Monday, August 2, 2010

Revolution 9 by The Beatles – **

First released: 1968

After The Beatles recorded "Revolution 1", they decided to keep going into this mysterious collage of sounds. This is probably the most played avant-garde piece of music ever created. It has its moments and actually inspired me and my friends to construct similar sound collages when in high school. Most people think it's a waste of space on the "White Album" and perhaps it is, but it does have some really choice bits of dialogue, such as "You become naked", and "Take this brother, may it serve you well," and even the endless repetition of "number nine, number nine, number nine" that certainly sounds like Lennon speaking, but isn't.

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