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Sets the standard for most modern music. Some great tracks here, well composed and lyrically great. Enjoyed this album alot, classic Beatles in every way.
Musically very varied and it really shows how they have been influential, but as an album itself I feel some of the songs seem unfinished, rushed
¿De verdad me estás pidiendo que opine de este disco? ¿De verdad?
Some great songs, some pretty experimental songs, overall pretty good. Need to listen more to appreciate more I think. Favorites: Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow Never Knows
Uno de los mejores álbumes de todos los tiempos. Innovador, entretenido, creativo y sorprendente. Este LP revolucionó el panorama musical de la época y tras una serie de remasterizaciones, sigue fascina hasta el día de hoy. Realmente un indispensable musical y un clásico del rock.
Overall a great album, I can't believe I never listened to it the whole way through. I've heard all the songs in various anthologies but there's something special about listening to the album as originally intended. Here are some notes by track: 1. Tax Man - One of my all time favorites, always listen to it when doing my taxes 2. Eleanor Rigby - Brings back memories of a 45 on my Fisher Price record player when I was 6 years old 3. I'm only sleeping - Lazy/Crazy, what a great rhyme 4. Love you to - Not my favorite, could do without it 5. Here, there and everywhere - Not bad, decidedly 60's 6. Yellow Submarine - See #2, it was the flip side 7. She said, she said - Not bad 8. Good day sunshine - It makes me smile 9. And your bird can sing - I like it 10. For no one - This is a great song about broken heart denial 11. Dr Robert - I zoned out for this one 12. I want to tell you - Thumbs up 13. Got to get you into my life - Love it! 14. Tomorrow never knows - Trippy
It's fine. Nice mix of instrumentation, there are sevel well know hits on here, exceptional audio mastering (at least in the 2022 mix) and recording quality that sounds like it could have been recorded today. These are all relatively short tracks, with the longest clocking in at a whopping three minutes. I've never been particularly hot for the Beatles. I can't say for sure that I've ever listened to a full album from them, but this listen-through helps give me a better respect for them. Tomorrow Never Knows may be my favorite track. I like the 1st take version released on the super deluxe re-release even better—one might describe the sound as industrial Egyptian rock.
I sure hope I don't lose any friends over this, but The Beatles don't do much for me. I think my dad was probably a Stones-over-Beatles guy, and I don't recall 97.5 or 98.5 playing much of the Beatles when I was a kid, so I never listened to them much despite their popularity. I think I listened to one of their greatest hits albums about a decade ago, and it didn't grab me enough to ever follow up. I feel like "Yellow Submarine" is a terrible song; I just don't get how that became one of their hits. I thought maybe I was missing something, so I listened to the version on the "Yellow Submarine" album, and it still sucks. They named a whole album after this dogshit?? I know people smoked a lot of pot in the '60s and '70s, but I can't imagine being high enough to think this is a good song. Then again, I don't have a great imagination. I guess I just had to be there at the time? Some of the songs on this album are decent, but I can't say I loved any of them. "Got To Get You Into My Life" was pretty good, though. Sorry. I know this is sacrilegious, but I can't honestly give this any better than a 2, and I wouldn't blame anyone who gives it a 1. I will now turn in my Music Fan card, admit to being uncultured swine, and delete the 1,300 or so albums on my laptop/iPod.
I enjoyed this album more than some other times I’ve tried to get into the Beatles in the past, when I’ve wanted to like their music more but just found I couldn’t get into more than a handful of songs. There was a lot I liked in this, even if some of the songs were forgettable. “Tomorrow Never Knows” is one I tagged for more future listens.
Last year they released a super deluxe edition of this record. There are 5 discs in total, 2 of which were alternate tracks, including 2 of Eleanor Rigby of just the orchestral parts, they were gorgeous. It is a beautiful album.
The songwriting on this is wild, every track has some super catchy hook and almost all of them are excellent. Goes down smooth after listening to the White Album - Revolver still has an interesting mix of styles, but it's really coherent as well, a great album listen. Also the average track length is really short (2.5 mins) - might be a product of the era? Either way it's great.
I mean, I’m not gonna say anything revolutionary here; no hot takes. This is one of, if not, the best arranged album of all time. I don’t think there can be an argument. No skips, no lulls, nothing that should’ve been left off the track list. It’s not my favorite Beatles album, and I don’t think it’s their best, but if you think that, I wouldn’t fight you on it. Do yourself a favor and listen to the 2022 mix if you can!
I can appreciate the production experimentation here (and I like LSD too), but the fact of the matter is that I do not enjoy The Beatles, and this record did not change my mind.
Amazing Beatles favourite track I'm only sleeping or here there and everywhere but she said she said she said for no one good day sunshine and of course tomorrow never knows all amazing tracks as well
Great album. One i havent heard or thought of listening to in years.
Probably the best Beatles album.
Another Beatles album, another >= 4/5
Yay another Beatles album
fuckin cockroaches
I’m too familiar with this album to really talk about it in any objective way so I’m not gonna try. I love it to death. Even if you hate it, 100% a must-listen. The Beatles at their greatest intersection of creative energy and unity as a group. Best song: this time it was Tomorrow Never Knows
Taxman is a banger, but it really makes boomers make sense. Classic album, but I’m getting a little tired of the Beatles and their associates rn 1001albums
Aaah ça nettoie mes oreilles! Définitivement un de leur meilleur album, on retrouve un bon mix entre l’expérimentation psychédélique qui suivra dans Sgt Pepper et les chansons catchy de leur début
Revolver is all the Beatles in fine form. Each Member contributes significantly whether it’s John with the experimental Tomorrow never knows or the psychedelic classic I’m only sleeping, or Paul with two of the greatest love songs of all time with htae and For no one. Revolver is one of the best albums of all time
Great album but the beetle have done better
I don’t think I have ever listened to a whole Beatles record. I am pretty sure I have most only listened to compilations. This is a really great record. Many of the songs I have been hearing my whole life yet it still sounds fresh.
Listened to already, great stuff
not sure I like this one. I do like other Beatles albums but this is a bit...strange
Second best Beatles album. 5/5.
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deserves its position as one of the best albums of all time, reminds me of smoking weed in the summer at my parents house in the country, early 20s. Was one of the first Beatles albums I got into. So much to enjoy here, even the cheesier stuff.
Album featuring some very good songs, with Eleanor Rigby as a highlight. Would be a 4 star album but "Love you to" and "Tomorrow never knows" ruin it for me.
I only wish most of the tracks were a bit longer.
Not my favourite Beatles album but still think it's better than a lot of albums any other artist has made
This album just brings me so much joy, love it any time of the day.
Among my favourite Beatles albums, just like most other Beatles albums.
Perfection.
love revolver, one of my all time favourite albums. each song is a hit
The last album of phase one, I ONE IX ^ HE DIE, No. 49, Cranberry Sauce. Brilliant album, so easy to listen to. Top notch.
I absolutely love this album. I wasn't alive when it came out, but it doesn't matter : 'Got to get you into my life' and 'Here, there and everywhere' are absolutely perfect pop songs. Chemical Brothers also heavily leant on 'Tomorrow never knows' in 'Let Forever Be.' Ahh, this is one of the few albums that deserves the hype. John's voice sounds amazing. There are pop tunes mixed with global influences. There's silliness and heartfelt simple love. I just love it. Well done The Beatles. Five stars.
Side one is a five star, no question. Side two just isn't quite to the same standard.
Good album, solid tracks, Beatles are a great band, what do you want from me? I don't know if they deserve all the hype but there are good and fun tracks here, some of which I've been listening to for decades. Favorites: Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine, Taxman, Here There and Everywhere
Listening to the Beatles always makes me smile. Great album.
