This song came out in the late 1960's, and we are way ahead of their timeline. They couldn't even have imagined just how far down the wrong path we would be by now.
Oh, please. Smog is a thing of the past, we've conquered several pandemic diseases, the North American continent has undergone massive reforestation, and all you can do is _complain_? When I was a child, this song sounded soooo significant. Now I see it for the crabbed, pessimistic tripe it is. Humanity has been around for at least a quarter-million years. 2525 is only 500 years away. 500 years ago Europe had just landed on the American continents. Humanity's greatest time still lay ahead. You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Caseytify That's irrelevant. All the major advances have taken place in the last two thousand years and especially in the last few hundred since the industrial revolution. If we keep going the way we are, humanity won't make it to 2525. To not acknowledge that we are destroying the planet and ourselves in the process is delusional. Pessimism has nothing to do with it.
An extremely powerful one-hit wonder! I remember as a kid listening to this on our little 9-volt powered transistor radio on the local AM station! God, I'm old!
I know the feeling I was 14 at the time. I still have my 9 volt transistor radio. And Kris am in AZ play it all the time. Then there was the other one hit wonder at the same time. It was DOA by bloodrock. If you remember that it described an airplane crash.
I love this song as well, but the message is really not ahead of its time. All the ideas that are put forth in the song were really in the spirit of the time, and had been for at least 70 years. The song is about the impact of technology on mankind, but that's been a concern since technology started making wild advances in the 1800's. Since then, the idea that technology could eat away our humanity has been portrayed over and over in books and movies : Metropolis (1927), Brave New World (1931), A Space Odyssey (1968), etc. It's a really common trope. The song would have been ahead of its time if it anticipated an environmental crisis or something along those lines.
Denny Zager is still with us. He makes some great guitars at his shop in Nebraska. He made one for me last year. He tests and plays every one and signs them. Of my 13 guitars, this is the one I enjoy playing the most. This song really makes you think, if you give it some time. Remember, this was recorded 50 years ago.
You should review " Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire. This song is a protest song he made famous. This song speaks of many social issues and problems faced throughout the Sixties.
The uncomfortable truth, eh? Makes a lot of people angry as evidenced in the comments. I'm not saying this song has got everything right. Of course it hasn't. But the essence of it is spot on.
Forget the timeline, it's meaningless. Everything else is here. I won't pretend to know what you know or don't know. you have a I watching everything you do whether it's at the grocery store on your laptop or phone which tracks all your movements. And it's now creating a algorithm for your social credit score. Everyone has social media now and they don't have to be seen. Many individuals thoughts and actions are controlled by the pills they take today as they were then. And according to Jeff Bezos at the world economic conference in Saudi Arabia they're going to have to give everyone who's left a subsistence check because they have robots to do everyone's job. Yhis was a few years ago he said within the next 5 years. And by the way Sofia Turn 6 next February. And yes you can pick your child sex hair and eye color among other things. Perhaps not in the US but China is doing it. And through corporate greed which all the politicians around the world have their investments in. They go from one natural resource too another. From sinking holes in the ground for oil too larger open-pit mines for copper. And the open-pit mines they also get the Rare Earth elements for the magnets and lithium. There really is only one final Act which obviously hasn't happened yet that's God's judgment.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Zager and spouse in a public agency that I had worked for; they were very kind & impressed that a little African American girl knew of their song in the year 2525!
As George Carlin said many years ago the planet isn't going anywhere we are. Planet has been here billions of years and been through worse then us. Once we are gone it will heal and cleanse itself and some other life form will take over that's more worthy.
@Rex84 yeah but he wasn’t helping the fight because he was telling people there was no God but he should be telling people the Satanist are working together while the others are not in the reason the others have unity is because they have their God and the reason Christians have their unity is because they have their God. Finding unity is there any essential part of humanity. You don’t wanna do it for the Darkside. If you’re going to untie people from Christianity you might as well tell them the truth about it while you untie them. There really was an individual who came and shook up the Roman empire so badly that they lost military control and had to go to a religious form to keep control of the people. The Bible was written 300 years after they murdered this person and they could say whatever they wanted to say about him. Do I believe in a virgin birth? No. That was paganism. Do I see how the Christian religion is based around the worship of the sun and the 12 signs of the zodiac? I most definitely do. Do I believe that somebody came and shook up the same power structure that is still in control of the world today. I most certainly do. I can prove the case that the Roman empire never lost its power. The part of Christianity that I like to investigate is biblical prophecy. But to turn people off of God and not turn them on to the truth and the actual avenues of very much interest within the scope of religious study is the problem I have with George carlin.
