What episode is this saying from, who said it and what did it mean in the Simpsons?
"Number 9, number 9"?
Apr 10, 2003, 9:13 PM ET22 posts by 13 posters
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barney, homer's barbershop quartet, and its a reference to "revolution # 9" by the beatles
Isn't it the B-Sharp one? They are set to record, and Barney comes in late (with either Yoko Ono, or someone meant to be like her), and he wants to record an avante-guard piece, which consists of burping and someone repeatedly saying "number 9". I think Barney was doing the burping, and the woman was saying the "number 9". Obviously it was a take off on the Beatles; I never thought it had any further meaning.
Michael
It's gotta be from the Beatles/Barbershop Quartet episode except it's "Number 8".
Barney is with his Yoko Ono and he announces to the other members of the band: "I'm taking barbershop music to strange new places" The recording plays "Number Eight..." {BELCH} "Number Eight..." {BELCH}
If you don't get that reference, head over to Bowling Green University in Ohio for the Bachelor's Degree program in Pop Culture.
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I think I'll just head over there right now!
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I don't know what was more disturbing.... The request or the fact that Moe had one under the counter....
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I could write a BOOK in reply to this question... However i wont.
The entire episode that that came from was a parody on the beatles. Barny was the John Lennon of the group, the most talented of them all... And when john lennon met yoko ono in the early 1970's, it was an interesting mix to say the least. On the beatles final release, the white album, there was a track titled "Revolition no. 9", which was just some odd sound clips strung together that made up a very "different sound" which wasnt really a song, but more or less an avante garde art piece. The main track in the mix was an englishman who kept repeating "Number nine, number nine" over and over...
When barny meets the asian woman, this is an obvious reference to where the beatles were when lennon met yoko. the band was sort of falling apart, and yoko was always "there" when the beatles were trying to make music. The track was on the album because john would do anything for yoko, and he, like barny, thought that they would take the group in interesting new directions.
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"Steven C \(Doktersteve\)" wrote in message news:...
I'd hold off on writing that book... the Beatles released Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, and Let It Be after the White Album. Of course, Yellow Submarine had a total of four new songs on it, and Let It Be was actually recorded before Abbey Road, but The Beatles aka The White Album was recorded and released a full two years before the band broke up.
Lennon met Yoko in 1968 - which was the year they recorded and released the White Album. Besides that, everything else is pretty accurate. Ono used to follow Lennon into the bathroom at the studio! Her constant presence really damaged John and Paul's relationship, and is cited as one of the main reasons for their breakup.
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Wow, it must make you feel so proud of yourself to be so right all the time, and do it in such a prickish sort of way. Good for you.
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Actually, John met Yoko in 1966. And now I'm the prick.
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No, you arent. you didnt do it in that shitty little "matter of factly" way that the other guy did it. ;-)
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"Steven C \(Doktersteve\)" wrote in message news:...
- Let me be the prick now. The "englishman" was George Martin and IMO John Lennon was not the most talented of the Beatles. McCartney and Lennon were equally talented.
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my turn to be a prick. ;)
I used to think that paul was just as talented as john, but then i had the opprotunity to work in a music store and gradually hear/pirate all of both thier catalouges. What i realized was that lennon was a far superior writer to mcartney. looking back on thier post beatles careers, mcartney may have been more of a fan favorite, but lennon was a poet, and an excellent musician who wrote really very good lyrics, while paul mcartney was doint rehashes of "sing along junk" on his self titled album and stuff like "jet" with wings... Not much of a comparison.
that crap with "mcartney/lennon" and renaming things is also disconcerning to me. i dont think that is a classy thing for him to do at all, and makes him look petty.
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- All Lennon's pre-"Plastic Ono Band" solo stuff was just ungodly awful. I'm as big a Lennon fan as the next guy, but "Watching the Wheels" ???... come on man... those lyrics are pretty lame. Still, lyric-wise I'll give the nod to John, but McCartney's Beatle-era songs speak for themselves. "Paperback Writer", "Elanor Rigby", "Hello, Goodbye", "For No One", "Here, There and Everywhere"... all those songs have great original lyrics. Secondly, Paul was really the innovative songwriter of the band. Look at all the leaps the Beatles made in their careers, each phase was spurred by Paul's songwriting, especially post-revolver when Paul led the group. Just wanted to get that off my chest in a Simpsons group of all places.
P.S. The best post-Beatles composition by any Beatle was "Every Night" on Pauls first album IMO.
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Its interesting that you mention Elanor Rigby. It was one of the only songs that john and paul ever debated over writing credits. Watching the wheels is a very reflective song written about the fact that people honestly couldnt understand how lennon could basically STOP being in the spotlight, and take time off to be a full time dad... I think that it is a pretty personal song, and it is decent, but to each thier own. I think that songs like "God", "Steel and glass", and "#9 dream" are great, but to each thier own. Stylistically, you cant compare the two. The are too different.
I think that there is a problem with comparing john and paul when they were with the beatles, and when they were without the beatles. I was talking about just post beatles, not when they were together. When they were together, paul seemed to be better than when they were apart... But paul also liked to blow his own horn and talk like he was king of the world, and i dont dig that. i loose respect for him right there. Post revolver was great, but i wouldnt say that paul was leading the group as much as pulling it apart. it was his idea to put cameras in the studio for abbey road and let it be sessions, and that put so much stress on the group that some said it was one of the reasons they parted ways.
and whatever you do, dont talk about plastic ono band. Yech. lol.
It is a shame that john is gone, and that george passed away. together they were musical geniuses... I dont think that anyone could have argued that.
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- I'm pretty sure you are thinking of "In My Life". Elanor Rigby was all Paul... lyrics, music, everything. Come to think of it, even though Paul sang Rigby, it does sound more like a John song. And even though John sang "In My Life" it sounds much more like a Paul song. Generally, post-Rubber Soul era, I give credit to whomever sings the song as at this point they didn't collaborate much. Both songs are equally good, so I guess it doesn't matter. In the McCartney biography, "In My Life" was the only song mentioned as "disputed".
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In alt.tv.simpsons, on the "Re: "Number 9, number 9"?" thread, RoboHump wrote:
Ooh! Ooh! My turn!
The Abbey Road studios were also used to record the auditions of students applying to some British music school. While assembling the sounds that would become "Revolution 9," John found one of the audition tapes. The man leading the audition would announce, "number ___" before the student played. John evidently liked the way "number nine" sounded, and made it the leitmotif of the song.
I'm pretty sure I read the foregoing in Mark Lewisohn's history of the Beatles at Abbey Road, but I don't have it with me now, so I can't confirm it.
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See, this is exactly why the Internet should be abolished. People are always getting their feelings hurt.
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LOL. :-)
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