I remember this song from the 60’s. I’m 70 years old. This was a big hit believe it or not. It’s just a song that wants you to think about what can happen in the future. With advancements in technology making it so that man gets lazier and they stop using their bodies. Machines doing it for you. The thing that makes humans who they are is disappearing. Is the world going to come to an end. It’s a pretty heavy song. I love the music and the words. We had great music in the 60’s, I’m sorry to say much better than the garbage they play today, no offense. The music had meaning to it. That’s why the 60’s music is still played today. It stands the test of time. Play a song like Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers from 1965 and tell me what you think. Anyway, thx for playing the song.
Yes, it's from 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War and the Chicago Riots. Zager and Evans are considered one of the greatest examples of a one-hit wonder--but what a hit. This was part of our soundtrack growing up. And yes, it is spooky, it's so on target. Note, the video is a recent edit, as is obvious from some of the imagery. 1968 was long before even MTV existed, let alone the internet. Wonderful suggestion from your listener, thank her or him, loved it.
They compose this in '69. over 50 years later, theyre still spot on. And I have this incling that in the coming milleniums, they will be right about us as a species.
It was in 1969 the my husband and I first met. We both immediately loved this song. My husband died almost 4 years ago but this song brings his memory back.
It was fun seeing you react. I’m 47 and have had this song in my head since I was 5 or 6. My father informed me that it was predictive. Now imagine seeing the world thru that lends from the early 80’s. Every movie I watch ends up a deep dive into the hidden message, predictive programming or subtle technological and macro economic information release to the public.
I was about 8 when this song was a hit on the radio, and it gave me chills and a very melancholy feeling. It spooked me as a child, but I liked it. What's crazy is (almost) everything they predicted is already happening, or possible and coming. Machines doing everything for us, genetic test tube babies, pills for knowledge, taking everything from the Earth until She's destroyed. We won't last another 10k years.
This was one of my favourute songs fom the 6o's i'm now 71 years old i still play retro music i wasvfc out my gas rden started singing this song looked up my phone anf found the original then crossed to your reaction fry the lyrics have links to Aldus Huxley's Brave new World We were very environmentally aware and vey conscious of pollution.
That song is imprinted in my brain I was a young child my mother would listen to that song for 20-plus years I could hear the words but never knew the song I accidentally found the song on RU-vid and my whole world started to make sense talk about being before their time it puts many questions in your brain but how true the words are we live in the 21st century now it really hasn't changed much all I can say is love your babies and teach them. Kindness don't judge help your neighbor and love yourself that's all we can do I thank you for giving this song a couple minutes in your life it is very moving
I remember this song when it first came out, I loved the rhythm and harmony of it, not taking too much notice of the lyrics. But boy oh boy, with today's modern technology perhaps the lyrics are not so far from the truth. The lyrics really give me the chills.
This song came out in 1969, one year before I was drafted and it was to be a message/warning of what was coming. It's now 2022 and if you are old enough to look back you will see what is happening now. You figure out what is next, I'll be gone.
Nearly forgot, the suited guy at the end was Carl Sagan who did a very famous TV series called COSMOS! He was the American version of our own James Burke who commentated on the Apollo Landing for the BBC!
Thanx alot for that reaction. I've listen to the song bout thousands times. Realy love it. I dont know why, but i never check the lyrics. My englisch is very bad and in the eighties we werent able to read the songtexts somewhere or somehow( no WWW, Google etc.). And yeah i was quite schocked like you. Finaly, great...just crazy...greetings from Germany..
Matthew 24:22 & 25; "If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened...So I have told you ahead of time." (NIV Bible). And yes I heard this song back in the sixties.
People get fed through feeding tubes, test tube babies, prosthetic limbs, robots taking over, a lot of things happening today are in the song, hard to believe but it is. Like I said I was 11 years old when it came out and it freaked me out back then and that was extremely unusual for me, it was just a song.
I've watched a few of reactions to this song, and yours is the most thought out. I love this song, that upbeat, urgent tempo is juxtaposed to the deep, and somewhat dark, lyrics. That they prophesised remarkably well what was in store is a grave reminder of the future steering towards dystopia, rather than the utopia we were always promised.
Today was my first time sitting in with you, thank you for allowing me to do that! I enjoyed the time I spent here so while I was here I subscribed and left a like for you! This came out in the 1967 and in 1978 the first test tube baby was successfully grown, it was sort of terrifying back then! The original video for this is even more terrifying! It is taken from the 1927 movie Metropolis, a masterpiece in its own right!
The part about no one looking at you have near come true already.. So many people walk about looking at only their phones and they can go near the whole day whithout ever looking at another person..
