10 Perfect Rock Albums Ruined By One Bad Song
2. Revolution 9 - The Beatles
Out of all the amazing albums that the Beatles had given us in the '60s, their self titled White Album stands up as an absolutely beautiful mess. Throughout every single song, you get the sense that the Fab Four are getting more and more fractured with each others' creative input, leading to songs that sound less like Beatles tracks and more like the precursors to solo material from John, Paul, George, and Ringo. It's definitely a trip to listen to...until you get to the second to last song.
Looking to out do his original single version of the song Revolution, John Lennon used Revolution 9 as a means to get as experimental as possible. Whereas most of his other songs on this record had a sort of gentle beauty to them like Julia, this is one of the most off the wall things he ever was associated with, complete with Yoko chiming in with "you become naked" and the entire thing playing out like a sound collage meant to symbolize what Lennon himself thought about the concept of Revolution.
What's even crazier was the idea that he originally wanted this song out as a single, which would have made for a marketing disaster when your last single was Hey Jude. It's a good thing that Good Night comes on after this to close out the album, because we definitely need something to tend to our musical wounds after that.