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Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles


Apaga tu mente, relájate
y flota en la corriente
No es morir

Libera cualquier pensamiento
Entrégate al vacío
Es brillante

Que tú puedas ver
El significado de dentro
Es ser

Que el amor es todo
Y el amor son todos
Es conocer

Que la ignorancia y el odio
Pueden llorar a los muertos
Es creer

Pero escucha el
color de tus sueños
No es vivir


GUIÓN RADIOFÓNICO

Tomorrow Never Knows fue escrita principalmente por John Lennon a partir de la adaptación del libro The Psychedelic Experience de Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, y Ralph Metzner, el cual, a su vez, está basado en el Libro Tibetano de los Muertos. El libro compara la muerte del ego, bajo la influencia del LSD y de otras drogas psicodélicas, con el proceso de muerte física.

Paul McCartney dijo que Lennon había encontrado el libro The Psychedelic Experience, en el cual se podía leer: cuando tengas dudas, relájate, apaga tu mente, y déjate ir río abajo. Lennon lo compró, fue a casa, tomó LSD, y siguió las instrucciones exactamente como estaban impresas en el libro.

Tomorrow Never Knows tiene un único acorde en Do. La estructura armónica de la canción proviene de la música tradicional de la India y Lennon dijo que quería sonar como cien monjes tibetanos cantando. Ante la dificultad que esto representaba, propuso cantar suspendido por una cuerda. Rechazada la idea, finalmente se planteó utilizar la cabina de Leslie speaker con la cual era posible obtener el mismo efecto sin tener que recurrir a la cuerda. El efecto se consiguió haciendo pasar la voz de Lennon a través de la cabina, parando el circuito electrónico de la misma y volviendo a regrabar la voz cuando esta era emitida por la cabina. Así se obtenía un efecto de vibrato, que hasta el momento solo se conseguía con el órgano Hammond.

Como a Lennon no le gustaba hacer una segunda toma de las canciones para doblar el sonido de su propia voz, Ken Townsend, el técnico del estudio, creó el primer sistema ADT tomando la señal de la voz y retrasándola ligeramente para crear dos sonidos, mediante unos segundos de grabación en cinta magnetofónica. Al modificar la velocidad y la frecuencia del sonido, se podían crear otra serie de efectos. Se nota en la canción que la voz de Lennon está doblada en los tres primeros versos de la canción, debido a ligeras diferencias a la hora de cantar, pero el efecto completo se puede escuchar a partir del solo de guitarra.

Tomorrow Never Knows fue uno de los primeros temas de rock psicodélico que incluyó elementos originales como el backmasking, guitarras tocadas a la inversa, loops, efectos vocales e instrumentos musicales orientales como el sitar o el tanbur. McCartney proporcionó varios bucles grabados en cintas de audio de ¼ de pulgada. Al deshabilitar la cabeza magnética de una grabadora mientras el bucle de cinta esta devanando en una grabación, la cinta se re-grababa constantemente, creando un efecto de saturación, una técnica que también es utilizada en la música concreta. La cinta también podía modificarse para que fuera más rápida o más lenta.


DATOS TÉCNICOS DE LA ROLA

Título: Tomorrow Never Knows
Traducción: Mañana nadie sabe
Compositor: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Intérprete: The Beatles
Productor: George Martin
A la venta: 01/08/1966
Formato: L.P.
Incluída en el L.P. Revolver
Disquera: Parlophone
Orden al bat: 028

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LETRA

Tomorrow Never Knows
Mañana nadie sabe
Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying

Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining

That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being

That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing

That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing

But listen to the
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living

Or play the game
existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning

Apaga tu mente, relájate
y flota en la corriente
No es morir
No es morir

Libera cualquier pensamiento
Entrégate al vacío
Es brillante
Es brillante

Que tú puedas ver
El significado de dentro
Es ser
Es ser

Que el amor es todo
Y el amor son todos
Es conocer
Es conocer

Que la ignorancia y el odio
Pueden llorar a los muertos
Es creer
Es creer

Pero escucha el
color de tus sueños
No es vivir
No es vivir

O juega el juego
existe hasta el fin
del principio
del principio
del principio
del principio
del principio
del principio


MÚSICOS

John Lennon - voz, órgano Hammond, pandereta y loops
Paul McCartney - bajo, y loops
George Harrison - sitar y loops
Ringo Starr - batería y loops
George Martin - piano y loops
Geoff Emerick – ingeniero



INTÉRPRETE

The Beatles: Liverpool

Cuando The Beatles aceptaron a Brian Epstein como su representante, y con la creatividad del productor George Martin, se fraguó la alianza musical más productiva de la música del siglo XX.

