GOAT Band. They did it all in 9 years, not 50 as some. Musical pioneers that opened music's Pandora's Box. They started that Revolution to all who followed them....
In context of the year it was made ( 1968 ) it made perfect sense. It is an audio collage portraying the turmoil of that year.Assasinations , wars, civil rights upheavals....etc. You really should have included the little intro right after Cry Baby Cry, Paul's can you take me back bit followed by "Good Night"... John's plaintive lullaby song by Ringo....the calm after the storm so to speak.
when you're in a dark room and some one puts up a visual to go with this it becomes ART......its great to hear at times...remember they call the white album the beatles acoustic album
I remember listening to this album when it came out, I was in First grade at the time, it took me a few years to understand what my older neighbor said about Revolution 9 and what it sounds like, "Taking an acid trip while crazily flipping through the TV channels."
I remember the first time I listened to the whole WA on CD in a music store, it must have been around 1990 and I was about 12. I was reading along the lyrics in the booklet and I noticed that were none printed to Revolution 9, so I thought to myself: "OK, so this is going to be an instrumental." I had no idea what I was getting myself into, or even how long it was going to be. At the beginning I thought it was just going to be some weird, short interlude, like "Wild Honey Pie", but then it just went on and on and never seemed to end, and I just went "WTF am I listening to here?!"
DJ's reaction to Revolution No.9 was hilarious. Looking forward to Beatles week. Hope to see some mid-60's stuff which is my favorite (Ticket to Ride, Taxman, Nowhere Man to name a few.)
I love revolution 9. If you are in the right mood to listen to it works well, I occasionally skip it if I'm not in a receptive mood. What is brilliant is that a pop band, a bunch of teeny boppers could put it out on a commercial album.
My favorite Beatles track. Doom and Destruction. The effects of violent global Revolution. This is what War sounds like, in battle and those who watch it on TV.
This video version has different vocals than on the "Revolution", which was a single and not on the White Album. "Revolution 1" & "Revolution 9" are on the White Album.
Revolution is mainly against violence but not necessarily against revolutions. By the way: this is NOT the white album version, it's the single version. Revolution on the white album is much slower; Paul McCartney wanted it little faster for the single. So they did. Revolution 9 is - of cause - a musicial, non-violent, revolution. It's a sound collage; noone has done that before.
@@luckymustard The vocals were all live, lead and Bop Shoobies. There was a ban by the musician union at the time against miming. Must had just been the British union. All the bands on American Bandstand mimed everything through the sixties and seventies.
Revolution 9 is another turning point for the Beatles, constantly looking for renewal, experimenation, to be the first and best in everything. Actually Yoko Ono has some influence in this, since she was an avant-garde artist. John Lennon met her just some time ago then (1968). This is an avant garde piece, a sound scape, depicting the tumultuous society of 1968. Vietnam war, the whole of society changing, people on strike, on barricades...
Thanks for listening/reacting to #9 - first that I have seen. One of my favorite Beatle songs. I have always felt that the end soccer game shows that life goes on beyond the politics.
You probably heard "Revolution" on a Nike commercial, back in the late 80s. The song "Best Friend" (theme from "Courtship of Eddie's Father") was done by Harry Nilsson, who was a very close friend of the Beatles.
@@GetSidewaysReacts Since 45 years a Beatles fan with a break in between. When I was 15 years old I quit them for two reasons: after John Lennons death, I could not listen to them again und on the other hand I felt too much grown up for the Beatles. ;-) Later with 20 I rediscovered them and was really really surprised in what I knew before: they had such a great quality!
Revolution 1, which is what you watched, is the original, then Revolution which is the version heard most often, and finally, Revolution 9 which was an avant-garde sound collage of BBC radio programs, interviews with the Beatles, and other bits and pieces. It was widely misunderstood but revolutionary (pardon the pun) in musical art and influenced a lot of genres after it. Frankly, I love it.
