Revolution#9

How many of us actually LIKE the song???? now, i am putting this into black and white...you either enjoy it, or you dont. there will be no "i am indifferent to it". seriously, think about this....

Darkhorse, I guess you have at least one thing to say here [img]graemlins/wink1.gif[/img]

Revolution #9 is never considered a good song because it isn't the kind of song which you can dance to or sing along with, which I think appeals to it's overall uniqueness. It's a song where the only thing you can do is sit and listen intently to it, and every time you do you always hear something that you've never heard before which is a good sign of how deep it really is.

It's not really a song, rather it's an experience. Once you've heard it, it's old news. Like Harb said, it's not something to dance to or hum to in your car. "oooh yeah. catchy tune!"

Originally Posted By FPSHOT:
Darkhorse, I guess you have at least one thing to say here [img]graemlins/wink1.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Unfortunately, there was no "this is not a song" option.

Originally Posted By Harbidge:
Revolution #9 is never considered a good song because it isn't the kind of song which you can dance to or sing along with, which I think appeals to it's overall uniqueness. It's a song where the only thing you can do is sit and listen intently to it, and every time you do you always hear something that you've never heard before which is a good sign of how deep it really is.

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Very good point, harb. I really enjoy the experience of listening to it with headphones (the only way). It relaxes me.

I actually enjoy that song quite a lot. It's like television for the ears. I was enchanted by it the first time I heard it because it was so different from anything else I'd heard to that point. I believe the best name for it would be "aural artwork", or something on those lines. I think that style of "music" would be great as an art form.

Originally Posted By Harbidge:
Revolution #9 is never considered a good song because it isn't the kind of song which you can dance to or sing along with, which I think appeals to it's overall uniqueness. It's a song where the only thing you can do is sit and listen intently to it, and every time you do you always hear something that you've never heard before which is a good sign of how deep it really is.

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">I agree with Harbidge on this, but I have to admit, though, that this "song" doesn´t really appeal to me. I skip it everytime. I actually would like to listen to it carefully and sort of analyze it, but I´m never really up for it. It´s too heavy stuff, really.

I like it [img]graemlins/devil9.gif[/img]

Here I go again...It's a musical mounting! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] I consider it interesting, but I don not enjoy it...so I picked the second option.

This is not a song, so for me the second option. Sorry!

Revolution #9 is never considered a good song because it isn't the kind of song which you can dance to or sing along with, which I think appeals to it's overall uniqueness. It's a song where the only thing you can do is sit and listen intently to it, and every time you do you always hear something that you've never heard before which is a good sign of how deep it really is.

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Thats right, but most of the beatles songs you really couldnt dance with, thats what most people told me, I found it hard to dance to any of their songs, but then I wasn't much for dancing.
#9 Revolution, I listened while on drugs, its a state of mind, interesting, not a fave of mine, if they call it a song, its a song.

BTW: I quit drugs many moons ago [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Even though it may not be considered a "song"..I enjoy it. If you really listen to it, it's very interesting. I was actually tripped out the first time I heard it. There's a lot of bizarre sounds..as well as things said by John and George.......

1:00
JL: "Mrs Welsh wearing a pair of sun brown underpants"

1:10
JL: "about the shortage of grain in Hertfordshire. Everyone one of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower .... This was on the air force set thing"

1:20
JL: "manufacturing person who was always umpteen types of 'umpty dumpty ???? finders, yep ah diddly ... Peak District was leaving intending to pay for ..."

1:59-2:06
GH: "Who's to know? Who's to know?"
JL: "colours for the season. Everybody who knew ..."

2:16
JL: "Pakistan ... also spoken for"
GH: "every day through the business terms"
JL: "had informed him on the third, and I, that unfortunately he was"

3:07
GH: "Every few days ..."
JL: "in a pair of brown under" [edited away, clothes, pants?]

3:26
GH: "local doctors that are ??? this may seem"
JL: "I have nobody's ..."

3:46
GH: "on Eaton, with the situation"
JL: "They are standing still"
GH: "upon a telegram from the"

4:04
GH: "to us played it false as the headmaster reported to"
JL: "who could tell what he was, his voice was low and his eye was high and his eyes were glowing"
GH: " ... Sunday, He really ... became a great deal ... "

4:22
JL: "on fire, his glasses were in t'safe, this was"
GH: "into, which enabled him to move his"

5:03
JL: "certain, so the wife told him he'd better go to see a surgeon .... or what with the price .... yellow underclothes".

JL: "So, any road, he went to see the dentist instead, who gave him a pair of teeth, which wasn't any good at all. So instead of that he joined the bloody navy and went to sea."

5:37
JL: "in my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair. I am not in the mood for wearing"

6:01
JL: "Dogs were dogging, cats were catting. Birds were birding, Fish were fishing. Thence Pwllheli, went swimming"

6:18
GH: "only to find the night watchman"
JL: "onion soup"
GH: "unaware of his presence in the building"

6:34
JL: "Industrial output, financial imbalance"
GH: "Thrusting it between his shoulder blades"
JL: "The Watusi, The Twist"
GH: "Eldorado"

6:54
JL: "Take this brother, may it serve you well"

7:04
YO: "Maybe, it's not that, it's .... maybe, even then, expose yourself ..."

7:26
YO: "It's almost like being naked"

7:54
YO: "if ... you become naked"

I don't really think this is a song so I went for the second option

It's not really a song. An audio collage is more like it. Almost a political statement in some way. I liked it in that it is very layered and textured.

Originally Posted By Blackguard:
It's not really a song. An audio collage is more like it. Almost a political statement in some way. I liked it in that it is very layered and textured.

<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Ditto!

um well... ha ha... it's definitely interesting, I actually don't mind it, but I couldn't listen to it more than once a week, or month maybe. But hey, I'd prefer that than some of the songs of today. And besides, it's The Beatles for God's sake, and in what other "song" can you hear John talk about sun brown underpants? [img]graemlins/laugh1.gif[/img]

[size="1"][ Jan 18, 2004, 04:36 PM: Message Edited By: HarrisonHunny ][/size]

I like it. Whenever I'm in the mood to be creeped out, I'll start playing it. In my opinion it's definately not a song, but I still enjoy listening to it anyway. I always try to find the hidden messages in it. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

I actually do like Revolution 9, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to the whole thing.

The first time I heard #9 I was driving alone from Los Angeles to central california. It was really late at night and it creeped me out, so much in fact that I pulled over at the next gas station and had to get out of my car and get some water to calm down. But, after I listened to it again, I started to like it. It's very interesting and every time I listen I hear something new.