RAPPER First time REACTION to Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction! WOW
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RAPPER First time REACTION to Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction! WOW
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I’m almost 70 and this song was from 1965 and I feel like nothing changed.😢
At 70, I was in the last draft lottery in 72, that was some fukkked up sh!t for a high school senior
Because nothing has ed, "When will they & we ever learn?"
I'm afraid it's more relevant today than ever.🤔
I’m 70 too. My 19 yr old cousin died there. He was a medic & he knew he was going to die. He lasted less than 2 weeks…😔💔
Oh, it has changed. It's gotten worse. And I'm older than you.
This song came out in 1965, and was quite frightening at the time. Vietnam was just ramping up, the early days of the ant-war movement were starting on college campuses, there was continuing conflict about civil rights, and my generation had grown up with fear of atomic war. This song dealt with all that.
Right On !✌
The tune was also blacklisted by many U.S. radio stations at the time...
Remember the drills at school when they had us kneel under our desks for atomic bomb drills, pretty comical now. I miss the 60's and 70's.
@@davidgross990 yes, I do.
With you there bro. I'm still alive, having lived thru those years 😢😢
I was 12 years old when I first heard this. 58 years later here we still are. Beyond sad.
The difference today is weak, corrupt leadership.
As far as I can see it, we’re witnessing the fall of Rome in real time. I don’t know how we can recover from this.
Same here.
In case no one has mentioned it, the voting age when this was released was 21, though you could be drafted into the armed services or volunteer at age 18, to explain the line that says "...you're old enough to kill, but not for votin'." It was 1965, the Viet Nam war was in full escalation, and at home the civil rights movement was being opposed with violence.
Plus, old enough to serve in the military, but not to buy a beer. They could be killed and kill, but no beer!
Also, of course, the draft still existed. Young men were fated to go to war unless very lucky (in the lottery style draw) or very gifted scholastically or very well endowed with a wealthy family.
Ah, yes! Our good old days were more often than not, not so good. Belief in the Catholic Christian God keeps me going.
@@dashasl2582 Ahh, like the orange crusted blatherskite who paid to have a doctor say that he had bone spurs.
"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1965. Several artists have recorded it, but the most popular recording was by Barry McGuire. Love your reactions... thanks for bringing this. OBTW, Barry became a Christian and produced a number of Contemporary Christian albums in the 70s & 80s.
It's good when someone remembers the amazingly prolific writer of this masterpiece. I say that as someone who thinks Barry McGuire done an amazing job of singing it! for me it is THE greatest anti war/protest song of them all & there were some brilliant & sadly much forgotten efforts, many at the time banned from the air waves by various politicians, rather upset that their most potent tool of office (Patriotism) was being questioned.
Listen to The Universal Soldier by Donovan or. Buffy St Marie
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The only thing that will change us and I mean humans is an actual Alian world invasion as crazy as that soinds...
Barry McGuire is a real person and this is a real protest song
Legendary song that I loved since I was a kid when my dad first introduced it to me when I was 11. He was born in 1950 and this song made him enlist in the Coast Guard to avoid getting drafted to Vietnam where he had older friends dying. WILD that much of this song still applies to current events
I was also 11 when I first heard this. It was devastating to have the world come into focus like this at that age. It was at that age that I was starting to see that was going on in the world. My world was my neighborhood. Then the TV and radio ripped my world apart. I observed what war was, what discrimination meant, how hate changed everything.
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
War is PROFITABLE....never forget that
Listen to Dylan’s “Masters of War”
without war, the US economy would tank... big-time.
That's the biggest problem. It's no worth doing if one can't make money at it.
This was such a beautiful song… I’ve never heard it before! ❤ It’s sad to see it’s still so relevant today!
Even more so today…
very sad
60 years later, Israel is still a mess.
Back during the Viet Nam War(conflict) our boys were being drafted at 18 years old but the voting age was 21 years old.It wasn't changed until 1971. Barry was a folk singer who did solo work.He used to sing with a group called The new Christy Minstrels.His unique voice has made him very recognizable. This song hit a nerve with us all back in the day. Unfortunately, it is still relevant.
I had albums by yhe New Christy Minstrels.
Most relevant line for today. "you can hate your neighbor, but don't forget to say grace".
My 84 year old mom has had this on repeat lately.
Was pertinent in the 60's and is still pertinent today. Timeless song.
This song is protesting the Vietnam war. My husband served two tours in Vietnam. He was fortunate to come home while over 58,000 did not.
true love
My dad did SIX TOURS in Vietnam!
