In the song Revolution Nine (Where they repeat 'number nine' over and over) is there some hidden message there? Whats up with the CD and that song? Can anyone explain?
2007-01-19 15:31:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Beatles began recording the song "Revolution 1" (then simply called "Revolution") in May 1968. During one take, the band recorded an extended jam in which John Lennon started wailing into the microphone and distorting his guitar as much as possible. Yoko Ono, who was present in her first Beatles session, began contributing to this jam as well.
Lennon liked the extended jam so much that he wanted to experiment with it. Lennon and Ono founds several random tape loops in Abbey Road studios, recorded several non-sequitors, and overdubbed all of these disparate elements onto the basic "jam" track for "Revolution 1". Once finished, Lennon played the results to the other Beatles and George Martin, declaring this sound collage "the future of music." The other Beatles (especially Paul McCartney) and Martin despised the track and did not want to include it on The White Album, but Lennon was adamant that it be released.
Lennon claimed in later interviews he was trying to capture "the sound of revolution", but it could simply be that he wanted to collaborate on a project with his new lover Yoko Ono that was much more avant-garde than the average Beatles track. Yoko was a major influence on Lennon's musical tastes, especially during this time, and might really have been the catalyst for "Revolution 9". In fact, it would be safe to call "Revolution 9" a Lennon/Ono track rather than a proper "Beatles" song.
Interestingly enough, the Beatles recorded another sound collage a year earlier during the early stages of "Sgt. Pepper" called "Carnival of Light". Ironically, Paul McCartney (who strongly disliked "Revolution 9") was the principal creative force behind this still-unreleased track.
2007-01-19 22:06:37 · answer #1 · answered by Goin'down77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that any of us will truly ever know why the Beatles did half of the stuff they did. I know what rumors were, but given the era and the substances that John Lennon was involved with, I think it just plain sounded good at the time and the controversy of it all only added to their popularity. The Beatles were masters at getting publicity. Anything they did was dissected by others to find a "hidden message". I think they ended up throwing random ideas at the public to watch the frenzy.
Also, I think the single release of Revolution #Nine was better than the album verson. Just thought I'd throw that in there.
2007-01-19 15:39:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ohmygosh, I`m a tremendous Beatlemaniac! My birthday became only 2 days in the past, and that i gained all Beatles promises (except a track mag from my Father which i'm prepared on) yet in any case, i recognize all their albums, besides the undeniable fact that it`s genuine, i do not discover the White Album as astounding as human beings say, yet i have considered maximum human beings say their customary is Sgt Pepper, it truly is my customary too, alongside Revolver and Abbey highway. I do love the songs you in reality named by the White Album besides the undeniable fact that lots, yet I even ought to assert: an afternoon in the existence, She's Leaving homestead, right here Comes the daylight, Taxman, For no man or woman, Strawberry Fields continually, and for the reason that are some distance extra useful, for my section, a minimum of.
2016-11-25 21:35:43 · answer #3 · answered by fuchser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No hidden messages that I know of. Maybe if you play it backwards there's something.
I'm a Beatles fan and I'm old enough to know that album from when it was released. It's a double album and Revolution #9 always seemed like filler to me.
2007-01-19 15:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back in the days when the White Album came out it was vinyl records, people could turn the record counterclockwise (backward) and listen to "hidden messages" .
Some say that the word number nine (which sounded more like : "number nina") was: "turn me on dead man" .
You have to keep in mind that it dint exactly sound like "turn me on dead man"...
I mean, you can turn any vinyl record backward and it will sound like there is a "hidden message" in it!
2007-01-19 15:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's just a song, no hidden messages or meanings unless you happen to think like Charles Manson.
2007-01-19 15:36:20 · answer #6 · answered by Angelz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really like the beatles. luv their music, but...definetly a song to make you and people like you wonder. Hey at least it wasn't number 6.
2007-01-19 15:36:58 · answer #7 · answered by mld m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you play it backward it says,"Turn me on Dead man,Turn me on dead man"........I first heard that in 69 when I was 16 .Kind of freaky.My friend stole a school record player that would play it if you spun it backward.Also at the end of 'I'm so tired' you hear John mumble ,if you play it backward it says "Paul's a dead man ,miss him, miss him"and you hear George say also" Miss him".That's how those rumors got started that Paul was dead.
2007-01-19 15:38:42 · answer #8 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I thought this was hashed out 40 years ago. There is no secret message.
2007-01-19 15:36:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. Just John Lennons' genius.
2007-01-19 15:34:03 · answer #10 · answered by INDRAG? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