In 1976, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers debut album featured the hits “American Girl” and “Breakdown,” but hidden amid the breakout hits was the track “Fooled Again (I Don’t Like it)”.
Written by Petty, the song features a haunting guitar riff and angry lyrics about deception, with Petty’s drawling voice giving the song a signature ‘70s swagger.
“Looks like I’ve been fooled again,” he sings. “Looks like I’m the fool again/I don’t like it.”
Fifty years later, “Fooled Again” has been re-released as part of the Origins 1971-1978 box set in a special 50th Anniversary Edition.
“Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It)” is the seventh track off of ‘Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,’ the band’s 1976 self-titled debut via Shelter Records,” a post on the band’s official Facebook notes, adding that 50 years later, the new version features “a never-heard-before extended outro” and is mixed and re-mastered from the original multi-track tapes by producer Ryan Ulyate.
In addition, a new music video for the classic song, directed by Alan Bibby includes rare footage from the Heartbreakers performing the song on the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test in the late 1970s.
You can see it below:
Petty, who died in October 2017, once revealed that songs like “Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It)” were written as a way for him to release his emotions.
“I had an explosive side,” he told Rolling Stone. “It wasn’t that easy to set me off. But when it happened, I lost it in a big way. I’ve learned to control that. But I had a tough childhood and took a lot of abuse. That rage was in me, and when it got away from me, I didn’t know how to control it. But I could vent it in this music.”
He singled out “Fooled Again” while speaking with Georgia Straight in the late 1970s.
“When I write, I can’t say something I don’t really feel,” the Heartbreakers frontman said. “I really have to feel it and the riff or the lyric or the phrasing has to fit. It all has to fit together and it has to be simple so it is direct and retains its conviction.”
“I can sing a song like ‘Fooled Again’ with conviction because I know what that lyric is about and why I wrote it,” Petty explained. “It will never lose its edge for me because I know how I felt when I wrote that lyric and when I sing it I still feel it. I just couldn’t do it any other way. That would be dishonest to me, and one thing rock and roll has always had going for it is its honesty. That’s what rock and roll is—honesty. And I have to tell the truth.”
Decades after its original release, “Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It)” remains one of Petty and the Heartbreakers’ most memorable early album tracks, a classic that is finally getting the attention it deserves decades later.
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