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.
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.
Funny how they mention test tubes babies being hundreds of years in the future when in fact the first test tube baby was born less then a decade after this song. Technology moves even faster then we know.
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.☮️
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.
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
This song came out in 1969, I was 11 years old, and it freaked me out back then even though it was a song. So many things in this song have actually come true, scary right?
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Yes, I remember this song. I was too young at the time to really understand the lyrics, just liked the "far out" idea of what life might be like in the distant future. Later, after developing a passion for science fiction through reading books by authors like Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov, and seeing movies like 2001: A Space Oddity and A Clockwork Orange that I could truly appreciate it. Themes of overeliance on technology and humanity's penchant for self destruction do seem to foreshadow a lot of what's going on today.
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..
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 TH-cam 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
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.
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.
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..
Rick Evans actually wrote the song in 1964 i actually spoke to him. He did not intend to predict what would happen in a particular year but to say how mankind is progressing. Now in 2021 the song is even more true. Mankind is dehumanizing himself.
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 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.
Listen to Simon and Garfunkel sounds of silence for telling of the coming technology. Recorded in 1964. Then listen to Disturbed cover. And what they are railing against.
It's from 1969 that is a pivotal date it's not just from the sixties it's from 1969, Think about that while you're listening to the lyrics these guys in 1969 had an understanding of what was coming that the years how they progress through the years that's a progression is just a step-by-step by step-by-step when you when you start to listen to what they're talking about I used to I heard this song my entire childhood through my young adult years and never really heard it until last year when last year I heard it on a Sunday morning with Casey kayson going back to one hit wonders or whatever it was anyway the song just it blew me away I'd like I heard it for the very 1st time truly heard it for the very 1st time even though I had heard it all my life So remember 69 19 69 that is a pivotal year and the fact that these guys had this kind of insight I joked around with people and I say This guy is a they were time travelers that came from the future came back wrote this song I mean consists of the only song that I even knows that these guys wrote I've never heard any of the other songs and like I said I didn't really hear this song until 2020 when I 1st heard it for the 1st time in my mind OK.
It's Zager, say Zayger, and Evans! Denny Zager and Rick Evans came up with an astonishing OHW which was WAY ahead of it's time! They used film of Metropolis which itself was ahead of it's time! It's believed Neil Armstrong s food supply was pill's? So much for tucking into a thick burger! A test tube baby has already happened here in UK!
I born in the late 60's and when the song 2525 came out and when I was growing up in the 70's they were talking about a baby growing in a test tube and they came true and certain others also came true
Listen to it a few more times while you're doing stuff around the house but when you're by yourself where you can really absorb it with no outside distractions then you'll really get the full meaning the full feeling of this thing I can tell already it's freaked you out and I don't think you've got to full effect because you've just stopped and started to stop and start it you have to listen to it nonstop from start to Spanish with no distractions put the headphones on and get to a point where your mind is open to fucking the message. And if you can listen to this song if anybody can listen to this song and not be freaked out I don't know it freaked me out it's still freaks me out it's so on point how-do-you-do how does somebody from 1969 do that.
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.
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~
these guys where visionaries. I have always loved this song.
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.
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.
Oh man, I just turned 68 and the 60s and 70s music is awesome!
FINALLY, someone who actually listened to the lyrics!! I agree! Totally mind blowing! One of my all time favorite songs and I was born in the 50's!
Loved and understood the song when I first heard it when I was about 10 yrs old. Bloody awesome!
Can you explain what would happen in each year?
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.
Funny how they mention test tubes babies being hundreds of years in the future when in fact the first test tube baby was born less then a decade after this song. Technology moves even faster then we know.
He probably was a remote viewer and saw potential futures to mankind! Its really creepy!!! Spot on
Yes shocking indeed. Shocking as a15 yr old who loved this song in 1969. Zager Evans right on man. I'm 68 now.
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.☮️
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.
Blast from the past! I bought this 45 rpm when it was released in 1968, and still have it. I was 15, and it’s stood the test of time.
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
The song’s ABSOLUTELY ICONIC..and a foretelling.
Dude, I know this is from years ago but this song rung a bell with me too and I still can't shake the feelies it puts out.
This song came out in 1969, I was 11 years old, and it freaked me out back then even though it was a song. So many things in this song have actually come true, scary right?
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.
This song was released in 1969, 9 years before the first test-tube baby was born in 1978.
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.
It's a warning... It makes you pay attention to the way things are going.
This song is crazy...how did they know this was going to happen..I love the song it's one of my favorites
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.
well just see how far we have come from the last 10.000 years
Strange..everybody is shocked nowaday's hearing the songs lyrics..I know this beautiful song allready since my childhood..50years ago..
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!
From the bottom of a long class tube ...genetic engineering...they knew back then
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.
I loved your reaction.. And yes he was making spot on predictions from back in 60's ..
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.
These lyrics are heavy its about the computers taking over replacing humans
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.
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!
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.
When I first heard it 50 years ago it reminded me of the stories of Jules verne.those stories were fiction ,but many of his writings came true!it's
Yes, I remember this song. I was too young at the time to really understand the lyrics, just liked the "far out" idea of what life might be like in the distant future. Later, after developing a passion for science fiction through reading books by authors like Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov, and seeing movies like 2001: A Space Oddity and A Clockwork Orange that I could truly appreciate it. Themes of overeliance on technology and humanity's penchant for self destruction do seem to foreshadow a lot of what's going on today.
Rick Evans actually wrote the song in 1964
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..