1965 was the year my father went to war for the third time. As a child seeing the wounded and deceased on the news every night it felt like it could easily become the eve of our family’s destruction. Praise God he came home safe, but there were so many who lost their fathers.
If we don't learn of our mistakes of the past we are bound to repeat our errors.
Another great song like this is "I was only 19" by Redgum. It's a song about the typical Australian soldiers experience in Vietnam. From training, combat, ptsd, and after effects of exposure to Agent Orange
The guy who wrote this song was 19 when he penned it. P. F. Sloan. He died 9 years ago.
I remember this from when it came out, and hadn't thought about it for years. The more things change - the more they stay the same :(
This was a Vietnam War protest song. Remember it well. Didn't stop me. Ten days after I graduated from high school I was in Army basic training at the end of the Vietnam era in 1974.
If you notice, at first, Barry starts out, for lack of a better term, calm. Then as he progresses, he sounds angrier and angrier and more intense.
And so we should all be with human behaviour the way it is.
The theme song to the tv show Tour of Duty was The Rolling Stones Paint It Black. That was a great show.
This was not communist propaganda. It speaks to the fear we lived under during the Cold War / Vietnam War era when WW3 and nuclear war felt like it could’ve broken out at any minute. I was 8 years old and it scared the bejeezus out of me and still does.
If you were going to illustrate to someone today the turbulence of the '60s by a song, this would be it. You had to be there. (You were dead right about the "denial" message.) BTW, I'm a member of the "Fly the friendly skies of Vietnam" club. Sitting behind an M-60 was my office for a year. Hueys in flight is a vibe.
Dude, this was in the 1960's and early 70's. We were listening to this song and many other similar songs in college dorm rooms, waiting for our draft notices from Uncle Sam.
They did not give us a choice of fighting or not fighting. They just involuntarily drafted your backside to fight their war.
Many of us fled to Canada, many just left the country until the draft ended. I and two buddies joined the U.S. Air Force to avoid the automatic draft into the Army or Marines and then straight to the rice paddies of Viet Nam.
Muhammed Ali the greatest boxer ever and toughest man in the world (to us teenage U.S. males), came out and Said that "He would not fight in an unjust war". That gave us the courage to tell our father's and the U.S. administration that "Hell No, we will not Fight". I took the easy way out, and joined the Air Force and repaired all the avionics in the FB-111 fighter -bomber, for the four years of my enlistment. I never left the U.S. in my enlistment and never had to fight.
At least I did not get a deferrment and join the National Guard like rich boys, Presidents Clinton and Bush Jr.
- The retired redneck accountant
When the Wall went down in Germany in 1989 (and Germany got reunited), and the USSR disintegrated and so to speak the Cold War ended, a while later I was in a small meeting with a guy from the german foreign ministry (I am german).
He told us that the great threat of the Cold War had phased out all the other, smaller conflicts that are existing partly since centuries.
He said that his department see the potential of 140 conflicts all over the world that now might come up again.
Imagine how many conflicts we had since 1989...
The Cold War had one advantage: It was clear that if it ever broke out, when one side started it, it was guaranteed that BOTH sides would be annihilated. And so both sides knew they could not go too far.
Barry and I first crossed paths in 1973 in Denver. I got to hang with him on a ten-day concert tour. I tell you what, Barry has a knack for tuning into what people are about. This song was huge back in the day (mid-60s) and its resilience over the years is testimony to its well-crafted lyrics and those monster vocals.
Barry's performance history goes back past Mamas and Papas days.
He's still kickin' it and even "updated" the lyrics of Eve about 2010: ua-cam.com/video/SDkcbipclDQ/v-deo.html (Barry was about 75 when he sang this. Same powerhouse vocals as ever.)
This was one of the most influential songs of the 60s. This song became one of my all-time favorites the moment I heard it. And the song that Tour of Duty started with was The Rolling Stones's song Paint it Black. That was a great series.
Sadly this is just as revelant today as it was back in the 60s. One of the saddest lines " hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace ". I'm 70 and remember it all so well.
Learning from history is critical. Keep digging in!
I think he's saying that the world at that time (1960s) is a massive mess: war abroad, segregation and hate at home- sure we can go to the moon, but when we get back we still have the same problems. The Jordan river is important because Christ Himself was baptized there. And when this was written, there was war and violence in the middle east (1967 war with Syria etc) and there may well have been casualties floating in that water. The same problems are still killing us.
This is a classic, but it makes me so sad that it is still relevant today.