@Rex84 It is a dichotomy. You were either with the girl or with the bad. The creator of the universe is the only God. All of our souls were created somehow. Our human bodies are not the eternal. You have to identify as a soul and then ask, where did the soul come from. Then you consider the big bang theory in which everything was known and then scattered only to come back to itself. That is the game we are playing. You were either creating or destroying. Doing nothing is essentially using the system and is thus destruction.
We are so much closer to these predictions than when the song came out. Creepy stuff. The song is about the decent of man from his humanity. Allowing technology to do everything for us, until we are just slugs.
It's saying humans piss away everything we are given, and at the rate we're going, we will cease to exist in 10,000 years. Unfortunately, we're getting there way sooner than the song predicted.
@Nicole Jessica Banning of CFC gases helped the ozone layer to recover, but now the issue is increasing global temperatures at a faster rate than normal.
@@kennet7837 you can't even tell us what normal is in this case. And just in case (excuse the pun) you forgot, we've been recovering from a little ice age the past century. The Hudson river froze hard enough to drag cannon across it during the Revolutionary War, and a century before that Prussian hussars captured Dutch sailing ships frozen off the coast of the Netherlands. They literally rode their horses out to where the ships were stuck. That's _normal_?
Nicole Jessica You can't be serious. With all the toxins that are going into our environment - why do you think cancer is reaching epidemic proportions? Not to mention allergies, many of which hardly existed a few hundred years ago. Because pretty much everything we eat, drink, wear, slather on our bodies (whether it's perfume, moisturiser, make up, deodorant) and breathe (traffic fumes, air fresheners) contains a cocktail of lethal chemicals. Oh yes, they're all currently deemed "safe", but in 100 years time, future generations will look back on us and be appalled at what was permitted for human consumption. These are things that have no business going anywhere near the human body, either inside or out.
A lot can happen in 10,000 yrs. About 10K yrs ago or so, here in N. America, were Mastodons, Ancient Horses, Giant Sloths, a supersize version of the armadillo, Woolly Mammoths, Giant Beaver and so many more extinct critters. Just 2,000 years ago ancient Rome ruled most of the known world. 5,000 years ago the very first written language was developing in Sumeria. The speed of change! It would be presumptuous for humans to believe we cannot also pass out of existence in 10,000 more years. Live for today and enjoy! 10K yrs is 400-500 generations from now....
I was 7 years old at this time in 1969, my mother loved music and she would listen to the radio or play the record player, old 45's and 33's, while she cleaned the apartment. I remember this tune as I was growing up, so much was going on then. Brings back some memories. Cool Scary tune India :) Peace.
The thing I always got from this song is that life forms evolve to have certain physical traits because that is what is needed. If things change, and you no longer need to use your arms to do stuff, how long do you think humans will have usable arms? If life can be created in a lab, what need is there for people to marry in order to start families? I think that's where they were going with the song.
Hey beautiful... well, I remember this song back when I was a kid. Listening to this as an adult in this era now... look what has happened to our planet, it's creatures, and humankind just over the past 50(+) years already. Food for thought folks.
in 2020 The closest we are being merged with a machine is prosthetics, cellphones and smart watches, soon it will be smart glasses. Years later it will probably a micro chip planted in our brains
@@DEEJAYYCHINO Check out Elon Musk and his Neurolink and AI predictions and what he is working on. The SpaceX Demo 2 mission was totally autonomous including the docking. The astronauts were like passengers, there if needed. Peace
Isn't that SCARY as HELL. Some of that stuff can be done now. And someone wrote that song about 50 years ago. WOW, makes you wonder what people will be able to do in the next 50 years. Bless you, India. 7-27-2021
Seeing a young lady like yourself listening to music this old is so awesome. 😀 It would be best to look at what it is trying to say. If you look at the right video that is black and white, it was done back in the 1900s, telling what will happen if we continue living the way we are... The song came out in the 1960's. The actual video from the 1900s shows what civilization's going to happen. Not too long ago, in the 1980s, At that time, we used to say hello to Stanger in the streets or say good morning. Those times are gone. Because now we say good morning to our phones. We go out on a date and look at our phones; every moment we have, we look at our phones like we are slaves to them. The generation of the 2000s has devoted their life to technology. Now, we live in a time of selfishness. It's all about us. It is sad to see that humanity has fallen short of human kindness.
This was the only hit by Zagar and Evans, two bartenders in Omaha, NE. I have always liked the song (Science Fiction theme). I suggest that you view the other videos for a different yet similar ideas.
