The Beatles - Revolution Take... Your Knickers Off! FLAC

GENRE: Rock 
FORMAT: Lossless (Flac) 
SIZE: 666 mb (3% Recovery) 

This is an essential set, even if you have everything else, for just one track.
The 11 and a half minute Revolution #1 is great to listen to, good fun and reveals the source of one "Love" album sample !
Label: His Master's Choice ‎– HMC 006
Released: 2008

TRACKLIST:

DISC 1
1. Revolution #1 (RM 1)
…Here for the first time in its full 10 minute+ glory…
2. Revolution (Single version, no piano)
…from the initial session that the recording heard on this disc is taken, complete with cunt-in and no fade out…
3. Across the universe (Alternate mix take 8)
…This version presented here, an alternate mix from take 8, contains various overdubs – some backwards – that were not used in the released version., together with pre-song banter and a full ending…
4. Dear Prudence
…an alternate mono mix, complete with a post-song comment from John Lennon and other extraneous noises from the original master tape…
5. Julia (instrumental take 1+2)
…a collection of John Lennon home recordings of his song Julia, in far better sound quality and from a longer tape source than has ever appeared before.
6. Julia (SI onto take 2)
…a vocal track and a second guitar… The quality of this source tape is incredible…
7. Julia (SI onto take 2 2nd try)
…a second try at overdubbing…
8~15. Step inside love (Rehearsals and session takes 1~4 + chat)


DISC 2
01~21. Come and get it (Session takes 1~26)
22~31. No escaping your love (Session takes 1~11)


NOTE:

Revolution Take…. Your Knickers Off! on His Master’s Choice was released recently and is the most interesting and significant Beatles release in a long time.  The centre of interest is the newly discovered pristine sounding “Revolution” which kicks off this collection of Beatles rarities.  This is the original ten minute long take from which “Revolution #1” is taken from and which appears on The Beatles monitor mix collections such as At Abbey Road Show Vol. 2 (Master Of Beatles Essentials MBE-12-07001/2/3) and  “Off White”:  The Complete Recordings, Sessionography, And Mixography (OWNO.9 001-009)among many others.  The problem with the track as it appears in these older collections is the inane stream-of-consciousness babbling of Yoko Ono  and the fact that it is essentially an amateur recording of the playback in the studio.   

News outlets such as CNET and NME have expressed doubt on its authenticity with CNET going so far as to pronounce it a hoax seemingly without realizing that the take has been circulating for years.  What is new on HMC 06 is that now we have the entire track in crisp mono without Yoko ruining it.  So what we have for the first four and a half minutes are the basic track “Revolution #1” without the horns, piano and fuzzy guitars.  And whereas the finished track fades out when Lennon begins to warp his “alights,” the song here continues for another seven minutes with same basic rhythm but various freak outs that would be utilized in “Revolution #9” including George and Paul adding their “mama/dada” vocal line.  The tracks ends with Lennon giggling “let’s hear it,” Yoko saying “too much” and George saying “it sounds great.”

The rest of the collection contains more sessions and alternate mixes that have been out before but in significantly improved sound quality.  “Revolution” (single version, no piano) is from the initial session that the recording heard on this disc complete with cut-in and no fade out.  “Across The Universe” is an alternate mix of take eight which contains various overdubs, some backwards, that were not used in the released version together with pre-song banter and a full ending.  “Dear Prudence” is an alternate mono mix complete with a post-song comment from Lennon and other extraneous noises from the original master tape. 

“Julia” instrumental takes one and two are a collection of Lennon home recordings in much better sound quality than has ever appeared before.  The ending of the first disc is the session where McCartney worked with Cilia Black on “Step Inside Love.”  Again, this tape has been issued before but this is in superior sound quality.  The second disc contains sessions for “Come And Get It” and “No Escaping Your Love.”  It becomes slightly repetitive but again, like with everything in this collection are in much improved sound quality.  HMC 06 is packaged in a hard cover booklet with many pages of detailed liner notes and rare photographs of the Beatles from the mid to late sixties.  With the gorgeous production and incredible sound quality this is easily the most significant Beatles release in years and is essential.   

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