[SaveFerris]

Over and over again

[George from New England]

Pair this song with Eric Burdon’s Sky Pilot. 8 min version.

[Larry Lucido]

You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’?

I tote a gun in an attempt to avoid war.

[jjotto]

Went on to become a born-again Christian and a ‘Jesus music’ performer.

[Paladin2]

One can only wish that we on the eve of BiXiden Destruction.

[bigbob]

Stop hey what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going’ down

[Publius]

The song was written by P. F. Sloan, one of the better songwriters of the mid-Sixties. He died some years ago. It was Phil Sloan who played the opening guitar riff on “California Dreaming” by the Mamas and the Papas.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I think one should also listen to the original, by PF Sloan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcfE9jt8MqU

[M1903A1]

From what I read years ago, he played it at the end of a recording session, but never intended for it to be released. When he discovered the hard way that it had been released (hearing it on the radio while in an L.A. diner), he blew a gasket—he thought his career was done.

[pfflier]

I liked the tune, not so much the lyrics. I thought the were too pessimistic at the time. Turns out nothing has changed over all these years.

We first heard it from Radio Luxemburg, a pirate AM station, while I was attending London Central High School (American DoD school) in the mid '60s.

[Leaning Right]

Hitler once said that for the good of the German people, there should be a war every 20 years.

What a repulsive and disgusting comment! But our neocon/Deep Staters are advocating the very same thing. They just use more polite language.

And now a word from some guy who was definitively not a 60’s hippie:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Bubba_Leroy]

They played this song at the end of the movie Run, Hide, Fight. It is a great movie and recommend it if you get a chance to see it. It is basically "Die Hard" with a teenage girl as the protagonist who survives because her father taught her how to hunt.

[Fiji Hill]

An answer to "Eve of Destruction." This one made the Top 40

The Dawn of Correction--The Spokesmen (1965)

[Fiji Hill]

This answer to "Eve of Destruction" sounds like it could have been recorded in 2023. It made #35 on the Billboard Hot Hundred and #14 on the country-western charts.

The Day for Decision--Johnny Sea (1966)

[Third Person]

or Dave Mustaine’s Symphony of Destruction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpgpf6QVnI

[Fiji Hill]

A couple more songs that sock it to the turncoats, cowards and peaceniks:

• The Minutemen Are Turning in their Graves--Stonewall Jackson (1966)

• Freedom's Cause--Bill Floyd (1966)

[Fiji Hill]

Another pop singer takes to social commentary, perhaps inspired by Barry McGuire

Home of the Brave--Jody Miller (1965)

[Gay State Conservative]

A genuine classic!

[Boiler Plate]

There was a funny remake of this called

“The Eve of Construction”

Regarding the endless construction on the Ohio Turnpike.

[Fiji Hill]

This group of Top 40 hitmakers waxed one of the few pro-Vietnam War songs of the sixties:

Take the Time--The Shangri-Las (1967)

And this group, known for being laid back and mellow and certainly not political, cut this militant anti-war anthem:

Revelation: Revolution '69--The Lovin' Spoonful (1968)