Revolution 9

But people do make fake old songs.

I want to hear Revolution 9

as a stomp clap song.

I'll get those recommended to me sometimes.

In 1969, [clears throat] the, uh, Drake University student paper published an article saying, "Is Beatle Paul McCartney dead?" Because a rumor spread that in a car accident in 1966, he was replaced by a lookalike.

He was on vacation in reality, but apparently he was replaced by a lookalike, and it was further, uh, spread by this, this odd bask- backmasking, they call it, on the song Revolution Number 9.

If you listen to this part of the song

songNumber nine

Yeah.

And I think it kind of mimics the – I think – Revolution No. 9 is such a – I wonder if we should do like a bonus episode on just Revolution No. 9 to give it its due, but not a total

full episode's due.

We should do an episode where we talk about it, but then cut it up into samples and just sort of make a dreamscape of our day on Revolution No. 9.

Who's this? Who's this? Who's this? Who's this?

Who's this?

The Blight album.

The Smite album.

And so that's kind of an interesting thing.

You also have, you know, Lennon getting into his most avant-garde with Revolution 9, obviously.

But we continue to have kind of this contrast between the, the hard rockers and the experimental or, you know, pushing the envelope kind of things and the gentle stuff.

And then you do have some more of these McCartney vaudeville kinds of things.

So there's something where George Martin, at some point, the producer, urged them to pare it down to a single album and make it a great single album rather than a double album that's of lower quality.

But they wanted to get everything on there.

So you have 30, I don't know if I want to say 30 songs because Revolution 9 isn't really a song.

30 tracks on here, and at least five or six of them are downright bad.

It just, it really feels like the worst kind of pointless nightmare.

And it makes me so happy that we haven't heard Carnival of Light because if they let Revolution 9 out...

And they're like, well, Carnival of Light might make a cuckoo.

Maybe I trust the good folks at Apple, Calderstone, Universal, whoever the fuck owns all the music.

You can make up any acronym for that.

Fans claim that playing the song Revolution 9 backwards reveals a voice chanting, "Turn me on, dead man." While the end of Strawberry Fields Forever sounds like John Lennon saying, "I buried Paul."

Offensive pickle dick.

PD, yeah, you know me.

That's true.

But you have to get through, like, Revolution Number 9 to get to it-

Yeah

... which sometimes is a little work, you know? [laughs]

But to think we could go out into space is, to me, the more impressive thing.

And that's what I think we see around these two albums, which is like to think outside the box for the first time is I think a bigger move than making like Revolution 9, you know, because at that point you kind of throw out the rule book and you're like, okay, well, what else could, you know, where could we go from there? And I'm not saying it doesn't take any type of thought or any type of courage maybe, but I think that little things like this are like sufficiently bounded in this thing of like, I don't know if anyone would listen to that passage and go, that's really avant-garde.

But for the culture and the climate and what the Beatles were doing in terms of what they're doing, just to casually throw in something like that in this song, I'm just like, it seems more impressive to me because it isn't This big statement is just pushing a little bit.

It's just opening the lid of the box and going, what else could we do musically? That's just not the same old thing.