Topic: In Praise Of...Revolution 9 (Read 8233 times)

Mrs.Nicholson · « **on:** October 18, 2004, 02:09:36 AM »

This song is scary.

Who agrees

The End · « **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2004, 06:12:35 PM »

You're right it is scary - try listening to it in the dark with headphones on... then, without switching on a light, I dare you to look out of your back window!!!!

Ooooooh! Spooky!!!!!!!!!!!

Mrs.Nicholson · « **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2004, 07:07:37 PM »

*shudders*

I listening to it at night once. Scared the hell out of me. I only listen to it in broad daylight.

apple sauce · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2004, 01:14:24 AM »

First of all the scaryest part of this song is its length! To think we could have had 2, or 3 more offerings from the boys on this lp! Unfortuantley the sound enginers left John and Yoko alone on this one!

Mrs.Nicholson · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2004, 11:20:31 AM »

Sadie4 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2004, 01:24:54 PM »

It is said that one can listen to the description of Paul's accident on the song. When JOHN says: "he went to the dentist" or something like that, and you can hear the flames that were supposedly coming out of Paul's car... I listened to it at night once and I got so scared imagining Paul lying there and all that, that I couldn't sleep a wink that night.

MySweetLord · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2004, 02:09:29 PM »

Whatever said about it, lets agree its better than REvolution 1

The End · « **Reply #7 on:** October 20, 2004, 05:38:27 PM »

I think it's a fascinating piece and a worthy addition to the 'White Album'.

sange · « **Reply #8 on:** October 20, 2004, 06:32:26 PM »

I love it! Don't ask me why...and it won me money one year!

I was listening to it they day before the Melbourne Cup (biggest horse race in Australia, we even get a public holiday for it) and kept hearing "Number 9" in my head. So I put money on horse number 9 and it won! Not a lotm but enough!

sexy sadie · « **Reply #9 on:** October 21, 2004, 09:01:02 PM »

yes it is scary! i love when john goes "RIGHT...RIGHT...RIIIIGHT! RIIIIGHT!" that's pretty funny. but alot of parts about it scare me...1st of all the guy's voice alone saying "#9" is just weird. and then yeah the paul dying sounds, and the weird ladies laughing and babies. it's so freaky! ive read on sites b4 but i 4get...at the end of cry baby cry right b4 revolution 9, what are the 2 men saying? one says something like "im sorry george...will you forgive me?" and hes like "yes." just wondering. oh yeah, and why do u think they call it revolution 9? what does the revolution have to do with it?

number14 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 21, 2004, 09:02:54 PM »

it gives that one last kick in the white album

« **Reply #11 on:** October 22, 2004, 01:23:09 AM »

[quote by=The_End link=Blah.pl?b=songs,m=1098065376,s=1 date=1098209555]You're right it is scary - try listening to it in the dark with headphones on... then, without switching on a light, I dare you to look out of your back window!!!!

Ooooooh! Spooky!!!!!!!!!!!

[/quote]

I listened to it in the dark before but not with headphones. It was creepy.

Soft_Guitar60 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 22, 2004, 03:02:49 PM »

[quote by=sexy_sadie link=Blah.pl?b=songs,m=1098065376,s=9 date=1098392462]At the end of cry baby cry right b4 revolution 9, what are the 2 men saying? one says something like "im sorry george...will you forgive me?" and he's like "yes." just wondering. oh yeah, and why do u think they call it revolution 9? what does the revolution have to do with it?

sexy sadie · « **Reply #13 on:** October 23, 2004, 11:50:03 PM »

[quote by=Soft_Guitar60 link=Blah.pl?b=songs,m=1098065376,s=12 date=1098457369]

Well, this is what the two men said:
AT = Alistair Taylor, GM = George Martin

AT:... bottle of claret for you if I'd realised. I'd forgotten all about it George, I'm sorry.
GM: Well, do next time.
AT: Will you forgive me?
GM: Mmm.. Yes ... [ with a smile in his voice ]
AT: Cheeky b****!

About revolution 9: John said this 'music' was 'music' of the future. Everyone will start playing this. Actually he's got a part right because people nowadays don't use their instruments anymore...some do of course. 9 was his favourite number.[/quote]

thanks so much, i listened to it and that makes alot more sense now!

Revolution_9 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 25, 2004, 11:42:08 AM »

As I said on another forum, I've listened to Revolution 9 so many times in so many levels of light, it doesn't scare me anymore. Except, there was one time when I was listening to it backwards... that is something I am still yet to experience another 9 times.

Lostio · « **Reply #15 on:** December 19, 2004, 02:46:55 AM »

That song creeps the hell out of me!

After I've been told some of the parts remembered Paul's accident, I tried linking every sound to it.

The flames and the coughing sound! Paul in the burning car struggling for his life is what that reminds me... Pretty freaky to think about...

And the 'washing away' sound along with the scream at the end, they aren't that good when you imagine Paul driving in the car and having the accident, crashing at the end.

And here's something that's been bugging me for a while about this song:

Who says 'Number nine' repeatedly?

BlueMeanie · « **Reply #16 on:** February 15, 2008, 01:49:01 PM »

This oft derided piece from The Beatles (White Album) seems to fill the hearts and minds of Beatles fans the world over with scorn, even hatred. So why - when The Beatles are regularly championed for their innovations during the sixties - is Revolution 9 treated with such distaste?

This June sees the 40th anniversary of the recording sessions that brought about, what was to become The Beatles longest legally released recorded track. Avant Garde/Experimental music was not a new thing at the time, though most pop music fans were probably unaware of it's existence. The likes of John Cage had been producing this kind of thing since the mid '50's. Paul McCartney had become an unofficial patron of the undergound Avante Garde movement in the mid sixties, extolling the virtues of Cage, Stockhausen, and experimental film. John Lennon was living with an experimental artist, and George Harrison had recorded an album of electronic music (Wonderwall Music), so it should not have come as a massive surprise that something akin to this might one day turn up on a Beatles record.

Far from being derided, should The Beatles not be praised for being the first 'popular' music act to release such a piece?

Discuss.

Bobber · « **Reply #17 on:** February 15, 2008, 01:53:05 PM »

Alright, credits for the experiment. But unlistenable to my ears.

Kevin · « **Reply #18 on:** February 15, 2008, 04:40:44 PM »

Oooh, I can't decide. Points for trying something "new" (for a mainstream act) but the fact that a) it sounds awful and b) didn't exactly kick off a new trend puts it firmly in the "George Harrison And The Sitar" mode for me - thanks, but no thanks. Somethings are best left alone.
But then again if people didn't experiment we'd still be doing The Peppermint Twist. And being from a double album, it's not like it was using up valuable space.
Maybe the whole thing was sponsored by the makers of stereo stylus's. (stylisi?) It must have been a goldmine for them after all that backwards dragging.
Praise or Purge?.......Praise!!! Da da.

Andy Smith · « **Reply #19 on:** February 15, 2008, 10:14:28 PM »

I'll give them points for having the guts to do Revolution #9, .. or at least
John!

come on, its a masterpiece!!

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