Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525 : Classic Or Dud?

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Classic novelty song?
or
Classic one hit wonder?
or
Typical annoying 60s song?
or
Just plain classic or dud?

― Ralph, Saturday, 9 August 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

c'mon man, if anyone needs to ask such a question, then I can't quite comprehend this spot called I Love Music in any shape or form.
DUD from the first note to the last.

As I peruse this site more and more, I learn that the majority of posters here like to skewer some of the high-minded world class musicians of our time, whilst raving on and on about so much aweful half-assed junk.

― bahtology, Saturday, 9 August 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it is common for ILXors to dislike the rock canon. Many find it very open minded. Maybe some do it be to obtuse?

― Marlon, Saturday, 9 August 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno. but it's the only song i ever sing at karaoke. which makes it good for something, no?

i actually know it from the context of the 'freedom rock' compilation infomercial. so i actually think of it as a big mash-up. ie.

in the year 2525
if man's still alive
the ink is black the page is white
don't you want somebody to love
c'mon people now smile on your brother

etc. etc.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Saturday, 9 August 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

C L A S S I C ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 10 August 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This sort of transcends the category. It is an artefact to be studied.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 10 August 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

it is perfect for karaoke, yes -- always a crowd pull

most karaoke regulars have kind'a forgotten it so it seems to unsettle them -- especially when they see all the words

and it might be true ! not just classic, immortal by late 20thc pop music standards

― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 10 August 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

SO so classic

full disclosure-- i am vp of the zager and evans fanclub!!

― dell, Thursday, 24 July 2008 01:13 (seventeen years ago)

First record I ever bought -- scared the bejesus out of me when I was 9 or 10, and I guess I liked that. Still great. (I wrote an essay about it once, somewhere. Also bought both Zager and Evans LPs, which aren't that great. Second best song on 2525 LP was "Fred," probably. Haven't heard the other LP in years, but remember liking "Mr. Turnkey" or whatever it was called. About a suicide, maybe?)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 24 July 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

"Fred" basically anticipates the theme of the admittedly far superior "Excitable Boy" by Warren Zevon (whose albums are filed next to Zager and Evans on my shelf) by several years. (It is also the only song I've ever heard to mention a guinea hen.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 24 July 2008 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

ha, i remember this song scaring the crap out of me when i heard it on oldies radio growing up. that and "white rabbit" for some reason. and my mom would play "surrealistic pillow" for me all the time.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:27 (seventeen years ago)

I have several friends who have told me they find the song frightening; traumatizing childhood memories.

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 24 July 2008 07:55 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

SO so classic

full disclosure-- i am vp of the zager and evans fanclub!!

― dell, Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:13 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

― dell (del), Monday, 16 August 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)

my dad grew up in seward, nebraska. apparently these are the only famous people from seward, ne.

― goole, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)

awesome. now, re-reading this thread, i know what to do for karaoke next time around

― dell (del), Monday, 16 August 2010 18:28 (fifteen years ago)

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