"Take this brother..." Yes, it's the Revolution no.9 poll

R-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-IGHT! R-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-IGHT!

The opening piano still creeps me right the fuck out.

Five to five-and-a-half minutes for me. The sustained guitar/trumpet noise is pretty awesome.

I take that you're going to run another poll for the winning segment?

TAKE THIS BROTHER, MAY IT SERVE YOU WELL...ELDORADO

the end isn't a protest, it's a football game

the bit when the amen break comes in.

I take that you're going to run another poll for the winning segment?

how do you mean?

Narrowing that 30-second section down to the best bit of all.

Which will perhaps be the finest musical second in the world (assuming that the White Album is their best album and The Beatles are the best band).

The end, obviously. So good that it finally ends. I very rarely hear the end at all though. :)

5.5-6.0 for me, although i like the low mumbling of 'el dorado' that lasts about a minute.

the end isn't a protest, it's a football game

Hence the chant of "block that kick," I believe.

Totally torn between "ri-i-i-i-ght" and "El Dorado." Damn.

It's ironic that this is coming up now. In the past week, I've listened to both John/Yoko Unfinished Music albums. Two Virgins still bores me, just as it did the first time I heard it years ago, but side 2 of Life With The Lions creeps me the fuck out. ("Cambridge 1969" I can handle.) I don't know if the suite of "Baby's Heartbeat" "Two Minutes Silence" and "Radio Play" would have the same effect if I weren't a parent, but as it is, I don't think I'll listen again.

I don't really have a favorite moment of R9. The whole thing works as one statement to me. I have read that everything after "take this brother, may it serve you well" was recorded later, so maybe two statements tops.

I mean, I remember reading about John and Yoko's various albums, films and protests as a preteen Beatlemaniac. I was somewhere between confused and scared. They just seemed so strange and scary. I couldn't reconcile the Beatles' music (even the White Album, which has "Revolution 9" among its own creepy moments) with what these fucked-up films and bizarre audio collages. A few decades later, they still seem kinda strange and scary, even though I know their stories and inspirations. So much of the Beatles' best-known work has long receded into background noise, and even Yoko isn't so hated anymore, but "Revolution 9" still shocks.

I have read that everything after "take this brother, may it serve you well" was recorded later

Far out! I've always felt that it was a little too long & wished that it ended at that point, now I know why. All the panned-&-flanged orchestral bits and the dopplering car horns and "riiiight" are cool, but I gotta go with "strings/women laughing" for its extramusical cinematic potential.

Five to five-and-a-half minutes for me. The sustained guitar/trumpet noise is pretty awesome.

cripes, it took me years until i realized that was a guitar making that noise.

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the end isn't a protest, it's a football game

Hence the chant of "block that kick," I believe.

i'll take it that i got protestors wrong, but i'll never believe any football fans would chant 'block that kick'...

Five to five-and-a-half minutes for me. The sustained guitar/trumpet noise is pretty awesome.

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"but i'll never believe any football fans would chant 'block that kick'"

I've heard that a million times. Maybe not at a pro game, but at lower levels like high school it's a pretty common cheer.

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