If you believe that there’s no such thing as too much “Tomorrow Never Knows” (the Beatles’ most psychedelic and best song), then Nurse With Wound/Current 93 collaborator Andrew Liles’s special 50th anniversary 50-minute remix of Revolver’s peak will utterly ravish your senses. The first 15 minutes of coiling tamboura sound like something Alejandro Jodorowsky could’ve used in the early part of The Holy Mountain. At about 15:40, the famous swooping seagull guitar feedback and slack, quasi-funk beats drop in, and the sidewinding tamboura continues to snarl sonorously. Paul McCartney’s stealthy bass line bobs hypnotically, the stoic foundation for all the lysergic hurly-burly teeming above it.

At 23 minutes, John Lennon’s voice comes in with some of that good ol' Tibetan Book of the Dead wisdom: “Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream/It is not dying, it is not dying/Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void/It is shining, it is shining.” Liles eventually subtly distorts his voice and then floods it in ectoplasmic guitar whoosh. All the while, Paul’s bass continues to woob woob with preternatural stolidity; it is, low-key, the hero of the whole endeavor. The second half makes you feel as if you've taken several hits of Owsley and your mind has cleverly rearranged the original’s 2 minutes and 58 seconds’ worth of elements to fit into some mythical hallucinatory memory of the first time you heard the song. There is also much guitar conflagration that’s extrapolated into mushroom clouds of masturbatory squealing—but it is highest quality masturbatory squealing. Eddie Van Halen would concur.

I dunno; after one listen to this marathon revamp of “TNK,” I’m ready to call it the zenith of Western Civilization. Fair warning, though: The comedown is brutal.