As a kid, this shit scared the fuck out of me. Now, as guy in my 20s who listens to a decent amount of experimental music, I fucking love this song. I think it was the first experimental song I ever listened to. It’s legitimately creepy and unsettling, it elicits a strong emotion. It’s great
I've found that when one listens to Revolution 9, one of two things will happen. You'll either hate it, not understand it, never want to hear it again, or use it as the gateway to experimental music. I fell into the second category.
First time I tried acid my buddy played this track, yeah it's weird but somehow loved the creepiness, im a sound designer so I'm used to hearing stuff like this, such a gem tho.
Unpopular opinion: I’ve always loved revolution 9 even when I was 5 or 6, I’d listen to it and think it was so interesting and so good. A pure masterpiece imo
You are in a hellish war trench. You pull out your portable radio while people are dying around you of horrific injuries and illnesses. You you tune to a random unknown station and this plays
@@GhostFan4LifeThere are asmr sites with hours of war sounds. Veterans- who would otherwise go through nightmares every night- listen & feel soothed, apparently.
Have you ever listened to Yoko’s, “Walking on Thin Ice” song? It was her only solo charting single, peaking as high as No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.
It just occurred to me: John's mystical number of significance in his life was the number 9; he was 18 (9+9) months older than Paul -- and Paul was 9 months older than George -- so John was 27 months older than George (9+9+9.) 9 is the master number in the gematria doubling system where 9+9 =18 and 1+8=9 - so 9 doubles to itself. Ringo is exactly 3 months older than John - and 3 is the only factor of 9 besides 1 and itself. 3, 6, and 9 are related. 3+6=9. 3 doubled is 6. 6 doubled is 12 and 1+2=3. Ringo is 12(6+6 or 3+3+3+3 ) months older than Paul - and 30 (6+6+6+6+6+6 or3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3) months older than George.
To be honest, I think the reason why revolution 9 is so interesting is because it actually tells a story, and is constantly changing, despite looping sounds a lot. It’s a great example of repetition AND progressive sound. Compare that to something like two virgins and the wedding album. Those albums aren’t interesting at all because they just repeat the same sounds way too much for too long, and they don’t make any sense.
For years after I first ;listened to the White Album as a lad, I tended to skip Revolution 9 when I played the album but now I play the album all the way through. When I was a journalist, I had the White Album on the first generation iPod. My colleague, an expatriate Briton, used to borrow it to listen to the White Album while he wrote out copy in the office. Anyway we got to talking about Revolution 9 and he said when he listened to it as a lad, his parents said to him: "You're not supposed to listen to that" The one thing on Revolution 9 that has made the deepest impression on me is when Yoko says towards the end: "...and you become naked..." Listening to Revolution 9 is like a rite of passage, you've got to do it to have fully experienced the White Album.
I was about 10 years old when this was released. It really scared me in a way, and I am very glad that you used the word "creepy". So I am Much older now, and I listen to it maybe five or six times a year. And to this day, I hear things I've never noticed before. Thanks for talking about this incredible piece! Cheers!
revolution 9 might legit be one of my favorite songs tbh, mainly cause of how it paints the picture of a revolution and you notice a new thing everytime
I always thought "Revolution 9" was creepy as hell, but I didn't like it. In fact, it made me feel uncomfortable. When I listened to it for the first time a couple years ago, it was actually 9:00 PM when I listened to it! Such a bad idea.. 😣
Revolution 9 is complete brilliance to me, it's utterly coherent in its absurd attempt at conceptualizing art. It isn't as if it's messy garbage, rather it's a collage of noises that are well thought out and provide the psychedelic experience that you get when you take LSD and can't express in words. You either 'get it' or you don't and that's what I find so amazing about it.
The "hidden" track "Can You Take Me Back" is a perfect lead in to Revcolution #9 and for a long time I thought it WAS part of it. I't also amazing the way Revolution #9 is followed by the intentionally shmaltzy "Good Night" which gives a really wierd mood change Once you get over the initial confusion and listen to the whole album a few times it all works.
