Revolution 9

the whole backwords thing is bullshit, and its the bullshit that got lennon killed so i hate when people talk about it. you think lennons the spawn of the devil? the guy who killed lennon could die a hundred deaths and it wouldnt be justice

This is a wonderful piece of music IMO. I don't think people quite understand and appreciate how difficult it is to compose something like this. Anyway, on to the meaning - I know John's said it's a music collage representing the sound of revolution, but I see it more as just a psychedelic piece of music...when I meditate, and certainly when I dream, a lot of nonsensical stuff pops in and out of my mind...there's no sense to it but a lot of it is quite entertaining (at least to me) and Revolution 9 really captures that for me. I like to listen to it in the dark with my eyes closed so that I can just let it take over my mind. Revolution 9 is really essential to The White Album as it stands as a key example of why The White Album is one of the most successfully-innovative albums ever

hey "ZeppellinRockOn", you are way totally off...first off, paul DIDNT die...think of it this way: b-list celebrities cant fuck without it being news. What's the possibility of Paul McCartney dying and having it simply be a cult controversy? and also, if you spent more than five seconds reading some fucktard's flash page about backmasking, you would realize that Stairway to Heaven's Satan references aren't backmasked, but rather naturally occuring phenomena...god i wish people would research more before spouting off about this shit...

anyway, im done ranting...this song is amazing. it's great to listen to when you want to kill ten minutes or so, because it immerses you in the music totally...

Nobody realizes the significance of this song. Sure it's just abunch of freaky ass tape loops, but has it occured to you that these tape loops may have encouraged a certain band to create a certain album called "The Dark Side of the Moon"?

NOBODY CARES WHAT IT SAYS BACKWARDS!!! if one more person points out the fact that if you stretch your imagination you can kinda hear some jumbled inaudible words that sound like they might have something to do with an obscure ass hoax then im going to kill myself. DAMN. why not talk about what it says FORWARD instead of insisting theres some hidden reverse meaning?

This reminds me of people thinking "Stairway to Heaven" is about the devil when listened to backwards. Have you actually played it backwards yourself, or have you listened to some unauthorized version backwards. Hoax.

There are some obvious mistakes in the above transciption. Here's an excerpt from one which I believe to be correct

4:04 GH: "to us played it false as the headmaster reported to" JL: "who could tell what he was, his voice was low and his eye was high and his eyes were glowing" GH: " ... Sunday, He really ... became a great deal ... " 4:22 JL: "on fire, his glasses were in t'safe, this was" GH: "into, which enabled him to move his" 5:03 JL: "certain, so the wife told him he'd better go to see a surgeon .... or what with the price .... yellow underclothes". JL: "So, any road, he went to see the dentist instead, who gave him a pair of teeth, which wasn't any good at all. So instead of that he joined the bloody navy and went to sea." 5:37 JL: "in my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair. I am not in the mood for wearing" 6:01 JL: "Dogs were dogging, cats were catting. Birds were birding, Fish were fishing. Thence Pwllheli, went swimming" [Pwllheli, pron. "per-thelly", in Northern Wales. An odd little poem!] 6:18 GH: "only to find the night watchman" JL: "onion soup" GH: "unaware of his presence in the building" [Note: JL interjects "onion soup" at the point where GH says "unaware". I think (speculation) that this was some JL wordplay on what GH was about to say. In fact, I think you can hear GH begin to smile, esp. through the "presence" and "building"]

The rest is at stevesbeatles.com

no one seems to understand the significance of the number 9. Spiritual as he was I cant believe Lennon didnt mention this in his verbal comments. 9 is a sacred number in many cultures. eg., the step pyramid at Chichin Itzu has 9 levels. Probably represents both Mayan and Aztec belief that there are 9 levels in the nether world. Maybe Dante's 9 circles of hell in the Devine Comedy was sourced from this. The Norman Blake song "Crossing Number 9" is partly about a railroad crossing and the death of a woman. But he knew that "crossing number 9" is a less familiar reference to the final stage of human life. It is a reference to dying. This shows how smart Norman Blake is. Maybe all this comes from the fact that 9 is the ultimate single digit number in the decimal system (an eastern invention). These lyrics... this song-- it's all about death, folks! OK. But it really require 8+ minutes to make this point??

who the hell wrote this????? this is wrong. i don't know all of the conversation between John and George but i know alot of this is wrong.

This doesn't even classify as a song! It's still cool to listen to every once in a while, though.