There are actually THREE Beatles songs called 'Revolution'. The original is the B-Side of the 'Hey Jude' single, and on the White Album there is 'Revolution 1' & 'Revolution 9' Technically there is another one they did for their 'promo film' (video) that is a kind of combination of the 'fast' version and the 'slow' version
Revolution 9 is an experimental music track by the British musical group The Beatles, the penultimate track from the 1968 album The Beatles (also known as White Album). The piece is a sound collage, full of shouts and other noises alternating with piano phrasing and an EMI employee who, testing a tape, repeats the phrase: "number nine, number nine ..." ("number nine, number nine , number nine ... "). This is the most experimental recording of the Beatles, made up of sounds of different genres (dialogues, noises, musical phrases) united in a single piece; with a duration of over 8 minutes, it represented the longest piece of the entire Beatles discography. Revolution 9 (officially signed by Lennon-McCartney) was mainly made by Lennon together with Yōko Ono, whose influence is certainly due to the experimental and avant-garde nature of this piece. It is no coincidence that the sounds of the piece were inspired by the musical research of John Cage, Edgard Varèse and Karlheinz Stockhausen. While George Harrison and Ringo Starr contributed to some extent in the making of the song, Paul McCartney and producer George Martin resisted its release. Having been included on a Beatles album, this experimental piece of music is the best-selling and best-selling avant-garde work in the world. cit Wikipedia
I think it may have been better if they listened to the two different versions of Revolution. It's hard for even die hard Beatles fans to enjoy Revolution #9.
@@GetSidewaysReacts I made my room mate listen to it and while she now gets many references she seen on the Simpsons, et al, she still hates me for it. number nine number nine number nine
The band wanted the White Album version to be The version, but their record company wanted a fast paced tune to release. Thus the band sped the song up for the original release and then did the version they wanted to do on the White Album, called Revolution #9. Both versions are great.
Give it more than one listen; the apparent randomness will begin to take on its own order. BTW, this was greatly inspired by the avante garde art of Yoko Ono,through John. Their voices can be heard in several places.
This song, “Back in the USSR”, “Come Together”. Some of my favorite songs of all time. I was a dancer in my early days, and they made some really good dancing music.
there are actually two versions of revolution with the heavy guitar. the single and the one in the video. the vocals are different, but the instrument track is the same.
@@brianbanta6398 That's like saying there our two versions of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" the sinhltand the one performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. It's not a diffent version, it was never released.
the Revolution that is listened to here is not on the album, that’s the point. On the album is a different version, more tame and with different lyrics, even contradictory to the single version (count me in / count me out).
it surprises me that you have all the Beatles albums but yet you were never curious enough to find out more about them as a group, how they came to be, their history, etc.
Revolution 1 and Revolution 9 were on the White album - Revolution was a single release. Revolution 9 was a sound collage depicting revolution - as i remember lennon linked 8 tape machines together and he and Yoko compiled it in one evening.
It would be interesting, if someone were to visualize "Revolution 9" (if that has not already been done, I am not aware of it). Many people hated this work, others are fascinated and the composition of the collage definitely has a certain aesthetic appeal. Unlike the collages, that John Lennon produced with Yoko Ono around this time. And no doubt this genre, whether it matters now or not, was introduced to a wide audience by the fact, that the Beatles did it. Incidentally, "Revolution 1" is a musically excellent variant of "Revolution". Actually the other way around, but the filmed version is much better known and the song is part of one of the singles (Hey Jude) where the flip side was often as good as the A side. One of the many skills of the Beatles.
Revolution 9 was the peak of musical modernism. Lennon took it to the end point. There was nowhere for rock music to go after Revolution 9. It would be a long time and new technologies that would allow for post-modernism to emerge.
This is normal now most popular commercial example is FKA Twigs its what we now call minimalistic or experimental edgy shit , I wonder what the people in the 60's thought of this, I don't wanna be that guy who think Beatles invented everything but this was massively daring considering the were considered a pop/rock band as much as the had an LSD phase since the Revolver album to Yellow Submarine
Play this song backwards and it will say "turn me on dead man" over and over. This was during the time of the rumor that Paul was dead. The Beatles really played the rumor to the hilt. The rumor spread on several Beatles albums.
They had several tape loops set up with several people holding the loops so they would keep playing. There would be someone, most likely John, at the mixing board fading one or more sounds in while fading out the other. John wanted this to represent what an all out revolution or war would sound like. IMO, it IS the closest thing I've ever heard to an acid trip. This is probably the most despised track in the Beatles' collection. It is historically fascinating for a number of reasons. If you play it backwards, 'number nine' becomes close to sounding like 'turn me on dead man' and another part sounds like a car wreck, a fire, and someone yelling 'Let me out!'. This only added fuel to the 'Paul is dead' mythology. There are several other parts throughout that are interpreted in such a way to support that theme. This, and other tracks on this collection, were used by Charles Manson as an excuse to try and start a race war. He believed the Beatles were sending him clues so he began to orchestrate several killings in 1969.
