Revolution
1. Mellotron Music No. 1 [1.30 - May 68 John's home demo]
2. Girl [2.04 - 11 Nov 65 Monitor mix]
3. We Can Work It Out/Lucy From Littletown [2.46 - Sep 65/??? Paul's demo/John's poem]
4. Michelle [0.58 - Sep 65 Paul's instrumental demo]
5. We Can Work It Out [2.13 - 20 Oct 65 Single-tracked vocal (RM1)]
6. It's Not Too Bad [0.47 - Late Sep 66 John's demo #1]
7. It's Not Too Bad [1.15 - Late Sep 66 John's demo #2]
8. It's Not Too Bad [1.27 - Late Sep 66 John's demo #3]
9. Good Morning Good Morning [1.02 - Early Feb 67 John's home demo]
10. Mellotron Music No. 2 [0.29 - May 68 John's home demo]
11. Revolution [3.27 - 10 Jul 68 Take 15 (no organ)]
12. Across The Universe [3.52 - 4 Feb 68 Interim mix of take 8]
13. Revolution 9 [7.46 - 21 Jun 68 Rough mix from acetate]
14. Mellotron Music No. 3 [0.21 - May 68 John's home demo]
15. Julia [3.21 - Summer 68 John's home demo]
16. Stranger In My Arms [3.35 - May 68 John's home demo]
17. Revolution 1 [23.40 - 4 Jun 68 Overdub session]
18. Hey Jude [7.09 - 4 Sep 68 Promo film (video version)]
19. Revolution [3.27 - 4 Sep 68 Promo film]
Eight of the 15 songs here were previously unreleased, with the most interesting material being the mellotron music and the Revolution sessions. Girl is incomplete and is different than the version on ARTIFACTS. The composing demos for Strawberry Fields are quite interesting for us musical historians. Michelle may be bogus and is not the same as on the GARAGE TAPES. Stranger In My Arms is a unique and previously unreleased artifact performed by Lennon. Revolution I is pretty much spoiled by Yoko's jabbering during the playback of the song. This disc suffers from some hiss and surface noise.
Track 13. Revolution No. 9
(this analysis and transcription by Ron Synovitz, Prague)
Comment: At last! A sedative to cure those who've heard "Mary Jane" too many times. This alternative mono mix was realized by Lennon in June, 1968 and cut onto a double-sided acetate. (The needle skips momentarily amid Lennonmmbls in mock Italian, Russian and Japanese.) Opens with a half-dozen uncluttered loops strung in succession. Then comes the wit album unburied, vommitting at Slagger's, more Lennonmmbls and another "out/in" while George reads a la William Burroughs. Here's a transcription of some of the scraps, and there's plenty more where this came from:
Loop: Number nine, number nine, number nine...
Lennon: The third party...
George: What, and a few days later... Disappeared... The informed, for the passed by-laws. The situation. They are standing still. Ponder. A telegram from the late Colonel. He couldn't school a place...
Loop: Number nine. Number nine...
Lennon: His legs were drawn and his hands were tied and his feet were bent and his nose was burning. His head was on fire. His glasses were insane. This was the end of his audience.
George: ...this thing had a radio built into it which enabled him to move about all over the classroom.
Loop: . ..number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine...
Lennon: Oh, heaven's to bity... realiably censored and... so reasonably discharged at the time of the wedding. He spoke of opium and informed them, after he had told them, he explained that he was insane. He was insane and there wasn't a thing that they could do about it. And the Doctor had told him he had better get to somewhere like out/in the country because his lungs were going for a bear-den. So the wife told him he'd better go to see a sair-geon. But faced with what he'd taken, he could have no more have thought a sair-geon than he could have had a yellow one but fore-warned. So anyroad, he went to the dentist instead and got a pair-r-r of teeth...
Loop: ...number nine, number nine, number nine...
Lennon: Bell pell of mine, bell...
George: In a doorway.
Lennon: Personality complex.
George: Only to find the nightwatchman.
Lennon: Onion soup.
George: But his presence ...
Lennon: Lazy-haired talent. Industrial output. Financial Imbalance.
George: Thrusting it between his shoulder blades.
Lennon: The Watusi. The Twist.
George: Eldorado.
(Mellotron and Yoko softly singing.)
Lennon: Take this brother, may it serve you well.
George the Jasper: "Thank you.... I'd just like to say. (end)