It's "Revolution" that gets Dave Marsh's top respect at #656 on his list of the 1001 greatest singles ever made, though "Jude" is at #8 on Rolling Stone magazine's list. Quite a bargain! Importantly, Marsh singles out this version of "Revolution" over those on the "White album," and rightly so. Not only is the message somewhat different on this 3:22 track, but the attack on the 45 version is as ferocious as The Beatles ever got -- that fuzz guitar simply powers the entire room when it starts up, whereas on the longer, slower LP version ("Revolution 1", 4:16), the guitar arrives late and has a more typical Beatlesque (perfect, but nothing Nasty about it) tone. So this re-recording is a previously unreleased, non-LP cut.
Note: This beautiful copy comes in a vintage "Beatles on Apple" factory sleeve. It has Near Mint labels, and the vinyl looks only lightly touched. The audio grades Near Mint as well, with a touch of surface noise during the quiet early segment of the A side. I heard no surface noise on the B side. (This scan is a representative image from our archives.)
