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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 3/ 8) ------ performed by The Who to the last guy... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/5/09 I don't know there. It pretty clearly says left and right there, and the business about hypnotized and slogans pretty much relates. All that's left to say I imagine is .... Oh-baa-aaa-aa-aa-ma... and "laugh about it, shout about it when you got to choose... any way you look at it you lose..." what? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/27/08 why do you guys all have to relate this song to the election and dis the system its not about that its about revolutions and counter culture and how things never really change (meet the new boos same as the old boss) so really its not about the election cause in 4 or 8 or 12 or 16 years there's gonna be people just like you doing the same thing Won't Get Fooled Again | Reviewer: TN | 12/26/08 I was in college when this song was released. It is still as powerful and enjoyable now as it was then. I've read many of the comments and it is clear that everyone finds the lyrics fit their time, location (and perhaps situation). It appears evident that the lyrics describe an essence of the human condition. This song will live as long as there are people who listen to it and yearn for something beyond where we find ourselves, no matter where we are on this planet. The meaning of the song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/9/08 The meaning of the song, people, is satirizing the hippies and people alike(nothing wrong with them I think they're cool) but it's saying that when people get power they abuse it and that although you may want 'change' it's not going to change as long as humans act the way they do. (P.S. micheal moore Is annoying. That's why I hate him and I'm annoying... And the ''around change is directed to Obama. He can't change anything more than any other president. People remember anything he wants done has to go through both the Senate AND the House of Representatives. He is just like every other politician he lied...So did McCain. Don't hate me thinking I support McCain or am Rasict. I'm just realistic.) An Anthem for all Human History | Reviewer: DianeB | 11/5/08 Though I hadn’t played this song in a while, in the wake of our Presidential election (and the many street celebrations which spontaneously erupted last night), I felt compelled to listen to it again. In my opinion, this song is The Who's "masterpiece among masterpieces" and quite possibly one of the best rock ‘n roll songs of all time. Like "Baba O'Reilly," Led Zep's "Stairway to Heaven," the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" and Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky," it's incredibly powerful and takes the band's music to its artistic epitome; but in addition to all that, intended or not, the lyrics are nothing short of profound. I first started to fully appreciate "Won't Get Fooled Again" back in the early '80s, when I was in college and majored in Russian history (think about it). Later on, when I learned details about the '60s counterculture that I was too young to appreciate at the time, I realized that the lyrics were probably a somewhat tongue-in-cheek commentary on the transformation and decline of the idealistic Hippie movement of the '60's in the wake of Altamonte, Kent State, the Manson murders and mounting casualties from drug overdoses. Released in 1971, it was also prophetic of the cynicism to which the '60s counterculture would give way in the '70s. Though I was unaware of Townshend's original intention in writing most of the songs on "Who's Next," I have no doubt that "Won't Get Fooled Again" was intended to be the signature, "grand finale Aria" to Townshend's "failed opera" (and "Baba O'Reilly" the Aria to the first Act). If it‘s any consolation to him, Pete Townshend can rest assured that his message got across; even taken alone, the song's personification of the age-old struggle - and inevitable exploitation - of the common man at the hands of the "powers that be" - endures as one of the premier works of sarcasm and irony of its time and genre, constantly reminding us not to expect too much! mski -- what a ridiculous comment! | Reviewer: Robert Singleton | 11/3/08 Dismissing Michael Moore as a "fat asshole" says more about you than about him. Tit for tat -- I've been wanting to use this line for a while, and since you started the insults -- "The economy is, of course, the 800 pound gorilla in the room. The 80 pound gorilla is Ann Coulter." A song for all time - especially now... | Reviewer: Michael D | 10/4/08 Some of what has been written is complete pap. Some of it, on the other hand,is incisive. You have to take drug-induced lyrics at their face value. In this case the parting on the left may be the same as the parting on the right but it's about bloody time we got rid of the "no parting" Gordon Brown. I think there is a sea change about to happen i British society and if it is a "quiet" revolution, I am all for it. MD the hypnotized never lie... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/15/08 i know why as mentioned below, why the who wouldn't let michael moore use this song in his doc. not that moore's docs are bad, in fact they make very good points on relevant issues and are entertaining to boot, but this song makes a bigger statement than all of moore's docs put together. it's amazing how this song word for word applies to all of human history no matter how far back or forward you want to go. i am and have been "fooled again", and no doubt will be in the future. the point of this song is that it's in our human nature and there's nothing we can do about it, except to recognize that it's true. then at least we know we are screwing ourselves, which is better than being fooled and hypnotized or worst yet being the boss. this doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote, or that it's all futile whom we elect or erect as our leaders, but inevitably it all gets corrupted and we go thru the same thing again, toppling and inserting, executing and deposing. which is why pete says that while it's all futile, at least we can play our guitar and rock out in the pretense of hope that will eventually be dashed, but we know what's going on and will have rocked out notwithstanding, and no one can take that away from us. we might not be able to truly change things but nobody can stop us from knowing why we can't, and that's what really means something. forget "hope" and "change", that's for suckers, what's important is knowledge of the truth. for more see nirvana's "smells like teen spirit"... "The REAL Republican Anthem" | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/9/08 This is a crucial election (as elections go) in the U.S. I still cannot believe that people in this country are "Fooled Again" by the policies of an "Imperialistic", "Holier Than Thou"; "Force is The Course"; "Tell Enough Lies and It Becomes Truth" Republican Party. One thing is for sure, McCain is Insane!! And the only ones more insane, are the ones who buy into the same crap for 20 of the past 28 years! Saddest of all is that our environment will be gone and oil companies will profit; the rich will always be rich; the working man will be lied to, used, and abused and the good "God-fearing" Republican Party will continue to sponsor a war where our young (not the rich or their children)and the innocent in other countries die for their countries lies! My favorite | Reviewer: mski | 8/28/08 It's been about 35 years since I first heard this song.After all these years,I still love it. I am also so happy that Pete Townshend would not allow that fat asshole Michael Moore use it in the phony documentary"Fahrenheit 9/11" Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8