Comments on: Revolution 9

By: Clive Walker

Clive Walker — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:54:23 +0000

Yet I really like it!

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:34:11 +0000

Robert, YES you explain this perfectly.
And I feel exactly the same as you having grown up during this time. Playing my new White Album LP in its day, and getting to Rev.9, it definitely got a “WOW, what’s this all about?” However having had a steady diet of Beatles music everyday via the radio hearing Revolution 9 was not a shocker, it was just more, it was The Beatles. I guess you had to be there:)

By: Pamela Cook

Pamela Cook — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:01:18 +0000

By: ren castro

ren castro — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:24:20 +0000

Is there a piano sample of Martha My Dear here? i think i heard it.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 16:44:00 +0000

OMG! Exactly! Tell me you are not jesting, as this is exactly how I feel about the song. The first time I was like,.. this is really “out there”. The second time I found some parts to be musical that I remembered from the first time. By the third time, I loved it and was anticipating certain parts. It is rhythmic, poetic, and just as cohesively put together as any “melodic” song. To me, it is pure genius. And the work that was put into it…. most people have no idea.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:04:22 +0000

Just for the record, “Tomorrow Never Knows” was written by Lennon…

By: S Vaccaro

S Vaccaro — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:47:51 +0000

I KNEW I heard “bitch” before the beginning of the disturbing piano and creepy voice. Nice to know finally what the heck that was. No one gives this ‘song’ enough credit. It’s actually really well done and put together well. There’s the sound of cars driving and horns honking at one point, which is just really cool, then later you hear the car crash with the backwards voice, ‘let me out’. I think it’s all about paul’s death. Just about death. The death of Paul. But no one really talks about how disturbing that beginning is. I don’t know, maybe that’s why so many people don’t like this piece. It’s so unsettling. I had nitemares about this song when I was a kid, there’s no way I could listen to it or get through it. Usually now when I listen to the white album, I listen to number 9 just to try and understand it more. I used to never be able to get through it because it’s so disturbing. But once you get past that beginning, it easier. It’s still so weird tho. If you have a really good set of headphones and a good stereo you can hear things you’ve never heard before. I don’t know where that whispering is. Who knows what kind of things are hidden so buried in the mix. I once knew a guy who one day was apparently quoting lines from number 9 all day. At one point he said, ‘And now an interview with Paul McCartney: I’m dead’. Whether that’s anywhere in the song or he made it up, I’ll never know. I always think about it tho haha. Revolution 9 is inevitable. You don’t want to it to be there, but it is there. And it’s coming no matter what. The white album wouldn’t have been the same without it. It’s an infamous piece. It like puts the finishing touch on that album, no matter how much people hate it. It always makes the #1 most hated beatle songs lists. Why? No one was doing anything like this at the time, besides Yoko and no one else in the mainstream had anything like this on their album. Only the Beatles could have done this and had a song like this on an album, which is considered by some to be the best beatles album and best album of all time. *rasies hand*

By: Andrew Davies

Andrew Davies — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:30:28 +0000

It all depends if you wanted the Beatles to be what you wanted them to be or what they really were (especially true of Lennon)

By: Gilby

Gilby — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 22:04:12 +0000

Always disliked Revolution 9. Until recently. Now I love it.

By: Wylie Richardson

Wylie Richardson — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 05:50:57 +0000

Well the extended ‘rriiiggghhttt’ you can hear John singing is part of that track (“Revolution 1”).

By: Gazella

Gazella — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:09:57 +0000

I’ve been listening to the Beatles 35 years now, and today I listened Revolution 9 the second time (which means my previous attitude). But for my most surprise it was OK – absolutely relevant.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 01:38:50 +0000

To me, it’s not a song, it’s a sound collage. Taken as that, it’s fine. Contrary to what some people say it’s not just noise, let alone random noise. It’s noise, but it has a structure and progression to it due to the way the loops fit together. You may not find it terribly interesting to listen to, but mere noise it certainly isn’t.

By: Sgt. Pepper 67

Sgt. Pepper 67 — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:45:09 +0000

Is It Possible Paul and Ringo appear somewhere in the mix

By: PolarOwlBear

PolarOwlBear — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:56:15 +0000

I also have always heard While My Guitar Gently Weeps at that point in this track.

By: dgw28

dgw28 — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:21:28 +0000

As with a few other tracks on the White Album, it was an indulgence rather than a true ‘Beatles’ recording.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:11:26 +0000

I always hear a snippet of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at 6:47 or so, right after “Take this brother, may it serve you well.” Does anyone else hear that and what is it really?

By: MikeP

MikeP — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:41:52 +0000

Artistic courage? Now THAT is laughable!
If you want to be accurate, try “self-indulgent”, “self-important”, and “nonsensical tripe”.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:39:30 +0000

Many sources including Mark Lewisohn’s book. Put your Paul-hatred-bias to bed. It’s getting old and a bit embarrassing.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:17:42 +0000

Interesting insight into “number nine” being an infectious hook. My sixteen-year-old is just getting into the Beatles and I would wager it would be more recognizable to her than “yeah, yeah, yeah” at this point.

By: Ms. Lane

Ms. Lane — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:09:59 +0000

Regardless of what John was thinking at the time, it:
1) Creeps me out
2) Seems like the aural equivalent of the Butcher cover
3) Is intriguing