Revolution nine the basic track is the song revolution one take 20 which was not available on the white album and phone number nine years and engineers voice and he’s saying this is number 9 Mc so John Lennon meditate clip of him saying number nine number nine number nine and also George Martin speaks because he wanted some clarity call or some medication like that which Derek Taylor forgot at the time. And there’s a lot of avant-garde pieces like choirs and at the end of this song like that kid like that kid
I've tried several times to listen to Revolution 9 by myself on headphones in the dark. It always instills anxiety in me to the point that I have to stop it before the end. I don't know why.
This is what Revolution sounds like... do you want it? You can count me out... in ? I like how the 'Alrights' at the end sound like an angry Mother telling her teenage son to turn off that dreadful racket. Heh. Sound collage had been done before, but never in such a prominent mainstream arena. Something like that could only be followed with a gentle Goodnight kiss for the world.
There are 3 versions of "Revolution" The slower bluesy Revolution on the White Album, then the one where Paul and George sing "Bow shooby do wop, Bow shooby do wop" and the fast one without the bow shooby do wops
I remember back as a kid staying up late Friday night having friends over and playing this and scaring the shit out of them in the dark; used to scare my ass too because it reminded me that Charles Manson was still on the loose. He was so delusional he thought The Beatles were speaking directly to him to do the things that he did using The White Album to do it. Ringo does a lullaby right after this song.
lennon's remark about mao, in this song, wasn't a rejection of socialism. all the beatles were socialists at this time. socialism is a good thing. i'm a socialist and i reject mao. he was a madman! what lennon was saying was that mao didn't represent true socialism or the goals of the "new left." remember, mao WASN'T a socialist. regardless of what he called himself. and that's just a historical fact. nice guitar playing. i really enjoyed that. thanks for the video.
You both should listen and react to the Beatles I want you she’s so heavy. And you both should listen and react to the Beatles the ballad of John and yoko only John Lennon and Paul McCartney played on that song Paul McCartney played drums and bass guitar. Ringo was making a movie and George was on holiday
I love The Beatles and I believe they're the best band in the world. That being said, they also borrowed a lot of stuff from other artist. For example, the beginning riff of the song Revolution, Lennon copied from Pee Wee Crayton " Do unto others". And also the song "Come Together" was a copy from Chuck Berry's "You can't catch me". Peace.
It's not as though there were a lot of Americans supporting chairman Mao at the time. I was about 15 at the time and I never met another kid who liked Chinese communism. There undoubtedly were some American supporters, though.
Song he was singing is theme from the TV show The Courtship of Eddie's Father, sung by Harry Nilsson. There are two official versions of Revolution...the single version, fast tempo, flip side of Hey Jude single. But the White album version is slower in the style of a 1950's 6/8 time song like Fats Domino would do, has brass, no electric piano, different Do Wop background vocals. Revolution #9 had nothing whatsoever to do with the song Revolution other than the borrowed title [probably a s a joke]. It was Lennon and Yolo ono putting together tape and n fooling around with different sounds [probably drug induced...if you recall Lennon and Ono had a heroin problem well hidden from the public by that point]. Lennon insisted on putting this ridiculous junk on the album, the other Beatles resisted. KIMO putting Hey Jude in it's place would have been more appropriate. Revolution #9 is NOT a version of the song Revolution, as you can hear, whatsoever. Frankly, you cannot even call this a "song,"...
I assumed you were going to play the slower version as well. Never found Revolution No. 9 worth listening to, especially if Yoko was involved. Bet the other Beatles were thrilled to include that one.
Actually" number nine" it is from a recording engineer's sound check / announcement for all the tracks, The Beatles just liked the alliteration of saying "number nine" repeatedly .... and the number has absolutely no significance
@@futurereflections4097 Yeah if you play number nine backboards, it does sort of sound like that. If The Beatles knew this or not when recording it, we will never know
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You dont know what you are talking about. This song had nothing to do with mao or communism. Its an anti vietnam war song, the reference to mao is only there to say its not the way to stop america waging war on civilians by cosying up to communists as jane fonda did with her visit to ho chi minh in north vietnam. They are saying stop americas war by peace movements and to defund americas war machine. There was no such mao china communist trouble thing going on in england at the time. I was there. Neither England or China for that matter had any part in the vietnam war. Vietnam and china had been waring for hundreds of years. North vietnam got their weapons from russia. It was just another america russia proxy war. Nothing has changed. There was no red guard violence in china at the time in fact there was no longer red guard or revolution, that was way before the beatles were born. Also you dont just pull songs off a beatles album. Its like ripping one page out of a book snd trying to say what the book is about. Many of the beatles albums were made to be listened to one whole side as a story, the first band to do this. The last part of 9 is actual sound from tv coverage of anti war protesters outside a university
you two stopped reacting to other things like this because you are chasing that BTS coin. Ya'll ain't ARMYs if you make fun of their language, judge them based on edited videos, mock their English skills (fake love, Jimin saying lovely, Jimin's "you're nice keep going") you two have even insulted J-Hope a few times. you know very well if you didn't gain traction after your first video on BTS you wouldn't be posting them so much. You are just posting what sells and laughing at their language.