One of my earliest memories is the mention on the news every night of the number of casualties in Viet Nam that day. So many memories of the protests, the fear of atomic war. I remember this song. I saw Barry McGuire at a church event sometime in the late 70's, about the time he released Cosmic Cowboy. He still had a lot to say about the threat of nuclear war at that time. He's recorded several updated versions of the song.
This song and video made me CRY!!! Human beings must put an END to WAR or WAR will put an END to MANKIND!!!
This is Barry's one and only number 1 hit it happened in1965 and when the Mamas and Papas moved to LA they moved in with him and he had them meet his producer and more history was made.
He was also known as the singing bouncer.
Barry McGuire is like an Old testament prophet! Interesting dialogue on a song that was written in 19685! I met Barry McGuire, a cool dude, loved surfing and enjoying life but saw the world when he travelled! You mention the metrics on poverty but hey look at the Ukraine, and Gaza (Vietnam and still the ME, respectively). On the poverty issue, Human slavery has increased 10 fold since the 60s! People are still poor, women in Africa still have to walk on average 5kms to collect firewood so they can cook a meal. And I won't talk about safe drinking water and sanitation! This song is a prophetic utterance for us in 2024!
There were quite a few songs made in the 60's, protesting war, civil rights and such that are still relevant today. You won't find songs of today that will last the test of time like music from the 60's.
Best song ever! You would have to have felt what the Vietnam War felt like for us that protested and lost friends and loved ones. My first husband died in Vietnam...
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Great song, brilliant analysis. Thank you for being transparent and open.
This song amazingly still applies today ! It’s just one of the greatest songs ever. I love it. !!
Great reaction as always. I’ve loved this song since I was a kid in the 70s, when we still hadn’t quite shaken off the turbulence of the 60s and were still feeling the sentiments. The song absolutely is intended to be a wake up call to those denying that things are bad and getting worse all the time, but I also agree that’s a matter of perspective. Hope springs eternal, and I want to have hope. It’s just hard when there are people out there willing to commit atrocities in the name of God, country, or ideology. The media loves to keep it front and center so that we lose sight of the good things we do have in this life. It also doesn’t help when our elected officials continually fund the conflicts overseas with our taxes.
I remember as a child during the Viet-Nam war, crying when I heard this song. It truly hurt.
Truly a song for our times - and all times...
"They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace." - Calgacus about the Roman Empire, AD 84.
THIS SONG CREATED AN INTERNATIONAL SESATION. MCGUIRE LATER JOINED THE JESUS PEOPLE MOVEMENT. AND HAS BEEN A SINGING EVANGELIST EVER SINCE
Vietnam war ended in 1975, i was 14 draft age was 18.the war had been going since 1955
The war in the 50's was the Korean War. Totally different war in the same region.
@@Glittersword Vietnam war November 1 1955 till April 30 1975, Korean war June 25 1950 to now Still technically going.
@@carlmoore2220 You are correct, I was imprecise. I was referring to the Hot portion of the war before the cease fire/armisist.
But the Vietnam war did not start in the 50's. It was still a different war.
I was looking at a site that shows three proposed dates for the start of the war. The first was when the OSS sent in Deer Team to help against the JAPANESE on 16 MAY 1945. But that was the ending period of WW2. The second was 8 JUL 1959 when two advisors were killed by war was not declared then or before then. The third was 7 AUG 1964 when Congress signed a joint resolution empowering President Johnson to take any necessary measures to defend U.S. allies in S.E. Asia. That was the closest we came to a Declaration of War.
Thus was a favorite of mine in 65!
It's a warning from history. Sadly, "the only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history".
Interestingly, if the song hadn't ended up in the hands of Barry McGuire and, instead, had been recorded by the singer/songwriter who wrote it, it never would have been a hit and would never have become the classic it is today. The writer, P. F. Sloan, just didn't have the vocal power to grab your attention and make you stop and listen. He did record it (it's on youtube) but it came off more like a kumbaya folk song rather than a dire warning that somebody should have been preaching at the top of their voice from the rooftops.
I love this song - I’m loving you playing these old songs that I haven’t heard in ages 💜
History repeats itself.
Seminal protest song, rock music and Vietnam, civil rights. Famous song.
the opening was the middle east, heading to Viet Nam
Yeah this was one of the sounds of my childhood. I remember it well. The really sad thing about it is that nothing has changed.
It was indeed Tour of Duty, and the song was Paint it Black, by the Rolling Stones. There were several compilation albums released with music from the series, I have several, somewhere.
