| | By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Won't Get Fooled Again (page 1/ 5) ------ performed by The Who No rest for the revolutionary | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/24/2008 It says that real change is an ongoing battle that is never ever won. What seems like the final victory is never the final battle. Just when you think you have made the gains and the world is a better place the new boss becomes just like the old boss. The song is about the conflict between relaxing and enjoying all of the gains and then once again metaphorically picking up arms to fight the next battle. Victory is a worthy but ephemeral goal. When you have won that transient peace, you pick up your guitar and play, and pray that you won't get fooled again. Then you find that "the new boss, [is] same as the old boss. Here we go again. The background of Vietnam, civil rights struggles, assassinations and deceiving leaders gives this song an immediacy for the times when it was written, but it is also proves to be universal. Timelessness | Reviewer: Jim Geary | 1/9/2008 I see some people pegging this song as specific to Vietnam or whatever, but it's really timeless. He's saying every revolution is b.s. "Meet the new boss; same as the old boss" resonates for at least the last 10,000 years. Dex is wrong | Reviewer: chris | 1/9/2008 Steve is 100% right. This was written for lifehouse and then later put on whos next with other left over lifehouse material. Townshend even said this himself on the documentary The Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who so Dex...you're the incorrect one. Not Fooled again | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/1/2007 For those who came of age during that time, this song also meant skepticism toward the "new" ideas of the era--even "peace and love" as dictated by those who spoke in the name of "the People." Pervasive mass hypnosis began giving way to progressive revelation that truth must be contended for by the individual regardless of the prevalent political or social ideology. This song marked the period of waking up from a dream, or hallucination as the case may have been. An anthem to reality, and intellectual responsibility. Not Lighthouse | Reviewer: dEx | 11/26/2007 Just have to correct you Steve. It isn't LIGHTHOUSE. The rock opera Pete was working on and finally more or less finished a while back was LIFEHOUSE, you know like the modern band? This song is definitely written with a 60's/70's youth mentality, but in the end I think it just tells all of the politicians to leave well enough alone and I'm beginning to feel that is the answer. Meet the new boss same as the old boss | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/26/2007 I grew up in the 60's 70's ...this is a powerful phrase. I really forgot about this verse until I watched the movie * Lions to Lambs* this past week.Most likely goes over many heads. Brings back the real meaning of the verse.. NOTHING has changed in the White House with ,,,, Sherry 58 Down with the new boss, the old boss, all the rest... | Reviewer: Coyote | 11/26/2007 Of course a song can mean many things, like any work of art. To me, this song is about disillusionment with leadership in general. It talks of revolution, how people fight for change but their rulers always end up just as bad as the old rulers. And so it is with rulers. Power corrupts. If we don't change our heads, change our social relations, figure out how to run things ourselves, then we're just gonna keep getting fooled. So in the meantime, don't fight anybody's battles for them. Fight for yourself, your family, and for a world without the new boss, the old boss, or anybody else that will undo everything that folks have fought for. But of course, this is only the interpretation of one anarchist/libertarian socialist. re."you kids are missing it all" | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/23/2007 this song has nothing to do with the VietNam War or pres. Nixon. Yes it is political but in a fictional sense. if you knew anything about P.T's "Lifehouse" project you would understand Master of contradiction | Reviewer: Hamburgular | 11/25/2007 As somebody who has followed Pete Townshend's career for nearly three decades, it's important to note that he has provided contradictory explanations for the meaning of the tune. Townshend, perhaps more than any other writier in rock history, has mastered the art of contradicting previously recorded statements. When interviewed by Rolling Stone in the mid-1980's he did attach the song's meaning to the cynicism of the early 1970's. More recently, he has talked about the song's relevance to the 'Lifehouse' project. Discovering the true meaning of the lyrics depends on when you catch him. disillusionment | Reviewer: Steve | 11/19/2007 For those who have tried to interpret the song, you're all off, at least a bit. You need to look at the song's history. After "Tommy," Pete Townsend tried to write another rock opera. This one was to be called "Lighthouse," and this song was part of the plot. Pete had a nervous breakdown, and abandoned the project, and the remaining songs wound up on "Who's Next." So, it's not about Vietnam, and we may interpret it about a song about disillusionment (and it essentially is), it's really part of the bigger plot. But hey, the sign of a good song is one that many people can relate to on different levels. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 | | ||||||||||
Copyright © 2000-2007 sing365.com