4/5 This had some great songs on it. We still haven't come across my favourite album yet though. I really loved the Indian influence on them. I just really like Indian music. It was a solid album.
Yeah okay, I kinda like the Beatles, what of it? Jokes aside, good album, punchy and kept me engaged.
It's crazy how good Tomorrow Never Knows is. The whole sitar movement in the 60's was a strange time in retrospect huh. 5/5
3/5, vert psychedelic but not suuuper marking, still a good album
"Just hook it to my veiiiins!"- Barney Gumble, of the Be Sharps In all honesty, the Taxman solo distorted & repurposed for "Tomorrow Never Knows" is one of my favourite moments in any Beatles album. "For No One" is a Beatles song that I forget about for stretches of time, but am always floored by how beautiful it is. "Doctor Robert" may be the most underrated track, a great lil ditty whose only crime is being surrounded by even greater songs And of course, kudos to George Harrison for getting more songwriting representation and experimenting right off the bat, with "Love You To" and the dissonant "I Want To Tell You" July 21, 2023
Some great, some good and a few bad. It's a very well known and famous album that honestly doesn't live up to the hype that surrounds it. It would be ignored if it were released today.
After including some psychedelic influence on their last album, the Beatles seem content to embrace it a bit more with Revolver. That being said, the album is content to starts strong with the upbeat freakbeat Taxman, followed closely by the incredibly Elanor Rigby. A pure Baroque pop masterpiece that almost certainly has not been topped since. I think, more than anything, Revolver showcases the willingness of the Beatles' experimentation. Trying new sounds, varying songwriting, not being afraid to get silly. Revolver contains some of the Beatles best songs and it represents a huge turning point for the band. I know some people will prefer other Beatles but Revolver is an easy standout.
I mean, come on. Each song could be a single. So many experimentations in style but somehow a defined sound. A cracking album all around.
Genius - even Yellow Submarine
1. Taxman var en skön låt 2. Eleanor Rigby fantastisk låt 3. Im only sleeping är bra 4. Love to you ingen favorit 5. Here, there and everywhere mysig låt 6. Yellow submarine bättre än förväntat. Lite meme låt 7. She said she said. Helt ok 8. Good day sunshine. Refrängen sämre än resten av låten 9. And your birds can sing. Skön låt 10. For no one. Riktigt bra 11. Doctor Robert början var dålig blev lite bättre 12. I want to tell you. Ingen favvo 13. Got to get you into my life helt ok slutet var riktigt bra 14. Tomorrow never knows weird låt skum men skön
Good to listen to after all these years
This has always been my favourite Beatles album. Dang heck yeah.
Lot of good songs on this album. Eleanor Rigby is still one of my favorites. Varied sounds and styles. Solid 4.
A LOT of classics on this one, from Eleanor Rigby to Yellow Submarine and a few more.
Once upon a time, this album was picked apart, overlooked and then forgotten as the colorful, epoch-defining one-two punch of Sgt. Pepper's and Magical Mystery Tour set The Beatles away on a psychedelic trip for the ages. Over time, people would come to see this album for the masterpiece that it always was and would eventually notice the signs that was there all along: that Revolver, maybe, perhaps definitely, is the best album The Beatles ever made. Sure, Rubber Soul spawned Pet Sounds. Sure, the aforementioned Sgt. Pepper's and Magical Mystery Tour defined a generation. Sure, The White Album and Abbey Road would dominate the field in their diversities and denouement. But none of those albums contained the unified spirit that made The Beatles... well, you know. With the studio as an instrument and with songs that were difficult to reproduce on the increasingly oppresive stage, Revolver showcased John, Paul, George and Ringo at their most avant-garde, their most devoted to experimentation and their most creative as a whole. It is hard to believe nowadays that 35 minutes was needed to craft a cohesive statement such as this, but The Beatles not only ripped up the rulebook, they pretty much burned it. Before the train began to get off track, before one's ideas overrode the others, before the sense of the inevitable, Revolver is the best example of pop music at its most exciting, its most pure and its most mind-boggling.
Another album that's vastly superior in mono. I definitely prefer Rubber Soul, but... it's mid-career Beatles, you gotta love it. They swung wide and hit just about everything out of the park. The songs are short, so you hear a lot of different ideas in 35 minutes. It also means I only have to listen to George Harrison's sitar for 3 minutes-- I never liked his take on Indian music, and it's only gotten worse with time. Everything else is solid as a rock here, though.
Are you strapped in? Got your helmet on? Ready to clutch your pearls? I’ve got a doozy for ya: “Tomorrow Never Knows” is the best song The Beatles ever committed to tape and it’s 99.9% of the reason why I’m giving this record 5 stars.
A landmark album for The Beatles, and an absolute pleasure to listen to throughout, with only a couple of songs not quite hitting the highs the others reach (e.g. 'Love You To' or 'She Said She Said'). Also I don't care what anyone else says, Yellow Submarine is a banger. Recommended listens: Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine, Got To Get You Into My Life
This marks the beginning of the Beatles experimental phase, both in terms of recording technology and world instruments (sitar, anyone?). The album contains classics like Tomorrow Never Knows, Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, but some of the songs had not reached that iconic quality of later albums yet. This was a good first try at something different; The Beatles' next album, Sgt. Pepper, would blow the lid off completely. 4/5
we were in a hippie cult for 34 min and 45 seconds
Geweldig album, zoveel prachtige nummers.
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Ja ze zijn kwaliteit hé en tof dat het zo kort is
A stellar album - if I wasn’t decided which one of the Beatles album is the best, right this feels like it. Some of the richest of the songwriting. Even the inclusion of the Yellow Submarine doesn’t take away from the sublime beauty of this record.
ive listened to this before but it just feels so sweet and sentimental. special moment with the sitars on Love You To. Here, There, Everywhere is such a nice love song.
I love this album!
Geen perfect album want hoewel taxman en doctor Robert enzo leuk zijn, zijn ze niet levensveranderend ofzo. Maar t is wel gewoon revolver dus vier sterren zijn niet misplaatst.
Just guys being dudes. In my opinion this album is better put together than the White Album but doesn’t have the same height of individual tracks. I will also note at this juncture that I don’t care for Yellow Submarine.
Not as good as Abbey Road, but still as some nice ones in there. To not be basic ans just mention Yellow Submarine, I specially liked I'm Only Sleeping, a very trippy vibe overall, and Good Day Sunshine. Well, these guys really like to sing about the Sun.
absolute classic comfort album
Classic Beatles album, but not my favorite in their catalog. The album starts strong with jumpy 60s rock number "Taxman." Great lyrics, harmonizing, and fretwork. This turns 180 degrees into equally great for all the opposite reasons "Eleanor Rigby." This is IMO one of the prettiest pieces the Beatles ever wrote. That said, I feel like it has weird placement on the album, though I'm not sure it would fit anywhere any better. Love You To is an Indian-infused jam complete with sitar; I'm really into this one. The middle of the album is kind of weak to me. I know Yellow Submarine is a mega-hit, and I get why, but I've never been huge on it. The surrounding songs sound like generic Beatles songs -- which is to say, they are good songs, but fairly forgettable. The only memorable points to be on the back-half are For No One, Doctor Robert, and Tomorrow Never Knows. 4 / 5 (but honestly more of a 3 / 5 by Beatles standards)
Best album, ever. Best band, ever.