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS VIENE EN EL L.P. REVOLVER


LADO A
1. "Taxman"
2. "Eleanor Rigby"
3. "I'm only sleeping"
4. "Love You To"
5. "Here, There and Everywhere"
6. "Yellow Submarine"
7. "She Said, She Said"


LADO B
1. "Good Day Sunshine"
2. "And Your Bird Can Sing"
3. "For no One"
4. "Dr Robert"
5. "I want to tell you"
6. "Got to get you into my life"
7. " Tomorrow Never Knows"


La puesta a la venta de Revolver marcó la entrada plena de The Beatles a la sicodelia. Es citado frecuentemente como uno de los mejores álbumes de la banda. La revista PopMatters muestra a Revolver como el punto más alto de la banda a nivel musical y al que llegaron en el tiempo exacto.

She Said She Said - The Beatles


Ella dijo "Yo sé lo que se siente estar muerta. Yo sé lo que se siente estar triste" Y ella me está haciendo sentir que yo nunca he nacido.

Yo dije "¿Quién puso esas cosas en tu cabeza? Cosas que me hacen sentir que estoy loco Y me haces sentir que nunca he nacido."

Y ella dijo "No entiendes lo que te digo" Yo dije "No, no, no, tu estás mal" Cuando yo era un niño todo estaba bien Todo estaba bien



GUIÓN RADIOFÓNICO

She Said She Said es una canción inspirada en los comentarios del actorPeter Fonda durante un viaje con LSD en 1965. The Beatles se encontraban de gira por Estados Unidos y estaban con Fonda metiéndose LSD. Cuando George Harrison le dijo al actor que se moría, este replicó que cuando tenía diez años se había disparado a sí mismo accidentalmente en el estómago y que su corazón paró tres veces por lo que dijo 'sé como es estar muerto' a lo que John Lennon respondió 'me estás haciendo sentir como si no hubiera nacido nunca. ¿Quién te ha metido toda esa mierda en la cabeza?' Y así, el nombre, que originalmente iba a ser He Said He Said, en relación a Peter Fonda, fue suavizado por John, que le cambió algunas frases pues la primera versión era bastante agresiva al referirse a una mujer.

Después de la grabación, se cuenta que George Martin dijo: 'Ok, chavos, solo voy a desmayarme'.

La canción es también vista como una de las contribuciones más innovadoras de Ringo Starr.


DATOS TÉCNICOS DE LA ROLA

Título: She Said She Said
Traducción: Ella dijo ella dijo
Compositor: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Intérprete: The Beatles
Productor: George Martin
A la venta: 05/08/1966
Formato: L.P.
Incluída en el L.P. Revolver
Disquera: Parlophone
Orden al bat: 029

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LETRA

She Said She Said
Ella dijo ella dijo
She said "I know what it's like to be dead. I know what it is to be sad" And she's making me feel like I've never been born.

I said "Who put all those things in your head? Things that make me feel that I'm mad And you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said "you don't understand what I said" I said "No, no, no, you're wrong" When I was a boy everything was right Everything was right

I said "Even though you know what you know I know that I'm ready to leave 'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said "you don't understand what I said" I said "No, no, no, you're wrong" When I was a boy everything was right Everything was right

I said "Even though you know what you know I know that I'm ready to leave 'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said , she said "I know what it's like to be dead" ("I know what it's like to be dead")

I know what it is to be sad…

Ella dijo "Yo sé lo que se siente estar muerta. Yo sé lo que se siente estar triste" Y ella me está haciendo sentir que yo nunca he nacido.

Yo dije "¿Quién puso esas cosas en tu cabeza? Cosas que me hacen sentir que estoy loco Y me haces sentir que nunca he nacido."

Y ella dijo "No entiendes lo que te digo" Yo dije "No, no, no, tu estás mal" Cuando yo era un niño todo estaba bien Todo estaba bien



MÚSICOS

John Lennon: voz principal doblada y armonías vocales, guitarra rítmica y órgano Hammond
George Harrison: guitarra solista, bajo y armonías vocales
Ringo Starr: Batería y shaker


INTÉRPRETE

The Beatles: Liverpool


SHE SAID SHE SAID VIENE EN EL L.P. REVOLVER


LADO A
1. "Taxman"
2. "Eleanor Rigby"
3. "I'm only sleeping"
4. "Love You To"
5. "Here, There and Everywhere"
6. "Yellow Submarine"
7. "She Said, She Said"


LADO B
1. "Good Day Sunshine"
2. "And Your Bird Can Sing"
3. "For no One"
4. "Dr Robert"
5. "I want to tell you"
6. "Got to get you into my life"
7. " Tomorrow Never Knows"