I highly doubt they are making much money, if any at all on reaction videos. That can be difficult to do. I don’t think they are making fun of BTS’s English speaking skills either. All of the examples you gave are in various funny compilation videos that thousands of people watch and enjoy. So are all of those video creators making fun of BTS too? Are the people watching the videos making fun of BTS? A lot of ARMY repeat and use the phrases you mentioned, so are they making fun of BTS too? The infamous “Hey! Stobt it” said by Jin is said by ARMY a lot. So is “You nice keep going”. Those aren’t being repeated in hateful ways. They are usually done in some form of adoration, appreciation or just plain thinking it’s cute. BTS chuckle when they hear someone pronounce Korean words wrong. They aren’t doing it to be hateful. Why assume these guys are? Especially when they haven’t said anything remotely hateful about them. I have never heard them mock the Korean language either. Please feel free to tell me which video(s) they have done so. I don’t appreciate things like that and don’t want to support anyone who does. But I would need to listen to the video where they do mock it. I am not sure why you are coming after them so strongly.
First heard this in 1980 when I was 15 years old and loved it. Once again, Beatles had done something no one had ever done before.
GOAT Band. They did it all in 9 years, not 50 as some. Musical pioneers that opened music's Pandora's Box. They started that Revolution to all who followed them....
This was the first dance at my wedding.
That's crazy. I love it.
In context of the year it was made ( 1968 ) it made perfect sense. It is an audio collage portraying the turmoil of that year.Assasinations , wars, civil rights upheavals....etc. You really should have included the little intro right after Cry Baby Cry, Paul's can you take me back bit followed by "Good Night"... John's plaintive lullaby song by Ringo....the calm after the storm so to speak.
when you're in a dark room and some one puts up a visual to go with this it becomes ART......its great to hear at times...remember they call the white album the beatles acoustic album
The Beatles broke so much new ground, blows my mind
I remember listening to this album when it came out, I was in First grade at the time, it took me a few years to understand what my older neighbor said about Revolution 9 and what it sounds like, "Taking an acid trip while crazily flipping through the TV channels."
LOL
I remember the first time I listened to the whole WA on CD in a music store, it must have been around 1990 and I was about 12. I was reading along the lyrics in the booklet and I noticed that were none printed to Revolution 9, so I thought to myself: "OK, so this is going to be an instrumental." I had no idea what I was getting myself into, or even how long it was going to be. At the beginning I thought it was just going to be some weird, short interlude, like "Wild Honey Pie", but then it just went on and on and never seemed to end, and I just went "WTF am I listening to here?!"
Scared the crap out of me at about 8
Yeah it’s a acid trip for sure!
@@robbyrob0723I would never listen to this at night!
DJ's reaction to Revolution No.9 was hilarious. Looking forward to Beatles week. Hope to see some mid-60's stuff which is my favorite (Ticket to Ride, Taxman, Nowhere Man to name a few.)
Thanks for doing this guys! 😂 going from this to Lennon’s “Good Night” is an epic ending for the White Album
The voice repeating "number 9" is a BBC announcer doing a sound check.
Now when you play him "Tomorrow Never Knows", it won't seem quite as weird. Also play for him "What's the New Mary Jane".
I love revolution 9. If you are in the right mood to listen to it works well, I occasionally skip it if I'm not in a receptive mood. What is brilliant is that a pop band, a bunch of teeny boppers could put it out on a commercial album.
My favorite Beatles track.
Doom and Destruction.
The effects of violent global Revolution.
This is what War sounds like, in battle and those who watch it on TV.
This video version has different vocals than on the "Revolution", which was a single and not on the White Album. "Revolution 1" & "Revolution 9" are on the White Album.
Revolution is mainly against violence but not necessarily against revolutions. By the way: this is NOT the white album version, it's the single version. Revolution on the white album is much slower; Paul McCartney wanted it little faster for the single. So they did.
