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the song list as it appears on Revolver, tracks 1-14


the song list as it appears on Revolver, tracks 1-14 - SORTED BY SPEED



The album 'Revolver' by the Beatles marked a changing point in contemporary music in so many ways that one could Google 'Revolver' and all the opinions thereon and not finish in three lifetimes!

At Meanspeed Music Research Labs in New Jersey, we set out to calibrate the entire Beatles catalog. Indeed, we have finished Revolver.



These charts represent the speeds, or tempos, and depending how much of a geek one is, "tempi." In and of itself, this is not such a big deal. Two things, though *do* make it big:
1) all beat per minute lines showing the line of advance of any of these 14 songs, or *any* of the songs calibrated here, are done in
a) the song's *entirety*;
b) in a contiguous manner; and

2) such an undertaking is the first of its kind, making me anything from very driven and talented or very driven by deluded ideation. In this regard, it is up to YOU to decide.



The Beatles Project will continue with the next album *in its entirety* - I hope you beatles purists like that - as I am a Genesis 'purist' and if one of you all were doing that which I am blessed enough to do, I would want every beat of every album - not just the 'stuff that got played on the radio.

We are beginning to hear more feedback - and we thank you for that. It was a particularly strong letter from a media corporation in California that said, "KEEP GOING! We keep your website online 24/7 in the studio and you have no idea what a difference it has made." Ah - yes, some things are far sweeter than money. The meanspeed conjecture, secretly called Emotion 9 as of last night's Meanspeed Music board meeting (all 4 of us!) wherein one of the members realized that the secret to the ACCURACY OF THE beats per minute is due largely from averaging nine trials. If we were averaging only 7 trials, the average tempo in any space would be correct with an error of +/- 1.02% - it is the ninth trial that makes any meanspeed accurate to +/- 0.067% - an element that has made many academics eyes suddenly turn a wild green. Exceptions: Drs. Van Gelder, Clynes, Repp, Levitin. These four academics are so assured of their role in the endeavor of discerning what makes music psyche us up - what makes us not want to hear music at all and, on this page: what makes a player in a particular mood play at a *predictable tempo*. And why is the tempo scale so full of counterintuivity? The most striking counterintuitive element of Emotion 9: why are the songs at 81 beats per minute predictive of lonely emotive performances and 76 beats per minute indicative of grace and comfort? Aren't songs supposed to get *happier as they speed up*? Fact is, from 116 bpm to 119 indicates a movement from foreboding to victory. Logical. Also, a movement where the tempo is 86 bpm, which falls in the beginning of the category renewal (songs at approximately 85-89 bpm) rather than 83 is predictive of loneliness (songs at approximately 79-84 bpm) loneliness indeed sees an emotion of the lonely going into rehab ("I Want To Know What Love Is," Foreigner --> speeding to one coming out of the 30 day detox renewed ("Hello, It's Me," Todd Rungren).

And what is Emotion 9? The short answer is that it is the total pelvic rhythm of orgasm in both men and women - approximately 98-105 bpm. Leave it to the German anal probe experiments on orgasm to give us an accuracy as to the Ultimate Feeling of Natural Euphoria (orgasm). The meanspeed scale is, as you can see by exploring the dropdown screen -
Those ranges are as follows:

1. 54-58-Melodrama
2. 59-62-Sincerity
3. 63-69-Ceremony
4. 70-76-Grace
5. 77-78-Bittersweetness
6. 79-84-Loneliness
7. 85-89-Renewal
8. 90-97-Enthusiasm
9. 98-105-Natural
10. 106-113-Lust
11. 114-118-Foreboding
12. 119-128-Victory.

Personally, I find Emotion 8 to be the best cognitive tempo. Robert Louis Stevenson rules with one of the best aphorisms ever: "It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."



Revolver Slideshow - by Sophia St. John Newman, James C.C. Manning & Sarah Jane Bristol





Ian Andrew Schneider
Emotion 9
April 27, 2008

This chart represents the speed of the song "With A Little Help From My Friends." The handwritten [lyrics] are where they were calibrated in a contiguous manner exactly as explained on meanspeed.com.“With A Little Help From My Friends” is the second track, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, on The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.



