Newly released Beatles song! Revolution I. All ten minutes of it. Please to enjoy.

[sixmile]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tweetmeme/beatles-revolution-1-take-20mp3
http://earbuds.popdose.com/ken/Beatles%20-%20Revolution%201%20(Take%2020).mp3
Fantastic. They still sound futuristic at forty. All bands take note.

[Donnachaidh]

1. meh. The Beatles stopped ever being the Beatles the day John was shot.

And with George gone, too?

Meh.

[sixmile]

2. Well you're in luck

They were both still very alive during the making of this track.

[villager]

3. listening now! Thanks!

:thumbsup:

[MrPerson]

4. Oasis is way better

[sixmile]

6. You're joking, right?

[DoBotherMe]

7. Oh no you di'n't!

Fab Four for evah! Dana ; )

[Occam Bandage]

5. It sounds like someone took Revolution 1, and then tacked part of Revolution 9 over the end of it.

The post-Revolution-1 part was interesting for like 45 seconds, but after that it just got kind of repetitively dissociated.

[pepperbear]

18. because revolution 1 evolved into revolution 9. n/t

[Glorfindel]

8. Oh, wonderful! Thanks...you just made my day

Nobody has ever done it better than the Beatles, and probably never will.

[sixmile]

14. Too true.

I secretly hope there's a vault of unreleased tracks waiting to leak out over the rest of my days on Earth.

[marylanddem]

9. Sounds so GOOD. Thanks, I needed this. love & peace to all.

[SCantiGOP]

10. thank you

Forwarded it to about a dozen old friends from the 70s. All it needed was about 500 mics of orange sunshine.

[Nickster]

11. Wild.

[mod mom]

12. The story behind the music:

The Beatles’ Experimental “Revolution 1 (Take 20)” Surfaces
2/27/09, 9:38 am EST

Beatles fans still patiently waiting for Paul McCartney to release the band’s 1967 sound collage “Carnival of Light” were surprised by an even better gift this weekend as a 10-minute version of The White Album’s “Revolution 1″ leaked onto the internet, giving fans a never-before-heard listen of what the White Album sessions must have been like. The track makes it clear why seemingly unrelated “Revolution 1″ and the maniacal “Revolution 9″ sound collage share the same name: In “Revolution 1 (Take 20)” John Lennon steers an extended, more experimental version of “1″ to its breaking point, using it as a conduit before launching into the avant-garde “9.”

According to the Ateaseweb message board, the song first surfaced on an upcoming, Europe-only bootleg Revolution: Take… Your Knickers Off, as nod to Lennon saying “Take your knickers off and let’s go” before “Revolution 1 (Take 20)” started rolling. As for how the song leaked out, that’s an even bigger mystery. According to Mark Lewisohn’s book The Beatles: Recording Sessions, only two copies of the take were made when recording the song was completed on June 4, 1968. One copy left the studio with Lennon that day, and the other remained behind. It’s unclear which copy appears on the bootleg, nor how the Revolution makers even acquired it.

“As someone who’s heard, I’d say, 99.8 percent of the Beatles music that has leaked onto bootleg, this is really interesting,” Beatles expert Richie Unterberger told EW.com. The site also reports Lennon was lying on his back while recording the vocals to make his voice sound different. 2009 is shaping up to be a big year for Fab Four fans still clamoring for unreleased material. Talking about “Carnival of Light” back in November, McCartney said “The time has come for its moment. I like it because it’s like the Beatles free.” YouTube has been pulling down the videos of Take 20, so get a listen over at Twelve Major Chords.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/02/27/the-beatles-experimental-revolution-1-take-20-surfaces/

[truedelphi]

19. Oh thank you so much for posting the background

I remember when Rolling Stone had their "Double Fantasy" interview with John right before he was killed, he was saying that he wanted to get more deeeply into pure sound compositions like "Revolution Nine" and what not.

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Mathematician finds the secret to the beginning Chord in "Hard Days Night"

Thanks so much for the music I'm putting it in my Beatles collection.


Now, about that secret chord that nobody has yet been able to copy until now.:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x49923

[FreeStateDemocrat]

15. Instant time-machine must have be produced by Orange Sunshine. Thanks

[struggle4progress]

16. "It's gonna be all right" ... followed by a slide into chaos. How timely!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

17. Hmmm

Number Nine always creeped me out, though I liked Revolution #1.

[OneBlueSky]

20. awesome! . . . you don't hear music like that anymore . . . n/t

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