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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2009 at 01:17
No, never liked it. although having it on vinyl compelled me to listen to all of it.  As time has gone on, I've liked it less and less.  I'm surprised there are actually lyrics to it, but then that's using the term loosely.  I'd listen to Moonchild any day over Revolution #9, but the two are so completely different from one another.  When I want avant-gard weirdness, I go for the Residents.  Or Bartok for that atonal trip thing.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2009 at 07:16
I listened to it backwards and it was actualy much beter that way.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2009 at 14:45
I listened to the White Album today and surprisingly found myself liking this track. I think I've always kind of switched my mind off to other things when this track has come, but now I found it to be a really interesting combination of chaos and beauty. I've got to listen to it again soon.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2009 at 15:03
Originally posted by Zargus Zargus wrote:

I listened to it backwards and it was actualy much beter that way.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2009 at 18:24
A master work.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 25 2009 at 10:28
Actually it is in the Top 5 songs that I can't wait to hear on this album. Great song, great album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 29 2009 at 01:43
I'm listening to it right now...

I can't help but think that if it weren't for this song Pink Floyd would never have done Alan's Psychadelic Breakfast, which would have disappointed marmelade fans all over the world.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 20:36
I can't say I like it, but it's listenable. It's just a tape collage, and while those are limited in likeability, they sure as hell beat listening to top 40 radio today.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2009 at 19:02
I listened to it one day when I was bored.
What a weird song, but I like it anyway.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 12:37
Originally posted by keith_emerson keith_emerson wrote:

Revolution 9 is the perfect picture of Yoko Ono ruining a great band
 
Btw ... that comment is malicious and dis-respectful of John's choice, for learning, living and loving ... and please ... don't embarass Keith's name with stuff like this ...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 13:01
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by keith_emerson keith_emerson wrote:

Revolution 9 is the perfect picture of Yoko Ono ruining a great band
 
Btw ... that comment is malicious and dis-respectful of John's choice, for learning, living and loving ... and please ... don't embarass Keith's name with stuff like this ...
Means a lot coming from youWink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 13:20
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

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which are positively creepy - but forwards is as chilling
... 
The lyrics are pure nonsense of course but worth quoting:
... snip 
 
These words, by themselves, are a bit of the ol' 52 pickup routine ... and somewhat meaningless ... but there are other things missing here ...
 
the block that kick routine ... several times ... and that is either rugby or soccer
there are a couple of moments in there from Marat/Sade
there is some shakespeare
there is some "angry young men"
there is a something that I think is a Goon bit kinda messed with (and we know that John and Peter Sellers had known each other for some time)
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not sure that just interpreting, or trying to interpret some words out of context really help any ... and it might prove anti-climatic in the end.
 
A bunch of these are not "lyrics" ... they are just lines off the street per se ...
 
I wrote this the other day, and not sure if it was here or not ... it's like this ... you go out in the street with a camera turned on and with sound ... and you can hear many things ... now ... for some reason when you hear it back you think that it has to have some sort of order and organization ... and there is none ... the only one there is, that we can make, is that you walked down the street with the camera turned on ... and it picked up things ...
 
Are they meaningful? Some yes, soem no ... but then you also go to s aporting event to see your team win! (Block that kick) ,...
 
As I said before this is no more no less the mumbojumbo that your mind goes through and it is really hard to sort out the madness ... you're trying to tell me that your mind is better organized than this? Who are you folling? Yourself?
 
The Beatles, like many of us when we "grow up" arrive at a point, when it seems that /... "it's all too much" ... and it is really hard to figure out what is right and wrong ... and if there is a lack of  solid internal stature this confusion will be really difficult to deal with.
 
It was ... many people did not like it ... but tell me something ... how is Revolution #9 different from Andy Warhol turning on a camera on people sleeping for several hours? It isn't ... in a way, it is also a way of telling us that we over react and over analyze things ... and sometimes ... it doesn't mean anything and it doesn't have to!
 
