No Plugs.
And an early blog, got some RPGing tonight.
You are Listening too . . .
Revolution 9, a 8 minute long, experimental, avant garde sound collage off The White Album. Yes it is rather disturbing, and bothers many people who have listened to it. Very dark also, it is actually very hard and uncomfortable to listen to the entire piece, but try it. This piece marked the the peak of the bands studio experimentation and for a pop music album was unprecedented. The recording was actually begun as an ending to Revoltion 1 and developed into a Musique concrète and sound collage highly influenced by the likes of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen futher manipulated with editing and sound modification (if you have stereo sound to can hear the panning and fading). The piece is rife with tape loops, vocal and music sound clips, sound effects, and strange noises. As with Revolution the them of the piece is the 1968 French riots, and the piece in an attempt to get the feeling and violence of those riots. At just over 8 minutes long it is the longest Beatles track ever released.
McCartney had little to do, and perhaps nothing to do with the track, and it was the brainchild of Lennon and Harrison, Starr, and Yoko Ono and made varying degrees of contributions. Ono's obvious avant garde's influences are obvious in the track, and McCartney and George Martin were both against releasing the track on the album, but Lennon won out.
The song structure begins with a breif piano intro, and then is followed by the oft repeated "Number 9" loop which fades in and out (and left and right) as a motif of the piece. There is choas, screamng, crowd sounds, feedback, unrehearsed overdubs, and continued tape looping that follows.
Portions of the song are recordings of Beethoven and Sebilius and the piece is one of the earliest examples of sampling (many people don't realize the huge influence the Beatles had on rap and hip hop). Other bits of audio include nonsensical rambling, various food and swallowing sounds, reversed recordings, and NFL chants of all things.
This mix of sound had not only heavy influence on the later "Paul is Dead" controversy, but also Charlie Manson drew odd interpretations from the sound collage, and related Revolution 9 to Revelation 9 (hey Martin Luther, your were right in the money with your opinion about Revelation).
Interestingly, McCartney recorded a similar piece around 13 minutes long called Carnival of Light. A year or so early that thus far has never been released, and very few people have ever heard.
If you would like some more on this song, there is a interesting blow by blow of the entire piece here, and a pretty in depth analysis here. You can also go here and play around with some of the tape loops. And if you want to really drive yourself batty some guy here re-recorded it backward.
The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
After a long slumber JD Drew came back to life. The Mood: I wish we could always play the NL.
Oh man . .
Do I miss the Pope's blog.
Damn.
Watch those sports cremes people.
Malach's Quote/Video of the Day
If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would've never guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together. - Alabama Whitman
I am Malach and true romance does go with Malach
Ok Malach what the Hell are you playing now?
We all want to change the world
Plugs.
Sunshine number 41 is up, and all I can say to that is YEEEEHHHAAAWW!
Also, Malach's Slow Pitch Softball Pitching Primer has gone nuts, and since I reloaded it I have gotten close to 35 emails about it, and it has gotten a TON of link from several popular softball forums. I got two emails today requesting I put up a YouTube video about it. Well, that is going to happen buckos . . . stay tuned.
The WoW has interesting article up today including an recipe for Mussels from the Angry Piper. And an article by moi about my adventures in going green and compact flourescent blubs part one.
The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
This is the first three game losing streak we have had this season, still 9 games up, we will back on track tonight, trust me. Mood: Trust me.
Stem Cells.
A break through, perhaps, but we need to study it more. Hurry up though, I need a new elbow.
Wiitis.
Hehehehehe . . hey I am onld enough to remember the severe friction burn stigmata you got from playing Mario Party . . . .
Boy do I miss Ratzy's blog . .
I would of loved to have heard what he says about this.
Dare I print it?
More good news about global warming . .
Gotta Love Stan Lee.
He's so Cukoo . .
Mrs. Tom Brady.
Please stand up! And no she was not the first "celebrity" . . Malach was the preaching this years ago.
See.
Satellites are good for something more than Google Spying.
Malach's Quote/Video of the Day
I am Malach and Revolution rocks.
My Guitar is Gently Weeping!
No Plugs today.
I had a lot of client work to do today.
The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
Well let's see. Won the first game of the double header big time, losing right now 3 - 0 with a replacement for Beckett who will miss 2 starts (Devern Hansack). Yankee lose again so that puts them 10.5 up, 11 if they win. Also the only team to have this big a lead this early in the year was the Mariner team that won a 116 games. Mood: I'm so excited.
