The Spokesmen - The Dawn of Correction

[MaceMn]

Don't know which is worse, the sound or the video. They both suck.

[ferdinandthecrow]

They don't sound very right wing, supporting the Peace Corps, the UN & voting rights marches

[shmuli9]

What a bizarre song... Most "answer" songs are somewhat amusing; this one is just BAD...

[sodapoprags]

"the images are the most appropriate that I could find."

IT'S A BUNCH OF FUCKING TOY COMMERCIALS????????

[chiliconcranky]

The Dumbo-crRATs that populate these comment's is astounding!!!

Never mind Eve or Correction the 60's died with the Kennedy's and Altamont. Were living in "Dawn of the Dead" now and Obummer & Bitedown are feasting on your mushy-lefty brains. Slurp! Slurp! While we uneducated, knuckle draggin' rednecks own all the guns & amo!!! LMAO Suckas!

[dkitz]

id rather be a commie, then listening to this redneck shit.

[jantjeharing]

Pseudo-gloomy, spectoresque answer, from " right wingers", "believers in our nation", to the, then, actual form of the " protest song". Of which Barry was the most played, but not " the best" (ask Dylan...) Don't tell me, I was 15 in 1965 and DUG P.F. Sloan (who ????)..We were against " Nam, understand, an d against the Bomb Threat. 500 k.m. from the Iron Curtain.....and you?

[Hister333]

I have to say I like it. Eve of Destruction is probably the most whining, nihilistic piece of crap ever recorded. Barry McGuire comes off as the stereotypical nerd who blames the world for the fact that he can't get laid. And, while the domino theory didn't stand the test of time, their other points, mutually assured destruction, and the effectiveness of demonstration have. So Barry, take a valium, and put this on.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 Barry = "whining, nihilistic p.o.c....can't get laid"? I could just as easily say your criticism comes off as the mentally challenged rant of a poor soul who fails to understand how protest works--get this: you're more effective if you're righteously angry, not a dopey optimist; when people die needlessly over poorly crafted government policies, you fight the power, not the protest. Domino theory failed the test of blood & lives, not mystical father time. V is for Vietnam, not Valium.

[Hister333]

@sodapoprags So you're attacking me because I attacked Barry McGuires cynical view on demonstration? I know demonstrations work...That was my point.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 ... "Eve of Destruction" is a PROTEST song. It's not cynical. It's an expression of the frustration protesters feel at how long it takes, how little people listen, and how much intimidation (and violence) they have to face in their struggle. The point of the song is to make regular people wake up to the fact that if things don't change, moral and possibly nuclear destruction will set in. It's not that you don't know that demonstrations worked, it's that you don't get HOW they worked!

[Hister333]

@sodapoprags Most of the protestors, like Barry McGuire, would either sit around, and complain, or write a smarmy song, than actually do anything. As for nuclear destruction, listen to this one, where they admit the Russians are as likely to drop the bomb on us, as we are on them. And guess what? Neither side ever did. So Barry McGuire came off as the whiny rich malcontent he was.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 No, you faggot. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, all of these were satellite conflicts in part of the Cold War containment policy. Thousands of civilians were slaughtered and American youth sent to die based on an ill-conceived paranoid strategy. Pussies like you want to act like "oh it all worked out in the end because neither Russia or the US got bombed." Thousands of people died you smarmy fucktard. The nuclear stand off was just plain stupid, but the deaths are the real tragedy.

[Hister333]

@sodapoprags Yeah, the Domino Theory mentioned in this song is about as silly as the idea that we were on the "Eve of Destruction" in 1965.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 What? Domino Theory and mutual destruction aren't the same thing. You're just vainly defending your initial view to keep some measure of pride. If you want to jam out to a lameass song, keep listening to "Eve of Correction," and I'll keep jamming out to my nihilistic communist propaganda--oh well.

[Hister333]

@sodapoprags Actually, not in the slightest. Domino Theory is the idea that the commies are slowly taking over countries to get here. Mutually assured destruction is the idea that the Russians aren't dumb enough to bomb us (or vice versa), 'cause the the world would end. Just tell me the world died soon after 1965, as Barry McGuire attests, and we'll be good.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 Barry wasn't writing from the future... A protest song protests current events, there is no prophecy or time travel involved. It's funny that you can be so critical of a musician and so lenient on politicians--shouldn't you be more outraged by the deaths resulting from faulty policies than a protest song, the message of which is that if we don't change our ways (nuclear stand-off, bloody costly foreign wars) mankind is heading for literal/moral destruction? Many people were destroyed.

[Hister333]

@sodapoprags You STILL haven't proven that mutually assured destruction is a lie. As for "protest," I'm glad you need a rock star to tell you the world is even more messed up than it is. I just go outside.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 I never said mutually assured destruction was a lie, I said it was a bad idea and pretty damn dangerous. I still don't think you even understand this conversation.

Your second argument doesn't even make sense. I could just as easily say: I'm glad you need a rock star to tell you that things are even better than they are. I just close my eyes.

[spliffa13]

thats not patriotic,thats brainless.still didnt learn nothing out of vietnam.the american way of life,rofl.

[ossarider]

the entire movie industry was started by republicans. major music producers are generally republicans. the ramones-republicans. hemingway-republican. as an example of democrat-socialist 'art' look to the music of the soviet union, i.e dean reed

[DrSanjayRape]

Uh, only Johnny was a republican. none of the other members were. Listen to the song "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" which is about Reagan visiting a cemetary that contained the bodies of SS soldiers, Joey had to beg Johnny to play it at their concerts.

[MRmrsHIGHlow]

I love Bonzo Goes To Bitburg... and yes... Joey taunted Johnny with that one.

[jimwalsh2001]

A true Cold War curiosity. Thanks.

[moorlock2003]

Yeah, this song is pure crapola. Republicans suck.

[bdodge76]

JBS.

[dendlai]

There are reasons republicans can't create art worth crap. This song illustrates almost all of them.

[CyberWallX]

what do you mean with COMMUNISTIC-protesting?!

[shanna1950]

@CyberWallX - hahaha, good point!!

[shanna1950]

@CyberWallX - hahaha, good point!!

[dendlai]

Epic. Truly epic. You can't fake this level of bad.

[tommync1]

Wow. This has got to be one of the lamest songs I've ever heard. The Dawn of Correction sounds like a George Orwell novel or a Nazi plot to take over the world. And since when is a song questioning men's behavior to other men not patriotic? That's pretty much why America fought for independence in the first place - to fight tyranny and build a new world that held all men to be equal.

[pastirc]

Crap song, crap message.

[marauder08901]

Wow. Thanks for digging this up; now I understand why this song is so forgotten while McGuire's is considered a classic.

[1JFCW7]

This was the best images you could find?

[bdodge76]

How can this song be considered patriotic when it promotes the Communist-leaning United Nations as a good organization???

[MRmrsHIGHlow]

oh lord, breakout the John Birch Society manuals, we have a live one here.

[MRmrsHIGHlow]

Actually, your description of EVE is incorrect. I recall reading an interview with PF Sloan that much of the critique in his song was directed toward the Soviet Union. You may recall as well, Barry McGuire was party of the New Christy Minstrels... hardly a godless, communist outfit. Anyway, you picked the Spokesmen's weakest song by far... their 45 "Have Courage Be Careful" is phenomenal and less heavy handed. Also, "Better Day's Are Yet To Come" is pretty good too.

[JeanCocteau777]

@MRmrsHIGHlow

Since Barry criticizes Red China in the song it's hard for me to take it as a Commie anthem.