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QC Captions Vol. 77
jmucchiello:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 30 Aug 2012, 06:56 ---9 is NOT MUSIC. It is garbage thrown together by a drug-crazed idiot and his whacked out girlfriend.
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Actually, according to The Beatles Recording Sessions, much of the dubbing on Rev 9 is done by John and GEORGE. Yoko had little to do with it. The Beatles loved to go to galleries and would record weird sound dubs for them as early as 1966. Also mentioned in the book was one or two created by John and Paul that the engineer playing the recordings for the book's author left the room during because they were too bizarre. Rev 9 was tame pretentious crap by comparison is the impression I get from the book.
And the track is far more musical is terms of polyrhythms than most modern music. A lot of the backwards masking of guitar and piano sound really interesting. And it is the perfect introduction to the sappy, smaltzy Good Night, written by that same drug-crazed idiot.
Have you listened to You Know My Name, by the Beatles?
EDIT: Oh, yes, and Rev 1 is the bluesy version on the White Album. The unnumbered Revolution is the proto-hard rock version of the song with the distortion and screaming. And was the B-side to Hey Jude.
pwhodges:
Revolution 9 is not without interest. While we're considering the avant-garde of the time, it's also worth noting that although Stockhausen's Hymnen was a specific influence on John for Revolution 9, it was Paul who introduced John to Stockhausen's work. Paul once listed Gesang der Junglinge as his favourite Stockhausen work - it was also the first that I heard, on a 10" record my brother gave me for my birthday, 16th or 17th at a guess.
Tova:
That gives me an idea ...
Marten: Next track, please, Pintsize.
Pintsize: Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. ...
WAYF:
Whoops, I nearly derailed the thread. :P
And I'm glad I'm not alone on the listening-with-your-eyes-closed thing.
Tova:
--- Quote from: WAYF on 30 Aug 2012, 22:17 ---And I'm glad I'm not alone on the listening-with-your-eyes-closed thing.
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Definitely not. Turning off other senses can do amazing things to music appreciation.
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