Roux
And That's A Start
...it's all we need.
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Post by Roux on Nov 2, 2008 15:22:30 GMT
Who here likes it? Who here hates it?
Personally, I think the song is awesome! ^^
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alexis
I'll Be On My Way
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Post by alexis on Nov 2, 2008 18:28:03 GMT
I like it. I don' t know if it's because it's a GOOD song (for all I know it may not be at all), but at least because it's so familiar now. I've lost all perspective on it!
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beatler
And That's A Start
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Post by beatler on Nov 3, 2008 10:16:50 GMT
i think its interesting. but it's not the kind of song you'd take with you on desert island discs, i don't think. if it comes up on my walkman i skip past it.
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Post by The End on Nov 3, 2008 22:37:30 GMT
I actually like it too - amazing to think that She Loves you was just 5 years earlier though!!
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Post by blueblackbird on Nov 23, 2008 1:54:32 GMT
I find it interesting but I don't consider it a song. It's more like a psychodelic and brainwashing sequence of sounds
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larosh
What Goes On In Your Heart
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Post by larosh on Nov 23, 2008 3:28:33 GMT
I think I like it because it's interesting. Just like I might something else because it has a catchy tune. Not something I'd play over and over again, but it satisfies my curious side.
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alix
I'll Be On My Way
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Post by alix on Nov 23, 2008 12:45:25 GMT
I used to hate it, and thought when my uncle once told "You'll come to like it one day" that he really had spent too much time in the Californian sun.
Then a couple of years later i saw the Clube Big Beatles play it live on the 2000 Convention mainstage and then the next day at the MSF and really started to appreciate and like it.
But once you hear it as John intended with Revolution 1 merging into it, it makes even more sense. - there was a radio show done in the states that was released as a 2 disk bootleg celebrating the 30th anniversary of the White Albums release and its on there.
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Post by someotherguy on Jun 20, 2009 20:05:51 GMT
not strong on melody, but it terrified me when i was younger. that counts for something.
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Post by Bobber on Jun 22, 2009 8:36:35 GMT
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Post by tracy on Jun 28, 2009 1:24:00 GMT
it creeped me out, the first time i heard revolution 9. had to listen a few times before i could say i liked it. the conversation at the start always makes me laugh "cheeky bitch." haha.
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Post by maxssilverhammer on Jul 2, 2009 7:29:25 GMT
it scared me a little the first few times i heard ir, and it still kinda does now. but i appreciate it for its creppiness and actually have grown to love it.
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Post by johnny103068 on Jul 24, 2011 1:14:56 GMT
Can you even call Revolution no.9 a song?
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trev1
I'll Be On My Way
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Post by trev1 on Jul 1, 2012 12:18:19 GMT
Love it Fav part is George Harrrison saying in a posh voice : ELDORADO !!!
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rdnzl
I'll Be On My Way
Pastor Of Muppets
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Post by rdnzl on Jan 11, 2013 23:35:03 GMT
I really have to be in a strange strange moot to single "Revolution 9" out for my listening pleasure. I do hear it, however, when I listen to the white album all the way through.
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todd4
And That's A Start
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Post by todd4 on Mar 1, 2013 16:16:11 GMT
I've tried to talk myself into liking every track on the White Album, but this is one I haven't been able to. Don't get me wrong. I think the Beatles is the best band ever. I just don't like the White Album as a whole album. It wasn't bad though for John to try out some experiemental songs/sounds.
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Post by sheepdog on Mar 3, 2013 16:38:50 GMT
i like it although it goes on quite long, but like the whole number 9..number 9..number 9
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brentp
And That's A Start
nam daed no em nruT
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Post by brentp on Mar 7, 2013 20:59:04 GMT
I really can't decide, The interesting aspects are appealing but just it's just a bit to weird for my taste
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Post by beatlesfansunite1 on Sept 18, 2013 9:54:37 GMT
Dividing audiences since late 1968, John Lennon's sound collage Revolution 9 was an exercise in musique concrète influenced heavily by Yoko Ono and the avant-garde art world.
The recording emerged from Revolution 1, the final six minutes of which formed a lengthy, mostly instrumental jam. Lennon took the recording and added a range of vocals, tape loops and sound effects, creating Revolution 9, the longest track released during The Beatles' career.
Although he made no direct contribution to Revolution 9, being in New York at the time, Paul McCartney had made a similar sound collage, the unreleased 14-minute Carnival Of Light, 18 months previously.
The other Beatles and George Martin are said to have persuaded Lennon not to include Revolution 9 on the White Album, to no avail. Although McCartney had long been interested in musique concrète, particularly Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge, it is likely that he was concerned at the effect Revolution 9 would have on the group's public perception.
It wasn't only the group's teenage fans who were confused by Revolution 9. Charles Manson found a wealth of symbolism in the track's loops and effects, and thought that Lennon's shouts of 'Right!' were, in fact, a call to 'rise' up in revolt.
Manson drew a parallel between Revolution 9 and the Bible's book of Revelation. He thought The Beatles were variously four angels sent to kill a third of mankind, or four locusts mentioned in Revelation 9, which he equated with beetles.
Revolution 9 also featured in the 'Paul is dead' myth, after it was discovered that the 'number nine' motif, when played backwards, sounded like 'Turn me on, dead man'. A number of other elements of the recording featured in the myth, including the sound of a car crashing followed by an explosion.
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