Revolution 9 is - of cause - a musicial, non-violent, revolution. It's a sound collage; noone has done that before.
Well, this is kind of a hybrid between the album and the single version. It's fast but it has the Bop Shoobie Doo Waas. Recorded live.
@@debjorgo Yes. :-) I saw this but did not wnat to make it more complicate. ;-)
@@debjorgo And actually this music video version is not fully performed live. The instruments and some vocals were recorded.
@@luckymustard The vocals were all live, lead and Bop Shoobies. There was a ban by the musician union at the time against miming. Must had just been the British union. All the bands on American Bandstand mimed everything through the sixties and seventies.
@@debjorgo Maybe Paul sings it at the end, but for the "alright" then, I noticed that John isn't at the mic.
Revolution 9 is another turning point for the Beatles, constantly looking for renewal, experimenation, to be the first and best in everything.
Actually Yoko Ono has some influence in this, since she was an avant-garde artist. John Lennon met her just some time ago then (1968).
This is an avant garde piece, a sound scape, depicting the tumultuous society of 1968. Vietnam war, the whole of society changing, people on strike, on barricades...
Thanks for listening/reacting to #9 - first that I have seen. One of my favorite Beatle songs. I have always felt that the end soccer game shows that life goes on beyond the politics.
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You probably heard "Revolution" on a Nike commercial, back in the late 80s. The song "Best Friend" (theme from "Courtship of Eddie's Father") was done by Harry Nilsson, who was a very close friend of the Beatles.
Great! More Beatles then. :-)
Seven more to go! I hope you like them.
@@GetSidewaysReacts Since 45 years a Beatles fan with a break in between. When I was 15 years old I quit them for two reasons: after John Lennons death, I could not listen to them again und on the other hand I felt too much grown up for the Beatles. ;-)
Later with 20 I rediscovered them and was really really surprised in what I knew before: they had such a great quality!
Revolution 1, which is what you watched, is the original, then Revolution which is the version heard most often, and finally, Revolution 9 which was an avant-garde sound collage of BBC radio programs, interviews with the Beatles, and other bits and pieces. It was widely misunderstood but revolutionary (pardon the pun) in musical art and influenced a lot of genres after it. Frankly, I love it.
There are actually THREE Beatles songs called 'Revolution'. The original is the B-Side of the 'Hey Jude' single, and on the White Album there is 'Revolution 1' & 'Revolution 9'
Technically there is another one they did for their 'promo film' (video) that is a kind of combination of the 'fast' version and the 'slow' version
There's also their Esher (George's house) demo version.
Revolution 9 is an experimental music track by the British musical group The Beatles, the penultimate track from the 1968 album The Beatles (also known as White Album).
The piece is a sound collage, full of shouts and other noises alternating with piano phrasing and an EMI employee who, testing a tape, repeats the phrase: "number nine, number nine ..." ("number nine, number nine , number nine ... ").
This is the most experimental recording of the Beatles, made up of sounds of different genres (dialogues, noises, musical phrases) united in a single piece; with a duration of over 8 minutes, it represented the longest piece of the entire Beatles discography. Revolution 9 (officially signed by Lennon-McCartney) was mainly made by Lennon together with Yōko Ono, whose influence is certainly due to the experimental and avant-garde nature of this piece. It is no coincidence that the sounds of the piece were inspired by the musical research of John Cage, Edgard Varèse and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
While George Harrison and Ringo Starr contributed to some extent in the making of the song, Paul McCartney and producer George Martin resisted its release.
Having been included on a Beatles album, this experimental piece of music is the best-selling and best-selling avant-garde work in the world. cit Wikipedia
I think it may have been better if they listened to the two different versions of Revolution. It's hard for even die hard Beatles fans to enjoy Revolution #9.
I wanted him to hear 9 at least once in his life to know it existed
@@GetSidewaysReacts I made my room mate listen to it and while she now gets many references she seen on the Simpsons, et al, she still hates me for it.
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@@OneWrytyr number eight.... ::BURP::... number eight.... ::BURP::... number eight.... ::BURP::... 😁
I don't fine it hard at all. A masterpiece.
@@scottfrench4139 'find' it hard at all
The "people let me tell you about my best friend" was Harry Nilsson from The Courtship of Eddie's Father TV show.
Who was John Lennon's drinking buddy during his NYC days in the 70's, so the Six Degrees of Separation game ends right there.