Around the same time, IIRC as it's been a while, there was also China Beach.
This was when "The Big Three' - The USA, China and the USSR (might still have been the CCCP?) were the three major nuclear powers, and each considered the others as a deadly threat to their very existence!
This was just a couple of years after "the stand-off when it was discovered that the USSR has managed to land nuclear missiles on Cuba, as Castro was a (Soviet) Communist who was aided by them.
It came within seconds of a full-on war breaking out, with nuclear weapons, and if one Soviet submarine commander had followed his mission orders, it would have, even after Khrushchev backed down.
You should look up the meaning of the MAD acronym - Mutually Assured Destruction - and what it REALLY meant.
I do recall, sometime in the late sixties/early seventies, very serious men estimating the probability of a MAD "nuclear war" within 10 years as being almost unavoidable.
Perhaps you can do "In The Year 2525" next?
And I STRONGLY recommend the movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" - it's a VERY black satire that cuts VERY close to the bone as far as attitudes were in the sixties (and before)!
Ding ding ding ding ding!!!! You got it! The bells went off!
The old yet very truthful written lines... " IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES AND THE WORST OF TIMES" VERY FITTING TODAY.
Barry was a part of the New Christy Minstrels, a decidedly folk group of the early-to-mid 1960’s. The song came out in 1965.
But NOT by The Minstrels! He was solo by then. This song shook everybody up who heard it.
Vietnam era had some awesome songs. Humans dont change😢
BRO, Just recently hearing that a telephone company who sells service plans to customers, has in the fine print of the agreement or contract, that the company retains the right to pursue any customer who is guilty of "hate speech" and will terminate and legally prosecute said customer.
In addition they are disclosing that all conversations will be monitored.
THANK YOU!
BTW: Love the song and both of your reactions! Barry McGuire is still around and still retains his ability to sing. He has a revised version to fit the times we live in.
So you want to send hate speech?
@@korybeavers6528 I think that it's a "head's up" for ANY customer that has a mobile phone that will track you; identifies your location and listens to conversations.
When I gave out a personal transaction number, why did my phone keep and store that?
He was right then and its right now, we keep marching right into horror. We could choose peace but there isn’t any way to steal power and money in decency. P.s. No we have not had peace in the Middle East or many other places it’s just if we are paying attention. Sadly we took our flag down that we had always flown,just so we wouldn’t be confused with haters
During the 1960s, both Congress and the state legislatures came under increasing pressure to lower the minimum voting age from 21 to 18. This was in large part due to the Vietnam War, in which many young men who were ineligible to vote were conscripted to fight in the war, thus lacking any means to influence the people sending them off to risk their lives. "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote" was a common slogan used by proponents of lowering the voting age. The slogan traced its roots to World War II, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the military draft age to 18.
In 1963, the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation, in its report to President Johnson, encouraged lowering the voting age. Johnson proposed an immediate national grant of the right to vote to 18-year-olds on May 29, 1968.
Brings back fond memories, I was 14, somebody had that record, we played it all the time.
Try Zager and Evans In the year 2525., same period, similar message, still relevant and nice song.
This song was trying to get the powers that be and parents to wake up to what young people were striving for: peace, love, freedom, and brotherhood. Those are still beautiful words. Wars, hate, and inequality won’t end until people demand it and work for it.
And still we deal with this scenario repeatedly. What is wrong with us? Hope for a bettter future always. Love Mr P and Don 💚💚💚💚
Yeah it's maddening. There are peace groups such as Party for Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER, Uhuru movement, Quakers aka Friends, Jewish Voice for Peace. I stand for everyone's human rights and Free speech ✊♥️⚖️🕊️🌍📣
This was about Vietnam and a little about the Six Day war in Israel. The draft was going on. Our senior year, we'd all wait to see what draft number the boys in our class had drawn. To see which ones were heading out. Today's young people have no idea what that was like, as they get ready to go to college.
In 1963, McGuire, along with Randy Sparks (founder of The New Christy Minstrels), co-wrote and sang lead vocal on the Christys' first and biggest hit single: "Green, Green". He left the Christys in January 1965, after recording the album Cowboys and Indians, although on the 1965 album Chim Chim Cher-ee, McGuire sang on the title cut. H went solo and did PF Sloan's song Eve of Destruction and it became a big hit, all the lyrics were relevant to what was happening in the world, pointing out the hypocrisies of our world back then. it is sad to know that nothing much has changed [I'm 67]...and this song is pretty much relevant today.