I remember this song from 1968 and after all these years new generations are finding it. The Hugh difference from listening to it from 1968 there were no iPads so therefore there was no video to go along with it .The video really makes a difference
I am from the sixties and remember when this song came out. It was strange to listen to but at that time there was not videos to go with it like there is today. Growing up in the sixties well all I can say is you had to be there.☮️
I can see by the expression on your face is this song that's what I'm saying last year I heard it it seems like for the 1st time I truly heard what the song was saying it breaks you out it breaks me out go back and listen to it in its entirety without any interruptions and it'll really freak you out yeah the out yeah the the 75 and 75 Jen got out to be here by then or make it here by then yeah just a it's a reference to the 2nd coming and then I really like The part where it says man is crowded billionaires is so far away maybe it's only yesterday how how do these guys have this kind of insight that's crazy.
Today Denny Zager runs Zager Guitars while his partner Rick Evans passed away two years ago,sadly. This came out on their own Truth Label then Reissued with Overdubs on RCA a year later. A Followup single "Mr. Turnkey" flopped,and after three albums they seperated.
This is a fantastic song. About the time it came out in the late 60's I was entering Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, NE, where Zager and Evans meant. Interestingly, barely a mention of them on the campus, which I visit a few times each year.
How you 'feel' about this song really depends in part as to who's 'cover' you watch/listen to! The version I like best is based on the movie 'Lucy' and really compliments the words of the song well!
We have no meaningful conversations between older and younger generations anymore - so it is true that we do not look at each other in true sense - we see only hollow crust that weather away with time, which we don't appreciated real person within. Many of us peer at personal phone as if eyes are not needed and teeths that have smaller functions ever thus detoriating in its structure/natural-build.
I was just a kid when this song came out.... Scared the crap out of me...... So much is coming true..... Test tube babies, machines doing the brunt of the work, big pharma.... Wow.....
I remember when this came out I took it as a cautionary pay attention . First time I heard it my dad and I were traveling to Titusville FA for Apollo launch. We were putting a man on the moon. Things were space age and starting to develop. We thought the 21st century was head d this way.
I think a lot of people forget that many of our modern technologies are just advancements in technologies that were developed in the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s, for example the first "test tube" mammal birth was a rabbit in 1959 and it was first studied in the late 1800s. Great concept for a song, it proposes that mankind will ultimately destroy all aspects of being human in an attempt to achieve technological success, we're inching closer every decade.
yup from 1969. heard this at 11 years old. earth day was new. pollution was a very big issue. space travel promised hope but at the same time then as now, we have to figure out things or as this song suggest loose our humanity the older we get~ it was freaky then and freaky now. cool you young people see the same things we did for the 1st time~
The song I am old enough to remember when released in 1969 and none of what they were singing about was even a reality yet except in science fiction... not even the first test-tube baby, robotics, even a Matrix type nod with the pill. It was a song that scared the poop out of many but it was also a great song by itself. Some saw the two artists as visionaries and the timeline is off as these things are now happening around us way ahead of schedule.
Profound ?..prophetic ?... I was 13 when this came out...the acid generation was well under way...whether they had a vision on drugs or a vision inspired is unknown...I don't remember ever seeing an interview about the song... Yes the lyrics are a wake up and the ending.. "With the twinkling of starlight..so very far away..maybe it's only yesterday" ..is asking..how many times has humankind failed and started over... This song is so relevant yet so unknown..thank you for your reaction to it...perhaps it should be revisited by us all...🌿🌿🌿
As I said before this is a philosophical song which tells us that what we didn't learn in thousands of years we won't learn in the next 10 thousands years...we must admit that humans learned nothing from history!
You're right the song is weird it's freaky it's creepy and it was written in 1969 that's the craziest part about this whole thing all these things the whole progression the whole song I said listen to this song my entire life and I never really heard it until just last year but you need to hear the song uninterrupted and then you'll be able to put it together really put it together
ive Ive listioned to this song song for years. you are the 1st that thought so much, or gotten so much from this song. watch the original version of 2525
I have known that song my whole life. Born in 72. I believe they received the song and lyrics via supernatural being aka the god of this world. He just couldn't help himself he had to let his plans for man out. Transhumanisim the Bible says they will try and mingle man's seed with iron. Mixing of iron & clay but it won't work. That's cause Jesus already has the victory 💯❤⚔👊✝️
Wow finally a European pirate I'm just not used to seeing anyone look like anything but nothing special they all try to look like everyone else but it is nice to see someone who looks different for a change especially a European something I'm even more on used to and I'm Caucasian but what makes it more unusual is that you're not even blond which makes it more unusual because you wouldn't even pass for Viking you would pass as a white man that almost no one sees which is cool
If you think about the lyrics of the song you will realize that many of the things that they think will happen in the future has already happened. Humans have had the ability to pick their sons and daughters from the bottom of a long glass tube for many decades now. In many companies around the world you don't need your arms to do your job. Some machines doing that for you. Everything Zager and Evans said in this song has already come true or most likely will come true much much sooner than they thought. Man's rein may end way sooner than 10,000 years. Probably even sooner than 5,000 years. 🌎=🌑 😭