The band wanted the White Album version to be The version, but their record company wanted a fast paced tune to release. Thus the band sped the song up for the original release and then did the version they wanted to do on the White Album, called Revolution #9. Both versions are great.
The repetition of No:9 is part of all Revolutions Indoctrination. No: 9 also was a part of John Lennon's Life Born on the 9th.
Revolution was the B-side on the Hey Jude 45rpm vinyl single. To me was a double “A” sided record. Revolution is still banned in China.
Now play it backwards!
Give it more than one listen; the apparent randomness will begin to take on its own order. BTW, this was greatly inspired by the avante garde art of Yoko Ono,through John. Their voices can be heard in several places.
This song, “Back in the USSR”, “Come Together”. Some of my favorite songs of all time. I was a dancer in my early days, and they made some really good dancing music.
Check back to see if Come Together is one of the songs we do this week. 6 more to go.
Lennon's best guitar work.
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Revolution was not on the white album, it was a B side. Revolution 1 was recorded first and is on the white album along with Revolution 9.
there are actually two versions of revolution with the heavy guitar. the single and the one in the video. the vocals are different, but the instrument track is the same.
@@brianbanta6398 That's like saying there our two versions of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" the sinhltand the one performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. It's not a diffent version, it was never released.
the Revolution that is listened to here is not on the album, that’s the point. On the album is a different version, more tame and with different lyrics, even contradictory to the single version (count me in / count me out).
Who are you talking to?
it surprises me that you have all the Beatles albums but yet you were never curious enough to find out more about them as a group, how they came to be, their history, etc.
Revolution 1 and Revolution 9 were on the White album - Revolution was a single release. Revolution 9 was a sound collage depicting revolution - as i remember lennon linked 8 tape machines together and he and Yoko compiled it in one evening.
George Martin didn't want Revolution 9 on the White album but John Lennon insisted.
It would be interesting, if someone were to visualize "Revolution 9" (if that has not already been done, I am not aware of it). Many people hated this work, others are fascinated and the composition of the collage definitely has a certain aesthetic appeal. Unlike the collages, that John Lennon produced with Yoko Ono around this time. And no doubt this genre, whether it matters now or not, was introduced to a wide audience by the fact, that the Beatles did it. Incidentally, "Revolution 1" is a musically excellent variant of "Revolution". Actually the other way around, but the filmed version is much better known and the song is part of one of the singles (Hey Jude) where the flip side was often as good as the A side. One of the many skills of the Beatles.
Revolution 9 was the peak of musical modernism. Lennon took it to the end point. There was nowhere for rock music to go after Revolution 9. It would be a long time and new technologies that would allow for post-modernism to emerge.
This is normal now most popular commercial example is FKA Twigs its what we now call minimalistic or experimental edgy shit , I wonder what the people in the 60's thought of this, I don't wanna be that guy who think Beatles invented everything but this was massively daring considering the were considered a pop/rock band as much as the had an LSD phase since the Revolver album to Yellow Submarine
Play this song backwards and it will say "turn me on dead man" over and over. This was during the time of the rumor that Paul was dead. The Beatles really played the rumor to the hilt. The rumor spread on several Beatles albums.
How many cotton reels were used in the making of this track?
They had several tape loops set up with several people holding the loops so they would keep playing. There would be someone, most likely John, at the mixing board fading one or more sounds in while fading out the other. John wanted this to represent what an all out revolution or war would sound like. IMO, it IS the closest thing I've ever heard to an acid trip.
This is probably the most despised track in the Beatles' collection. It is historically fascinating for a number of reasons. If you play it backwards, 'number nine' becomes close to sounding like 'turn me on dead man' and another part sounds like a car wreck, a fire, and someone yelling 'Let me out!'. This only added fuel to the 'Paul is dead' mythology. There are several other parts throughout that are interpreted in such a way to support that theme.
This, and other tracks on this collection, were used by Charles Manson as an excuse to try and start a race war. He believed the Beatles were sending him clues so he began to orchestrate several killings in 1969.
Revolution nine the basic track is the song revolution one take 20 which was not available on the white album and phone number nine years and engineers voice and he’s saying this is number 9 Mc so John Lennon meditate clip of him saying number nine number nine number nine and also George Martin speaks because he wanted some clarity call or some medication like that which Derek Taylor forgot at the time.
And there’s a lot of avant-garde pieces like choirs and at the end of this song like that kid like that kid
I suppose everyone should listen to Revolution 9 once...just not more than once.
Rev 9 needs to be played Backwards for it to complete...when done the people listening for the first time go ghost white at what Number 9 becomes
To wit, "Turn me on, dead man".
