10 Weirdest Songs By Legendary Artists

When the Beatles arrived back in England after undergoing transcendental meditation, they had more songs than they knew what to do with. The refreshing new atmosphere coming out of India gave them a much better outlook on their craft, and The White Album gave us every facet of what the Fab Four entailed, with acoustic ballads and abrasive rockers often put right next to each other on the track listing. Most of us could handle a bit of tonal whiplash, but Revolution 9 was when we started to become subjected to absolute chaos.

Around the time that John Lennon started to make avant garde music with Yoko Ono, he completely recontextualized the hit single that he just recorded and expanded it even further, making a version of the song that went on for 8 minutes and served as an audio collage of what a revolution of the mind should have sounded like. While George Harrison was originally interested in making the whole thing work, it's easily one of the strangest tracks in the band's career, taking all these random snippets and chopping them up into something different, from someone continually saying "Number 9" in the beginning of the song to Yoko saying lines like "you become naked" into the microphone.

By the time that you get to the very end of the song, you almost need a song like Good Night to follow, with Ringo left to turn out the lights and give us a worthy end to the mammoth experience that we've been through. You can't fault John for wanting to push himself, but including something like this on a Beatles record may have been one of the first times when the chemistry of the band started to hit a brick wall.