Townshend Brushes Off Conservative Tag PETE TOWNSHEND is playing defense after the notoriously conservative National Review listed the WHO’s Won’t Get Fooled Again Number One on its list of the top fifty conservative rock songs. In a short blurb accompanying the ranking, author John J. Miller explained that the song made the list because it ‘’swears off naive idealism once and for all.’’ In a response to the ranking, Townshend posted an entry in the Pete’s Diaries blog on his Web site, entitled ‘’Won’t Get Judged Again,’’ rebuking the rank. Townshend explained, ‘’It is not precisely a song that decries revolution — it suggests that we will indeed fight in the streets — but that revolution, like all action can have results we cannot predict. Don’t expect to see what you expect to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything.’’ Townshend then goes on to explain that the song was simply ‘’Meant to let politicians and revolutionaries alike know that what lay in the center of my life was not for sale, and could not be co-opted into any obvious cause.’’ Rounding out the top ten of the National Review’s top fifty conservative rock songs are THE BEATLES’ ‘’Taxman,’’ THE ROLLING STONES’ ‘’Sympathy for the Devil,’’ LYNYRD SKYNYRD’s ‘’Sweet Home Alabama,’’ THE BEACH BOYS’ ‘’Wouldn’t It Be Nice,’’ U2′s ‘’Gloria,’’ THE BEATLES’ ‘’Revolution,’’ THE SEX PISTOLS’ ‘’Bodies,’’ METALLICA’s ‘’Don’t Tread on Me’’ and THE KINKS’ ‘’20th Century Man.’’