Some “ boy band”. Pisses me off when casuals call the Beatles that. I just play them this, Helter Skelter, Get Back, Rain, etc etc etc. they’re the 🐐
fanboy lmao
This was the Album that Charlie Manson went crazy on
.....thought I spotted you tapping your feet to Rev 9 for a brief moment....
Lol. I guess I can dance to anything
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK is NOT an album, it's one of their songs.
Every one of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower.
I've tried several times to listen to Revolution 9 by myself on headphones in the dark. It always instills anxiety in me to the point that I have to stop it before the end. I don't know why.
Me too!! It has to be one of the most creepiest songs ever!
@@ed2kou1It’s not really a song
@@nikotheghostrider Then what is is just nosies.. Did they release as a song or did it not get released..
This is what Revolution sounds like... do you want it? You can count me out... in ?
I like how the 'Alrights' at the end sound like an angry Mother telling her teenage son to turn off that dreadful racket. Heh.
Sound collage had been done before, but never in such a prominent mainstream arena. Something like that could only be followed with a gentle Goodnight kiss for the world.
One of my favorite Album transitions to close out an epic album. Lennon from one extreme to another in back to back tracks
Revolution #9 is track 12 of 13 tracks on the second CD of the double album. It would have been track 4 or five on side four of the original vinyl
"Turn me on dead man" Number 9 backwards
have to be tripping to really enjoy
16:20 - Yoko Ono being herself 😆🤣😂😃
There are 3 versions of "Revolution" The slower bluesy Revolution on the White Album, then the one where Paul and George sing "Bow shooby do wop, Bow shooby do wop" and the fast one without the bow shooby do wops
I find this song horrifying, I remember I woke up and this was play in my earphones
you should expose him to "What's the New Mary Jane" next.
I remember back as a kid staying up late Friday night having friends over and playing this and scaring the shit out of them in the dark; used to scare my ass too because it reminded me that Charles Manson was still on the loose. He was so delusional he thought The Beatles were speaking directly to him to do the things that he did using The White Album to do it.
Ringo does a lullaby right after this song.
I think the lullaby was needed after this
5:12 George: "John's mic is shite!"
Paul originally didn't want Revolution 9 on the album but John and George did. Guess who won?
Ringo?
Thank God for John and George. Otherwise the Beatles under Paul would’ve been a lot more conservative
Pee Wee Crayton, “Do Unto Others” (1954) = the original opening guitar staccato riff
lennon's remark about mao, in this song, wasn't a rejection of socialism. all the beatles were socialists at this time. socialism is a good thing. i'm a socialist and i reject mao. he was a madman!
what lennon was saying was that mao didn't represent true socialism or the goals of the "new left." remember, mao WASN'T a socialist. regardless of what he called himself. and that's just a historical fact.
nice guitar playing. i really enjoyed that. thanks for the video.
I always pictured revolution 9 to be the sound of a real revolution or like the apocalypse or something but maybe that’s just ne
Yoko was an influence in this song, its also the longest song the Beatles had ever done.
You both should listen and react to the Beatles I want you she’s so heavy. And you both should listen and react to the Beatles the ballad of John and yoko only John Lennon and Paul McCartney played on that song Paul McCartney played drums and bass guitar. Ringo was making a movie and George was on holiday
Where was Revolution in this it seems like the entire video was Revolution 9
Now play it backwards for the real song!
Has to be for those on acid! Another way for the Beatles to show their talents and creativity..
Even the Beatles could get it wrong when they let JL have his way
I love The Beatles and I believe they're the best band in the world. That being said, they also borrowed a lot of stuff from other artist. For example, the beginning riff of the song Revolution, Lennon copied from Pee Wee Crayton " Do unto others". And also the song "Come Together" was a copy from Chuck Berry's "You can't catch me". Peace.
alot of bands were doing acid and writing songs
Next do White Noise... Electric Storm whole album
It's not as though there were a lot of Americans supporting chairman Mao at the time. I was about 15 at the time and I never met another kid who liked Chinese communism. There undoubtedly were some American supporters, though.