There are two insanely good songs being She Said She Said and Tomorrow Never Knows. These two songs are on a different level from anything The Beatles (or anyone else) had done before. As is the case on most Beatles albums, Ringo is at his most creative on John's most creative songs. The vinyl that I have is the American version which has these two songs as the only songs by John. Why anyone would leave I'm Only Sleeping off the album is beyond me. The chorus and solos on I'm Only Sleeping sound like insomnia. I'm not saying they make you feel sleep deprived; they sound like how you feel when you're sleep deprived. How they figured out how to do that boggles the mind. I had read that Tomorrow Never Knows was based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead so, being a big John fan, I bought the book. Trying to read this bad boy was as tough as anything I ever read and I never got close to even half way through. I just found out from the Wiki notes that the song was actually based on Timothy Leary's book "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead." Duh! Timothy would be a much easier read. George's Taxman and his Hindustani song are also excellent. There are even some very good songs by Paul. For No One is a very good ballad as is Eleanor Rigby. I even like Here, There and Everywhere. Interesting that this album was released before their final tour but they didn't play any songs from this album on tour. I guess the album was a little too sophisticated to tackle live with only guitars, bass, drums and screams.
This is one of the two albums (the other being Rubber Soul) that I think of as “transition” albums, that took the Beatles from the “Eight Days a Week” sixties boy band to the psychedelic, experimental, studio-only “I am the Walrus” band. Elenore Rigby is a standout and would have turned a lot of heads in ’66. In general, I’d say that the McCartney contributions are above-average and Lennon is not at his best. The wiki entry says that many critics are now ranking this LP as their “greatest” but I don’t think the song-writing is as strong as the last 2 we have received. I can’t give everything a 5!
We just got Abbey Road a few days ago so this is an interesting contrast. Both are very good albums, but both are also just a step below Sergeant Pepper in terms of cohesiveness. Side one is fabulous, but it fades a bit on Side 2, until the last song Tomorrow never knows which is one of their very best. Sergeant Pepper got a 5 from me but like Abbey Road, this is just a notch below so it also gets a four.
Very familiar.
Nothing I can really say that others haven’t already.
3/5 ja gostei mais
Omg the Beatles are good?? Who knew??
God damn, I guess I’m giving the yellow submarine album a 5
Love it! Such a good ali
10 stars.
I was expecting to like this more as it has a lot of the Beatles songs I grew up loving, but as a whole the album was just ok. Still love Eleanor Rigby.
Album rules. Only (small) thing is I could do without ever hearing Yellow Submarine again. 4.75/5
It should feel weird that I’m going to rank an Aerosmith album above a Beatles album, especially one of the “good ones”, but I could always do without one or two songs here. Still, the band was really finding their own here, and everyone offered some of their best work. Even Ringo does fine with “Yellow Submarine”. B+
Lots of catchy tunes but not my favorite Beatles album. Songs follow quite childlike lyrics and melodies, which works though would like abit more variety
Elsker halvparten av låtene, hater resten:)
5 My favourite Beatles album God its just so unbelievably good there isn't a single bad song on this it's just perfection perfection one of my favourite albums of all time Favourite songs: Tomorrow Never Knows, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing, Here There and Everywhere, Love You To, I'm Only Sleeping
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It's Revolver
I've already listened to this before and I love it. All of the tracks on here are so good. Some of my favorites are Eleanor Rigby, For No One, Here there and Everywhere, I'm Only Sleeping, and Tomorrow Never Knows. Overall an amazing album, my favorite Beatles album.
Not my favorite album by the beatles.
Beatles. Vinilo.
One of the best albums from The Beatles. It's psychadelic but in moderation. They've got a clever use of "alternative" instruments like the sitar which breaks the traditional formula in western music. This a more experimental but still grounded Beatles.
Taxman had a funny line, really strange opener Eleanor Rigby was really interesting, really interesting concept about lonely people's mark on the world, some great lyrics (will be listening to this song) I'm Only Sleeping is a bop, the drums are great, the song structure is varied and the production is really interesting with these whiney horns that are fading in and out, harmonies are great Love You To has this really amazing Egyptian/Indian vibe with its instrumental, never heard that before Here, There and Everywhere is sweet, vocals are beautiful, really laid back track Yellow Submarine's sound effects are some of the most interesting things I've ever heard on a song, and the screaming call and response bits are hilarious (will be listening to this song) She Said She Said was great, drum fills were cool Good Day Sunshine has an amazing upbeat tone with a strangely dark piano line, little piano solo in the middle there is cute, love these vocals (will be listening to this song) And Your Bird Can Sing: Goddamn that was a great opening, this upbeat vibe is amazing, end of the line guitar is awesome, guitar arpeggio reminds me of Undertale a bit (will be listening to this song) For No One: wasn't liking it at the start, but love the intriguing bass being aligned with the words at certain hits, interesting choice to have a trumpet in there Doctor Robert: This one is groovy, cool harmonies, guitar solo for two seconds was a great little choice (will be listening to this song) I Want To Tell You: Really strange tempo-bending opening, has a slightly tense vibe at certain points because of a piano which is a cool choice which doesn't fit with the groove (in a good way), like some of these harmonies Got To Get You Into My Life: Very jazzy and bold with the horns, goddamn vocals at the end, distorted wonderfully Tomorrow Never Knows: A lot is going on in this song, wow it is a clusterfuck, love those muted warpy guitars from before making a comeback, ooh the vocal effects are great, strange sudden fade out ending
Wonderfull album, really Great!
I was conflicted if I should give this a 4 or 5, but ended up going with a 5. It's all in all a great album, with only 1 or 2 tracks I didn't like (and even they weren't that bad). I also imagine it must have been quite progressive for its time. The track I most enjoyed was I'm Only Sleeping.
I was skeptical at first, but after reading some reviews here and a few re-listens, I finally get why so many people have been fascinated by this record. Long live psychoactive substances, art would be so boring without you.
Mieszanka wedlowska w wykonaniu The Beatles. Trochę pop, Trochę rock, a do tego dawka psychodeli i piosenka kiboli. Highlights: Eleanor Rigby
Literally every track is a massive hit, what can I say?
Beautiful, also "Yellow Submarine" will always be on my top tier songs
This album belongs on top of no pedestal, it belongs in the foundations of the albums that came since its release. A innovative and revolutionary triumph that, like 'Pet Sounds', changed the music scene forever.
It's amazing that I somehow only know a couple of songs from this. You'd think I would have heard it back in the day in full many times, but there's some genuinely new songs to me here. Its the Beatles, and this is where they started getting really experimental as they stopped touring. You can immediately hear why they are as revered as they are.
not as good as the ones that follow but still a little better than I expected Elenor Rigby is THE song from this one but For no One is also cool
This seems to have become the "cool" Beatles album for the moment. I also admire the innovation and the songs are good, but without knowing the context, you can tell they're still trying to perfect this newfound sound. So I'm gonna say 4 to 4½.
Not my favorite of theirs but there are some of my favorite songs on the album. 4.5 stars
You know, I've never been into the Beatles much. All the same, I found myself enjoying it.
