Boomers may have had terrible foreign policy, BUT hands down some of the most transcendent, preconditioning music in history... bands from the 60s, 70s and 80s... maybe it was all the drugs, but they really started putting the pieces together.
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
We'll be fighting in the streets With our children at our feet And the morals that they worship will be gone And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgement of all wrong They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We won't get fooled again
The change, it had to come We knew it all along We were liberated from the fold, that's all And the world looks just the same And history ain't changed 'Cause the banners, they are flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We won't get fooled again No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside If we happen to be left half alive I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky Oh I know that the hypnotized never lie Do ya?
There's nothing in the streets Looks any different to me And the slogans are replaced, by the bye And a parting on the left Is now a parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We won't get fooled again Don't get fooled again No, no!
Meet the new boss Same as the old boss
Listen to the album often, Boomer out!
was our best college baseball pregame warm-up music.... also, interesting how the various CSI shows always used songs from The Who as the themes. Because easily identified for us millenials and even the Gen Zers
Brings back memories , TY
Playing the Hegelian Dialectic as the devil going to-and-fro between extremes.
Tommy was a tramatized child for reasons. Pedo Pete knows why.
Townsend's 'windmill' reminiscent of the Moulin Rouge. (red windmill).
Hated their audience whom they considered a teenage wasteland....created out of necessity to control.
Scions of The Controllers as their own controlled opposition.
Dogs without a bone. Actors out on loan. Riders of the Storm, pretending to lead the way out. What a tightrope act.
https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q
https://youtu.be/x2KRpRMSu4g
And many more. The music.... the LYRICS. Incredible stuff.
Sounds better every time I hear it, thanks.
Howls! 😉
...absolutely....
When men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
Boomers been waiting for these times.
A little late but better than never.
Good Music and Lyrics, but lets not forget, Complacence, : “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Ronald Reagan".
Exactly. Millenials and Gen Zers got quite complacent. Luckily now this Awakening has united many from all of the living generations
Bah, may not be nearly as much as many think. While I liked the Who, music hasn't only been manipulated in recent years, it has been since the 60s at least.
I have an excellent Indepth multipart article on it bookmarked somewhere but can't find it.
But the gist was the whole music scene getting started in LA just off the strip, I forget the name of the area, as alot of MK Ultra, majority of the people at the forefront of the counterculture movement had parents at higher up positions in the military/government.
Edit: Laurel Canyon, here's the article I mentioned. Lengthy but I found a good read, well written and with style. https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/
Laurel Canyon.
Yes, definitely as far back as the 60s.
I'd be surprised if it didn't go back to the 50s as well, seemed rock & roll caused quite the stir amongst parents and discord with their teens.
As well as setting the stage for the 60s, probably child's play to direct.
https://youtu.be/vbCH5lnZ6sA
The preparation for the welcoming in of a new age of enlightenment.
I think it's already started. Will we, any of us, get to see it fully achieved? Don't know. If not in this world, in the next.