It is all telling future of humanity. I have not heard this song before
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 TH-cam 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
It is crazy it's happening.
Now my god.
You by far! Gave the best reaction and input ever!
From the year we landed on the Moon........ And Woodstock!
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.
It's a real History lesson😮
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.
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..
That song was true, remember when it first come out, they hit it on the head
Rick Evans actually wrote the song in 1964 i actually spoke to him. He did not intend to predict what would happen in a particular year but to say how mankind is progressing. Now in 2021 the song is even more true. Mankind is dehumanizing himself.
Wow!
…exactly.
this song is like the future trying to warn us ..
Some of this have come true!
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.
Some people were a way ahead of the time that they were born in
everything is already happening
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.
I was 10 when this song came out . Listened to it with my mother for the first time. We both stopped and cried.
They were prophets. I love this song. Grew up hearing it
Yes it's from the 60s, I grew up listening to it and I'm 56 xx
Still gives me chills and tears.
I have been living with song most of my life. Amazing how this song slowly becomes real.
this song makes you think automatically. I was 12 years old in 1969. Like they knew what was going to happen.
I don't know if anyone has heard this song without those chills. It is such a trip.
The pill is the social media, write what you think from the bottom of your heart and the chance of you slipping out of your group of friends is high.
1969 was a hell of a year. I missed it, but but made it back for the roaring '70s. This song was just plain cool.
I Remember it well, it traveled the airways in the summer of 1969 it was in the top 40's on the Billboard Charts
It actually made it all the way to #1
The Progenitors of Now.
we are already picking babies from test tubes, through invitro fertilization...since nineteen eighty two..
i remember this song when it came out, it helped me get through my teenage years. it has always stirred my blood everytime i hear it.
Listen to Simon and Garfunkel sounds of silence for telling of the coming technology. Recorded in 1964. Then listen to Disturbed cover. And what they are railing against.
It's from 1969 that is a pivotal date it's not just from the sixties it's from 1969, Think about that while you're listening to the lyrics these guys in 1969 had an understanding of what was coming that the years how they progress through the years that's a progression is just a step-by-step by step-by-step when you when you start to listen to what they're talking about I used to I heard this song my entire childhood through my young adult years and never really heard it until last year when last year I heard it on a Sunday morning with Casey kayson going back to one hit wonders or whatever it was anyway the song just it blew me away I'd like I heard it for the very 1st time truly heard it for the very 1st time even though I had heard it all my life So remember 69 19 69 that is a pivotal year and the fact that these guys had this kind of insight I joked around with people and I say This guy is a they were time travelers that came from the future came back wrote this song I mean consists of the only song that I even knows that these guys wrote I've never heard any of the other songs and like I said I didn't really hear this song until 2020 when I 1st heard it for the 1st time in my mind OK.
Technology is a tool
A tool can be used for
Good
Or
Evil
Human nature remains the same no matter what year it is
One prediction has already happened. The one about test tub babies.
I’m 64 and remember this song when I was 8.
It's Zager, say Zayger, and Evans! Denny Zager and Rick Evans came up with an astonishing OHW which was WAY ahead of it's time! They used film of Metropolis which itself was ahead of it's time! It's believed Neil Armstrong s food supply was pill's? So much for tucking into a thick burger! A test tube baby has already happened here in UK!
And the rest of the story, in "Blade Runner" ...
best movie ever
did you know there is two different endings? director's cut is not the original and did not come out until much later.
I born in the late 60's and when the song 2525 came out and when I was growing up in the 70's they were talking about a baby growing in a test tube and they came true and certain others also came true
A lot of the things in this song are happening now.
Listen to it a few more times while you're doing stuff around the house but when you're by yourself where you can really absorb it with no outside distractions then you'll really get the full meaning the full feeling of this thing I can tell already it's freaked you out and I don't think you've got to full effect because you've just stopped and started to stop and start it you have to listen to it nonstop from start to Spanish with no distractions put the headphones on and get to a point where your mind is open to fucking the message. And if you can listen to this song if anybody can listen to this song and not be freaked out I don't know it freaked me out it's still freaks me out it's so on point how-do-you-do how does somebody from 1969 do that.
How do you think we felt hearing this 50 years ago....and seeing it all happen????
The future is here and now.
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.
Not from the sixties from 1969 the last year of the sixties it's incredible that they had this kind of insight
1969 this came out
They lyrics say it all
Yep
On The same Vibe as this Song brother you Should Do Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction and do the same thing react to the lyrics
In a way this song is a sad testament to what mankind has done and how we’ve progressed.
1969....!!!! I was in high school a great memory
Flip of this was "Little Kids".Both were written by Rick Evans.
This song was written in 1969. I was 9 years old. I Remember when this same out. Some of this has already happened. Scary isn't it.
1964
For a similar theme you should react to “Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire, also from the 60’s
Their song is tripping you out already I can tell
Picking your child from a long glass tube has already happened. The first 'test tube baby' is alive and well and she's 43
i rember discovering that song in 1988 i freaked out, after hearing i didnt spoke a word for 1 day
Welcome to the Jungle. We have fun & games of future 2025
It all makes sense if you shrink the 10000 years to just 100
You won't need to chew cause you got no teeth no one's gonna look at you cause they have no eyes... It a parable of what how the future will turn out
compress the song to 2025-2095.... the moment when reality kicks in, HARD
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~
new it love it thanks !
This song was written in 1964.
Wow!
agree with yo its crazy thanks