Eleanor Rigby scares me to death and I think I need therapy
То бітли, але просто вони не мій варіант
Classic historical normie music
In the early days of the COVID lockdown, around April 2020, one of the ways my partner’s family chose to pass the time was by compiling and comparing their top-ten songs by different artists. When we inevitably came to The Beatles, I was thrilled: a chance to wax lyrical about my ten favourite songs by my favourite band, all of us revelling in their greatness via Zoom. But when I declared “She Said She Said” as my number 10, it was met with blank looks and raised eyebrows - and then, a “oh, haven’t heard of that one” - from a family who are generally very knowledgeable on popular music. So until every damn person in the whole damn world has listened to “She Said She Said”, as well as the rest of “Revolver”, and can give an informed opinion on it, don’t even think of coming to me and shouting about The Beatles being overplayed. “She Said She Said” is an amazing song which encapsulates the Beatles’ “Revolver” era: Lennon’s thick, lysergic double-tracked vocals, buzzsaw lead guitar dialled up on distortion and echo, lyrics of paranoia, disillusion and memories of childhood, McCartney’s bass more melodic than ever, Ringo’s frenzied toppling drums, harmonies crystal-clear as ever underneath it all. It’s one of fourteen flawless offerings of a band beginning to push the envelope with the help of bottomless studio gear, emergent counterculture, and just a little bit of drugs. I don’t care if it makes me sound obvious or basic: I love “I’m Only Sleeping” for its backwards guitar solo and jangly acoustic. I love “Here There and Everywhere” for its gorgeous falsetto and harmonies, “Yellow Submarine” for its boundless fun, “I Want to Tell You” for its unpredictable musical motif, “For No One” for its effortless distillation of a failed relationship. More than anything, I adore “Got To Get You Into My Life” and “Tomorrow Never Knows” (the other “Revolver” tracks in my top ten) from beginning to end. “Revolver” is often cited as the thinking person’s “Sgt Pepper”, the cool person’s “Abbey Road”. It’s about as alternative as a Beatles record gets, and has arguably outlasted the rest of the group’s catalogue in terms of influence on contemporary music. Fifty-seven years on, “Tomorrow Never Knows” still sounds like the future. That’s one hell of an impression to leave.
Exceptionally produced. As an album it’s a 3-3.75 for me, but the highs are high. Starts super strong, but I was not into the Indian inspiration songs.
First Beatles album we’ve gotten on this list, surprised it took so long. Very short album which is a plus for me, but time variation and some classics. For No One was my standout
Crazy modern for an album from '66
One of the greatest albums ever made and for good reason. Every track on this (save maybe Dr. Roberts) is an absolute classic among classics. Taxman is one of George’s finest earlier songs, Eleanor Rigby is one of if not their best of the #1 hits, Yellow Submarine is catchy beyond belief, Love You To/Tomorrow Never Knows are mind blowing for their time, I’m Only Sleeping/She Said She Said are some of John’s best written songs ever, and For No One is one of the most soul crushing ballads put to pen. And that’s not even covering every track. It’s not far fetched to call this the best pop album to ever exist, since it’s just genuinely perfect in all regards. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard this, but there’s not much more to be said about this one. Just listen to it.
Not my cup of tea but it’s clear how it catapulted the Beatles to fame and influenced pop and soft rock. Pretty good although I wouldn’t add any of the sonhs from this album to my playlists
6.25/10. Decent album. Probably not a top 3 Beatles album for me though. Transcendental druggy vibe, some good songs, Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine.
Brilliant
One of the best!
Beatles. Say no more
some cute ideas (e.g. environmental sounds in yellow submarine) but execution absolutely awful. did any of them even enjoy performing? if so we can't tell.
Always was my favorite Beatles album. Then diving into the experimental and the eastern music influences. Could listen to the whole thing often.
My goofy 10 year old ahh wanted to play the violin when we were choosing which instruments to play in 6th grade because of "Eleanor Rigby". I actually went into this album with no clue of what I wanted to give. I loved it as a wee lass, but re-listening to it with evolved ears convinced me otherwise. "Here, There and Everywhere" is my new favorite and "I'm Only Sleeping" is really freaking annoying and should be exterminated from the face of the Earth. This the first time I really want to give half a star. I kind of feel bad. I ended up playing the cello by the way.
I'd like to provide some really quality insight as to why this album is good and why it is crafted well. I really would. But I can't because the album is not particularly well crafted. It's a mashup of a bunch of songs with strong individual identities. But those individual identities are very, very strong. I mean when we really consider it, you can argue that 9 of these songs could be lead singles on albums for other artists. Will I dock it a star for lack of cohesiveness? Yes, but I fully see why this is considered the greatest Beatles album of all time by many people.
I went back and forth back and forth between a 4 and 5, if I use the Pollens-Tungate method my songs would average closer to a 4 then 5, but as a whole I liked this more than a 4. It was close but this earns a 5 I’m sure of it now, based off a lot of the shit we’ve had to listen to this blows 99% of it out of the water and deserves a seat at the 5 table.
A- Taxman - 3. Never liked this intro. Eleanor Rigby - 5. One of the greatest standalone tracks of all time. I’m Only Sleeping - 5. Headline: Local High Schooler Feels. Love You To - 3. I never liked George with the sitar. Here, There and Everywhere - 5. Yellow Submarine - 5. Always loved the ad-libs. She Said She Said - 3. At least Ringo gets to show off here. Good Day Sunshine - 4. And Your Bird Can Sing - 3. For No One - 5. My favorite Revolver track. Doctor Robert - 3. I Want to Tell You - 4. Got to Get You Into My Life - 5. Tomorrow Never Knows - 3.
Great to hear again, good album
Ah, a big one today. "Revolver" is the seventh studio album by The Beatles and the final recording prior to their retirement as live performers. It was the most overt use of studio technology at the time building on their previous album "Rubber Soul" which included double tracking, varispeed, reversed tapes, closed audio tracking and various unique instruments. One of the reasons for this was that they never intended to perform these songs live. It was the start of their pyschedelic period (lots of LSD apparently involved in the album), used Eastern Philosophy, espoused principles of the 60's counterculture and was avant garde addressing themes of death and transcendence of material concerns. A huge commercial success being #1 in the UK for six weeks and #1 for seven weeks. For the record, every song here deserves its own paragraph. 1,2,3,4, a cough and we're off with "Taxman." George Harrison's protest against marginal tax rates by top earners. Hmmm, don't know how that go over today in certain circles but was one of the first topical Beatle songs. An Indian style guitar solo. Believe it or not, the only single (and on Side A) was "Eleanor Rigby." A string octet and we're going baroque. The perils of loneliness. And Father MacKenzie. And on the single Side B, there's "Yellow Submarine." Ringo takes the lead but everyone is involved. Ocean sounds, chains, whistles, bells and a brass band. A sea voyage of friends and probably a blast to make. That great guitar opens "She Said She Said." Changes in time meter. Lennon wrote it based on acid trips with George, The Byrds and Peter Fonda who commented "I know what it's like to be dead." Hey, a fairly happy song in Paul's "Good Day Sunshine." Piano, piano solo. The long hot London summer of 1966. Paul turns the table of the melancholy "For No One." Pretty much a Paul solo song with Ringo. Piano, bass, clavichord. Also, french horns and the ending of Paul's relationship to Jane Ascher. A laugh, seagulls and the Beatles bring it to a glorious end in "Tomorrow Never Knows." Hypnotic drums. George on tambura and sitar. An Indian drone sound. Tape loops. Reversed guitar. Processed vocals. Pyschedelic to say the least as John wants mind expansion. Were they on acid as well here? No comment. A top five Beatle song for me. Without question one of the best albums of all time with brilliance in so many areas: songwriting, musical execution, studio technology, experimenting, futuristic, maturity and.....the only question here is whether you need to replace your current album version.
Beautiful album! Worth a vinyl purchase. 4/5
I liked The Beatles more as they moved away from their early 60s pop rock stuff and more toward their weird psychadelic experimental stuff, peaking right around Sgt. Pepper. This album's somewhat toward the beginning of that transition, still pretty accessible with some nice surprises here and there.
I was adamant that I wouldn’t rate any Beatles albums so high but when you listen…..
One of the best Beatles albums, great songs cover to cover. Even the weaker ones are incredible.
Awesome album
While I recognize that the Beatles have had a profound impact on the music industry, I feel as if all of their music is sub-par. The mix on a lot of these songs bother me. 3/5. Favorite track: Yellow Submarine
One of the all time greats. Hard for me to really grasp how revolutionary this might have been 55 years ago. With these top tier albums I’m sometimes tempted to poke holes or point out the imperfections- I’m not a fan of Doctor Robert- but my 2 year old son has no regard for The Beatles at all but he loves Yellow Submarine, it’s all subjective I guess?