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Great video. This is why the Beatles White Album is their greatest achievement. Two Virgins was released in 1968. Revolution #9’s origins started with Revolution 1, Take 20. It’s such a great track. Paul did a similar track the year before, A Carnival of Light, which is still unfortunately unreleased. Listen to Revolution #9 with headphones at 3am, it will blow your mind.
hey! a Filipino artist named Unique Salonga created also a sound collage inspired by the Revolution 9 entitled "Delubyo" hope you can stream it also hehe
Heard it when i was 14, 1979. Loved it. If you dont get it, what don't you get? Listen to some music. Learn some history. Find out what the world was doing to itself in 1968. It sounds like that.
i remember the first time i listened to this song, it was a class break in school and i noticed that there was a song on my auto genarated playlist called “revolution 9” so i listened to it and for a good 2 minutes kept thinking “when does the song start”
When I bought the white album I fell asleep listening to it to wake up suddenly in the dark to "Number 9....NUMBER 9...number 9...my hair raised and shivers all over me it scared the daylights out of me! Never listened to it for years but I now recognise it as a deliberate measured work of art.
@@yem3321 honestly, the stuff she dealt with (the firebombings of Tokyo, 2 divorces, her ex taking their child before the custody battle was over) really screwed over her mental health
The first time I ever heard this song, I was maybe 12, and had every Beatles album on my phone. I was trying to find Revolution (the single), and came across Revolution 9, assuming that it was an alternate take. And BOY was I wrong
I bought the white album when it first came out & a couple of friends and i did some Orange Sunshine acid and listened to it. The songs made so much more sense then. What a great time the 60's were! Beatles music will be played everywhere forever!`😮
I'll never, EVER forget that day. He went in the closet and kept playing it on our speaker for an hour while in the closet with the door shut and the speaker next to him. Can't lie I went in there with him for like 10 minutes and just was uncontrollably laughing but inside it hurt and I was just trying to stay sane for my other two friends who where scared cuz there was a literal demon in the closet. We never saw that kid ever again...
Oh and he fucking danced while stomping on a fucking hot dog to some other song😂 and me and my two friends looked at each other then looked at him and said "what the fuck are you doing bro calm down" and he then went in the closet cuz we called him out for letting the drugs take over and tried to calm him down but he didnt wanna I guess.
Some people think that the rest of the Beatles were part of Paul’s death because if you play revolution 9 it say” number 9” but if you play it backwards it says” Turn me on dead man”
Not the best song, it was just a messy collage of music and sound that go together, and it was a perfect example of testing out the new system that came out in the 1970's called quadraphonic sound, it has 4 channels where you can have a receiver, a special amplifier, and a decoder like my Sony SQ Decoder model SQD-1000, and another decoder. I tested out "Revolution 9" with all 4 speakers using my Sony SQ Decoder using 4-channel discrete, or SQ mode, it can blow you away where the sounds goes all around. Quadraphonic hasn't been around since the 1970's as an experimental concept where you can get 4 channels. Thanks to "Revolution 9" which was an attempt at an introduction to quadraphonic sound, but the Beatles did not make any quadraphonic albums following the Beatles breakup in 1970.
You should explain "Horse Latitudes" by the Doors. It's a similar song, but it actually makes sense if you analyze the lyrics. Kinda makes sense. And it was also wrote one year before Revolution 9
There’s another interesting fact about “Revolution 9”, I have the 3-LP set called the “133 Authentic Sound Effects” which was on Elektra label in the 1960’s. Elektra was a record label that brought many of the great artists including the Doors, Judy Collins, Carly Simon, Bread, and many more. So they decided to add many of the sounds that are from the “Authentic Sound Effects” albums, and put it on the actual track, and Elektra got permission to use it for “Revolution 9”. I did some research and I played one of the sound cuts, and it worked. That was where they used it before it was included on “Revolution 9” for the “White Album”, and it never got any credit from Elektra to use it without permission.
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I respect the artistic risks they took with the revolution nine. It’s too bad that a certain cult leader listened to it while on LSD and led some of his followers into committing murder. You can’t blame the Beatles for that.
Say what you want about this track but it's still head and shoulders above all the other attempts at this type of plunderphonics that John and Ono did with their trio of albums. It is indeed a hot mess but a coherent hot mess and the best of its kind.
Agree totally. It will mean different things to different people, but it does take us on a trip, and it jogs memories from life, and the title itself I think alludes more to cycles, than the upheaval meaning of the word. The revolving of the tapes in making it, it also cycle of life, or the eastern philosophy as opposed to the linear western Christian philosophy. And the double meaning of everything being a cycle interspersed with disruptive events, which are just parts of the cycle. Lennon was just playing around with these new tools and toys, but used his musical genius to make something out of it. Which is really no different than most other songs are created, where you start with a piece of lyric, a melody fragment, or stumble onto a riff that you develop into a finished piece. It may sound like random noise to the casual listener, but it has a rhythm, it has motion, and a structure, but one needs to listen with open ears to catch it. Those who dismiss it as trash or noise aren't necessarily wrong though. To them that's what it is, and music is personal and subjective.
