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Post by debjorgo on Apr 22, 2018 19:36:24 GMT -5
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Post by hofner61 on Apr 23, 2018 4:46:41 GMT -5
Revolution 9 is way out of place on The White album, it should have been the lead song on Two Virgins, the album where Yoko played the flute, the skin flute.
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 23, 2018 5:18:17 GMT -5
I like how these pieces of music are identified.
“Revolution 9” included Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Farid al-Atrash’s Arabic song "Awal Hamsa," Vaughan Williams’ “O Clap Your Hands,” Sibelius' Symphony No. 7, Schumann's Symphonic Studies, "The Streets of Cairo," and the violins from "A Day in the Life."
I didn't know this. I assumed they were all Beatle compositions.
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 23, 2018 5:25:12 GMT -5
Revolution 9 is way out of place on The White album, it should have been the lead song on Two Virgins, the album where Yoko played the flute, the skin flute.
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Post by stavros on Apr 23, 2018 13:26:08 GMT -5
John probably saw it as a purposely jarring and controversial track to make people notice the Beatles weren't happy go lucky moptops any more.
With the benefit of hindsight it probably pushed boundaries too far and now spoils the White Album. In the alternative history novel "Once There Was a Way" John agrees that the White Album is not the place for "Revolution No.9" and instead "Hey Jude" and "What's the New Mary Jane" take it's place.
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Post by markc on Apr 24, 2018 8:22:33 GMT -5
The White Album was not the place for What's the New Maryjane either.
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 24, 2018 16:36:03 GMT -5
I think #9 is perfect for the White Album. It adds to that spooky feel throughout the album.
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Post by coachbk on Apr 24, 2018 18:33:45 GMT -5
I'd have much rather had "Not Guilty" and a shortened version of "What's The New Mary Jane" than "Revolution #9".
I also would have preferred the fast (single) version of "Revolution" to "Revolution 1".
Between the painfully slow "Revolution 1" and the not worth listening to more than once "Revolution #9", side 4 of THE WHITE ALBUM seldom took a spin on my turntable and that was too bad because "Cry Baby Cry" is a very good song, "Savoy Truffle" is decent and "Honey Pie" and "Good Night" are good representations of old time music.
I think "Revolution #9" is a good example of self-indulgent bulls%$#t.
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Post by John S. Damm on Apr 25, 2018 23:15:31 GMT -5
I think #9 is perfect for the White Album. It adds to that spooky feel throughout the album. I agree! The "Revolution Trilogy" is among the most important music made by The Beatles.
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Post by debjorgo on Jun 2, 2018 16:04:59 GMT -5
An alternate version with different 'lyrics'.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 3, 2018 12:13:49 GMT -5
That was quite a fascinating take and I even enjoyed the video! It captures the end-of-the-world aspect to this piece.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 17:26:31 GMT -5
Above all else, trying to identify the sounds (and sources) of the loops makes it intriguing to sit through!
There's one loop, in particular, I'm fascinated with --- which occurs about every 40 seconds in the first two minutes-or-so: a droning, Rock rhythm track that has (what I think are) the strings climax from A Day In the Life played backwards and superimposed over it. Where is THIS from? Is it, perhaps(?), *really* a fragment of the CARNIVAL OF LIGHT jam? I mean, they/John wouldn't have taken some demo tape of another band to just cut up for THAT(?).
For a lot of years, also, it was an urban legend that Charles Manson had (mis)heard the football pep rally chant "Block that Kick" as: "BLOCK THAT DICK" (as in Nixon). It, actually, was excerpted from a sound effects record Elektra had put out in the early '60s. Other stuff one can point out, is: a snippet of someone practicing the piano lick from Martha My Dear or someone playing the key for the intro of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Both of these happen to bookend the segment where John is moaning as Yoko recites the "you become naked" thing and the Egyptian folk singer playing over them sounds like an out-of-tune AM radio.
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 2, 2018 22:41:54 GMT -5
Above all else, trying to identify the sounds (and sources) of the loops makes it intriguing to sit through! There's one loop, in particular, I'm fascinated with --- which occurs about every 40 seconds in the first two minutes-or-so: a droning, Rock rhythm track that has (what I think are) the strings climax from A Day In the Life played backwards and superimposed over it. Where is THIS from? Is it, perhaps(?), *really* a fragment of the CARNIVAL OF LIGHT jam? I mean, they/John wouldn't have taken some demo tape of another band to just cut up for THAT(?). For a lot of years, also, it was an urban legend that Charles Manson had (mis)heard the football pep rally chant "Block that Kick" as: "BLOCK THAT DICK" (as in Nixon). It, actually, was excerpted from a sound effects record Elektra had put out in the early '60s. Other stuff one can point out, is: a snippet of someone practicing the piano lick from Martha My Dear or someone playing the key for the intro of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Both of these happen to bookend the segment where John is moaning as Yoko recites the "you become naked" thing and the Egyptian folk singer playing over them sounds like an out-of-tune AM radio. Wow, good stuff JHoover! I need to listen to this in headphones again! It has only been 40 years since I last did!
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