I never skip it when i listen to The White album and i think i would miss it if it was'nt there.
I agree. I like listening to it, not like it's a musical masterpiece in my book, I'm a verse 1/2 -- middle eight - verse 3 - end kind of guy. But it's interesting.
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I consider it this way: It's a Picasso in a sea of Renoir and Matisse. I don't necessarily want to explore the depths and subtleties of Picasso while inhaling Renoir or Matisse, and similarly I will not always sit through Revolution 9 while listening to the rest of The Beatles.
However, when the mood strikes me, I will listen carefully and attentively to Revolution 9, mentally breaking through its very busy pieces to try to de-layer it. It's a piece that has many people still exploring it and still finding new buried treasures forty years on. And this from an aural art piece made when John was very experimental, more or less flying by the seat of his trousers just to see what it would sound like.
But I can be judgmental about avant garde pieces. To this day I cannot sit through What's The New Mary Jane? because it is so damned repetitive - and yet so many Beatles songs that I love to listen to are just as repetitive! She Loves You, I'll Get You, You're Gonna Lose That Girl, All You Need Is Love, even Yellow Submarine - those and more are built around a single word or phrase repeated ad nauseum.
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It's part of a great album-ending sequence of songs: "Cry Baby Cry, " "Revolution 9," and "Good Night." That's killer; only the Stones' "Salt Of The Earth" at the end of Beggar's Banquet, released at nearly the same time, comes close. "Revolution 9" is also by far the best of Lennon's avant garde sound collages; the culmination of a sequence which began with the ad hoc "Two Virgins" and that got a little better with "Mary Jane."
I've said it before and I'll say it again: listen to "Revolution 9" at night, in complete darkness, over headphones and at a high volume. That's quite an impressive and eerie listening experience. That's why I like "Revolution 9".
Someone on the Dutch Beatlesforum found the lyrics!
Revolution 9 (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Lead Vocals: John Lennon, Yoko Ono and George Harrison
[Bottle of Claret for you if I had realised...
Well, do it next time.
I forgot about it, George, I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?
Yes.]
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number...
...then there's this Welsh Rarebit wearing some brown underpants ...about the shortage of grain in hertfordshire
Everyone of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit older and a litter slower but...
It's all the same thing, in this case manufactured by someone who's always/umpteen ... Your father's giving it diddly-i-dee/district was leaving... Intended to die ... Ottoman ...long gone through... I've got to say, irritably and... ...floors, hard enough to put on ... per day's MD in our district There was not really enough light to get down And ultimately ... slumped down Suddenly...
They may stop the funding... Place your bets The original Afraid she'll die ... Great colours for the season
Number 9, number 9
Who's to know? Who was to know?
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9
I sustained nothing worse than ...
Also, for example Whatever you're doing A business deal falls through
I informed him on the third night, when fortune gives...
People ride, people ride Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Ride! Ride!
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
...I've missed all of that It makes me a few days late Compared with, like, wow! And weird stuff like that...
...taking our sides sometimes ...floral bark
Rouge doctors have brought this specimen
I have nobody's short-cuts, aha...
9, number 9
...with the situation
They are standing still
The plan, the telegram... Number 9, number...
A man without terrors from beard to false As the headmaster reported to my son He really can try, as they do, to find function... Tell what he was saying, and his voice was low and his hive high And his eyes were low...
Alright!
It was on fire and his glasses were the same This thing knows if it was tinted But you know it isn't To me it is...
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9
So the wife called me and we'd better go to see a surgeon to price it ... Yellow underclothes So, any road, we went to see the dentist instead Who gave her a pair of teeth which wasn't any good at all So I said I'd marry, join the fucking navy and went to sea
In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair
I'm not in the mood for whirling
How? Dogs for dogging, hands for clapping Birds for birding and fish for fishing Them for themming and when for whimming
...only to find the night-watchman unaware of his presence in the building
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9
Industry allows financial imbalance
Thrusting it between his shoulder blades
The Watusi, the twist
Eldorado
Take this, brother, may it serve you well
Maybe it's nothing What? What? Oh...
