But it's the extremists who won't compromise that make the world a hellish place.

@andrewclayton4181 3 месяца назад

And the idiots who keep getting voted in. More thought should be taken in the polling station.

@kevinlundgren1169 3 месяца назад

Another classic ! Apparently the politicians have never heard this , they will never learn !

@thomastimlin1724 Месяц назад

The politicians don't WANT you to hear this song and many like it. That way they control the message.

@johnniekight1879 3 месяца назад

I shared a hospital room with Barry in '63. He was a member of The New Christy Minstrels at the time. Their biggest hit was "Green Green".

@user-ld8fq8ht9b 3 месяца назад

From. 1965. Sounds like today.

@MrNormaltoo 3 месяца назад

green green would be a nice listen again.

@luvutons411 3 месяца назад

Definitely agree Shawn...love McGuire 's vocals. Great tune for that time and now for what's going on around this world. Beautiful...🤔🎶🎤

@janethards16 3 месяца назад

I remember this song along with 2525. I was young and it caused me to be aware of my own destruction. And then Viet Nam and the lottery to decide who had to fight a war they knew we couldn’t win.

@jons.105 3 месяца назад

Barry McGuire has an interesting connection to the Mamas and the Papas. Producer Lou Adler had Barry record "California Dreamin'" first, before the Mamas, but he did have the group singing harmonies on Barry's version. This may have been to appease the record label as the Mamas and Papas were then an untapped music entity.

@wandacable3739 3 месяца назад

‘Hate your next door neighbor but don’t forget to say grace’. Sadly so relevant today.😢

@petergarayt9634 3 месяца назад

Best line in the song.

@roberttreborable 2 месяца назад

@@petergarayt9634 "think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around Selma Alabama, So Powerful when Dr King was starting his march for Civil Right in Selma and being attacked... However it saying look closer at yourselves, Moot in eye comes to mind.

@JohnH.Sturgis 3 месяца назад

One of my favorite songs way back when... a lot of music had depth in those days. Thx for not pausing the song before offering your reaction; so many reactors pause 1-2 times in the middle, blaming copyright rules. Tough to listen that way.

@kenhoyer8601 3 месяца назад

I was 14 when this came out in 1965. Number 1 song on top 40 stations.

@subwaygoddess1 3 месяца назад

The line that always hit me and those around me back then was "hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace."

@brentfreeland5834 3 месяца назад

Released in August of 65 I was about four and a half years old and I remember dancing around the living room hearing this song. Also I love the background singers in the chorus. ✌🏻

@George-kv6gm 3 месяца назад

Song came out in 1965. I was 15, a lot going on then. Although we'd been in Vietnam for several years with "advisors" for the South Vietnamese Army, the number and types of our military forces had been hugely changed by '65. Planes, helicopters, more advisors went in while President Kennedy was still alive, and then more and more after his death, under Presdient Johnson. I don't think we reached the "big" numbers of our deployment until 1968, meaning a half-million or more service members. But there was already a great deal of unrest in 1965, and it was steadily increasing, along with troop numbers. Thanks for sharing this with us, and God bless you!

@rebeccasimmers3107 3 месяца назад

You should watch the video. Very profound.

@jdwkansas 3 месяца назад

Back in about 1967 this was the lead in song for a weakly show on NBC called That Was The Week That Was. Loved listening to it in the living room with my family as Freshman or Sophomore in high school

@johno1765 3 месяца назад

This is a good song to give listeners an idea of what concerns Americans had in the mid-1960s. Unfortunately, 60 years later flaws in humanity keep us thinking we're still at the Eve of Destruction. But we've gotten so used to living with it, that it's not as much in the forefront of our minds as it was back then.

@Davidsword 3 месяца назад

Nice, I recommend giving his original version of "California Dreamin'" before it was covered my The Mamas & The Papas.

@ptournas 3 месяца назад

Great song. He was good friends with the Mama's and the Papas before any of them became famous, as they both played the folk circuit clubs around the country. After this hit he was recording his second album and invited The Mamas & the Papas to the studio, who had given him permission to record the song they had written, "California Dreamin", for the album, to try to get an audition with Lou Adler, who was producing the album. Adler loved them and had them back up McGuire on "California Dreamin". He was so impressed that he copied the master tape and erased Barry's vocal track and had Dennis Doherty record a new vocal track. He also didn't care for McGuire's harmonica and erased that track and had a jazz flute player who had been recording in another studio down the hall record a flute part. Adler then released the recording as The Mamas & the Papas first single! The funny part is, he didn’t erase Barry's original vocal as well as he thought, so if you listen very closely to The Mamas & the Papas release you can hear very faintly Barry singing "All the leaves are brown" just before The Mamas & the Papas' vocals come in. Another interesting fact is that the guitar introduction in "California Dreamin" is played by PF Sloane, who wrote "Eve of Destruction".

@doggers1846 3 месяца назад

A group called The Spokesmen released a partial parody and answer record entitled "The Dawn of Correction", which became a Top 40 hit. Singer Tony Mammarella also released a positive answer song titled "Eve of Tomorrow".

