Recording

Revolution 9
The Beatles

Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released

1968

Label

Apple

On

Musique Concrète and Twice Over

Updated

2026-08-30

1. 08

   Ranked No. 8 in Musique Concrète

   Tape loops and a repeated announcement, on the best-selling record in the world. However you rate it, it put twenty years of studio experiment into millions of houses at once.

2. ·

   Picked by Twice Over

   A tape collage on the best-selling record of its decade, sitting in our musique concrète ranking beside people who spent their lives in institutional studios. Whether it is good is genuinely arguable. That it is the thing itself, in the charts, is not.