I say it meant something, and it is the reason why it is there ... but it is there to tell you that we're just as confused and loaded up as you are and we're trying to make sense of things as it is ... and no one is givng them that respect, credit and sensitivity ... and at the end of the day, is ... when you're tired and need to crash ... you get "Good Night" ... and it is the last song on the album ... I really think that it is not a coincidence that it was done that way ... but Paul and Ringo do not have to justify that for you and I ... or anyone else ... and neither do they have to put up with someone insulting their intelligence for their choice of music and songs ... after all that they had given us, including their lives!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 13:28
Originally posted by mr.cub mr.cub wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by keith_emerson keith_emerson wrote:

Revolution 9 is the perfect picture of Yoko Ono ruining a great band
 
Btw ... that comment is malicious and dis-respectful of John's choice, for learning, living and loving ... and please ... don't embarass Keith's name with stuff like this ...
Means a lot coming from youWink
 
Show your class and respect .. and if my name were Keith I would have sent a legal letter to the board by now ... and expect immediate action and removal from the board and the user reprimended with a nice legality. The internet may be free and open and allow a lot of things, but if you are ready to go disparaging people like that ... just make sure you are ready to defend it! And eat it, if you lose!
 
It's the abuse that bothers me ... how would you like your name spread in stuff like that ... how would you feel if your name was John, or Yoko for that matter ... and how do you feel you would feel if your name was Keith Emerson ... it's not about me ... but then ... you didn't even read the comment since you had to add your 2 cents worth and add it to your 15 minutes of fame!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 13:54
I like it!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 14:08
Moshkito, I agree that the statement about Yoko was disrespectful, but I am suprised at your outrage. I think few people on this site make as many disrespectful and rude posts as you.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 15:42
Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

Moshkito, I agree that the statement about Yoko was disrespectful, but I am suprised at your outrage. I think few people on this site make as many disrespectful and rude posts as you.
 
I don't understand the problem, if Homer Simpson says that Yoko Ono ruined the Plastic Ono band it's funny, but some people get angry if a member says the same thing using Revolution 9 when as a fact John and Yoko (The last one not part of the band)  placed preasure over George Martin and Paul McCartney to include that piece of giberish that affects the integrity of the album IMO
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 15:58
^But who placed pressure to include that piece of gibberish Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, which is the track that seriously affects the intergrity of the album?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 16:50
Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:

^But who placed pressure to include that piece of gibberish Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, which is the track that seriously affects the intergrity of the album?
 
Obladi Oblada and Yellow Submarine are bland, ridiculous and less than mediocre music.
 
But Revolution 9 is not even music IMHO.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 17:07
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:

^But who placed pressure to include that piece of gibberish Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, which is the track that seriously affects the intergrity of the album?
 
Obladi Oblada and Yellow Submarine are bland, ridiculous and less than mediocre music.
 
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Really?  Maybe Yellow Submarine, but Ob La Di?  Wasn't it all part of the fun and welcoming atmosphere of that record, an album dismissed by much of the press as 'unprofessional'.  Might as well add Rocky Raccoon, Why Don't We Do it in the Road, Birthday, Honey Pie, Everybody's Got Something to Hide, Bungalow Bill, Piggies...




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2009 at 17:29
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:

^But who placed pressure to include that piece of gibberish Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, which is the track that seriously affects the intergrity of the album?
 
Obladi Oblada and Yellow Submarine are bland, ridiculous and less than mediocre music.
 
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Really?  Maybe Yellow Submarine, but Ob La Di?  Wasn't it all part of the fun and welcoming atmosphere of that record, an album dismissed by much of the press as 'unprofessional'.  Might as well add Rocky Raccoon, Why Don't We Do it in the Road, Birthday, Honey Pie, Everybody's Got Something to Hide, Bungalow Bill, Piggies...
 
^ The first time I had the white album I taped it and it didn't all fit on one tape.  So I had to decide to get rid of bits and it was Revolution no 9 that got the chop not Ob la di.  However The juxtoposition of serious and frivolous is part of the charm.  Its an album to me like The Wall or The Lamb that should be listened to as a whole even if I do find R No 9 hard work. 
 
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