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  • first i thought this was sung by Bob Dylan (with his modern day voice^^)

  • The USA is a country of War lovers that are fooled into believing that these wars are necessary. They are making the defense contractors billions and killing our youth. Get out of these stupid wars and nation building. Build our own Nation. No wonder the world hates America.VOTE FOR RON PAUL!!!!

  • pls rate my protest song anno 2011

  • porno pietje en kleine pop we missen je zo

    zelfs ken zou zich om draaien in haar graf!!!!!

  • This is a good song in reference to the drooling imbeciles who are denying that global warming is a scientifically proven fact. No need to change the lyrics, really, it applies to those idiots perfectly.

  • just realized; "the eastern world is not exploding" is fairly broad from an american standpoint. It can refer literally to europe and africa as east, but it it can refer to asia despite the fact that the shortest way to get to china, japan, tailand, indian, etc would be westward travel. Considering the nature of language it can refer to any part of the world to a flexible enough mind

  • Someone needs to rewrite this song with lyrics about environmental disaster. "You tell me over and over and over again my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction" works perfectly for climate change denial.

  • I was a coward. I went to war. 

  • @kingnat2

    not so.

    you did what you had to do, and that was/is extremely brave~

    never allow anyone to make you feel any differently.

  • @suziQ27 ummm...its from a Tim O'brien story. I have never been to war

  • It just amazes me that this song is so relevant today. We haven't learned much since 1965, which is truly sad.

    A great video...thanks for sharing.

  • French version by Claude François.

  • OK. Here we go. Bash me if you'd like, but I just don't think this is a good song. I mean, the harsh vocal, the harmonica, the attempt at infusing rock with deep meaningful lyrics, it's all a Dylan ripoff. The message is there; the medium isn't.

    " My blood's so mad, feels like coagulating. "

    That alone is so ludicrous as to be comical.

    And " China " does not rhyme with " Selma, Alabama ".

    Sorry folks. Let the comments begin.

  • @MJLatora You have a point and your free to express it. I think this is a good song, but I do agree that some of what he says is "so ludicrous as to be comical." To me though that is what makes the song it's own. I'm not going to bother bashing you because you are have your own views and I have no gun "for toting." If other people start in on you I just want to point out that they missed the point of the song. They need to think about what it means to keep human respect from disintegrating.

  • @MJLatora Please study the song a little more.It makes good sense if you just take the time to look at it through different eyes.There is so much more than what you hear in the song.Feelings expressed in the song will not be felt the same by everyone.Comparison is made between China and Selma,Alabama.The rhyming is not that important.

  • @MJLatora The Eve Of Destruction was written long before Dylan.  Selma, Alabama had hate and marches against black citizens. It wasn't supposed to rhyme for the sake of lyrics.

  • @stonegateaccent

    Excuse me, I'm not trying to argue, really. I just don't like the song, I don't think it's that great. McGuire himself, upon becoming a Born Again Christian, rejected it. However, I point out that the song was written in '65, when Dylan was at the height of his creative power & popularity. In that year alone , he released Bringing It All Back Home AND Highway 61 Revisited, two watershed albums. Every record company was touting every Tom Dick and Harry as the next Dylan.

  • @MJLatora

    Barry McGuire never "rejected" this song. Why do evangelical Christians lie about everything all the time?

  • i fucking love this song i also think we need to stop it i mean there is so much war and all the time people are dying from bombs and shooting y just forget war altogether to stop people forom dying in war

  • @XxJakeHolley10xX I agree we need to stop this also.However,there are people throughout the world that will not allow it by what they do and how they provoke others in whatever way they can.Some people thrive on creating problems for their fellowman.Sure would be nice if peace was everywhere but it will never happen.

  • i fucking love this song

  • Why can't we live in peace ?

    A brilliant song from the sixties.

  • Like this song....

  • why don't we learn? war & death..  we can't find peace & love.

  • @gino066 We cant learn, not all of us anyway.

  • @gino066 cuz there's always someone with power and wants to fill his pockets with green

  • @ShAdOwViRuSiAn Or wants more power.Some are never satisfied.Filled with hate,envy,jealousy,strife.

  • This song is just as relevant now as it was back the. You would think we would learn by our mistakes, or at least not to forget so damn soon!