Many of the songs on the white album play on what other bands were doing at the time. The Beach Boys California Girls and Back in the USSR as an example. You can find similar sounds to Revolution 9 in the early Pink Floyd of the time.
I love Avant-garde music, It's easy to do without the luxury of equipment of today I've got old reel to reel tape decks,1/4th magnetic tape and lots of records,Cds & sound effects recordings.I like doing it from scratch.
If I ever meet someone who's never heard of the Beatles, I'll show them revolution 9, immediately followed by octopus's garden
Don’t forget Helter Skelter
And wild honey pie
@@TH-camAIbot after revolution 9 that just sounds normal lol
@@maximilianhunt7394 ahh, how could I forget about Helter Skelter (one of my favourites)
GeckoGC still sounds funny
As a kid, this shit scared the fuck out of me. Now, as guy in my 20s who listens to a decent amount of experimental music, I fucking love this song. I think it was the first experimental song I ever listened to. It’s legitimately creepy and unsettling, it elicits a strong emotion. It’s great
I've found that when one listens to Revolution 9, one of two things will happen. You'll either hate it, not understand it, never want to hear it again, or use it as the gateway to experimental music. I fell into the second category.
First time I tried acid my buddy played this track, yeah it's weird but somehow loved the creepiness, im a sound designer so I'm used to hearing stuff like this, such a gem tho.
Revolution 9 backwards Is satanic
@@KejnTheImmortal I loved the experience of being terrified by it xd
I'm 59 and I still think it's cool. It scared me as a child too.
Unpopular opinion: I’ve always loved revolution 9 even when I was 5 or 6, I’d listen to it and think it was so interesting and so good. A pure masterpiece imo
The backwards version is the song that plays when you enter hell
@@zlrs0113 how do you know? You can't go to hell unless you're dead... and you have not died before...
@@IsaacWale2004 it's a joke my guy and it's just a random statement
Sure
I agree... its weird and different.
You are in a hellish war trench. You pull out your portable radio while people are dying around you of horrific injuries and illnesses. You you tune to a random unknown station and this plays
That is excellent horror. Bravo. I might actually cry due to the stress and terror.
i might feel a bit of comfort atleast knowing what it is and knowing who it’s by
"Man, I really am in hell •__• "
This would be every army veteran's worst nightmare.
@@GhostFan4LifeThere are asmr sites with hours of war sounds. Veterans- who would otherwise go through nightmares every night- listen & feel soothed, apparently.
Great video. Revolution 9's always been a creepy experience for me.
Try it BACKWARDS
Clayton bro the distorted noises after the first number 9s sound nice backwards
It causes a state of panic in me
I like to wait till night when its dead quiet then close my eyes and listen to resolution 9. its quite an experience
Try it backwards at 2 am. Don't look behind you.
This song makes sense when you’re high
Someone gets it. *adding this song to “while tripping” playlist*
Why yes, yes it does.
It makes sense anyway... you either understand it or you don't.
I can confirm
@@Elysium3 dam now I want to make that playlist
Revolution 9 I think is a smart inclusion for such a long album and especially highlights a well deserved "Good Night" shortly after
One of the things I like about it is it’s position on the album. It’s the perfect spot.
Do u guys actually listen to it tho? I always skip it lmaooo
I listen at least
I don’t think I’ve ever skipped it.
@@777-o5l yes, I do. Goodnight resolves the madness so well.
Have you ever listened to Yoko’s, “Walking on Thin Ice” song? It was her only solo charting single, peaking as high as No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.
I didn't know that. Thanks for telling me.
nice bass line but vocal is her usual rubbish.
It was the last song John ever worked on, he recorded some tracks for it the day he died
It gave me chills cuz right after he recorded the guitar part he went back home and got shot by Chapman!
@@zackzallie8735 Please do not mention the killer's name.
When you realise the song is longer then this video.
When you realise you should have put 'than' and not 'then'
8 minutes is nothing special. It's longer than an average song, but it's not noteworthy
@@IsaacWale2004 lol
@@rowanmelton7643 little man 2 fnf
It just occurred to me: John's mystical number of significance in his life was the number 9; he was 18 (9+9) months older than Paul -- and Paul was 9 months older than George -- so John was 27 months older than George (9+9+9.) 9 is the master number in the gematria doubling system where 9+9 =18 and 1+8=9 - so 9 doubles to itself.