They are already building A.I. to replace people as we speak and will have it out by year 2030 Prepare yourself. It was predicted on the Simpson's in the late 1990's towards the 2000's.
Painting a picture of a dismal future for mankind. This song, along w/ Lay Lady Lay (Dylan) & Dock of The Bay (Otis Redding), was on the charts when I was in an air wing aboard a carrier Home ported at NAS Alameda, Calif. We were in training for active duty off the coast of N. Vietnam where we dumped tons of bombs on N Vietnam & Laos. This song always takes me back to that time. "We have taken everything this old earth has to give & we ain't put back nothin". We need to be reminded that everything that we are physically comes from the earth. All the minerals, chemicals, & water that makes up our body comes from the planet. If not for 6" of topsoil, rain, & photosynthesis none of us would be here, absolutely none.
I will never forget the first time this hit me. The rythm and lyrics just mind blowing! It's an amazing story, way ahead of its time. Truth is, we will be long gone at the rate we are going at the minute!
Back in the 1960s this was a fun song, thinking it was hypothetical thoughts and their imagination of the writers of this song. And hearing it decades later I can see there is a lot of real truth, that these things are actually happening. It's amazing how accurate they were.
Denny Zager and Rick Evans met at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1962. They were joined by drummer Danny Schindler (later of the Benders) in the Nebraska band the Eccentrics until Schindler's tour of Vietnam in 1965. Evans also left in 1965 and reunited with Zager in 1968. As Zager and Evans, the duo were backed by another Nebraska native, Mark Dalton, on bass. Their first drummer, Paul Maher, was later replaced by another Nebraskan, Dave Trupp. Trupp and Dalton were also the rhythm section in the Liberation Blues Band and backed Evans on some solo demo material prior to Zager and Evans's recording of "In the Year 2525" in 1968.
Listen to Paul Harvey's 1965 "If I Were The Devil" It's spoken word but amazingly prophetic. You have to here how it predicted what's going on today in America. It will blow your mind.
i had totally forgot about this song, and i head it like a few days ago, and both back then and a few days ago, it send shivers down my spine, not only for the lyrics, but the feeling it brings me. Basically my interpretation is the "evolution of man" which can either be our salute or our own demise. But eventually, our choices will lead to something irreversible
It's interesting because our local station here in the boonies of the Ozarks played it today. I was fourteen when the song came out. The song was thought-provoking but then most of the music of that day was, unlike like today is crap.
Since your doing futuristic stuff do the great 5th Dimension performing the biggest song of 1969..Aquarius and Let the Sun Shine from the radical play Hair.
At the time that this song was released for radio play ... it was so "Deep" in the meaning that lots and people didn't like it or understand it, I sure didn't ... I was just a kid. Later on ... when I reached my teens, I sort of understood it but still had a lot of questions. It was in my mid teens that my older sister (she was 10 years older) sat down the me and we listened to the record she had ( It was a 45 ... which the now generation says " a 45?" ... 45 what? ... LOL ... Google it ... it will explain better than I can) and she answer my questions and gave me her interpretation of the song. She was "spot on"!
I had the same reaction, ii had NEVER heard this song before! had youtube on autoplay on my drive home and it came on its a catchy tune w a Grimm message Just wanted to see others take on it thanks for sharing this
Well according to this song we have a few thousand more years to clean up our act! So relax, you've got some time to teach your grandchildren some lessons.
@@teenystudioflicks1635 with life spans as such now, a child just born will have the environment for 80 or more years, the turn of the next century the 2100 or 2101. And if we pretend that we can ignore the health of the planet simply for fun and profit or the the easy way. In 80 years, without pushing science and re-examination of what is progress. Well, I'm sure your lifestyle is more important than your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Grew up in the '60's. Loved this song, believe that they were ahead of their time!! Watching different reactions to this, one couple couldn't talk & cried!! We didn't understand in the '60's, BUT they have hit the nail on the head!!
Print the lyrics out. And then read them along when they’re singing. I’m glad I stumbled upon you. I’ve been telling this other guy on CZcams to do the song and so far he hasn’t done it so now I found you and I think I’m going to stay. Have a great day. Also remember that this song was done in the 60s. ❤️
My God, I watched three reaction videos for this song and every one was the same... they didn't even grasp what this song was about until about halfway through! lol
This song needs to be taught in a class at school right now because the youth of this country do not realize that computers are great but they’re not the answer we’re destroying our self
This song was very real in the1960s. The race to build Nuclear weapons was frightening. Russia put ICBMs ( intercontinal ballistic missiles) in Cuba. President Kennedy told them to remove them. Fortunately the USSR backed down. It was a very tense period. "MAD" mutually assured destruction, was on the cards. Kennedy called the USSR's bluff. and the crisis was over. It could so easily gone the other way.
