In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
For my next trick, I want to add a song to my Song Hall of Fame…. “In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" by Zager and Evans
For this one I always think of my childhood. It would get a fair bit of radio play when I was growing up in the early 1970’s, and I always thought it was such a cool song. Different than all the schmaltzy love songs on the radio… this one was about the far distant future…. when people had robots to do all the work… and we were flying around like the Jetsons. Except maybe not as pleasant as the Jetsons’ world…. A bit apocalyptic… a dystopian world. Just a cool song, which I’ve always liked.
Here are a few excerpts from Wikipedia:
"In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" is a 1969 hit song by the American pop-rock duo of Zager and Evans. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks commencing July 12, 1969.
As of 2022, they are the only recording artists ever to have a chart-topping number one hit on both sides of the Atlantic and never have another charting single in the US or the UK for the rest of their career.
The song predicts life in the future to be increasingly sedentary and automated: thoughts are pre-programmed into pills for people to consume; eyes, teeth, and limbs all lose their purposes due to machines replacing their functions; and marriage becomes obsolete because children are conceived in test tubes.
The overriding theme, of a world doomed by its passive acquiescence to and over dependence on its own overdone technologies, all while neglecting the unchecked exploitation of the Earth, struck a resonant chord in millions of people around the world in the late 1960s.
The song was recorded primarily in one take in 1968, at a studio in a cow pasture in Odessa, Texas.
For this one I always think of my childhood. It would get a fair bit of radio play when I was growing up in the early 1970’s, and I always thought it was such a cool song. Different than all the schmaltzy love songs on the radio… this one was about the far distant future…. when people had robots to do all the work… and we were flying around like the Jetsons. Except maybe not as pleasant as the Jetsons’ world…. A bit apocalyptic… a dystopian world. Just a cool song, which I’ve always liked.
Here are a few excerpts from Wikipedia:
"In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" is a 1969 hit song by the American pop-rock duo of Zager and Evans. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks commencing July 12, 1969.
As of 2022, they are the only recording artists ever to have a chart-topping number one hit on both sides of the Atlantic and never have another charting single in the US or the UK for the rest of their career.
The song predicts life in the future to be increasingly sedentary and automated: thoughts are pre-programmed into pills for people to consume; eyes, teeth, and limbs all lose their purposes due to machines replacing their functions; and marriage becomes obsolete because children are conceived in test tubes.
The overriding theme, of a world doomed by its passive acquiescence to and over dependence on its own overdone technologies, all while neglecting the unchecked exploitation of the Earth, struck a resonant chord in millions of people around the world in the late 1960s.
The song was recorded primarily in one take in 1968, at a studio in a cow pasture in Odessa, Texas.