Ringo is exactly 3 months older than John - and 3 is the only factor of 9 besides 1 and itself.
3, 6, and 9 are related. 3+6=9. 3 doubled is 6. 6 doubled is 12 and 1+2=3.
Ringo is 12(6+6 or 3+3+3+3 ) months older than Paul - and 30 (6+6+6+6+6+6 or3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3) months older than George.
He was born in Liverpool on the 9th of October 1940. He died December 8th 1980 in New York... but it was the 9th in Liverpool
@@DanHarrisonKing Because of timezones.
@@GhostFan4Life yes
Just discovered your channel while searching up Revolution 9
*Nice*
Really interesting, detailed, & professional - love the graphics.
To be honest, I think the reason why revolution 9 is so interesting is because it actually tells a story, and is constantly changing, despite looping sounds a lot. It’s a great example of repetition AND progressive sound. Compare that to something like two virgins and the wedding album. Those albums aren’t interesting at all because they just repeat the same sounds way too much for too long, and they don’t make any sense.
Debería de tener algún sentido ?
I love "Two Virgins".
.. "Ya no sonarán aquellas campanas de boda, somos libres My dear".❤
For years after I first ;listened to the White Album as a lad, I tended to skip Revolution 9 when I played the album but now I play the album all the way through.
When I was a journalist, I had the White Album on the first generation iPod. My colleague, an expatriate Briton, used to borrow it to listen to the White Album while he wrote out copy in the office. Anyway we got to talking about Revolution 9 and he said when he listened to it as a lad, his parents said to him: "You're not supposed to listen to that"
The one thing on Revolution 9 that has made the deepest impression on me is when Yoko says towards the end: "...and you become naked..."
Listening to Revolution 9 is like a rite of passage, you've got to do it to have fully experienced the White Album.
I was about 10 years old when this was released. It really scared me in a way, and I am very glad that you used the word "creepy".
So I am Much older now, and I listen to it maybe five or six times a year. And to this day, I hear things I've never noticed before.
Thanks for talking about this incredible piece!
Cheers!
"Take this brother, may it serve you well"
Great vid btw
revolution 9 might legit be one of my favorite songs tbh, mainly cause of how it paints the picture of a revolution and you notice a new thing everytime
I always thought "Revolution 9" was creepy as hell, but I didn't like it. In fact, it made me feel uncomfortable. When I listened to it for the first time a couple years ago, it was actually 9:00 PM when I listened to it! Such a bad idea.. 😣
Listen to it in reverse. At night. Then GoodLuck sleeping.
Don't look behind you.
Revolution 9 is complete brilliance to me, it's utterly coherent in its absurd attempt at conceptualizing art. It isn't as if it's messy garbage, rather it's a collage of noises that are well thought out and provide the psychedelic experience that you get when you take LSD and can't express in words. You either 'get it' or you don't and that's what I find so amazing about it.
The "hidden" track "Can You Take Me Back" is a perfect lead in to Revcolution #9 and for a long time I thought it WAS part of it. I't also amazing the way Revolution #9 is followed by the intentionally shmaltzy "Good Night" which gives a really wierd mood change Once you get over the initial confusion and listen to the whole album a few times it all works.
3:24 lmao star wars blaster sounds before even star wars came out
Yeah, just the fact he was saying number 9 a bunch is just way too scary.
Listen to the backward version my friend
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The only song that fans played backwards more often than forward. I think it's a masterpiece, despite not listening to it very often.
Great video. This is why the Beatles White Album is their greatest achievement. Two Virgins was released in 1968. Revolution #9’s origins started with Revolution 1, Take 20. It’s such a great track. Paul did a similar track the year before, A Carnival of Light, which is still unfortunately unreleased. Listen to Revolution #9 with headphones at 3am, it will blow your mind.
hey! a Filipino artist named Unique Salonga created also a sound collage inspired by the Revolution 9 entitled "Delubyo" hope you can stream it also hehe
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Nice share
Revolution 9 is my favorite song by the Beatles and nobody thinks I'm serious.
Heard it when i was 14, 1979. Loved it. If you dont get it, what don't you get? Listen to some music. Learn some history. Find out what the world was doing to itself in 1968. It sounds like that.
dude, revolution 9 is banger.
