0:00-0:15: Piano intro
0:02-0:15: "Number Nine" loop introduced
0:15: Sound effects faded in
0:21: Backwards mellotron
0:28: Orhestral loop ("A Day In The Life" overdubs? Strings
going up scale)
0:44: Orchestra loop (different, with cymbal crash)
0:50: Various reversed orchestra
First audible speech (John, right channel)
1:00: Backwards mellotron
1:00-1:20: Intelligible speech (John, right): "They found a shortage
of grain in Hartfordshire, and every one of them knewthat
as time went by, they'd get a little bit older and a little
bit slower...factory work...five percent in the, in the uh,
the district, they were intended to pay for..."
1:20: Backwards orchestra loop
1:35-1:48: Female laughter (left-to-right channel)
1:48: Baby like sounds
Choir
Intelligible speech (George, right): "Who was to know?
Who was to know?"
1:58: Backwards Indian instruments ("morphed" from the baby
sounds)
2:00-2:12: "Number nine" loop
2:12-2:20: Orchestra loop (Sibelius, "Symphony No. 7" final chord)
2:14-2:17: Intelligible speech (John, right): "I informed him on
the third night, unfortunately he was..."
2:22: George Martin: "Geoff [Emerick, Abbey Road engineer]...
put the red light on..." (first appearance)
2:30-2:54: Miscellaneous crowd sounds (left)
2:33-2:50: Shouts by John ("Revolution 1", take 18?): "Right!"
(repeated eight times, last "right" is prolonged)
2:55: Glass breaks (right)
George: "Foot!" (? or possibly "fook"?)
3:00: Audible speech (John/George, left)
3:02-3:15: Orchestra loop (Beethoven, "Fantasy for Piano, Orchestra,
and Choir: Opus 80")
Car horns, traffic noise
3:17-3:20: Intelligible speech (John, right): "...fine(?) hand over
his shoulder..."
3:25-3:35: Tape spools back
3:39-3:45: Intelligible speech (John/George, right): George: "...on
heat with the situation..." John: "They are standing still."
George: "I found a telegram (?)"
3:50: Noises by John (take 18?)
"Number nine" loop
Football loop, first appearance (right): "On the 30..." or
"Number 30..."
3:54-4:05: Intelligible speech (John/George, right): George:
"... a bit of farce(?) as the headmaster reported to..."
John: "Who could tell what he was saying, his voice was
slow and his (?) was high, and his eyes were low..."
4:05-4:18: John: "Hold it!", crowd noises (right)
4:13-4:17: Intelligible speech (John): "...on fire, but his
glasses were saved...(?)"
4:18-4:50: Various effects in a melange
4:50: Loud noise across channels
4:53-5:14: Intelligible speech (John, right): "So the wife
called, and we better go to see a surgeon, but what
with the prices and all, the prices have snow balled,
it's so absurd, yeah, no wonder they're closed. So anyhow,
he went to see the dentist instead who gave him a pair
of teeth, which wasn't any good at all. So instead of
that, he joined the bloody navy and went to sea..."
4:56: George, right: "...there were nine of them..."
4:59-5:03: Tape spooling back
Scream, (John, right)
5:04-5:25: Football chant (left-to-right): "Block that kick!"
(first appearance)
5:30-5:36: Intelligible speech (John, right): "Here I sit in my broken
chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair. I am not
in the mood for..."
5:35-5:42: Crackling paper (fire?)
Backwards choir loop
5:40-5:50: Orchestra loop (Sibelius)
Various noises by John (take 18?)
5:46-5:50: Science-fiction effects, gunfire?
5:50-5:59: Intelligible speech (john, right): "The dogs were dogging,
the cats were catting, the birds were birding, the fish
were fishing..."
6:00-6:08: Melange of sound effects
6:07-6:13: Intelligible speech (George, right): "...only to find
the nightwatchman, unaware of his presence in the building..."
6:11: John (right): "Onion soup..."
6:15-6:23: George Martin loop
"Number nine" loop Orchestra loop (Beethoven, Opus 80)
Reversed choir loop
6:24-6:40: Intelligible speech (John/George, right): John: "Personality
complex...industrial output...financial imbalance...
the Watusi...the Twist..." George (left): "Eldorado"
6:32: George (right): "...pushing it between his shoulderblades..."
Backwards piano loop (intro reversed?)
6:42: Marching band (left)
6:43-6:44: Intelligible speech (John): "Take this brother, may it
serve you well..."
Humming by Yoko Ono
6:47-7:45: Audible speech by Yoko
6:49: John: "What? What? Hmmmm..." (in response to Yoko?)
6:50-7:00: Radio static
7:00-7:30: Unidentified singing voice (beginning with "good fish
in the kettle(?)..."
Low mumbling by John
7:33-7:42: Backwards piano loop
7:43: Intelligible phrase (Yoko): "...if...you become naked."
7:47-8:13: Football chant to fade (left-to-right): "Hold that line...
block that kick..."
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Revolution 9 (Mensajes ocultos o el conocido: "Turn me on dead man").
---Según las fuentes (o malas lenguas) esta grabación, considerada de carácter vanguardista, nació de la idea de John, Yoko, George y Ringo, en especial de los 2 primeros quienes querían incluirlo en el White Album. A Paul le desagradaba la idea y no quería que se ponga en el disco, el productor estaba de acuerdo con él pero John y Yoko se salieron con la suya :D!.
Su significado?...Pues ninguno, es un sin sentido auditivo aunque algo escalofriante en mi opinión, y que según muchos aparte de ser la ¿canción? más larga del disco es la que más se ignora y pasan a la siguiente. :P