Maybe, even then, impervious in London
...could be difficult thing... It's quick like rush for peace is because it's so much Like being naked
Well I think the problem that most of us have with it is that isnt "proper" music and perhaps the white album was not the place for it.
its something a bit different but i always thought they created the Zapple label to release wierd and whacky stuff like this and george Electronic Sound album.
i just think its something that you have to listen to once, but once youve heard it, its like ok, done that, move on. It would be a lot more palatable as an experimental piece if it had at least 4 minutes shaved off it. Not only would would have made it bearable but it would also mean that the white album would have fitted onto a C90 cassette, which i always found a mild irritation inthe 70's
Well I think the problem that most of us have with it is that isnt "proper" music and perhaps the white album was not the place for it.
its something a bit different but i always thought they created the Zapple label to release wierd and whacky stuff like this and george Electronic Sound album.
i just think its something that you have to listen to once, but once youve heard it, its like ok, done that, move on. It would be a lot more palatable as an experimental piece if it had at least 4 minutes shaved off it. Not only would would have made it bearable but it would also mean that the white album would have fitted onto a C90 cassette, which i always found a mild irritation inthe 70's
It's possible that the recording of Revolution 9 inspired the creation of Zapple.
I suppose whether it should have been on The White Album or not is open to debate. If you're one of those that thinks TWA should have been a single album (like me), then there's no place for it. But if you're of the opinion that TWA is what it is because of it's oft mentioned 'sprawling' nature, then it's perfect for it.
No I like the white album as a double. i think the oddities help make it the album that it is, i just dont like every track, that being one of them, ob la di being another, but no its definitely a double for me.
Someone on the Dutch Beatlesforum found the lyrics!
Revolution 9 (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Lead Vocals: John Lennon, Yoko Ono and George Harrison
[Bottle of Claret for you if I had realised...
Well, do it next time.
I forgot about it, George, I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?
Yes.]
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number...
...then there's this Welsh Rarebit wearing some brown underpants ...about the shortage of grain in hertfordshire
Everyone of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit older and a litter slower but...
It's all the same thing, in this case manufactured by someone who's always/umpteen ... Your father's giving it diddly-i-dee/district was leaving... Intended to die ... Ottoman ...long gone through... I've got to say, irritably and... ...floors, hard enough to put on ... per day's MD in our district There was not really enough light to get down And ultimately ... slumped down Suddenly...
They may stop the funding... Place your bets The original Afraid she'll die ... Great colours for the season
Number 9, number 9
Who's to know? Who was to know?
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9
I sustained nothing worse than ...
Also, for example Whatever you're doing A business deal falls through
I informed him on the third night, when fortune gives...
People ride, people ride Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Ride! Ride!
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
...I've missed all of that It makes me a few days late Compared with, like, wow! And weird stuff like that...
...taking our sides sometimes ...floral bark
Rouge doctors have brought this specimen
I have nobody's short-cuts, aha...
9, number 9
...with the situation
They are standing still
The plan, the telegram... Number 9, number...
A man without terrors from beard to false As the headmaster reported to my son He really can try, as they do, to find function... Tell what he was saying, and his voice was low and his hive high And his eyes were low...
Alright!
It was on fire and his glasses were the same This thing knows if it was tinted But you know it isn't To me it is...
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9
So the wife called me and we'd better go to see a surgeon to price it ... Yellow underclothes So, any road, we went to see the dentist instead Who gave her a pair of teeth which wasn't any good at all So I said I'd marry, join the fucking navy and went to sea
In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair
I'm not in the mood for whirling
How? Dogs for dogging, hands for clapping Birds for birding and fish for fishing Them for themming and when for whimming
...only to find the night-watchman unaware of his presence in the building
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 Number 9
Industry allows financial imbalance
Thrusting it between his shoulder blades
The Watusi, the twist
Eldorado
Take this, brother, may it serve you well
Maybe it's nothing What? What? Oh...
Maybe, even then, impervious in London
...could be difficult thing... It's quick like rush for peace is because it's so much Like being naked
What the hell was he on the day he came up with that?? Good Lord. Maybe in the year 2085 it will be considered mainstream. He was either way ahead of his time with this or temporarily insane. It could go either way.
It's possible that the recording of Revolution 9 inspired the creation of Zapple.
I suppose whether it should have been on The White Album or not is open to debate. If you're one of those that thinks TWA should have been a single album (like me), then there's no place for it. But if you're of the opinion that TWA is what it is because of it's oft mentioned 'sprawling' nature, then it's perfect for it.
Actually, I think it's the poorest 'side' of any Beatles record.
If those songs were not on The White Album then you'd be tracking down the bootlegs just to hear them! I love TWA as it is. I think it shows how versatile and creative they were. And even the "worst" songs have something interesting in them.
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