It's like something you'd hear while traveling through a portal to hell
Why do I feel that this song would be perfect for the introduction to Everywhere At The End of Time stage 5.
i remember the first time i listened to this song, it was a class break in school and i noticed that there was a song on my auto genarated playlist called “revolution 9” so i listened to it and for a good 2 minutes kept thinking “when does the song start”
When I bought the white album I fell asleep listening to it to wake up suddenly in the dark to "Number 9....NUMBER 9...number 9...my hair raised and shivers all over me it scared the daylights out of me! Never listened to it for years but I now recognise it as a deliberate measured work of art.
Am I the only person who thinks that young Yoko Ono was really pretty
Nothing wrong with her.
She was pretty but her personality, a little....lack luster, so say.
@@yem3321 honestly, the stuff she dealt with (the firebombings of Tokyo, 2 divorces, her ex taking their child before the custody battle was over) really screwed over her mental health
John Lennon agrees with you lol
Yes she's was ugly
When I was a little kid I was so fucking scared by Revolution 9...now I'm 21yrs old and I'm still scared of it
The first time I ever heard this song, I was maybe 12, and had every Beatles album on my phone. I was trying to find Revolution (the single), and came across Revolution 9, assuming that it was an alternate take. And BOY was I wrong
Any bands besides the Beatles you’re into?
Yes, The Beatles are just the band I know the most about. I also like Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Rolling Stones, etc.
I really like tally hall
The Music Maniac I see your a man of culture.
blizz girl I ain’t no boomer but music from these days are kinda repetitive and boring
Alina Margolles Clark Your full true.
Revolution 9 (number 9) is where mind resides.
Revolution 9 is a masterpiece in its own way.
But it works best when you don't listen to it regularly.
Its strange that all of the new comments have 1 like on them
I bought the white album when it first came out & a couple of friends and i did some Orange Sunshine acid and listened to it. The songs made so much more sense then. What a great time the 60's were! Beatles music will be played everywhere forever!`😮
Ik this video is old but what is the song used during the title card for part 4?
It was some royalty free spooky Halloween song I found on yt I don’t remember what it was called sorry
@@themusicmaniac1586 preciate it anyway thx ong
When you hold the photos of John and Paul (from the White Album) on top of each other in front of a bright light, one of them grows a 3rd eye.
Thnx fer making this. I hope Goog/yt employees go to heck for not paying you fairly for your work! You make amazing videos.
This song scared me so much even without listening to it backwards.
Revolution 9 is scary as shit and for what😭
A prelude to Everywhere At The End Of Time?
Someone could sample rev 9 and it would be amazing
Say what you will about this song, but the sole fact that this was recorded on a four-track tape machine makes it a triumph of the age.
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After hearing it. It almost sounded like I was losing my mind!
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Someone put this song on when I was on acid and it was so insane
I'll never, EVER forget that day. He went in the closet and kept playing it on our speaker for an hour while in the closet with the door shut and the speaker next to him. Can't lie I went in there with him for like 10 minutes and just was uncontrollably laughing but inside it hurt and I was just trying to stay sane for my other two friends who where scared cuz there was a literal demon in the closet. We never saw that kid ever again...
Oh and he fucking danced while stomping on a fucking hot dog to some other song😂 and me and my two friends looked at each other then looked at him and said "what the fuck are you doing bro calm down" and he then went in the closet cuz we called him out for letting the drugs take over and tried to calm him down but he didnt wanna I guess.
GREAT choice. I've always loved that track.
Some people think that the rest of the Beatles were part of Paul’s death because if you play revolution 9 it say” number 9” but if you play it backwards it says” Turn me on dead man”
It sounds more like deadmin and not dead man
@@claytonbro8789 If that’s the case, what is a “deadmin”?
As a french person, I can say that your "Musique concrète" is pretty good haha!
Everytime I have ever come across a jukebox that had the white album I put 5$ in and clicked revolution 9 20 times so it would play for over 2 hours
Haha classic!
Revolution 9 is their best song
Lmao
Not the best song, it was just a messy collage of music and sound that go together, and it was a perfect example of testing out the new system that came out in the 1970's called quadraphonic sound, it has 4 channels where you can have a receiver, a special amplifier, and a decoder like my Sony SQ Decoder model SQD-1000, and another decoder.
I tested out "Revolution 9" with all 4 speakers using my Sony SQ Decoder using 4-channel discrete, or SQ mode, it can blow you away where the sounds goes all around. Quadraphonic hasn't been around since the 1970's as an experimental concept where you can get 4 channels. Thanks to "Revolution 9" which was an attempt at an introduction to quadraphonic sound, but the Beatles did not make any quadraphonic albums following the Beatles breakup in 1970.
the way you describe some of the most iconic Beatles songs as "somewhat ear pleasing" is fucking wild. Those songs are great.