  • avideo4u, I remember when this song first came out in the mid-sixties. It was peculiar even in its time, because it contains a brief criticism of "Red China" in it. I recall that this criticism of a communist country was a very controversial thing among the anti-war Left of that time. It's hard to imagine now, I suppose, but criticism of a communist country was absolutely taboo in the years that followed the release of this song.

  • very much like Dylan - but then too this is a classic vietnam war song from 1964

  • I am not a very religious person. I don't believe the Holy Bible, nor the Holy Scriptures, nor the Koran is the word of God. Man wrote them all and created religions to control the masses. I have a strong belief in God. I do not believe in people, and have no faith in them. I also believe that at the very least, 99% of all politicians burn in hell forever after they die. For at least 99% of them go into politics just for the money and power.

  • Humanity is inately greedy and selfish. In order for our race to survive the entire planet must think on a global scale instead of that of an individual scale. As long as money and personal gain, even at the cost of other people or the environment, are the driving force behind a culture our ways will only harm humanity and the earth.

  • So true

  • Now its North Korea thats doing this shit. Nice, huh? :D

    America is no longer the war monger!

  • we never were kid

  • We're now turning the corner ... let's reorient all that production away from weapons, away from killingry to LIVINGRY. We're creating a world that works for everyone ... there's no shortage anymore!

  • sure theres not

  • one of the best songs ever! nothing has changed...

    thanks for posting! ♪♫♥♪♫♪ LaraMAR!A

  • Only great songs can last generations and the point still hits home. The lyrics to this song are amazing and so true.

  • This song was written in 1965. I graduated June, by November I had lost 11 of my friends who had just graduated. We were old enough to go to war and die for the USA but we were not allowed to vote in the USA until we were 21. The war seemed senseless and Pres. Johnson was playing games with the lives of innocent kids. Barry McGuire said it like it was. If you didn't live during that time, you have NO idea what the feelings were..I am just glad we survived with our emotions still in tact.

  • and it seems like if you said anything about it the government would be down on you...

  • @txsugarbear So true. Unless you were there and lived through it, it can't be explained. We had no reason to be there except for LBJ's political legacy. Living through the '60s makes you a treasure but having been in Vietnam makes you a true American hero.

  • @txsugarbear et.al

    it's incredible how misinformed you and other posters are about the Vietnam War. Obviously, you are a product of the public school system.

    OK For the record. JFK got us into the Vietnam War. Not LBJ, JFK.

    Vietnam was JFK's war. Nixon got us out, with our tails between our legs. Our troops were treated like crap when they came home.

    I turned 18 and had a draft card while still in HS in '74. Fortunately, they stopped the draft by the time I graduated.

  • @maxx395 wrong wrong Eisinhower got us into vietnam he sent advisers to help the government in the south, Kennedy sent more advisers, but it was LBJ who escalated the war, before LBJ our policy was to help the south vietnamise government fight of the communist insurgency in the south . IT wasn't until LBJ's escalation that the war became totally americanized

  • @txsugarbear dude.. that gave me goosebumps.. lol

  • @txsugarbear wow...........memories indeed..

  • @txsugarbear Still wear my P.O.W. bracelet proudly.........Sgt. John Bodentshatz  8/29/66

  • @txsugarbear and for that sir I thank you...if it wasnt for your generation we wouldnt have it as good as we do nowadays. Again I thank you

  • @txsugarbear well said, mate.  born in '71. my generation has never been asked to sacrifice the way those boys did. live on.

  • guter song, hervorragendes video

  • better try some fine weed instead ... amen

  • i always try to see it like the buddhists do ... they more or less say that you shape the world by the way you look at her ... so even if it sounds greenly ... just don´t look at the stains too closely

  • sometimes i can cry when i hear this song 'coz This whole crazy fucking world is just too frustrating !!!

  • God has provided the answer in Christ Jesus. But the world, for the most part has rejected Christ, hence, the hatred lingers and the chaos lives on. Just as Jesus informed the people of His day, "You will not come to Me that you might have life". The world has not changed, for the most part, in that regard over the last 20 centuries.

  • "This whole crazy world is just too frustrating"

    There are so many things to say about this song

    Kind of interest the more things change the more they remain the same

    I just keep hoping that there will always be more people in the world that

    value life, than there are of those who don't value the life of someone who is different from them ONLY cause of the difference, not due to the actions of the person

  • This song of yesteryear is for today than ever. It stands strong today. We are on the EVE of destruction!

  • But we weren't then?