OTRAS VERSIONES

Lone Star; The Chords; Yeah Yeah Noh; The Shop Assistants; Matthew Sweet; The Snake River Conspiracy; The Black Keys; Mark Mulcahy


Revolution 9 - The Beatles


Rola: Revolution 9
Traducción: Revolución 9
En México: Revolución número 9
Intérprete: The Beatles
Compositor: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Disco: The Beatles (White Album)
Productor: George Martin

HISTORIA

Revolution 9" is a recorded composition that appeared on The Beatles' 1968 self-titled LP release (popularly known as "The White Album"). The sound collage, credited to Lennon/McCartney, was created primarily by John Lennon with assistance from George Harrison and Yoko Ono. Lennon said he was trying to paint a picture of a revolution using sound. The composition was influenced by the avant-garde style of Ono as well as the musique concrète works of composers such as Edgard Varese and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The recording began as an extended ending to the album version of "Revolution". Lennon then combined the unused coda with numerous overdubbed vocals, speech, sound effects, and short tape loops of speech and musical performances, some of which were reversed. These were further manipulated with echo, distortion, stereo panning, and fading. The loop of "number nine" featured in the recording fueled rumours about Paul McCartney's death after it was reported that it sounded like "turn me on, dead man" when played backwards.

McCartney argued against including the track on The Beatles, and it was generally poorly received by both fans and critics. At over eight minutes, it is the longest track that the Beatles officially released.

"Revolution 9" was not the first venture by The Beatles into experimental recordings. In January 1967, McCartney led the group in recording an unreleased piece called "Carnival of Light" during a session for "Penny Lane". McCartney said the work was inspired by composers Stockhausen and John Cage. Stockhausen was also a favourite of Lennon, and was one of the people included on the Sgt. Pepper album cover. Music critic Ian McDonald wrote that "Revolution 9" may have been influenced by Stockhausen's Hymnen in particular.

Another influence on Lennon was his relationship with Ono. Lennon and Ono had recently recorded their own avant-garde album, Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins. Lennon said: "Once I heard her stuff—not just the screeching and howling but her sort of word pieces and talking and breathing and all this strange stuff ... I got intrigued, so I wanted to do one." Ono attended the recording sessions and helped Lennon select which tape loops to use.[4]
"Revolution 9" originated on 30 May 1968 during the first recording session for Lennon's composition "Revolution". Take 20 lasted more than ten minutes and was given additional overdubs over the next two sessions. Mark Lewisohn described the last six minutes as "pure chaos ... with discordant instrumental jamming, feedback, John repeatedly screaming 'alright' and then, simply, repeatedly screaming ... with Yoko talking and saying such off-the-wall phrases as 'you become naked', and with the overlaying of miscellaneous, home-made sound effects tapes."

Lennon soon decided to make the first part of the recording into a conventional Beatles' song, "Revolution 1", while using the last six minutes as the basis for a separate track, "Revolution 9". He began preparing additional sound effects and tape loops: some newly recorded in the studio, at home and from the studio archives. The work culminated on 20 June, with Lennon performing a live mix from tape loops running on machines in all three studios at Abbey Road. Additional prose was overdubbed by Lennon and Harrison.

More overdubs were added on 21 June followed by final mixing in stereo. The stereo master was completed on 25 June when it was shortened by 53 seconds. Although other songs on the album were separately remixed for the mono version, the complexity of "Revolution 9" necessitated making the mono mix a direct reduction of the final stereo master. McCartney had been out of the country when "Revolution 9" was assembled and mixed; he was unimpressed when he first heard the finished track, and later tried to persuade Lennon to drop his insistence that it be included on the album.

The piece begins with a slow piano theme in the key of B minor and a male voice repeating the words "number nine", quickly panning across the stereo channels. The unidentified voice was found on an examination tape in the studio archives. Lennon recalled: "I just liked the way he said 'number nine' so I made a loop ... it was like a joke, bringing number nine in it all the time ..." Both the piano theme and the "number nine" loop recur many times during the piece, serving as a motif.

Much of the track consists of tape loops that are faded in and out, several of which are sampled from performances of classical music. Works that have been specifically identified include the Vaughan Williams motet O Clap Your Hands, the final chord from Sibelius' Symphony No. 7, and the reversed finale of Schumann's Symphonic Studies. Other loops include brief portions of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, "The Streets of Cairo", violins from "A Day in the Life", and George Martin saying "Geoff, put the red light on". There are also loops of unidentified operatic performances, backwards mellotron, violins and sound effects, an oboe/horn duet, a reversed electric guitar in the key of E major, and a reversed string quartet in the key of E-flat major.