You should explain "Horse Latitudes" by the Doors.
It's a similar song, but it actually makes sense if you analyze the lyrics.
Kinda makes sense.
And it was also wrote one year before Revolution 9
Does anyone else here actually like this song?
Your voice is so soothing! You should go into radio or something
There’s another interesting fact about “Revolution 9”, I have the 3-LP set called the “133 Authentic Sound Effects” which was on Elektra label in the 1960’s. Elektra was a record label that brought many of the great artists including the Doors, Judy Collins, Carly Simon, Bread, and many more. So they decided to add many of the sounds that are from the “Authentic Sound Effects” albums, and put it on the actual track, and Elektra got permission to use it for “Revolution 9”. I did some research and I played one of the sound cuts, and it worked. That was where they used it before it was included on “Revolution 9” for the “White Album”, and it never got any credit from Elektra to use it without permission.
The white album in my opinion is THE BEST album.
You forgot to touch on the fact that if you play the number nine part backwords it says turn me on dead man
it doesn't. i don't think it sounds anything like it. and if people wouldn't say that it sounds like it, nobody would think that.
@@mlegacyacc Sorry but that’s wrong. I’ve done it and a room full of sober adults all heard it.
No, It is a great Sound collage in my opinion
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1:56... But it's so easy to pronounce... & I haven't taken French in over 30 years.
I respect the artistic risks they took with the revolution nine. It’s too bad that a certain cult leader listened to it while on LSD and led some of his followers into committing murder. You can’t blame the Beatles for that.
Say what you want about this track but it's still head and shoulders above all the other attempts at this type of plunderphonics that John and Ono did with their trio of albums. It is indeed a hot mess but a coherent hot mess and the best of its kind.
I quite like it...
it's a cute song
fun fact: there is a segment where "Number 9" is repeated 11 times.
Agree totally. It will mean different things to different people, but it does take us on a trip, and it jogs memories from life, and the title itself I think alludes more to cycles, than the upheaval meaning of the word. The revolving of the tapes in making it, it also cycle of life, or the eastern philosophy as opposed to the linear western Christian philosophy. And the double meaning of everything being a cycle interspersed with disruptive events, which are just parts of the cycle. Lennon was just playing around with these new tools and toys, but used his musical genius to make something out of it. Which is really no different than most other songs are created, where you start with a piece of lyric, a melody fragment, or stumble onto a riff that you develop into a finished piece.
It may sound like random noise to the casual listener, but it has a rhythm, it has motion, and a structure, but one needs to listen with open ears to catch it. Those who dismiss it as trash or noise aren't necessarily wrong though. To them that's what it is, and music is personal and subjective.
Many of the songs on the white album play on what other bands were doing at the time. The Beach Boys California Girls and Back in the USSR as an example. You can find similar sounds to Revolution 9 in the early Pink Floyd of the time.
Parts of it makes me excited and other parts make me calm
It’s a OCD nightmare . In sound . Picasso would be proud of this only because it’s like his paintings . Bizarre
Can this song count as the first noise core song?
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I like that you in the beginning played the music from Getting over it
listen to this song when ur faded trust
0:34 tu est pardonné
I'm French and you speak French verry well 😂😂 good video :)
Nobody ever says number 29 ;-;
Did you listen to the song backwards
Fun fact: this video is shorter then the song.
1:37 i don’t remember this Pink Floyd song…
I think that’s the point though
This video is really great. Daaaamn. I learned a lot.
They just put a bunch of recording and put them on top of each other
I had a good muaic theory teacher because i knew most of this lol Incredible Video and great style!
the first time i listened to this song i loved it alot. even now i like how freaky and weired it is lol or maybe my brain is weired idk
what’s the jazz song???? i heard it on h3h3s red bell pepper video (the first one)
i'm french :(
Numbuh eight? BELCH!
Numbuh eight? BELCH!
I always loved it
You can tell the Beatles were on a fuck ton of LSD when they wrote this song.
Is anything coming up soon?
I love Avant-garde music, It's easy to do without the luxury of equipment of today I've got old reel to reel tape decks,1/4th magnetic tape and lots of records,Cds & sound effects recordings.I like doing it from scratch.
Wow, awesome video, keep it up!
* watches in june *