This song came out when I was little. I always called this gloom rock. It made me think about technology. I bring this song up all the time and tell people we are moving to a world where Alexa does every thing for us. Soon we will have little arms from doing nothing.
Almost 10 years after this song came out, the first "test tube" baby was born. Creepy. Even now robotics engineers are making powered exoskeletons to help enhance our abilities. Some are already being tested for those who can't walk at all.
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.
This song came out in the late 1960's, and we are way ahead of their timeline. They couldn't even have imagined just how far down the wrong path we would be by now.
They were a little off the timeline on test tube baby's though, chuckle. We may be speeding to that end faster then they predicted. hmmmm.
Oh, please. Smog is a thing of the past, we've conquered several pandemic diseases, the North American continent has undergone massive reforestation, and all you can do is _complain_?
When I was a child, this song sounded soooo significant. Now I see it for the crabbed, pessimistic tripe it is. Humanity has been around for at least a quarter-million years. 2525 is only 500 years away. 500 years ago Europe had just landed on the American continents. Humanity's greatest time still lay ahead.
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Caseytify That's irrelevant. All the major advances have taken place in the last two thousand years and especially in the last few hundred since the industrial revolution. If we keep going the way we are, humanity won't make it to 2525. To not acknowledge that we are destroying the planet and ourselves in the process is delusional. Pessimism has nothing to do with it.
@@penname5766 We'll be lucky to make it to 2100 or 2150.
The one we continue on, because we don't question.
No horror movie, no monster, nor the dark scared me as a youth, but the lyrics to this song did!
Yeah, this song is spooky as hell!
It scared me too! What is scary is some stuff has come to pass. Babies in glass tubes.
I don't have anxiety, but listening to the depth of this songs lyrics gives me anxiety!
I was young when that song came out. I loved it. I didn't find it scary at all !
Me too! I was in grade school and it freaked the hell outta me!
An extremely powerful one-hit wonder! I remember as a kid listening to this on our little 9-volt powered transistor radio on the local AM station! God, I'm old!
I know the feeling I was 14 at the time.
I still have my 9 volt transistor radio. And Kris am in AZ play it all the time. Then there was the other one hit wonder at the same time. It was DOA by bloodrock. If you remember that it described an airplane crash.
Yeah,I remember DOA-what an awful song.
Play this next to Barry McGuire singing "Eve of Destruction" and you won't want to get out of bed ever again.
Also "bad moon rising"
Eve of destruction was low tech end of it all .....2525 is hi-tech end of it all....Same thing different time.
Listen to "D.O.A." and you'll never want to drive a car again.
Agreed.
That is the first song I thought off. Barrie Mcguire
Fasten your seatbelts , we're living through this now.
We better hold on tight asf because we are going out of here with a bang.
The ride hasn’t finished yet, we’re barely halfway and we have a WWIII ahead
Nine months ago there was hope.
Now that thought is all but gone for us.
I thought about this,naively, when it first came out. But now I am convinced there will be no human life after 2050.
2525 is 504 years from now your welcome 😁
The last part was "maybe it was yesterday." meaning it has happened already and we're living through it again.
My favorite part. Time is a flat circle.
Yup....
No, in some other galaxy far, far away 😳
That’s what I thought.
No doubt, they knew their timeline was absurd. And history does repeat itself.
This song has always made me think of where we are headed.
It ain't good, but we'll get the quality we wanted. As animals.
Pixar even made a movie, WALL-E where the whole Earth is a fallout and humanity is living on outer space because of the conditions of the Earth
I hope we do more space travel
Really....what a Brainiac you are!
I love this song it’s message is way before its time!
I love this song as well, but the message is really not ahead of its time. All the ideas that are put forth in the song were really in the spirit of the time, and had been for at least 70 years.
The song is about the impact of technology on mankind, but that's been a concern since technology started making wild advances in the 1800's. Since then, the idea that technology could eat away our humanity has been portrayed over and over in books and movies : Metropolis (1927), Brave New World (1931), A Space Odyssey (1968), etc. It's a really common trope.
The song would have been ahead of its time if it anticipated an environmental crisis or something along those lines.
@@DEEJAYYCHINO me too
No. Freedom is within our grasp. Nationalism for every country and people be free versus globo communism under the boot of UN slash WEF.