Come on. It’s the Beatles. Eleanor Rigby and For No One are the obvious standouts but there are sleeper hits in And Your Bird Can Sing, She Said She Said, I’m Only Sleeping, and Taxman. The sitar on the album is also great. The only true dud is Yellow Submarine.
Best and only Beatles album i've listened to more than once
The Beatles, zolang de citar niet mee doet, dikke prima
Perfect album, met alleen de slechtste track ooit geschreven; Wat is Yellow Submarine toch een dramatisch slecht klote nummer. Je zou ze 't bijna vergeven omdat de rest zo mooi is.
Dit is by far het beste Beatles album wat ik ken. Heb het nu al voor de zoveelste keer geluisterd en het blijft van top tot teen boeien. Fab Four in topvorm!
Zo fijn!
‘And your bird can sing’ vind ik een top-lied!
Probably my favorite Beatles album.
Fucking "Yellow Submarine" can fuck right off piss-stained submersible twat.
Point for real guitars and drums Point for horns Point for sonic/electronic experimentation Minus point for Yellow Submarine Minus point for not enough Harrison compositions Point for the solo on Taxman and the riff for And Your Bird Can Sing Pretty good album. I think these boys are going to be good.
In 1963, the Beatles’ first album begins on a quick count of “One, Two, Three, Four…” Barely three years later (the span of time it takes Lorde and Dua Lipa to release ONE album), and the Beatles have turned popular music on its head from the moment George starts off Taxman with the slow, chill 1-2-3-4 count. Backwards guitar solos, a full on sitar-laden song, a pop song that’s just a string arrangement, horn arrangements, Ringo’s drumming on She Said She Said, the vocal harmonies on Here There and Everywhere. These are all examples of things that were nearly single-handedly invented or perfected by the Beatles, and they’re all on one album. Most days, this is maybe my 4th or 5th favorite Beatles album, but I think it definitely has one of the strongest cases for their most important album. In terms of influence, this is probably a top 2-3 most influential album on this 1,001 list. Just a shame the biggest hit from it is a kid’s tune about a submarine…
Love a bit of Beatles! Straight up 5.
My favorite Beatles album. They began to push forward into more experimentation but still included beautiful ballads. Felt like there was healthy competition between band members but also between bands of the time that led to this excellent album.
Damn, the generator went from giving me none of the Beatles stuff to almost all of it in the same 100 albums. Anyway, this album rocks. I've always said Abbey Road is the best album by the Beatles, but this is the BEATLES album, if that makes sense (and White Album is my favorite). Just the amount of musical innovation here that was overshadowed by Sgt. Pepper shortly after really goes under-appreciated due to it in the modern eye. Sure, Eleanor Rigby is the beginner's song for getting into the deeper Beatles discography, but are you jamming to the dissonate chords in I Want To Tell You? Obviously, no gate keeping here, like what you like, but basically, this album just has everything for everyone. Want rockier stuff? Sure! Ballads? Hell yeah! Weird trippy shit? Gotcha covered! It just is such an excellent thirty minutes that happens to have the smudge that is Doctor Robert, and that's okay! Even the punching bag of this album, Yellow Submarine, is too iconic and jolly to dislike unless you're too far up your own ass. I'm partial, personally, to I'm Only Sleeping (the better of the Lennon sleep cycle duology), Here, There, Everywhere and For No One. God, I didn't think I liked this album this much, but writing this reviews makes me feel I have so much to say here, that I'll cut myself off. Easy five stars, though.
Its the beatles
El punt d'inflexió en l'etapa de maduresa de la banda. Nous instruments, composicions més intrincades, noves influències, sobretot de la música oriental. La màgia i la inspiració seguien en el seu punt àlgid i el nou camí no feia sinó fer-los encara més interessants com a grup musical, i no només com a fenomen social
Beautiful music in this album, no notes
The Beatles here in full force. I'm not sure if this is my favorite Beatles album but it's certainly up there.
Own on Vinyl
My favourite Beatles album, and one of my all time favourite albums of all time, absolutely brilliant and so influential. Masterpiece.
me gustan los Beatles pero el disco me lo esperaba mejor, además le quita puntos que sean tan subnormales de decidir cantarle solo a un lado del puto micrófono el 80 % de la canción, es que vaya puto coraje cabrón cállate porque solo puedo escucharte en altavoz porque sino me irritas.
It's astounding to me that this isn't a best of. Just another record.
The Beatles at the absolute top of their powers...
Too much has been said about this since 1966 till now and of course Revolver will be kept on speaking about even later, so my poor language shoulds express no more verbose things. Fav Track: Yellow Submarine
Not my favorite Beatles album, but I enjoy a few songs and don't dislike any. Enjoyable listen overall 6.5/10
What a bop.
One of my very favorites, a set of incredible tracks
I understand why people like The Beatles now. I hate John Lennon but this was good. I'm mad that I actually like this but at least Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr seem cool.
O melhor dos beatles, o meu favorito dos beatles, o mais experimental dos beatles, o mais lindo dos beatles, o mais beatle dos beatles, o mais emocional dos beatles, o mais sinistro dos beatles (olha a cara do george). eu podia continuar falando pra sempre de todas as coisas que esse album é pra carreira dos beatles. foi depois desse album que o estilo deles mudou de forma pesada, passaram a usar o estudio com um instrumento. por mais que durante um tempo o rubber soul tenha sido meu preferido por ser mais pop, eu sempre tive o revolver la no topo junto, sempre em duvida de qual eu preferia. conforme eu fui aumentando meu conhecimento musical esse album subiu pro primeiro lugar facilmente. a forma como as musicas são complicadas mas bem curtas é o fator beatle. por isso que eles são quem eles são. o "pop" nunca saiu deles, mesmo no album mais experimental deles.
LP
I like it but many songs feel unfinished, especially Tomorrow Never Knows with its abrupt cut ending.
transitional album for them. Ok album for me. Eleanor Rigby 5 Stars
Is this the best beatles album? I'm partial to the white album, but this is so goddamn good that its hard to tell which is better. Anyway, its a 5/5, but the whole beatles catalog would be tough to score under a 5. 5/5
Honestly, it's neither better nor worse than those no-name albums I've rated 2 stars but I don't like Beatles + it's overrated + I'm not in the mood + 0
I really love how much George Harrison hates taxes. I really hate how much he loves sitar. Taxman fucking SLAPS, Eleanor Rigby fucking SLAPS, She Said She Said fucking SLAPS, For No One fucking SLAPS, Tomorrow Never Knows is one of the greatest compositions of the 1960's. And it's not even the best Beatles album.
listened to this with my dad both of us were waiting for it to end
My best friend & I used to listen to all the Beatles albums we could lay our hands on and this was one of them. Very contemporary sound for an album made in 1966 and that was the "power"of the Beatles who paved the way for so many artists. Some real classics so 4*
Yeah fine.
Yeah, OK. It's pretty good
Love this album. Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, and Yellow Submarine remind me of when I was really young and first started listening to music. Had burned CD mixes from limewire songs. So many classics to be listened to again in the future
I need to listen to the Beatles more.
Duh
Couple of classics that I didn't know were on the same album which was cool to hear This is definitely an album to listen to through headphones because in most of the songs the audio is set differently in your left and right ears which is very cool Very enjoyable album
Don't really think I need to say much about a pioneer in psychedelic music. Tomorrow Never Knows will forever be one of my favorite songs of all time. Best album I've heard thus far.
