What do you think of Revolution 9 (The Be

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   It took contemporary avant garde into several million homes that would otherwise never have been exposed to it, and became probably the most skipped track in the history of popular music. Had it been released by Faust or Holger Czukay nobody would have batted an eyelid. 

I see it as an ambitious failure - preferable by far to Honey Pie or Rocky Racoon, and with some genuinely spine tingling moments, but it would have worked better either as a full blown, side long epic or edited down a little.

Incidentally, I heard once that John Cale based one of his songs on a sequence of notes from Revolution #9 - does anybody know if it's true, and if so, which song?

Poll Question: What do you think of Revolution 9
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Experimental Masterpiece of Prog	1	[2.44%]
A druggy trip.	5	[12.20%]
ambitious failure	13	[31.71%]
Filler	2	[4.88%]
A humorous song	1	[2.44%]
The most horrible and pointless thing ever!	4	[9.76%]
I'm not sure of what to say	14	[34.15%]
I've never heard this song	1	[2.44%]
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	It took contemporary avant garde into several million homes that would otherwise never have been exposed to it, and became probably the most skipped track in the history of popular music. Had it been released by Faust or Holger Czukay nobody would have batted an eyelid. I see it as an ambitious failure - preferable by far to Honey Pie or Rocky Racoon, and with some genuinely spine tingling moments, but it would have worked better either as a full blown, side long epic or edited down a little. Incidentally, I heard once that John Cale based one of his songs on a sequence of notes from Revolution #9 - does anybody know if it's true, and if so, which song?
	'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom

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	A cool song- very different for its time. I like the choice "ambitous failure." It didn't quite work for them. What if it really was a popular song and the Beatles went from being the premier pop band to a trippy drug (albiet poppy) band to the first RIO/Avant-Garde band?