@@SexyAlien2 70 Years ? More like 100. With Zamyatin`s "Us" wrote in 1920
Denny Zager is still with us. He makes some great guitars at his shop in Nebraska. He made one for me last year. He tests and plays every one and signs them. Of my 13 guitars, this is the one I enjoy playing the most. This song really makes you think, if you give it some time. Remember, this was recorded 50 years ago.
You should review " Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire. This song is a protest song he made famous. This song speaks of many social issues and problems faced throughout the Sixties.
'Eve of Destruction' song is more relevant now than it was in 1967, scary!
@@dand232 So true!
Oh God yes!
Eve of Destruction is my favorite song !
Along with The Merry Minuet by the Kingston Trio.
The uncomfortable truth, eh? Makes a lot of people angry as evidenced in the comments. I'm not saying this song has got everything right. Of course it hasn't. But the essence of it is spot on.
I think it's spot on just 500 years too early that this song needs a title change, let's say "In the Year 2021" for example?
Forget the timeline, it's meaningless. Everything else is here.
I won't pretend to know what you know or don't know.
you have a I watching everything you do whether it's at the grocery store on your laptop or phone which tracks all your movements. And it's now creating a algorithm for your social credit score. Everyone has social media now and they don't have to be seen. Many individuals thoughts and actions are controlled by the pills they take today as they were then. And according to Jeff Bezos at the world economic conference in Saudi Arabia they're going to have to give everyone who's left a subsistence check because they have robots to do everyone's job. Yhis was a few years ago he said within the next 5 years. And by the way Sofia Turn 6 next February. And yes you can pick your child sex hair and eye color among other things. Perhaps not in the US but China is doing it. And through corporate greed which all the politicians around the world have their investments in. They go from one natural resource too another. From sinking holes in the ground for oil too larger open-pit mines for copper. And the open-pit mines they also get the Rare Earth elements for the magnets and lithium. There really is only one final Act which obviously hasn't happened yet that's God's judgment.
This song spooked me then and it spooks me now.
This song has more predictions then nosterdomas
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And they are coming true.
Fact.....
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wow, i was obsessed with this song as a young guy, you really know how to find them
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Zager and spouse in a public agency that I had worked for; they were very kind & impressed that a little African American girl knew of their song in the year 2525!
I was 9 years old when this song expanded my imagination. Love it.
I was 10 in 69
I was 14, and yes I think it explained what many of us thought.
As George Carlin said many years ago the planet isn't going anywhere we are. Planet has been here billions of years and been through worse then us. Once we are gone it will heal and cleanse itself and some other life form will take over that's more worthy.
dsfddsgh Carlin suxxx. He was an atheist.
@Rex84 yeah but he wasn’t helping the fight because he was telling people there was no God but he should be telling people the Satanist are working together while the others are not in the reason the others have unity is because they have their God and the reason Christians have their unity is because they have their God. Finding unity is there any essential part of humanity. You don’t wanna do it for the Darkside. If you’re going to untie people from Christianity you might as well tell them the truth about it while you untie them. There really was an individual who came and shook up the Roman empire so badly that they lost military control and had to go to a religious form to keep control of the people. The Bible was written 300 years after they murdered this person and they could say whatever they wanted to say about him. Do I believe in a virgin birth? No. That was paganism. Do I see how the Christian religion is based around the worship of the sun and the 12 signs of the zodiac? I most definitely do. Do I believe that somebody came and shook up the same power structure that is still in control of the world today. I most certainly do. I can prove the case that the Roman empire never lost its power. The part of Christianity that I like to investigate is biblical prophecy. But to turn people off of God and not turn them on to the truth and the actual avenues of very much interest within the scope of religious study is the problem I have with George carlin.
@Rex84 It is a dichotomy. You were either with the girl or with the bad. The creator of the universe is the only God. All of our souls were created somehow. Our human bodies are not the eternal. You have to identify as a soul and then ask, where did the soul come from. Then you consider the big bang theory in which everything was known and then scattered only to come back to itself. That is the game we are playing. You were either creating or destroying. Doing nothing is essentially using the system and is thus destruction.
This song made an impact to my kid self.
We are so much closer to these predictions than when the song came out. Creepy stuff.
The song is about the decent of man from his humanity. Allowing technology to do everything for us, until we are just slugs.
Yes, de-evolution. The 80's band Devo named their band from this word. But a lot of people probably knew this already. Their ideas are similar.
Sci-fi/ecology song from back in the day.
Evans wrote this in 30minutes, it was completely off the top of his head.
1000 year jumps. Think of how much we've changed since 1019 both good & bad.
…except from 6565 to 7510; then from 8510 to 9595.