Full rulle!
if you say this is your favourite Beatles album I wouldn’t be mad. one of the great beatles opening runs with taxman thru to yellow submarine (not that the rest is anything to sniff at). Best tracks: here, there, and everywhere, got to get you into my life, taxman
Fantastic.
I should probably stop being a Beatles hater, but a strong 4 for me for now. Some classics but also some weirder stuff I wasn't as into.
A pretty solid album. Normally the Beatles aren't really my thing, but I did like this.
Beatles hurr durr.
I love this.
Definitely the trickiest album i've rated thus far. I'm not a Beatles expert so I cant plot this album on the scale of psychedelia they had. I think the whole album was very good, it seemed very experimental too. Out of the songs I hadn't heard before, Got To Get You Into My Life was definitely the best one. I think real rating 4.5/5
Here, There and Everywhere is without doubt the best song I've been introduced to as a result of listening to these albums. I stopped everything I was doing just to listen and read the lyrics. What I found with this was that the songs I liked were all INCREDIBLE, easy 5/5s without thinking about it. But the songs I wasn't keen on, I felt indifferent about at best and actively disliked at worst. Comparing this to the albums I've rated 5 stars so far, I don't think this quite makes the grade (but it's probably 4-4.5)
A classic. Eleanor Rigby is a goddamn masterpiece
my music teacher in elementary school played this album for us in some of his games but never told us who the artist was or the album, so in short im having vietnam-esque ear flashbacks right now :/ (fav songs: taxman, elanor rigby, yellow submarine, good day sunshine, got to get you into my life)
This album is of course a total classic. Every song on it is a well known and beloved Beatles song. I know the whole album by heart word for word and I have had this on vinyl from my earliest days. What else can I say? Here, There, and Everywhere is a particularly poignant love song that I still resonate with and still think is one of the best written love songs. Harmonies are top.
I maintain that Sgt. Pepper's is the best Beatles album, but I enjoy Revolver the most. Best track... Tomorrow Never Knows...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
High quality, innovative stuff right there. It’s not surprising to read that they spent 220+ hours recording these songs. It’s too bad Paperback Writer, which was recorded during these sessions, was not included. It would have strengthened the album. Lennon said he considered Revolver a continuation of Rubber Soul. Volume 1 and volume 2 in his mind. I agree.
Mid, tbh
Very good
Never been a huge Beatles fan. Album was good but not something I'll actively seek out, but if the songs appear on a playlist, that's cool.
Nice and recognizable
Great listen, a handful of forgettable songs stops it from being a 5
Final two songs saved it for me along with Eleanor Rigby. Rest of the album was pretty dissapointing
So so good, what an amazing album with a timeless sound. So different from the other classics yet so incredibly familiar. All timer!
This one would have been 3.5 stars if it allowed that. Solid album with some good tracks but also has one of my least favorite Beatles songs, Yellow Submarine, so I'm going with 3 stars
I’ll admit I’m cynical when it comes to the beatles, but cynicism only goes so far. This album slaps. Starts off strong with tax man, which is almost proto-punk. Eleanor rigby is eerie and beautiful. Yellow submarine, an objectively ridiculous song, somehow isn’t out of place. For no one is also a highlight. Just a great piece of work.
Easy five, what more can I say. Fantastic songs one after another
Seriously. This is arguably the best release by the best band ever. We need more stars.
Easy 5. Amazing how many great songs got packed in 35 minutes!
Probably my easiest 5 thus far. One of my top ten albums of all time and one can’t even imagine hearing for the first time in 1966. Two years after “She Loves You” the Beatles were doing THIS? Astounding. More melodic and revolutionary than Sgt. Pepper and more adventurous than Rubber Soul, Revolver shows the Beatles at the peak of their creative collaboration. Each songwriter is bringing absolute heaters to the table here. I tried to list my favorite songs on here but could not decide. I wish we could have had cameras in the studio for the making of this masterpiece.
Is this a children’s album? Sounds like it
Pas mal le coup du revolver au milieu.
Alors c'est ça l'élite de ton générateur Robert ?? T'as pas honte hein Robert ??
Not my favorite Beatles album but fuck, you just have to tip your hat.
A defining moment for the Beatles and pop music as an art form. While 'Sgt Pepper' typically receives the majority of the accolades, this is a worthy predecessor and the first clear demonstration of what the Beatles were capable of when it came to pushing the limits of what popular music could offer. From beginning to end, this album is a joy to listen to. The band retains their cheeky, infectious sense of humour ("Taxman", "Doctor Robert") and injects plenty of more 'classically' poppy tunes ("Yellow Submarine", "And Your Bird Can Sing") while also just being relentlessly brilliant on track after track. "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Love You To", "For No One", "Eleanor Rigby", "I'm Only Sleeping"...even today, writing this in 2023, it's just incredible that people could write songs as original, creative, and enjoyable as these. One of the best things the Beatles (or any musician, for that matter) ever wrote.
This album makes me understand why people were so nuts about the Beatles
This is The Beatles actually being as good as people say they are. Revolver is maybe their best album. No filler here and a perfect blend of innovation and catchiness. These songs are iconic. Paul McCartney's bass is especially incredible.
Best Song: Eleanor Rigby. The best lyrics on the album, but the star is the impeccable string section. Worst Song: Love You To. Overall creepy vibe whose only efforts at originality seem to come from using the sitar. Overall: This is, without a doubt, another Beatles album. There are a few gems in here, but also a whole lot of filler. I find it difficult not to assume a contrarian position, but surely this list doesn't need to include EVERY Beatles album. Is it not possible to have an assessment of popular music that doesn't treat the entire Beatles discography as gospel? It's been 50 years, I think we can admit as a society that some of their music is just okay.
Great tracks that start going downhill a little with "Yellow submarine"
I never really thought about the impact it would have had to make an album that was never intended to be performed live. Removing that constraint from the creative process must've unlocked creativity in all directions, leading to Revolver being as innovative and intricate as it is. This is an absolute work of art from start to finish.
Favs: Eleanor Rigby Least favs: I’m Only Sleeping, Love You To, Most of the rest I don’t want to be someone who hates on the Beatles just to be unique. I don’t hate the Beatles….. I just find I almost exclusively only enjoy their big hits. The rest of this album just didn’t do it for me.
Stone cold classic. She Said She Said perennially underrated.
Good Day Sunshine
The Beetles, huh? Well, I guess you get into all kinds of obscure music on a list like this I think I might like Rubber Soul better than this album, but this album definitely steps into a world of music that is beyond anything that they achieve on Rubber Soul. It feels like they're searching for something with this album that they ultimately find on Sgt Pepper's. Looking at this album in isolation, it is a powerhouse of great songs. Even the songs that I don't love (like Love You To) are interesting and well executed. 5/5 I think these scruffy lads might just make it in the music industry
the songs reflect their interest in the drug LSD, vittu HUUME HÖRHÖILYÄ AINA TARTTE....expanded the boundaries of pop music. ymmörrän että influence on asia mutta miksi ei saa vähemmän tunnetut enemmän eksperimentaaliset hommellssonit mitäämutta jos valkoihoinen populääri poikabändi menee hiukan normien ulkopuolelle niin kikkelit on pystyssä. joojoo on erittäin hyvä albumi, eagpari biisiä ei hojrlkgsa esim eka biisi,, huonoon paikkaan ...aika huonoon VI btw yellow submarine hyvä biisi taas joku yks mielipide lähtenyt käsistä ja kaikilla on nyt sama eleanor rigby
Not too bad.