You may follow each contiguous calibration of each 10-beat group:
1-10 - "What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and / 11-20 - walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll / 21-30 - sing you a song and I'll try not to sing out of key! Oh / 31–40 - I get by with a little help from my friends - Mm, I get high
/ 41-50 - with a little help from my friends - Mm, I’m gonna try with a little / 51-60 – help from my friends! / 61-70 - What do I do when my love is away? / 71-80 - Does it worry you to be alone? / 81-90 - How do I feel by the end of the day? Are you sad because you're / 91-100 - On your own? No, I get by with a little help from my friends / 101-110 -Oh, I get high with a little help from my friends / 111-120 - Mm, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends! Do you / 121-130 - Need anybody? I need / 131-140 - Somebody to love! Could it be anybody? / 141-150 - I want somebody to love / 151-160 - Would you believe in a love at first sight? Yes, I'm / 161-170 - Certain that it happens all the time! What do you / 171-180 - See when you turn out the light? I can't tell you, but I know it's mine! / 181-190 - Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends! / 191-200 - Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends! Oh, I’m gonna / 201-210 Try with a little help from my friends! Do you / 211-220 - Need anybody I just need someone to love / 221-230 Could it be anybody / 231-240 I want somebody to love - Oh, I get / 241-250 By with a little help from my friends! Mm, Gonna try with a / 251-260 - Little help from my friends Oh! I get high with a little help from my / 261-270 – friends. Yes, I get by with a little help from my friends / 271-280 - with a little help from my friends!!!"

These meanspeed charts are different because nothing even remotely like them exist anywhere - except from where they have been "borrowed" from this page or other meanspeed places online. We are flattered by the borrowing - but letting us know would be not only a moral thing to do - it would make us feel good! Wouldn't you want the same notice - especially when unique information is vouched for as scientifically accurate and free of charge. Try going anywhere in any space - cyberspace, outerspace, real space - and finding information as this. If you find it, please let us know!!! We will stop publishing. Please know the thrill of doing so much work with a guarantee that no one has ever done it before. And take a song as this. Seriously, if you were to gather every piece of information about this song, would you would not get through it it 50 lifetimes? Probably not. Notwithstanding, I do not think you will find anything as we present in an online space or even professorial desk. An engineer's booth, sure. But try getting the information out of a top flight engineer! They are paid to keep recording secrets. Duh. Because of lack of alternative of finding out how fast the song really goes, and just pieces of the song, but the entire song as a contiguous piece, we could have tried to make a gadget or retail-therapy tool by which you would be promised, like the charlatans (Mozart Effect Crowd of Smarm) out there, you can gain a new way to change your mood. No, a song like this, with its music irony: using a speed most often expresses in contemporary music with a more raw lust with a simple strong desire to *connect* -

That is about all we can say that is new about With A Little Help From My Friends is that as we repeat - the lust for connection is on the side of the performer - here, Ringo Starr and the Beatles. If you are feeling lonely, playing this song is more likely to make you feel *more* lonely! Hence, the reason to want to understand the meanspeed music conjecture. Knowing what speed makes you feel leas lonely and what speed makes you feel like competing and what speeds are best for your sex life - that is great stuff, and we do not even ask for a thing. People as ourselves exist (goodness lives).

Meanspeed-Carlton Summary, supervised by James C.C. Manning
song title=With A Little Help From My Friends
composer=John Lennon and Paul McCartney
mean time per trial=150.11 seconds
beats per trial=280
average beat=536 milliseconds
mean speed/average tempo=111.9 beats per minute
meanspeed conjecture category/mean emotion=lust



An excellent article on Ringo can be found here:

http://medisinmusicforthemasses.wordpress.com/historically-influential-drummers/.

Personally, what freaks me out the most is that Ringo is a left handed man who played in a right handed style. If Paul was not *also* left handed, would the Beatles have been, well, who they are?

 

 

Ian Andrew Schneider

April 25, 2008

Meanspeed Music Research Labs

New Jersey, United States