Portions of the unused coda of "Revolution 1" can be heard briefly several times during the track, particularly Lennon's screams of "right" and "alright", with a longer portion near the end featuring Ono's discourse about becoming naked. Segments of random prose read by Lennon and Harrison are heard prominently throughout, along with numerous sound effects such as laughter, crowd noise, breaking glass, car horns, and gunfire. Some of the sounds were taken from an Elektra Records album of stock sound effects. The piece ends with a recording of American football chants ("Hold that line! Block that kick!"). In all, the final mix includes at least 45 different sound sources.

During compilation and sequencing of the master tape for the album The Beatles, two unrelated segments were included between the previous song ("Cry Baby Cry") and "Revolution 9".[14] The first was a fragment of a song based on the line "Can you take me back", an improvisation sung by McCartney that was recorded between takes of "I Will". The second was a bit of conversation from the studio control room where Alistair Taylor asked George Martin for forgiveness for not bringing him a bottle of claret.[14] "Revolution 9" was released on 22 November 1968 as the fifth track on the fourth side of the album The Beatles, four tracks after "Revolution 1". With no gaps in the sequence from "Cry Baby Cry" to "Revolution 9", the point of track division has varied among different re-issues of the album. Some versions place the conversation at the end of "Cry Baby Cry", resulting in a length of 8:13 for "Revolution 9", while others start "Revolution 9" with the conversation, for a track length of 8:22.

The unusual nature of "Revolution 9" engendered a wide range of opinions. Lewisohn summarized the public reaction upon its release: "... most listeners loathing it outright, the dedicated fans trying to understand it." Music critics Robert Christgau and John Piccarella called it "an anti-masterpiece" and noted that, in effect, "for eight minutes of an album officially titled The Beatles, there were no Beatles." Jann Wenner was more complimentary, writing that "Revolution 9" was "beautifully organized" and had more political impact than "Revolution 1". Ian MacDonald remarked that "Revolution 9" evoked the era's revolutionary disruptions and their repercussions, and thus was culturally "one of the most significant acts The Beatles ever perpetrated."

Among more recent reviews, The New Rolling Stone Album Guide said it was "justly maligned", but "more fun than 'Honey Pie' or 'Yer Blues'." Pitchfork reviewer Mark Richardson observed that "the biggest pop band in the world exposed millions of fans to a really great and certainly frightening piece of avant-garde art."

Lennon described "Revolution 9" as "an unconscious picture of what I actually think will happen when it happens, just like a drawing of revolution." He said he was "painting in sound a picture of revolution", but he had mistakenly made it "anti-revolution". In his analysis of the song, MacDonald doubted that Lennon conceptualised the piece as representing a revolution in the usual sense, but rather as "a sensory attack on the citadel of the intellect: a revolution in the head" aimed at each listener. MacDonald also noted that the structure suggests a "half-awake, channel-hopping" mental state, with underlying themes of consciousness and quality of awareness. Others have described the piece as Lennon's attempt at turning "nightmare imagery" into sound, and as "an autobiographical soundscape."


DATOS DE LA GRABACIÓN

Duración: 08:13
Año: 1970
Formato: L.P.
A la venta: 22/11/1968
Disquera: Apple


MÚSICOS

John Lennon: voz, piano, mellotron, electrónica y de fabricación casera efectos de sonido, cintas y lazos de cinta
George Harrison: voz, cintas y lazos de cinta
Ringo Starr: voz
Yoko Ono: voz


ESCUCHA REVOLUTION 9



REVOLUTION 9 VIENE EN EL L.P. THE BEATLES (WHITE ALBUM)

La revista Rolling Stone clasifica a The Beatles (White Album) como el número 10 entre los 500 discos más importantes de todos los tiempos

VERSIÓN INGLESA

LADO A
1. "Back In The USSR"
2. "Dear Prudence"
3. "Glass Onion"
4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
5. "Wild Honey Pie"
6. "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill"
7. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
8. "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"




LADO B
1. "Martha My Dear"
2. "I'm So Tired"
3. "Blackbirds"
4. "Piggies"
5. "Rocky Racoon"
6. "Don't Pass Me By"
7. "Whay Don´t We Do It On The Road"
8. "I Will"
9. "Julia"



LADO C
1. "Birthday"
2. "Yer Blues"
3. "Mothe Nature's Son"
4. "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me Ans My Monkey"
5. "Sexy Sadie"
6. "Helter Skelter"
7. "Long, Long, Long"



LADO D
1. "Revolution 1"
2. "Honey Pie"
3. "Savoy Truffle"
4. "Cry, Baby Cry"
5. "Revolution 9"
6. "Good Night"




The Beatles is the ninth official album by the English rock group The Beatles, a double album released in 1968. It is commonly known as the "White Album" as it has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed in grey letters (and, on the early LP and CD releases, a serial number) on its plain white sleeve. The album was the first that The Beatles undertook following the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, and the first released by their own record label, Apple. The album's original title, A Doll's House, was changed when the English progressive rock band Family released the similarly titled Music in a Doll's House earlier that year. It has sold over 30 million copies world-wide.