Legendary album and we all know it
One of my most listened to albums thanks to a handful of Beatles albums being loaded onto my first iPod by my friend’s brother back in the day. An excellent album but as Bill Hader said I could do without the Balinese stuff 4.5/5
3rd album in a row that it’s given me that I have listened to A BUNCH. Not much to say about this one… just a fantastic album from start to finish. Don’t love YELLOW SUBMARINE, but 6 year old me sure did
Brilliant, its that simple
I tried my hardest to fight my nostalgia and give this a lower score. It’s just too damn good. I love almost every song and the one I don’t(yellow submarine) is iconic. Harrison sitar influence. Excellent vocals and famous bass licks from Paul. Just fantastic.
Being My FIRST listen to Revolver, and the Beetles mean LESS to me than those who heard it NEW in its groundbreaking context. And I've never been a massive fan, so this felt like homework, and I am maybe critical, but I like 1001 Albums for being educative and horizon-expanding. I still appreciate their sound, vast influence, and stylistic journeys. and how this album is mentioned SO OFTEN as a landmark. So, I made myself listen to EVERY TRACK in full. without skipping. I felt like I should have incense burning and a velour bean bag, and bead curtain, lava lamp... its chill by todays standard, but also it's a messy, all-over-place album. could be Beach Boys for one of the tracks, brain dead kids music for amnother, trippy stuff, but reading reviews, I held out for a strong finish. mostly new songs for me. I LIKED She said, love to you, got to get you into my life (finally some energy) and and it turns out I knew and liked the last TRACK "Tomorrow never knows" BUT WHY IS IT SO SHORT AND UNFINISHED?- man if there was album of more like the last 2 tracks i might have loved it...., (DISLIKED yellow submarine. and your bird can sing.) and, songs don't finish, they just fade away... an historical style? So, in summary. a few really good original tracks that got me interested. I CAN'T GIVE IT MORE THAN 3.5 STARS in terms of liking it...but it finishes strongly.
A few great tunes but nowhere near their best effort
One of my favorite albums of all time
Best Beatles album?
Elsk ❤️
I understand the music but not for me
Listens: 4 Enjoyed: yeah Feels really experimental and a great prelude for what we know followed. So excellent tracks here
Not the worst Beatles album. Not for me but highly influential.
Brilliant 5/5 Standouts: Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Here, There and Everywhere, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine, Got to Get You Into My Life, Tomorrow Never Knows, For No One Others: I Was Only Sleeping, Love You To, She Said She Said. Classic
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Eleanor rigby, I’m only sleeping, Yellow submarine, She said she said, And your bird can sing
I wrote some notes and then apparently I forgot to save them, so I'll make this quick: I love this album. It's one of the five Beatles albums that I might call my favorite depending on the day and my mood. "Rubber Soul" was a paradigm shift for the Beatles, but I think this album's where they really hit their artistic stride. Eleventy-five stars.
Incredible album & my favorite by the band. Every song is a hit, and each of the Fab Four gets at least one song on lead vocals. Keen writing & storytelling with both classic & experimental Beatles sound. This is peak Beatles. 5 out of 5.
I mean....it's The Beatles! Some great classic tracks on here. I loved hearing the beginnings of their musical shift into more experimental areas like with Love To You. Love the sitar.
An easy 5 this, not a duff moment in the whole thing.
alright, this is the first album i’ve reviewed in here so far cuz i’m a lazy pos, but revolver is probably my favorite beatles album, so i felt obligated to write something. the first time i heard tomorrow never knows was in that one episode of mad men, and i was instantly teleported to a different world. i hadn’t previously listened to much of the beatles and thought “there’s no way this is the fucking beatles, there’s like backwards shit in here”. little did i know, revolver was one of the first commercially successful records to have backwards tape played on it. i could probably go through every song and say what i love about it, but that seems a bit excessive, so i’ll just list some standout songs. eleanor rigby might be in my top 5 favorite songs ever. the work that george martin did to transform paul’s vision into an expansive string piece shows how much of a magician he really was. harrison’s sitar work on love you to blows me away every time. this and many other songs on this album put me in a trance-like state. for no one is a masterclass in song writing. the structure, the chords, the lyrics, everything about this song keeps you engaged. the horns on got to get you into my life are infectious. the chorus is really just one line and feels like a john chorus, but it’s so instantly catchy. for tomorrow never knows, martin assigned each beatle to bring recordings of their choosing and then played them backwards like some kind of chaotic orchestra. these recordings + ringo’s unrelenting groove + john and paul’s elongated vowels make for the trippiest song in the beatles’ discography.
My first listen was the Revolver 2009 Remaster via corporate streaming service. I liked it. I knew a few of the songs. Taxman and Eleanor Rigby are classics. Yellow Submarine is an all time favorite from my youth. Thematically, I loved this song growing up. Shoutout Ringo. Here, There And Everywhere is on the list. I haven't listened to every Beatles record in full, and I believe this was on the list of have nots. Each time I listen to a full Beatles, I start to accumulate some non-hit favorites. This time around was 'And Your Bird Can Sing' and 'For No One'. The dueling guitar walk down in the chorus and harmonies of the former made me stop and listen. The horn was a nice touch in the latter. Both songs 2 minutes or less. Punk rock. However, some of the other songs lesser known to me just didn't pop, and this is a pop music of the time. Everything sounded good, but I wasn't wowed. Also, wasn't 'Good Day Sunshine' used in an LG tv commercial or something back in the day? I won't get into everything I read about the writing, recording, and history of Revolver, but my favorite detail is Tomorrow Never Knows was the first song recorded. I've always thought this should be the first song on Revolver. An introduction to the Beatles the listener would soon hear. I suppose it serves more as some sort of reference section. I was thinking somewhere between a 4 and a 5, with interesting innovations in recording and other fun facts giving the ultimate push from a 4 to a 5. And then I was told there was a 2022 mix, and I gave that a listen. Everything just started to pop everywhere. The songs I already loved were shown greater affection. The songs that didn't wow before, wowed. The list of non-hit favorites grew ('Got To Get You Into My Life', maybe I really like horns). 5/5.
I listened to the original recording followed by the 2022 Mix for each of these songs. Thank heavens the 2022 Mix exists. While I do enjoy the shuffling of various percussive elements into one ear and the other ear, I think this modern mix is the way to go if you're listening on headphones. It hits so much harder and feels so much fuller. I've spent a bunch of time pulling apart each song and track in some of the reviews before this so I chose to just enjoy this album for what it is this time and not sit there noting down every key-change, harmony, drum hit, etc. Great album.
If you ever wanted to understand the difference between Lennon and McCartney, listen to Tomorrow Never knows (Lennon) and Eleanor Rigby (McCartney) back to back. Almost can’t believe how those two collaborated at all, let alone produced some of the century’s greatest music. Maybe the secret is just the right amount of that tension. But as for the rating…. How can you rate an album that has been rated the #3 album of all time by Rolling Stone — twice — anything less than 5? Maybe if you had to force-rank the Beatles albums against each other you could do that, because this definitely isn’t my favorite Beatles album. But just to say the others are better doesn’t mean this isn’t great. Maybe all you can do is honestly reflect on how the music makes you feel in the moment. Some of these are better that I remember (She Said She Said, For No One), some now seem mundane (Good Day Sunshine, Got to Get You Into My Life) and some are just unpleasant to listen to, even if they are The Beatles (Doctor Robert, The Taxman). Funny story: I heard that another 60s band that was really into the psychedelic drug culture of the time (The Doors I think, though I can’t be sure) jumped for joy when they heard the opening lines of Tomorrow Never Knows, because they immediately realized The Beatles were into drugs just as much as they were. Thank God that Paul wasn’t dead and was writing songs like Here, There and Everywhere. And Eleanor Rigby. Ah, Eleanor Rigby. Still makes me weep. The rest of the tracks could be silence and it’d still be a 5 just for Eleanor Rigby.