@vivrowe2763 2 месяца назад

I love watching his reaction, it says so much, so well in such a short time. I loved his voice, nobody could do this like he did. He also did it in one take.

@custardflan 3 месяца назад

Barry McGuire was a pioneer in Christian contemporary music and the jesus movement that came out of the hippie movement. He was immortalized in the lyric, "mcguinn and mcguire couldnt get much higher" in the mamas and the papas song Creque valley.

@stevetournay6103 3 месяца назад

Yes, and I wonder if it ultimately pushed him far right...

@custardflan 3 месяца назад

@@stevetournay6103 you're definitely a child of the 2000 teens. Total nonsequiter.

@MisterWondrous 3 месяца назад

Happy happy, joy joy! This light lunch was release on January 1, 1965, which was one year and a month and change after JFK's assassination, so you have to figure it was written right after, or in that period. The mood was obviously very different from that of the British Invasion that had also just begun. And they were "glad all over"...and seemed determined to help us become glad all over. Barry has a great role in the great weird film "The President's Analyst"...the song from which would be a most abstruse and excellent share.

@clifton8929 3 месяца назад

You've got to admit Brotherman, Barry diidn't sing a single line that was 100% truth. Nightmarish, horrific, frightening and reality. Your commentary was right one. To much hate in the world, we need more compassion and common sense.

@andrewclayton4181 3 месяца назад

Another track, in a similar vein is by the British group Strawbs. It's called New World, ( almost the title track of the album Grave New World ) Very powerful song, with angry lyrics. It's certainly worth reviewing.

@thedocofrock1890 3 месяца назад

this came out in '65 when i was 12 and it hit me like a ton of bricks. ran down to the record store the next day and scooped up the 45rpm single for a whopping 79 cents. and believe it or not shortly after that the record was so controversial at the time that our town of northampton, mass. and the next town over in amherst - home of umass - BANNED the record from being sold ! unbelievable but true. and almost everything in the song is still going on in the world today. some things don't change.

@jodyjackson5475 3 месяца назад

The truth is often ‘banned’ especially lately

@rayniecox7683 3 месяца назад

Also, you could be drafted at 18 but couldn't vote until you were 21. 😎😎😎😎

@gordr223 3 месяца назад

There was a response to this song by The Spokesmen called Dawn of Correction.

@billcombs5656 3 месяца назад

This tune got banned by many radio stations...

@GeorgetteHolloway-g4q 3 месяца назад

Thankyou Shawn for the reaction you are giving for this song. This song was written a long time ago, but yet it still applies today unfortunately. I like it when you pull up info about the song and you tell your own opinion about the music. Keep going I will always be looking at your reactions!!!

@dougca7086 3 месяца назад

You should react to the Iron Butterfly playing live In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida the lead singer Doug lngels just died today at the age of 78 they broke a lot of barriers and some say they were the first metal band and also psychedelic band

@steverusso177 3 месяца назад

I never thought that fifty years later things could be worse than the tension and division of that era. Well here we are. Thanks to one large clown. God save America. Vote or don't complain later.

@stevetournay6103 3 месяца назад

Ironically Barry may now be on that side of the fence himself...

@cpmf2112 3 месяца назад

Sadly relevant today 😕

@dagmar.6954 3 месяца назад

Barry McGuire was a folk rock singer in the 60's & is best known for his protest song "Eve Of Destruction" in 1965. He had some other minor hits such as "Sins Of A Family", "Child Of Our Times" & "Cloudy Summer Afternoon (Raindrops)". McGuire became a born-again Christian in 1971 & became a singer songwriter for Contemporary Christian music.

@markmurphy558 3 месяца назад

One of the best counter culture protest songs. He hit all high points of the sixties; desegregation, nuclear annihilation, Vietnam, and perhaps most importantly, hypocrisy.

@troyshilanski380 День назад

Thanks!

@polycarphunter2257 3 месяца назад

0ne of the uplifting songs from my youth.

@RuthKing-wm9nw 2 месяца назад

The 60s were such turmoil. Protest songs. But still singing truth today

@jessicalee7119 3 месяца назад

Barry's voice is perfect for this message in 1965 ~ just like Edwin Starr's voice is perfect for the song, War. 1970

@Oppeldeldoc1 3 месяца назад

Barry McGuire also has a very good acting role as a musician in the movie THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST.

@armandogarza6181 3 месяца назад

It was some crazy times back then bro and this song fit them times, but still relevant today, no surprises there right?

@andrewclayton4181 3 месяца назад

I like this one a lot. It's very Dylanesque, raging against the society that the young found themselves in. In the 60s the threat of nuclear annihilation was very real, the Soviet bloc versus the west. It contributed to the devil may care attitude many adopted as they chilled out on substances and encouraged free love. There were many protest songs, but the vocals, and the relentless beat put this above most of the others. Two early ones by Dylan are worth listening to, the sombre Masters of war, and the lighter, tongue in cheek, Talking world war III blues. Both from his freewheeling album. I didn't hear this track until the 70s, the radio wasn't inclined to play Eve of destruction. Bit too raw at the time. I don't know what else he did, definitely his biggest hit.

