# Beatles Catalog: Why include Revolution #9?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-catalog-why-include-revolution-9/216653
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 3, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-catalog-why-include-revolution-9/216653 "2003-12-03T05:03:14Z")
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#### Post date: [December 4, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-catalog-why-include-revolution-9/216653/21 "2003-12-04T19:36:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by vibrotronica \*  
> \*\*Put a dance beat under “Revolution 9” and you’ve got a trance or techno song. It’s practically pop music now.
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> Note: I am not advocating the dancification of “Revolution 9”, just pointing out the similarities between what is apparently still scarily avant guard music and the music that millions of people listen and dance to every day. “Revolution 9” makes better use of samples than 90% of P Diddy’s catalog. \*\*

Wow, I had never thought of that, but now that I do, you’re right. I have seen “Tomorrow Never Knows” called an early techno song. But as for “Revolution 9,” yeah, the same loops could be combined in sync with a beat and it could pass for techno.

I’m all for the avante-garde-ization of pop music, but I do wish “dance music” would incorporate some more interesting rhythms and time signatures. But maybe that’s just a reflection of my personal “spazz out” dance style. Spazzing out is just cooler when it’s in like, 23/4 or something.

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