Talk:Won't Get Fooled Again

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[edit] meaning

in an editorial in the most recent time magazine, the author refers to the song as being about then failure of the vietnam war.

I saw that too. If I can find the editorial online, I'll link to it in the article. -albrozdude 06:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Done-albrozdude 06:36, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

you know, the tune of the song sounds alot like Who Are You --66.218.23.39 03:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC) It sounds nothing like Who Are You other than the fact that both are fast paced rock songs by the same artist which make heavy use of power chords.

Well I'm not from the Vietnam era so I made no connection. The song explicitly reminded me of the Soviet Union.

just found this now lost pete townshend diary where he goes into detail on the meaning of the song, might be helpful: http://web.archive.org/web/20061205225327/http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/diary/display.cfm?id=285&zone=diary

[edit] South Korea and counterculture?

I'm confused about this part:

"One interpretation is that it expresses disenchantment with the counterculture and supposed "revolution" of the 1960s. For this reason, the song was banned in South Korea until the emergence of democracy there in the early 1990s"

What's the connection between the South Korean dictatorship and Western counterculture? --Sus scrofa 19:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

None that I know of, at least regarding this song. As a Westerner having lived there for a decade, I never saw any obvious Western influence in the student democracy movements - quite the contrary, most influences were Eastern. I do remember that when I saw this album on cassette in a Korean music shop in 1990, "Won't Get Fooled Again" was omitted. Remember, the 1970s and 1980s were a time of military dictatorship in Korea, so it could be inferred that the song was censored from the album because of its revolutionary message, despite the fact that one is hard pressed to find a Korean who even listened to The Who, let alone drew inspiration from the song. Years later, after the turn of the millenium, I saw the album on CD in a store, complete. Both recordings bore the imprint of the Ministry of Culture and Information. Today there is very little censorship of Western music in Korea, probably less overall censorship than in many Western nations. SpanishCastleMagic 02:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Robots" Trailer Usage

I remember that the opening synthesizer line was used in the trailer for the movie Robots.