It's saying humans piss away everything we are given, and at the rate we're going, we will cease to exist in 10,000 years. Unfortunately, we're getting there way sooner than the song predicted.
@Nicole Jessica 12 years - again!
@Nicole Jessica Banning of CFC gases helped the ozone layer to recover, but now the issue is increasing global temperatures at a faster rate than normal.
@@kennet7837 you can't even tell us what normal is in this case. And just in case (excuse the pun) you forgot, we've been recovering from a little ice age the past century. The Hudson river froze hard enough to drag cannon across it during the Revolutionary War, and a century before that Prussian hussars captured Dutch sailing ships frozen off the coast of the Netherlands. They literally rode their horses out to where the ships were stuck. That's _normal_?
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Nicole Jessica You can't be serious. With all the toxins that are going into our environment - why do you think cancer is reaching epidemic proportions? Not to mention allergies, many of which hardly existed a few hundred years ago. Because pretty much everything we eat, drink, wear, slather on our bodies (whether it's perfume, moisturiser, make up, deodorant) and breathe (traffic fumes, air fresheners) contains a cocktail of lethal chemicals. Oh yes, they're all currently deemed "safe", but in 100 years time, future generations will look back on us and be appalled at what was permitted for human consumption. These are things that have no business going anywhere near the human body, either inside or out.
I was in my early teens when it came out. It was so different and wicked cool! Could not get enough of it!
A lot can happen in 10,000 yrs. About 10K yrs ago or so, here in N. America, were Mastodons, Ancient Horses, Giant Sloths, a supersize version of the armadillo, Woolly Mammoths, Giant Beaver and so many more extinct critters. Just 2,000 years ago ancient Rome ruled most of the known world. 5,000 years ago the very first written language was developing in Sumeria. The speed of change! It would be presumptuous for humans to believe we cannot also pass out of existence in 10,000 more years. Live for today and enjoy! 10K yrs is 400-500 generations from now....
the way we're going ,it would be a miracle for humanity to be around in 2060
Very true. It’s scary how human is more deadly than nature.
I was 7 years old at this time in 1969, my mother loved music and she would listen to the radio or play the record player, old 45's and 33's, while she cleaned the apartment. I remember this tune as I was growing up, so much was going on then. Brings back some memories. Cool Scary tune India :) Peace.
The spoof they did of this song in Futurama is hilarious.
The thing I always got from this song is that life forms evolve to have certain physical traits because that is what is needed. If things change, and you no longer need to use your arms to do stuff, how long do you think humans will have usable arms? If life can be created in a lab, what need is there for people to marry in order to start families? I think that's where they were going with the song.
Hey beautiful... well, I remember this song back when I was a kid. Listening to this as an adult in this era now... look what has happened to our planet, it's creatures, and humankind just over the past 50(+) years already. Food for thought folks.
The merging of man and machine took a lot less time than their song predicted.
in 2020 The closest we are being merged with a machine is prosthetics, cellphones and smart watches, soon it will be smart glasses. Years later it will probably a micro chip planted in our brains
@@DEEJAYYCHINO Check out Elon Musk and his Neurolink and AI predictions and what he is working on. The SpaceX Demo 2 mission was totally autonomous including the docking. The astronauts were like passengers,
there if needed. Peace
The string arrangement is what does it for me. Haunting.
The song starts at 2525. We've evolved so fast that it may as well start at 2025.
The nature of this universe always outlasts it's temporary conscious occupants.
A powerful ecological plea! I appreciate how you listen to wide variety of music, from a wide variety of eras. You'd make a great time traveller!
This song was way ahead of it's time. We are in the time of what they are trying to do to us all!!!!
that was the 60's too darlin the hippies had it right!!!peace?
Isn't that SCARY as HELL. Some of that stuff can be done now. And someone wrote that song about 50 years ago. WOW, makes you wonder what people will be able to do in the next 50 years. Bless you, India. 7-27-2021
I haven't heard this song for many years, pretty amazing song for it's time.
Seeing a young lady like yourself listening to music this old is so awesome. 😀
It would be best to look at what it is trying to say. If you look at the right video that is black and white, it was done back in the 1900s, telling what will happen if we continue living the way we are... The song came out in the 1960's. The actual video from the 1900s shows what civilization's going to happen. Not too long ago, in the 1980s, At that time, we used to say hello to Stanger in the streets or say good morning. Those times are gone. Because now we say good morning to our phones. We go out on a date and look at our phones; every moment we have, we look at our phones like we are slaves to them. The generation of the 2000s has devoted their life to technology. Now, we live in a time of selfishness. It's all about us. It is sad to see that humanity has fallen short of human kindness.