Hate your next door neighbor but don’t forget to save Grace. Fast forward 60 years later and nothing changes. We never learn from our mistakes.
War protest songs extend beyond the Vietnam era. The message seems to be the same regardless of the generations writing them. (The @ProfessorofRock latest video goes in depth to Barry McGuire)
Boom! by System Of A Down
Zombie by the Cranberries
Universal Soldier written by Buffy Saint Marie
Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
Blue Sky Armageddon by Reina del Cid
Having grown up in the 50s and 60s, doing air raid drills in grade school, then the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK among others, once the Berlin wall came down I thought the world was finally going to be a better place. So naive of me. 😢
I'm a socialist democrat but fly the flag of the USA. I'm a proud American but sure as hell not proud of the Anerikkka we live in today. People say ya can't look back, why the futures pretty dark to me. Jim
Don is right, objectively the overall trend of history is towards greater prosperity and peace across the planet. We have more of the population of the planet out of poverty, educated, and living happy and peaceful lives.
But, our progress is fragile too - keeping it relies on people valuing it, and understanding the dangers that it can slip away and societies can collapse into chaos too.
To me, this song is not saying “doom is imminent”, it is a warning, a call to action, to say “we are in danger of allowing chaos to take over, now is the time to act to preserve our progress”.
It is important to learn from history, and when we see patterns repeating, we must learn from them and not make the same mistakes. To that end, the current political situation in America (an empire in all but name) has parallels with so many moments from history where chaos and destruction and some of the worst atrocities in history, followed. There is a popularist rising, demanding simple (fake) “answers” to what are actually complicated and nuanced problems, and there is a personality filling the void, offering those simplistic “solutions” to things, while really only interested in self aggrandisement and power. The solutions they offer would involve harm to many people, but minorities.
Meanwhile, not got the first time, humanity actually faces a crisis that could cause global issues to us as a species - climate change. We faced global food shortages when the population started increasing exponentially after the Industrial Revolution (solved with the invention of artificial fertilisers and a green revolution in farming), and hopefully we can find a solution to climate change too - but when the cliff we are rushing towards is being denied even exists because that way you can be popular, humanity is in danger of (as Ren says) “in the name of progress, we jump off the precipice”.
As for free speech - actually a lot of the world enjoys similar levels of freedoms as America. There are some notable exceptions rather than America being exceptional on this. As for UA-cam controlling content, that’s just capitalism at work. YT need to make money, they get that from ads, if people say certain things YT can’t put ads next to it and they lose money, so they have to “encourage” people to make ad friendly content.
That has nothing to do with affecting people’s rights to free speech - YT is a private club, giving you a platform to perform on, where they are doing all the work besides the act on stage, and it’s their club, their rules. You want to say something they can’t make money off? Go make your own club, or go find another club that has a different way to make money. (They probably need a different business model so they don’t rely on ads).
I feel 2024 is a pivotal moment in history - will the American empire willingly hand power to a clear dictator who has already tried to over turn the will of the people once and who has made it clear will bring chaos while serving themself - or will the catastrophe be swerved and let people focus on continuing that march towards prosperity and peace?
The world waits to find out.
My favorite line is "Hate your neighbor! but dont forget to say grace! so powerful
Kind of says something about most so-called Christians today, doesn't it. There is only one group I know of which does not do that.
Since Vietnam (possibly even Korea) the U.S. economy has required conflict(s) somewhere in the world. The economy is literally based on war, which is incredibly profitable.
This goes on and on. I am 73 and grew up during this time, but today is far worse. I worry for America.
Haven't heard this song in a long time. I was 7 when this came out and I still remember all of the words. Listening again made me smile and cry at the same time. If you haven't listened to Zager and Evan's 2525 and Country Joe McDonald (from Woodstock) Fish Cheer - give those a try.
He's saying,"Here we go again!!!
I could be wrong, but I don't bellieve this video was produced back when this song was released. Like a lot of videos you see on UA-cam, it's likely that someone produced specifically for UA-cam to accompany this song. But the song was released in 1965, went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Barry McGuire had been the lead singer in a folk group he helped to pioneer called the New Christy Minstrels in the early '60s that had a few hits. But he is best known for "Eve of Destruction." He later became a pioneer of the Contemporary Christian music scene. As of today, he's still around. 88 years old.
Thankfully, we were not on the eve of destruction. But, hey...there's still time! This was 60 years ago. A national #1 pop song! BTW, Barry McGuire is alive and well at age 88!!
