ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire
You just don’t get enough pop songs about the complete and total annihilation of the human race, you know?
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You just don’t get enough pop songs about the complete and total annihilation of the human race, you know?
@teamstolen925
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
His part of “tell me over and over and over” just makes me think of a rougher sounding version of breakfast at Tiffany’s
@Scantronimus466
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Over 60 years of delusional leftists shrieking about the sky is falling and imaginary “fascists”. It’s nice that people are finally tired of it.
@Genethagenius
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
And 60 years later we see how wrong he was. 😂
@NoCoastRaps
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
I had a music appreciation class in 6th grade and this song radicalized me ❤
@DukeDanceum
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Reminds me of Bender's broken friend, likely inspired by this.
@Zevonfan524
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
3:20 …is he singing the Mario song?
@joearnold6881
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Hey look, everybody!
We’re on the eve of destruction again!
Complete with nuclear weapons testing and fascism and everything!!
Yaaaay.
😣
@KarlesGossick
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
That's a 19 year old… the hell they feed him
@discontinuedmodel232
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Wow – at 2:20 or so the guy sitting on the roof of the car is vomiting or something. Don't just stand there singing (poorly) Barry – help the dude!
Sidenote I saw Barry McGuire live in 1981 or so performing Christian music or something at RAF Lakenheath in England. He did not perform this song, however.
@rustinashackleford1367
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
still no relevance to modern events, almost a decade after this video came out /s
@ArmyGrunt1986
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
This was actually a hit? Cause wow, this song is horrible. There is nothing redeemable about it.
"War is bad. Yeah, I'm soo deep"
@scottstevens9533
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
I used to sing this song in karaoke and substitute “Selma, Alabama” with whatever town I happened to be in at the time — and it would always get a big cheer.
@Blartyboy
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
The writer of this song, P.F Sloan, says that this song was written when a mysterious voice, “perhaps an angel” guided him and told him to write it, including telling him the entire history of the world until 2024.
Lou Adler, His co-producer, says that the song was written after he handed Sloan a copy of The freewheelin’ bob Dylan and asked him to write a bunch of Knock offs.
I’ll leave you to decide which story is more believable.
@Ian-j7z4p
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
This song is 60 years old and considered a classic and in another 60 years probably still will and THIS guy who comments is what? Nothing…..yet he knocks those who succeed..what a creep.
@Ian-j7z4p
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
McGuire was spot on and we still are in 2025….
@BiggestCorvid
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
For anyone watching this video in mid 2025, you may also enjoy Fantastic Voyage, released by Bowie in 1979
We'll get by, I suppose
It's a very modern world, but nobody's perfect
It's a moving world, but that's no reason
To shoot some of those missiles
Think of us as fatherless scum
It won't be forgotten
'Cause we'll never say anything nice again, will we?
@sircharles1808
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Welp, this feels relevant again 😔
@franciscoortega7938
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
even in this universe, kelso is ted's boss? bad karma!
@CandiCohen
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
My dad enjoyed protest songs such as this, War by Edward Starr, and Hair from the Cowsills.
@shukilevyandbrookesheildsl2638
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Watching this for the first time in 2025. It may not have been relevant nine years ago at this video's drop, but it feels more than relevant today……
@jaimeh387
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
For future reference it's pronounced "Phil Oaks," like the tree. Barry McGuire and Phil Ochs are both better singers than Bob Dylan.
@kevinwaters5872
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Guy sings like I do when I try to force a particularly obstinate stool. The Eve of Constipation , huh ?
@StruggleoftheOutsider
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Whats the value of a completly ignorant vote?
@StruggleoftheOutsider
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Idk that it's a Dylan rip. Certainly not vocally.
@StruggleoftheOutsider
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 pm
Shouts one time for Johnny Thunders.
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