This was the only hit by Zagar and Evans, two bartenders in Omaha, NE. I have always liked the song (Science Fiction theme). I suggest that you view the other videos for a different yet similar ideas.
I was 4 years old when this relevant song was released.
We're there already. Technology has taken over.
They are already building A.I. to replace people as we speak and will have it out by year 2030 Prepare yourself. It was predicted on the Simpson's in the late 1990's towards the 2000's.
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Yes I have been begging people to play this song it hits the nail on the head thank you and we need to put back things we are taken from this earth
If you believe in God; doesn't matter about our belief's, we will stand before God. I'm so happy I believe!!!
Painting a picture of a dismal future for mankind. This song, along w/ Lay Lady Lay (Dylan) & Dock of The Bay (Otis Redding), was on the charts when I was in an air wing aboard a carrier Home ported at NAS Alameda, Calif. We were in training for active duty off the coast of N. Vietnam where we dumped tons of bombs on N Vietnam & Laos. This song always takes me back to that time. "We have taken everything this old earth has to give & we ain't put back nothin". We need to be reminded that everything that we are physically comes from the earth. All the minerals, chemicals, & water that makes up our body comes from the planet. If not for 6" of topsoil, rain, & photosynthesis none of us would be here, absolutely none.
All you did this song before.. I heard this song in 🎶 class back in 80s this 60s song change my 💭 on life 😔
I will never forget the first time this hit me. The rythm and lyrics just mind blowing! It's an amazing story, way ahead of its time.
Truth is, we will be long gone at the rate we are going at the minute!
to your reaction, to this song, is to say wow!
Back in the 1960s this was a fun song, thinking it was hypothetical thoughts and their imagination of the writers of this song. And hearing it decades later I can see there is a lot of real truth, that these things are actually happening. It's amazing how accurate they were.
I remember this song and it really bothered me, and boom we're almost there, and thankfully I won't be around to see the rest happen..
Denny Zager and Rick Evans met at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1962. They were joined by drummer Danny Schindler (later of the Benders) in the Nebraska band the Eccentrics until Schindler's tour of Vietnam in 1965. Evans also left in 1965 and reunited with Zager in 1968.
As Zager and Evans, the duo were backed by another Nebraska native, Mark Dalton, on bass. Their first drummer, Paul Maher, was later replaced by another Nebraskan, Dave Trupp. Trupp and Dalton were also the rhythm section in the Liberation Blues Band and backed Evans on some solo demo material prior to Zager and Evans's recording of "In the Year 2525" in 1968.
Listen to Paul Harvey's 1965 "If I Were The Devil" It's spoken word but amazingly prophetic. You have to here how it predicted what's going on today in America. It will blow your mind.
Zager and Evans, ahead of their time.
You have to have lived through the 60s to the 80s to really get the vibe but the song is still relevant.
i had totally forgot about this song, and i head it like a few days ago, and both back then and a few days ago, it send shivers down my spine, not only for the lyrics, but the feeling it brings me.
Basically my interpretation is the "evolution of man" which can either be our salute or our own demise. But eventually, our choices will lead to something irreversible
It's interesting because our local station here in the boonies of the Ozarks played it today.
I was fourteen when the song came out. The song was thought-provoking but then most of the music of that day was, unlike like today is crap.
I liked it much more when I was a teenager. Now I'm not so sure man will make it to 2100.
Hi..I'm not sure if we will make it to 2021...
@@edcraig1214 lol. I hear ya. Hi.
God, I've been waiting for reactions to this song.
"You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too, from the bottom of a long glass tube". The first "test tube" baby was born July 25th, 1978.
Look around it's happening now.
They didn't realize that it would happen so soon!
I don't know if I've heard that song since the early 70's.I loved it and wondered who sang it.Thanks for the memory 🐒
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this song in the 70s believe me it sound like another planet they talked about , and here I AM. In 2020.
It is one hell of a good song. Made in 1969. Really makes you think and keeps you thinking as the song goes on.
Since your doing futuristic stuff do the great 5th Dimension performing the biggest song of 1969..Aquarius and Let the Sun Shine from the radical play Hair.
At last somebody has reviewed this. No 1 in UK haunting always in my Top 10 records Thanks you ❤️🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
At the time that this song was released for radio play ... it was so "Deep" in the meaning that lots and people didn't like it or understand it, I sure didn't ... I was just a kid. Later on ... when I reached my teens, I sort of understood it but still had a lot of questions. It was in my mid teens that my older sister (she was 10 years older) sat down the me and we listened to the record she had ( It was a 45 ... which the now generation says " a 45?" ... 45 what? ... LOL ... Google it ... it will explain better than I can) and she answer my questions and gave me her interpretation of the song. She was "spot on"!