Never mind the video just listen to the lyrics. Those lyrics still apply today!
1965 I remember the song
As a few others mentioned, the music for the opening credits of "Tour Of Duty" was "Paint it Black". But that was only the beginning. The entire soundtrack of each episode was packed with late 60s top 40. Unfortunately, the US DVD release of the series uses generic music, because they didn't want to pay for the rights to the songs originally used.
The one line when he says " when the button is pushed there's no running away" he's talking about all out nuclear world war. We all new there would be no winner, too many nuclear bombs on both sides, Fact. As a fourth grader when this came out we were practicing hiding under our desk in case there was a nuclear bomb coming near us. This song and the way he sings it scares the hell out of me.
It seems to never end. This is from the 60's. That generation was dealing with the Vietnam War. The generation before that was dealing with World War II. The generation before that was dealing with World War I. The generation before that with the Civil War. The generation before that with the Revolutionary War.
When I was in elementary school we had drills on what to do in case of an atomic bomb going off. We were told to hide under our desks, people were building fallout shelters in their back yards. Now adays kids are having drills in case a crazed shooter was to come into their school, people scan the stores to make sure they know where the exits are and very little, if any, contact with neighbors. Seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
Hitting the classics nice.💕👍🦇
I was in high school when this song came out. Although I was registered for the draft, I didn't have to because of a lottery system that was initiated to produce a more fair way to pick fresh meat. Luckily for me, my birthday was #122, exactly 1/3 of the available numbers. They announced that the draft outlook nationally would be approximately 1/3, I was nervous that year for sure, but my local draft office in Tucson, Az. only drafted up to 85 because of a high enlistment rate. Whoopie!
The only lottery I ever won.😂❤
there were a lot of anti war (Vietnam) protest songs, many one hit wonders - some i have never heard since we pulled out of Saigon in '75. Many were very good...
another war we humans never learnt from
As a veteran of that war we related to the content I met Barry in 88 we had a great conversation about the war and the songs impact ❤ what you do
TLDR: The reason you first thought this was about recent conflicts is because all of the things cited in this song (aside from the 18 draft, 21 vote) is still around today, and has never really ceased. Sadly, this is the reason Eve of Destruction, War Pigs, For What It's Worth, Killing In the Name, Zombie and oh, so many other songs are so relatable to multiple generations, it's because their subjects are timeless.
The rest: It has never stopped, only changed form. Imagine having grown up with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, The Cold War, Lebanon, Granada, Libya, Panama (and those are not all) plus all of the conflicts you remember. My parents' generation also had Korea in their memories. And all the while, we have been struggling with race, police abusing their power, gas shortages, our "elected" politicians steadily gaining more power for themselves and less for the people, appropriating the vast majority of the wealth of our country for their financiers, ignoring the climate crisis (which has been known for decades), gutting the New Deal gains until only sparce fragments of them still exist today, and eroding our rights left and right (pun intended). No, I am not optimistic about the future. I've seen too much for that. All I hope for is survival, because even that is not a given.
A great protest song from back in the day.😎
M.A.S.H. was the Korean War. This song was about the Vietnam war.
History repeats. And ryhmes
60's was my era. History. Bay pf Pigs, JFK/RFK assassinations, The Beatles, Civil Rights, Vietnam War - excuse me - police action, hippies, man on the moon (if you believe it), cold war/communism, a/h-bombs, the pill, Woodstock. Real music with real lyrics that did then exactly what you experienced today because what goes around comes around - history repeats itself if you don't learn from it.
Yes...We were effing SERIOUS in that era!
LOL the world/time didn't begin at YOUR birth.
best song of all time nearly
all that old veitnam wartime music is very very real music
This was the first 45 I bought when I was 13 years old... with my babysitting money.
You’ve missed out on so much! 😔But enjoying your journey of discovery!! 😁
This came out during the Vietnam war. This was a scary time for us. My husband was in Vietnam and it was a very scary time. I very much remember this song and now it scares me for Isreal and Palestine, Ukraine and Russia.
It's as relevant today as it was back then.
Looking forward to this…loved this song for many years. You should check out the version by The Dickies ❤
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Ok, watched half now…the song was written in protest of the war in Vietnam but also looks onward to what could, and probably will, happen if the human race continues down this path toward total global destruction. The final verse “you can leave here for 4 days in space…” the last couplet is in reference to nuclear war. “Ate your next door neighbour but don’t forget to say Grace”. And yeah, BP, it is a mad depressing song. Probably also the reason I, and many others, connect with Ren and his mindset