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Fox On The Rocks 
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 Posted: April 03 2011 at 14:27 |
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A very interesting avant-garde collage of sound. I respect it highly although it scared the crap out of me when I listened to it at 2:30 AM with the lights off and alone. Number 9.
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 21:03 |
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Its a track that used to scare me as a child
Now I can appreciate its high strangeness and artistic merit - there is nothing like it in music since and its a bonafide prog track. |
Far out ...
I'm gonna go out into downtown Portland, gonna turn on the microphone and take a walk for 12 minutes and then come back clean it up a little, and then clal it ... PA Archives #9 ... and you suckers are all going to love it and think its great music ... and then I will find a guitarist with the sense of a monkey to add some jagged licks to it ... so I could make it look like ... something else.  
Between you and I ...
This was an "extension" of the piece ... "A Day in Life" with the continuous note at the end ... and this time ... it was a REAL day in the life ... of a microphone walking down tthe street in London somewhere ... with a couple of things added on here and there ... to make it better and (possibly) weirder. I really think that this was that song title ... "taken literally" ... and the only answer and solution for a title like that was ... just record what comes across you and that's that!
It was a good stroke of "logic" and "reason" and very much in the Yoko One style of art that got her attracted to John and vice versa ... remember ... she had the white painted wall (or canvas, not sure) and all it had in it was one black dot on it! ... nothing else ... and it was a way of saying that sometimes ... it is not as meaningful as that. IT JUST IS ... and this piece of work ... just IS ... and that was that.
And one last bit about this ... and after a full day ... and you're tired and don't want to think ... the same for this thread ... it's lullaby time ... Good Night!
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Posted: April 18 2011 at 22:33 |
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I like "Revolution #9," but personally I can't stand most of the Beatles' music. I also like "Within You, Without You" quite a bit.
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: April 21 2011 at 11:08 |
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I am a Beatles fan and I like #9.
They prove again that they do not only produce for hit radio, but venture in several directions, even create an experimental collage.
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Mista-Gordie
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 22:18 |
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I appreciate it even if it's just noise
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SaltyJon
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 22:25 |
One of my favorite Beatles tracks. 
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:11 |
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I LOVE that track for it's ability to do something different on a Beatles album.
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:27 |
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I HATE that track because it frustrates me insanely.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:37 |
Alitare wrote:
I HATE that track because it frustrates me insanely. |
Then Lennon achieved what he set out to do.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Alitare
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:41 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
Alitare wrote:
I HATE that track because it frustrates me insanely. |
Then Lennon achieved what he set out to do. |
Yeah, that four-eyed f**k. Mother! You had me, but I always scared you awayhay. I made a song that was eight minutes loohoong. And iiiiii, just gotta tell you, it blooows, it blooohooohoooooowssss.
Kidding, of course. But it brings forth the same reactions as Moonchild in me.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:44 |
Alitare wrote:
The Dark Elf wrote:
Alitare wrote:
I HATE that track because it frustrates me insanely. |
Then Lennon achieved what he set out to do. |
Yeah, that four-eyed f**k. Mother! You had me, but I always scared you awayhay. I made a song that was eight minutes loohoong. And iiiiii, just gotta tell you, it blooows, it blooohooohoooooowssss.
Kidding, of course. But it brings forth the same reactions as Moonchild in me. |
"Moonchild" is one of the best 2 minute and 30 second songs ever, Unfortunately, it goes on for 12 minutes.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Alitare
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:45 |
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That's exactly how I feel.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:49 |
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Then you should go right out and get the whole Phillip Glass catalog. Wind chimes and crinkling papers for a half an hour!
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Alitare
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:52 |
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Or maybe I'll stick to something else. :P
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 22:56 |
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Hmmm...but then you won't be able to hobnob with effete snobs who look down at music with structure as decadent and plebeian.
Edited by The Dark Elf - June 09 2011 at 22:59
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Alitare
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 23:09 |
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Yes - tonality, euphony, melody, and structure are all pitiable traits of the unenlightened proletariat.
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Posted: June 10 2011 at 00:34 |
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I don't understand all the hate for Moonchild. I love the track, I think it's very soothing, wouldn't call it avant-garde at all, it's... satisfying.
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Posted: June 10 2011 at 02:22 |
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"Sun King" is worse.
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Posted: July 05 2011 at 19:11 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
Alitare wrote:
The Dark Elf wrote:
Alitare wrote:
I HATE that track because it frustrates me insanely. |
Then Lennon achieved what he set out to do. |
Yeah, that four-eyed f**k. Mother! You had me, but I always scared you awayhay. I made a song that was eight minutes loohoong. And iiiiii, just gotta tell you, it blooows, it blooohooohoooooowssss.
Kidding, of course. But it brings forth the same reactions as Moonchild in me. |
"Moonchild" is one of the best 2 minute and 30 second songs ever, Unfortunately, it goes on for 12 minutes. |
Indeed (for Moonchild). As far as Revolution #9, I don't care about it at all.
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Posted: July 06 2011 at 05:16 |
As far as Moonchild goes, the fact that Fripp actually saw fit to trim the noodling back a bit on one of the recent remasters kind of says it all. It does work for me when I'm in the right mood - it sort of all comes together into a neat little intro to the closing track - but I do have to be in that mood.
With respect to Revolution #9... I can see how people would be impressed by it if they hadn't been exposed to other experimental/avant-garde music of the era. But as far as tape experiments go, there are much better examples. (Hell, Zappa was dropping superior tape experiments onto pretty much every album at around that point.) And in the context of the White Album it's absolutely fatal, robbing the album of what momentum it had managed to build up. Though there's other clunkers on there - hell, I think the Beatles were crazy to put Revolution #1 on the album when the single version of the track (titled simply "Revolution") is just so much better.
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Does anyone like the Beatles Revolution #9?