I had the same reaction, ii had NEVER heard this song before! had youtube on autoplay on my drive home and it came on its a catchy tune w a Grimm message
Just wanted to see others take on it thanks for sharing this
One of my favourite songs so ahead of it’s time looks what’s happening to us this song is spot on.
This song foretold the whole pollution, global warming, exploiting the planet's gifts, what's ya wanna say...
Funny because at the time global cooling was the big thing.
Well according to this song we have a few thousand more years to clean up our act! So relax, you've got some time to teach your grandchildren some lessons.
@@teenystudioflicks1635 with life spans as such now, a child just born will have the environment for 80 or more years, the turn of the next century the 2100 or 2101. And if we pretend that we can ignore the health of the planet simply for fun and profit or the the easy way. In 80 years, without pushing science and re-examination of what is progress. Well, I'm sure your lifestyle is more important than your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
~Pick your kids from the bottom of a long glass tube~
Already been there, done that.
This song was written before the first IVF was ever done.
as the song unfolds, its happening day by day - the insight of the score is right on mark
WE must be ready every day.
"But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in Heaven, not the Son, but only the Father." Mark 13:24-32
Amen.... Jesus is returning soon. ✝️
One of my childhood favorites...I'm 58 btw
Something to think about... we're almost there and we're only in 2020.
This song was in Top 40 rotation way back when. It was all over the radio.
Time to WAKE up Girl!
THIS SONG TAKE ONE THROUGH EVER 10.000 YEARS AT A TIME ...THRU ETERNAL.LIFE...NO BEGINNING OR END IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY...... COULD BE TODAY
Grew up in the '60's. Loved this song, believe that they were ahead of their time!! Watching different reactions to this, one couple couldn't talk & cried!! We didn't understand in the '60's, BUT they have hit the nail on the head!!
I remember this song when I was a child and it scared me. It has almost fulfilled its self.
I remember this song well, from listening to it as a kid. I always thought of it as a warning. A warning to the human race to pay attention or else!!😳
a cult classic :)
Love it !
Print the lyrics out. And then read them along when they’re singing. I’m glad I stumbled upon you. I’ve been telling this other guy on CZcams to do the song and so far he hasn’t done it so now I found you and I think I’m going to stay. Have a great day. Also remember that this song was done in the 60s. ❤️
My God, I watched three reaction videos for this song and every one was the same... they didn't even grasp what this song was about until about halfway through! lol
This song needs to be taught in a class at school right now because the youth of this country do not realize that computers are great but they’re not the answer we’re destroying our self
I have watched your reaction to this trice now. I enjoy this as much as I did he first time. Thanks!
I remember this song from when I was a little kid. It really kicked off my imagination.
Love your reactions. Stay Safe 🙂
His voice sounds like Underdog….. “There’s no need to fear Unnnnnderdog is here!” 🤣
Fun thing, 2525 actually became a ScyFi channel original TV series! They made a modified version of this for the theme song! 🎼😊💙🦋🐾🐈
In the year 2020 if man is still alive if woman can survive
I feel like if we don't evolve spiritually in love and peace, then there will be nothing left for us on this plane of existence.
The only band to hit #1 with their first single, then never hit the charts again. Truly one hit wonders.
This song was released in 1969 and the first test-tube baby was born in 1978. Things are moving faster than the song predicts.
This song was very real in the1960s. The race to build Nuclear weapons was frightening. Russia put ICBMs ( intercontinal ballistic missiles) in Cuba. President Kennedy told them to remove them. Fortunately the USSR backed down. It was a very tense period. "MAD" mutually assured destruction, was on the cards. Kennedy called the USSR's bluff. and the crisis was over. It could so easily gone the other way.
This song came out when I was little. I always called this gloom rock. It made me think about technology. I bring this song up all the time and tell people we are moving to a world where Alexa does every thing for us. Soon we will have little arms from doing nothing.
Almost 10 years after this song came out, the first "test tube" baby was born. Creepy. Even now robotics engineers are making powered exoskeletons to help enhance our abilities. Some are already being tested for those who can't walk at all.
I like how you talk about what the furniture holds, but most of all, god and if you believe in him, blessed be. 💚🌍🌎
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.
It's about our future being our past.....here we go again!
Its a simple message...and we are in it!
This came out in 1969. Home computers hadn't been invented yet. They were far ahead of the rest of us in what they imagined.