The Beatles was written and recorded during a period of turmoil for the group, after visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India and having a particularly productive songwriting session in early 1968. The group returned to the studio for recording from May to October 1968, only to have conflict and dissent drive the group members apart. Drummer Ringo Starr quit the band for a brief time, leaving Paul McCartney to perform drums on some of the album's songs. Many of the songs were "solo" recordings, or at least by less than the full group, as each individual member began to explore his own talent.

Upon release in November 1968, the album received mixed to positive reviews and reached the number one spot on the charts in the United Kingdom and United States. The album is notable for the eclectic nature of its songs, which has divided critics in evaluating the album's legacy. In 2003, the album was ranked number 10 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

INTÉRPRETE

The Beatles: Liverpool

The Beatles fue una banda inglesa de rock que se formó en Liverpool en 1960. Es frecuentemente reconocida como la más comercialmente exitosa y críticamente aclamada en la historia de la música popular. Desde 1962 estuvo integrada por John Lennon (guitarra rítmica, vocalista), Paul McCartney (bajo, vocalista), George Harrison (guitarra solista, vocalista) y Ringo Starr (batería, vocalista). Aunque en sus inicios tocaban skiffle y rock and roll de los años cincuenta, a lo largo de su carrera trabajaron con distintos géneros musicales, interpretando desde el folk rock hasta el rock psicodélico. La naturaleza de su enorme popularidad, que había emergido primeramente con la moda de la «Beatlemanía», se transformó al tiempo que sus composiciones se volvieron más sofisticadas. Llegaron a ser percibidos como la encarnación de los ideales progresistas, extendiendo su influencia en las revoluciones sociales y culturales de la década de 1960.

Con una formación inicial de cinco elementos que incluía a Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bajo) y Pete Best (batería), construyeron su reputación en los clubes de Liverpool y Hamburgo en un período de tres años a partir de 1960. Sutcliffe abandonó la formación en 1961, y Best fue reemplazado por Starr al año siguiente. Establecidos como grupo profesional después de que Brian Epstein les ofreciera ser su representante, y con su potencial musical mejorado por la creatividad del productor George Martin, lograron éxito comercial en el Reino Unido a finales de 1962 con su primer sencillo, «Love Me Do». A partir de ahí, fueron adquiriendo popularidad internacional a lo largo de los siguientes años, en los cuales hicieron un extenso número de giras hasta 1966, año en que cesaron la actividad en vivo para dedicarse únicamente a la grabación en el estudio hasta su disolución en 1970. Después, todos sus integrantes se embarcaron en exitosas carreras independientes. Lennon sería asesinado a las afueras de su casa de Nueva York en 1980, y Harrison fallecería de cáncer en 2001. McCartney y Starr aún permanecen activos.

Durante sus años de estudio crearon algunos de sus mejores materiales, incluyendo el Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), considerado por muchos como una obra maestra. Cuatro décadas después de su separación, la música que crearon continúa siendo popular. Se mantienen como el grupo con más números uno en las listas británicas, situando más álbumes en esta posición que cualquier otra agrupación musical. De acuerdo con las certificaciones de la RIAA, han vendido más discos en los Estados Unidos que cualquier otro artista. En 2008, la revista Billboard publicó una lista de los artistas más exitosos de todos los tiempos en el Hot 100 con motivo del 50 aniversario de la lista de éxitos, y The Beatles fueron colocados en el número uno. Fueron galardonados con siete premios Grammy, y recibieron quince premios Ivor Novello de la Academia Británica de Compositores y Autores. En 2004, la revista Rolling Stone los clasificó en el número uno en su lista de los «50 artistas más grandes de todos los tiempos». De acuerdo con la misma publicación, la música innovadora de The Beatles y su impacto cultural ayudaron a definir los años sesenta. También fueron colocados en el puesto No. 1 por el sitio de Internet Acclaimed Music en su lista «The Top 1000 Artists of All Time» y por Digital Dream Door en su lista «100 Greatest Rock Artists».

OTRAS VERSIONES

Phish; Def FX; Little Fyodor; Alarm Will Sound