I just listened to the Beatles' "Revolution 9" for the first time...

Good lord, this can only mean one thing: The fifth Beatle was Giygas!

edited 10th Oct '10 9:18:45 PM by Cysma

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Revolution 9 is so underrated. "Worst Beatle song" my ass.

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The existence of Good Day Sunshine precludes Revolution 9 from being the worst Beatles song.

The worst one is actually Maxwell's Silver Hammer but whatever.

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"I should listen to this song. I like Nightmare Fuel!"

ohhhhhhhhhh god I didn't even finish

edited 11th Oct '10 7:50:21 PM by Latia

Second best Beatles song ever.

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I sort of like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" for being the biggest case of Lyrical Dissonance in The Beatles catalog... Well maybe second to "Run For Your Life".

Also good for "'pataphysical".

edited 11th Oct '10 8:35:10 PM by Tzetze

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I never understood the dislike for that song. I quite enjoy it.

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is fun. Utterly tasteless, but fun. I've never understood the hate.

"Revolution 9" is interesting because of its status as this weird avant-garde track on an otherwise quite poppy, catchy album. I find it quite pleasant to listen to, although I wouldn't go so far as to say it was a highlight of the album. It reminds me of the early classical experimentations with tape loops.

I don't know what the worst Beatles song is, but it's probably something forgettable; I can't recall ever hearing a Beatles song that I thought was dire.

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URGH. That song haunts my dreams.

edited 13th Oct '10 5:13:59 AM by BlaineTheM0n0

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The first music I ever really got into was late 20th century avant-garde classical music. In comparison to that stuff, Revolution 9 is pretty tame. It's still interesting though - the way the fragments are juxtaposed does create a pretty creepy atmosphere, but at the same time I feel like there's something very British about it. Also, I recognized fragment's from Sibelius's 7th Symphony, which was pretty cool!

Oh, here's an example of the stuff I was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc3ZV9cSZC0

Well, I've just had a listen. I admit, it's kinda creepy, but not that much. Latia, your own "Ghosts" story was a lot scarier than that...

It's definitely very weird, though.

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I have had the horrible experience that is falling asleep during "Julia" and waking up during "Revolution 9." Disconcerting, to say the least.

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Oh god that must be frightening.

"Revolution 9" is one of my favorite Beatles songs, not even joking. While it is true that it's somewhat tame compared to a lot of what was going on in classical music at the same time, the fact the Beatles managed to put such a strange, avant-garde, and nightmarish song on a pop album is pretty awe-inspiring.

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I love "Revolution 9", though I love the fact that "Good Night" immediately follows it even more. Greatest transition ever.

My mother used to sing me "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" as a lullaby. Which explains quite a few things, I guess...

edited 20th Jan '11 11:05:23 PM by JHM

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That title goes to I Am The Walrus. Revolution 9 is just disturbing experimentallism.

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It took a few listens over the years, but "Revolution 9" grew on me. It helped when I learned something about musique concrète which influenced the track. I don't know whether Lennon or Ono were on record as saying so, but it is known that Lennon admired such musique concrète composers as Stockhausen. Listen to this excerpt from Stockhausen's ''Hymnen'' or from Gesang der Junglinge and you can see the similarities.

Heh. The first time I listened to "Revolution 9," when I was fourteen, I figured that the bizarre noises coming from the LP were simply the introduction to an actual song (I was already familiar with Beatle tracks like "Tomorrow Never Knows," so, you know...) After around four or five minutes had gone by, I thought, "Well, I guess this isn't going to be a 'song' at any point."

What.

I'm one of these people hwo has never really liked Revolution #9, like, at all. The worst though? Hmm, there aren't many genuninly bad beatles songs, maybe like 2 or 3, but the worst is probably Mr. Moonlight.

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I had to read that sentence three times to make sure I read it right.

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Agreed: "Mr. Moonlight," as far as officially-released songs, pre-Anthology, go. If we include unreleased songs later included on Anthology (and on numerous bootlegs before and since), then I'd say "What's the New Mary Jane?", an avant-garde experiment that didn't work. In second place I'd put "If You've Got Trouble," although that does have the funny Ringo ad-lib, "Ah, rock on, anybody," as though he knew right from the start the song wasn't going anywhere.

edited 22nd Jan '11 8:43:41 PM by ChevalierMalfait

What? I've never liked I Am The Walrus simply because it makes no sense at all. Even Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds made some sense of you think it as the narrator describe an acid trip. I Am The Walrus was just confusing.

As far as Revolution 9 goes, I've never been able to sit through the whole thing. Longest I've made it is 2 minutes in.

edited 23rd Jan '11 11:54:53 AM by HopelessRomance

We're going to spread this shit like Nutella.

"I Am the Walrus" is supposed to be confusing. The whole point was just to troll the people who look for hidden meanings in their lyrics.

Besides, it's awesomely catchy.

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Either way, it was one hell of a strange trolling attempt. I will admit that's catchy though.

We're going to spread this shit like Nutella.