@guyray1504 3 месяца назад

You should do this with the video to it. It add a lot to it.

@MusicandCatLover-vc6jb 3 месяца назад

60 years later it is for me the best anti-war song and again so up-to-date than ever! And the songline "You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'" shows the insanity of war. Other favorite anti-war songs for me are: - Reinhard Mey "Nein, meine Söhne geb’ ich nicht" (= No, I won't give you my sons) - "Masters of war" (Bob Dylan) , i prefer the version from Roger Taylors (Queen drummer) second solo album "Strange Frontier" (1984) - Billy Joel "Goodnight Saigon"

@viviennerose6858 3 месяца назад

As true today as it was then, and still no one is taking that much notice

@donnacushman7024 5 дней назад

HUGE hit in 1965...

@randyhodges8782 3 месяца назад

Great comment, Shawn.

@alansmith7626 3 месяца назад

You have no idea what it is like to go to high school and every year you watch the draft lottery to see where your birthday is...thankfully I graduated hs in 1973 so it was "over"..was a diff kinda crazy time, but I wouldn't change a thing...Great react

@richardmckee5729 2 месяца назад

Check out this song with the video. It makes it just that more powerful with shots of reality pertinent to the lyrics! You won't be disapointed, I promise you....

@tomasbaker1912 3 месяца назад

Listen to "Masters of War" by Dylan

@stevetournay6103 3 месяца назад

It would be interesting to know McGuire's political stance these days. Around 1971 he converted to Christianity (later being key in the start of the career of CCM trio Second Chapter of Acts). If he were now far right, it'd be a curious counterpoint to this, his best known recording...

@Rhiannon011 3 месяца назад

What's so sad is that this songs lyrics could fit exactly what the whole world is going through right now! Will we ever evolve, grow or learn from our mistakes? Or do we just keep "repeating the exact same mistakes over and over again"? There is a spiritual (not religious) saying that "if you don't learn from your mistakes, then those same mistakes will just keep repeating themselves UNTIL WE WAKE UP AND DO LEARN FROM THEM!!..

@barbarabweaver1 3 месяца назад

The video adds a lot.

@jollyrodgers7272 3 месяца назад

Great DOOMSDAY/Anti-War song from the sixties! As a kid, I was amazed at how militant the anti-military crowd became - going to war protesting war - so much for the nonviolent civil disobedience Gandhi was all about. IN THE YEAR 2525 by Zager & Evans was popular about this same time, and they were true One-Hit-Wonders. btw, the human brain and mind are not developed enough at the age of 18 to warrant the right to vote - just pointing out the neuroscience.

@tessasnow 2 месяца назад

Please try country joe - Vietnam song. Live at Woodstock 🇨🇦🖖🏻

@cpmf2112 3 месяца назад

Don't revolt, vote for intelligent amd compassionate people who want to work together instead of hateful people who want to replace democracy with an orange dictator.

@robertabianchini6884 Месяц назад

Check out Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen.

@rubroken 3 месяца назад

Great song, great reaction! After this came out, someone came out with a counter to this called "Dawn of Correction". Sorry, I don't know the singer and it wasn't as powerful as this song

@isaacvanwart-i2v Месяц назад

Timeless brilliance. But Man is fallen and will pursue Hell until He finds it or, alternatively, He accepts the great gift of Grace thru Jesus Christ. Barry is right. But it’s all commentary and questions. There is an answer to all of it. Accept the gift.

@troyshilanski380 День назад

War is money.

@petergarayt9634 3 месяца назад

Please do, "Monster" by Steppenwolf.

@charliecochran3035 3 месяца назад

Timeless right? Anti war stuff from the 60s has been mocked a lot over the years. There's really nothing corny about this one though. It gets right to the point and is really impossible to disagree with. Its not not just about a war. Its a condition that we will always live with because of who we are.

@peterclark5273 2 месяца назад

Great reaction to the protest song next give a listen to Fixin To Die Rag by Country Joe And The Fish live from Woodstock about the lies and the senseless war in Vietnam where approximately 50 thousand American lives were lost and the profit Wall Street made from it.

@phillip8443 3 месяца назад

You should follow this song with Dylan's masters of war

@donnabailey8983 3 месяца назад

✌🏼🫶🏼🤘🏼

@lynnhafferkamp6054 3 месяца назад

Sadly this is still relevant

@louisdellavalle2159 3 месяца назад

Hate your next door neighbor but don’t forget to say grace

@michaelpalmer7954 3 месяца назад

We are presently on the Brink of what this song is all about. It is Just the start of what will be the worst time in History. Soon to go World wide. We give tens of Billions to our allies and our enemies. With Asia and the Middle East a powder Keg ready to be lit. Only the Son of God will be able to stop it. Matthew 24:21-22. "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened." GOT JESUS! John 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.

@copperhopperwarren4788 3 месяца назад

Not sure.Whether it's on my under yours but all I got was instrumental ...no vocals?????

@ShawnSalvadori 3 месяца назад

For this song, the vocals were played on the left side and the music on the right. Don't know if you are using speakers or earphones, but you might have one side that is out.