| By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Won't Get Fooled Again (page 4/ 8) ------ performed by The Who I tip my hat | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/11/08 In my personal opinion, this song is essentially about the hopeless stupidity of human nature. The "new boss" will always be the same as the "old boss" no matter who is in charge or what people believe because mankind is an essentially evil creature, who in spite of his best efforts, can never break the cycle of war and devastation completely. Pete Townsend's generation might have had the best of intentions, but in the end they themselves created new evils for the coming generation just as his parent's generation had done for his own. History is a story of human vice and stupidity. No matter what we do or who we put our faith in, vice will continue as long as human beings continue to be human beings. It is not necessarily the flaws of the Establishment or the "elites" that cause this, but rather all of humanity. All we can do is our best, we cannot hope for perfection. 1970 British General Election | Reviewer: tony | 7/9/08 this song is about voting against govenments who lie only for the new party in power to be exactly yhe same. in particular the 1970 general election labour (parting on the left) lost conservatives (parting on the right) won Meet the new boss (prime minister) - Edward Heath Same as the old boss - Harold Wilson many other references to these events within the song but i think the key line is this:- Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again Don't get fooled again No, no! this to me means, yes the country is run by liers and cheats but, hey, ive got my guitar and i dont care. but i just hope everyone learns that all politicians are as bad as each other A priceless beauty | Reviewer: ShinobiTSHero | 6/6/08 Although i was born 20-30 years after this song, along with all the beauties classic rock has to offer,were done, I still can't help but love it. This song...and The Who...will always be one of my favorites. They were one of the many voices that defined a generation. No artist or band out now..will ever be able to do that for this generation. Not the way the ones from the Golden Years of Classic Rock(my name for it)did. I salute this song, the band and all those who defined what I believe to be the greatest generation, if not the most free. I wish I could have been there. Further to anonymous 24/1/2008 | Reviewer: Michael | 5/23/08 It's hard to expand on such a perfectly depicted perpetual cycle of life for the individual and the collective consciousness that all life in the universe is. Without the struggles to drive us to create the freedoms and the struggles we have with coming to terms with freedoms and the struggles we find in the freedoms and so on.So I won't, because i think you've got it right and this made me happy !!! No rest for the revolutionary | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/24/08 This song reflects a cycle of revolutionary change, followed by complacency and an erosion of revolutionary values, followed by a new oppressive power, only to struggle for revolutionary gains once again. 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 | 1/9/08 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 | 1/9/08 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 | 12/1/07 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 | 11/26/07 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 | 11/26/07 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 Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | |
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