Song he was singing is theme from the TV show The Courtship of Eddie's Father, sung by Harry Nilsson. There are two official versions of Revolution...the single version, fast tempo, flip side of Hey Jude single. But the White album version is slower in the style of a 1950's 6/8 time song like Fats Domino would do, has brass, no electric piano, different Do Wop background vocals. Revolution #9 had nothing whatsoever to do with the song Revolution other than the borrowed title [probably a s a joke]. It was Lennon and Yolo ono putting together tape and n fooling around with different sounds [probably drug induced...if you recall Lennon and Ono had a heroin problem well hidden from the public by that point]. Lennon insisted on putting this ridiculous junk on the album, the other Beatles resisted. KIMO putting Hey Jude in it's place would have been more appropriate. Revolution #9 is NOT a version of the song Revolution, as you can hear, whatsoever. Frankly, you cannot even call this a "song,"...
Revolution 9? I mean revolution 1 would be the logical pairing here.
Sure but I wanted him to hear 9. Maybe I should have done all 3.
Revolution 9 is a bad acid trip to say the least…
If a sound piece can manage to capture “a bad acid trip” then That’s pretty impressive! 😂🤘🏽
I assumed you were going to play the slower version as well. Never found Revolution No. 9 worth listening to, especially if Yoko was involved. Bet the other Beatles were thrilled to include that one.
Actually" number nine" it is from a recording engineer's sound check / announcement for all the tracks, The Beatles just liked the alliteration of saying "number nine" repeatedly .... and the number has absolutely no significance
Backwards- “Turn me on, deadman”
@@futurereflections4097 Yeah if you play number nine backboards, it does sort of sound like that.
If The Beatles knew this or not when recording it, we will never know
No significance exept that John always thought 9 was his "lucky number".
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Listen to it backwards
How??
@@hw343434 just look up revolution 9 backwards it's wild. Some may call it scary
Glad I found this. Weirded song ever huh? Lol
If you play the words Number 9 reversed it clearly says Turn me on dead man...
I thought Revolution number 9 was a dream of John Lennon
This has to be one of the creepiest songs ever..
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You think this is hellish, listen to the reversed version...
You did this reaction completely wrong. It’s supposed to be played backwards.
That was cruel. Introducing a great Beatles song followed by some crap from Yoko Ono.
"Take this brother and may it serve you well", the only line that lands in this mish-mash.
Nah, it’s John and George and Yoko
You dont know what you are talking about. This song had nothing to do with mao or communism. Its an anti vietnam war song, the reference to mao is only there to say its not the way to stop america waging war on civilians by cosying up to communists as jane fonda did with her visit to ho chi minh in north vietnam. They are saying stop americas war by peace movements and to defund americas war machine. There was no such mao china communist trouble thing going on in england at the time. I was there. Neither England or China for that matter had any part in the vietnam war. Vietnam and china had been waring for hundreds of years. North vietnam got their weapons from russia. It was just another america russia proxy war. Nothing has changed. There was no red guard violence in china at the time in fact there was no longer red guard or revolution, that was way before the beatles were born. Also you dont just pull songs off a beatles album. Its like ripping one page out of a book snd trying to say what the book is about. Many of the beatles albums were made to be listened to one whole side as a story, the first band to do this. The last part of 9 is actual sound from tv coverage of anti war protesters outside a university
you two stopped reacting to other things like this because you are chasing that BTS coin. Ya'll ain't ARMYs if you make fun of their language, judge them based on edited videos, mock their English skills (fake love, Jimin saying lovely, Jimin's "you're nice keep going") you two have even insulted J-Hope a few times. you know very well if you didn't gain traction after your first video on BTS you wouldn't be posting them so much. You are just posting what sells and laughing at their language.
I highly doubt they are making much money, if any at all on reaction videos. That can be difficult to do. I don’t think they are making fun of BTS’s English speaking skills either. All of the examples you gave are in various funny compilation videos that thousands of people watch and enjoy. So are all of those video creators making fun of BTS too? Are the people watching the videos making fun of BTS? A lot of ARMY repeat and use the phrases you mentioned, so are they making fun of BTS too? The infamous “Hey! Stobt it” said by Jin is said by ARMY a lot. So is “You nice keep going”. Those aren’t being repeated in hateful ways. They are usually done in some form of adoration, appreciation or just plain thinking it’s cute. BTS chuckle when they hear someone pronounce Korean words wrong. They aren’t doing it to be hateful. Why assume these guys are? Especially when they haven’t said anything remotely hateful about them. I have never heard them mock the Korean language either. Please feel free to tell me which video(s) they have done so. I don’t appreciate things like that and don’t want to support anyone who does. But I would need to listen to the video where they do mock it. I am not sure why you are coming after them so strongly.
It's so cringe how you've done that video. And not only because of the showing off with the guitar and him pretending to be interested.
You talk too much