Does anyone like the Beatles Revolution #9? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Atavachron wrote:

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

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.

Iván

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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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.

Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - June 23 2009 at 16:50

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

Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 19 2010 at 10:47

I like it!

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

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which are positively creepy - but forwards is as chilling

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The lyrics are pure nonsense of course but worth quoting:

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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!

Edited by moshkito - June 23 2009 at 13:23

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 ...

Edited by moshkito - June 23 2009 at 12:49

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.

Actually it is in the Top 5 songs that I can't wait to hear on this album. Great song, great album.

Zargus wrote:

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

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Edited by Slartibartfast - June 23 2009 at 22:00

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