  • lol i bet you think you're clever

    haha, whatever rocks your boat sad sad man

  • Austin 3:16 is a legacy!

  • What a time,

    belivieng in a way of love...

    how stupid and enviable.

    love this song

  • Here in 2007, do you feel we are on the Eve of Destruction, with all the hatred and bigotry in the world. Even though it isn't the age of activism of the 60's, there are so many similarities.

  • your mom's on my Eve of Lovetruction

  • The only thing that's the same is that in large groups, people are still stupid.

  • uhm, to much love spreads aids & stds.. to much war.. spreads bombs.. damned if you do, damned if you dont.. thats why i sit the fence in the middle. and try to understand everyones side.

  • help save my igloo vote fore pedro

  • u know, someone once said"war is terrorism by the rich" and "terrorosm is war by the poor"

  • Interesting - with a ring of truth to it

  • is it really true that an american in his own military can be denied his right to vote because of his age?

  • I forget, but I know that it can be illegal for someone who's served in the U.S. military to drink alcohol.

    Minimum age for military = 18.

    Minimum age for drinking = 21.

  • that is amazing. a canadian serviceman cannot be denied alcohol or the vote based on age ... even if he is 13 years old and lied to get in, he is entitled to both.

  • In theory because you can technically join the military at 17 with parental consent and the legal voting age is 18.

  • Muzikalny, don't you think the U.S. govt. had something to do with the fall of the Soviet Union? I do, and so I think the only way to bring about the downfall of Al-Qaida is to "meddle" with them. For evil men to succeed, all we need is for good men to do nothing.

  • You refute your own argument. Did we have to invade the Soviet Union for their regime to crumble?

    Besides, the war in Iraq has nothing to do with Al Qaeda, an organization we helped create, and it is unnecessary "meddling."

    Many in the Middle East believe themselves to be the good men that you quote. As a superpower, we have for the last 6 decades intervened at will ranging from the 1953 oil interest fueled coup of the democratic gov. of Iran to the...

  • placement of thousands of American troops on their holy land in the 90s and 2000s. We have reversed our image in the Middle East as the one non-imperialist Western power.

    It's time you saw that our glittery words such as "fighting for democracy" are shams. Look at our closest allies- the Monarchs of Saudi Arabia and the military dictator of Pakistan!

  • Look at our former close allies- the despotic Shah of Iran, the dictator of Iraq, and the Al Qaeda in Afghanistan! The extremists use terrorism as a tactic because they despise our foreign policy. They are not evil wackos who kill people because of our freedom. Your Edmund Burke paraphrase can now be used by the terrorists because we've lost the moral advantage long ago.

  • when i said "good men" i wasn't only referring to our govt. because we all know how that would go; but more to me and you. I just feel that too many people complain without doing anything about the problem. can you clarify what you meant when you said that the extremists aren't evil wackos? If it was just our foreign policy they hated, they would gun more for politicians than civilians, and i'm not only referring to 9/11. i mean over there as well.

  • I'm not pro-Bush or pro-anybody, i'm just anti-bad guy. and to me, Al-Qaeda, KKK, and any other group that soppresses another is a bad guy.

  • i agree that there are better ways to deal with what's going on, but i'm for taking action when needed. I said we need to meddle with Al-Qaeda, i hold to that no matter where they are. and especially when the country they're in does nothing to hinder their efforts. i said that our action against the Soviet Union helped bring it down, i didn't say anything about an invasion. It's time you read what i wrote.

  • Except when the good men do evil.... all in the name of doing good, of course.

    Road to hell. Good intention. Paved.

    You know the rest...

    Seek not to impose your will or values through the use of force or the barrel of a gun, for that is not the path chosen by the sons of liberty but the method of tyrants since time immeorial.

  • Throw abortion into the mix as well. Indeed it is the eve of destruction.

  • i love this song

  • Forty years ago we had the Soviet threat, now we have the threat of Al-Qaida. Just as it was in Vietnam, the American government meddling in Iraq and getting itself in a similar hell of a mess. Different political scenario, same principle. Human respect is crumbling like the Arctic icebergs.

  • Love the song, but the video could have been much better. Consider the videos Ive done.

  • This is one of my favorite songs of all time.

  • love the song

  • I love that song.

  • Worlds best song, video is ok, just ok.

  • i love the song but i the vid is like sum kind of art. i think they should have had a war montage..

  • love the song gd vid but cooda been better. nice tho

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