"In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" by Zager and Evans from the album 2525. 1969.
When this gets posted, I'll be on a business trip. The whole December month has been pre-scheduled to post, and hopefully will do so flawlessly. If I get some free time and internet though, I'll surely update with more details. For now, with my king-size time Crunch, I have at least a sentence of commentary when you
Well, the last song of the year. I debated on whether to do something Christmas or New Year or other holiday themed, but decided on this classic. There's a good chance you heard it before; even Futurama made a jokey cover of it in an episode. And if those stupid 2012 crazies end up shocking the world by somehow being right (read about the Mayan Calendar to get your facts straight on that inaccurate hoax), "2525" would be a fitting final sting for the very last New Year. The most surprising aspect of Zager and Evans' one hit wonder though comes in the lyrics. Science fiction still had quite some dreamy ceiling still in the late sixties, though it had progressed a long ways from the flying bubble cars and robot-aliens of the late-40s. Many of the technologies brought up in the lyrics were still waiting on the future to either be revealed or finalized, such as "[picking] your son [and] daughter too from the bottom of a long glass tube" (test tube babies, y'know?). Some others have yet to be realized, such as a pill that completely fulfills a person's nutrient needs, making food obsolete. But, especially with the time frame involved, many off these inventions don't seem so far off.... that's the whole point of the song. A sad look on man's fall based on his rising dependence on technology.
Besides. Any number 1 song that isn't about love or heartache is a nice breath of fresh air (though this apocalyptic one may need a gas mask first). Zager and Evans tried to push the limit with their next release "Mr. Turnkey", but I guess a rapist who nails his wrist to a wall doesn't have that popular appeal that the end of our world has.
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