Check out Malach's new house.
I move in after my 401k goes crazy.
Scamming the Goverment . . .
Of SSI by coaching your kids to fake mental retardation? $288,000
Three years in prison for Social Security Fraud? Priceless
GEM Plumbing that who you turn too . . .
Damn, they got awful little jingles too all over this region.
Hey Ratzy
Uh, you do realize no one has spoken Latin for like 1000 years? Well that's away to stem the flow of Catholics leaving the Church, do the Mass in a language they don't understand. What's next? Limbo?
Malach's Quote/Video of the Day
I am Malach and Santa Rocks.
Tommorrow Never Knows
No Plugs Today.
Seriously none.
You Are Listening Too . . .
Tomorrow Never Knows, by The Beatles off one of their masterpiece albums Revolver. What can we say about this song, beyond amazing, and one of their best of all time.
First you need to imagine the context. You have heard most of Revolver over the past couple of weeks. This songs is the very first song recorded off that album in April of 1966. That is right 1966. Listen to this song. How modern does it sound? Beck could be doing this song today, and it would not feel outdated. This song is a precursor to industrial, trance, techno, hip hop, and fusion. It was done again in 1966. No samplers, no computers, no synthesizers, no drum machines. This song is one of the reasons The Beatles stopped touring, how do you reproduce a song like this in 1966. For comparison, what was popular in music at the time?
The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel; Paint It Black - the Stones; These Boots Are Made for Walking - Nancy Sinatra; (You're My) Soul and Inspiration - Righteous Brothers; Monday Monday - The Mamas and Papas ; It's a Man's Man's Man's World - James Brown; Strangers In the Night - Frank Sinatra; Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys; You're Gonna Miss Me - The 13th Floor Elevators; etc.
Wow, some amazing music, but nothing like this song.
The song was mainly written by Lennon, and even though being the first recorded, it is the last track on Revolver (Imagine, your thoughts in 1966 as this song closed the album). Obviously a very experimental and expressive song, it is a very good lead in to their next album, Sgt. Pepper, as this song definitely explores psychedelica.
The inspiration for the song derives from the book The Psychedelic Experience
This is one of the only Beatles songs where the title does not appear in the song. According the Lennon at the time, he was unconfortable with the spiritual nature of the song, and gave it a throw away title based upon a Ringo Starr malapropism. The original title it has been noted was The Void.
The recording of the track, the sounds you hear are a combination of highly compressed drums, reverse and backward guitar rifts, processed vocals, and looped tape effects. This is the first Beatles experiment with tape loops. Some of the more prominent loops include the "laughing seagull" (McCartney laughing, played backward, and sped up) and the sitar loops. There is also a very weird backward guitar solo. Even more amazing is the piece was mixed on a four track recorder. 16 tape machine were also used, the condensed to get all the noise for this song.
The song was a precursor to some more experimental Beatles stuff, including Revolution 9 and Carnival of Light. It also brought helpinfluenced some of their late classics including Day In The Life and the side two of Abbey Road.
Just amazing, and still fresh 40 years later, enjoy this one buckos. This is the song, that will really expand many people thoughts about The Beatles who are only familar with their more popular stuff.
How convenient.
So tell us MC Rove, 5 million missing emails? How does that happen? Nothing is virtual world is ever truly deleted unless someone has the knowledge to do that. Oh well at least no one there has had an affair, or gotten oral sex from an intern.
Google that monster.
So they buy Double Click for $3billion and change. I am telling you, I would part with this website for say $250,000 . . .
Let the Sue fest begin!
Anna Nicole just won't die. Well, not literally.
Spy Games.
In your local Chicago Elementary School.
It nice to see . .
that Hugo Chavez in Fidel Castro's publicist. That is why I love him so.
Even the Birds . .
Want Dick Cheney dead.
So Dubya . .
voted down the stem research bill becuase " . .resist temptation to manipulate life". OK, riddle me this, how many lives have been "manipulated" by Iraq?
So the Pope has a new book.
And in this book he criticizes the capitalist system, and the power of the rich over the power . . . uh, Ratzy, you ever look at the Catholic Church? You guys have more treasure than a pirate. Of course he would hate capitalism, being a nazi and all.
Hey China.
Yeah good luck with that.
Malach's Quote of the Day
I am Malach and I have just given you yet another reason to want to kill Carl Rove . . . . and for that matter, Colin Mochrie. MC Malach signing off, word to your mother