Love this album. Not my favorite from the Beatles, but that’s not saying much
My pick for “best Beatles album” has evolved over the years. Listening again to Revolver today, I think it takes the honor. The magic of Revolver is that you can listen to it in 2023, having listened to it many times before, and still hear that special pop something this band brought to music back in 1966. You can hear that, of course on each subsequent Beatles album, but that “special pop something” is also increasingly infused with a pretense, a felt duty to one-up themselves. Post-Revolver Beatles is art pop and concept albums. Which is great, and I love all those records. But, I think Revolver is peak Beatles as a phenomenon and a pop group. Most my favorite Beatles songs are on those later albums, with the exception of “Tomorrow Never Knows,” sure, they’re more seasoned after all. But as a cohesive, joyful, listening experience, Revolver is hands down my favorite Beatles album. I’m a George stan, so love to see a cut of his opening up a Beatles record (and that solo!). Side note: I never noticed how truly psychedelic this album art is. George is staring straight through me. Plus you get an underwater Ringo staple and Paul and John just working at an incredulous rate to craft bangers and ballads across all sorts of musical boundaries. Not a beat is missed. Every time I hear this album it’s like the first time. It’s like I’m 6 years old again in the back of my Dad’s car by. No other Beatles album claims this power over me. No other music period. This being the best Beatles album makes it probably the best album on this whole fkn list that isn’t Pet Sounds too. So, 1,000,000,000/5. Nice job George, Ringo, Paul, and John. You guys are good!
Revolver is a basically perfect album, by an imperfect, human, but nonetheless a one-in-a-million, band. I mean, what are the freaking odds that two of our greatest songwriters are in the same band? And that they are coming into their own, writing-wise, at exactly the same time, pushing the band in two divergent, competing directions. Lennon’s mystic but somehow cynical, afflicted songs, about the mundane things in life that somehow keep you wanting. McCartney’s way of encapsulating phases of love and living in a small turn of phrase, so earnestly, but from the perspective of the songbird, maybe the muse, looking below on the human condition. And all of this song-y-ness happens in… 2 to 3 minute, experimental, baroque pieces of music that bear more resemblance to Mozart than music today. All while being silly, whimsical, experimental, uncompromising in its quality. On four tracks! It’s actually like going to the Moon. The talent here for everyone involved is just staggering. I’ve given a lot of records from this period 3 stars, 2 stars, because Revolver etc. loom large in my mind. So many records of this time, sonically, sound like the era they’re from… chambers, stringy guitars, wall of sound, tape breaking up. And, well, Revolver actually sounds nothing like that. Totally a product of its time, but outside of it. These focused chamber arrangements, minimal and still whimsical, playful. I can actually hear the limitations of George Martin and the band as they struggle to fit their ideas down into four tiny tracks of tape. But rather than push the tape, they edit the arrangement, obsessively. Condense, break it up. There’s never too much or too little in the production, it’s exactly the right amount. Really impressive to hear. I used to say this was my favorite Beatles record because that’s what everyone always says. Now, with 15 years worth of returning, and having gotten into the actual business of songwriting and production, I can say it’s got to be one of the brightest. Maybe the best example of their songwriting chops in action, George Martin’s budding experimentalism. It’s just tight, there are no misses (okay I never *loved* Dr. Robert), and it’s some of the band members’ best individual efforts. It’s the Beatles as maybe they should be best remembered. 5/5
Mainly for that one song
I can never decide which is my favorite Beatles record: Abbey Road, or this one. This one certainly is the underdog, I feel, but it has so many of their most underrated songs (I'm Only Sleeping, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing) as well as such wildly forward-thinking ideas blended into such a fine draught. Ugh, its too hard to decide, but both are undoubtedly 5 stars.
These guys are pretty good, I'm surprised they aren't more popular.
The Beatles first truly experimental album in their discography. They'd hinted in their early work they were capable of writing songs that weren't mainstream pop. Their decision to become solely a studio band opened possibilities they probably hadn't ever considered. Every song on this album is good, most are great, and some are undeniable classics. Production, writing, instrumentation, etc. are all beautiful. No complaints. 5/5
классика, что еще сказать :)) очень хорошо - кажется это мая самая частая оценка альбомов из 60х)))
Great Beatles album
It's a good album, but I never really liked the Indian spiritual direction they took around the time of this, so some tracks don't quite do it for me. Pretty damn good though all the same.
Good album, Best songs: Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine, Got to get you into my life. Last song was weird but overall it was a vibe.
Good album, obviously. Some weird songs her and there though.
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Got to love me some Beatles. Eleanor Rigby, Here, There and Everywhere, Taxman and Good Day Sunshine my standouts. Scouse x
Kind of couldn't be arsed listening to it properly. Heard plenty of the beatles.
This is a brilliant album. I am late to the Beatles appreciation train but now I am on board with a sexy 1st class ticket baby. This is as good as it gets for me. Just a belter full of belters.
It's The Beatles!
Gran Album, sigo descubriendo temas que me encantan a la primera y ademas es de los mas experimentales de ellos
One of my favorite Beatles albums
Listened while working. Have to be in a specific mood to listen to this one. Love Eleanor Rigby, the other songs were okay/unmemorable compared to their hits.
I already love this album, The Beatles have been one of my favourite bands for years. Thinking about picking up the remaster of this soon. Favourite track: Taxman Least favourite track: Doctor Robert
wow
Some amazing songs and a few I wasn’t that familiar with.
What the fuck is with yellow submarine
ok, yea. sweet beatles songs
A nice collection of good songs, though some of them are a bit too fluffy and/or silly for my taste.
This is indeed one of the best albums that was ever made. It was a great pleasure to revisit it at this occasion.
All good, and some really excellent tracks.
John Lenin :)
Finally a Beatles album! I definitely enjoyed it for the most part, but a few are mixed really strange on the remaster or don't really do much for me. I plan to come back to it to let it grow on me though. 7/10
Easy 5 right, so we're done? A lot has been written and said about Revolver, and I'm sure I have nothing particularly interesting to add to that conversation. I will say that although I think Abbey Road remains The Beatles' masterpiece, Revolver has really grown in my estimation over the years. If I had to hold up one album that really encompasses what this band was about, I think it would be this one. There are threads that lead back to the band's earlier work, but this is also the gateway between that early work and the more experimental, more monumental later albums. It's appealing on various levels to every kind of Beatle fan. It's melodic, creatively adventurous, spiritual, whimsical, and lyrically smart. And for every step the band takes into new territory, they never lose their pop sensibility and their inherent gift of songcraft. This is an album that grows more interesting the more you hear it, the kind of album countless other artists have been trying/failing to make for over 50 years now. Fave Songs (All songs, from most to least favorite): For No One; Taxman; And Your Bird Can Sing; Eleanor Rigby; Here, There and Everywhere; I'm Only Sleeping; Yellow Submarine; She Said She Said; Tomorrow Never Knows; Love You To; Got to Get You into My Life; I Want to Tell You; Good Day Sunshine; Doctor Robert
Good one
I mean it’s the Beatles, bit difficult to separate from their prestige or whatever. Tomorrow never knows is a fucking insane track. Must have fucking blown peoples minds in ‘66 and wouldn’t have Tame Impala and their colleagues without this song probably. This album does still have a lot of their earlier kinda jingle jangle stuff which isn’t my favourite of their sounds. I think it’s probably a 3 as an album, because while some tracks like Tomorrow Never Knows are proper headphone lie on the carpet listens, I can’t see myself ever saying I want to sit down and listen through this album.
Feel like Eleanor Rigby alone elevates this album above a five. I think that sometimes with albums from this era you can be like 'oh, I understand logically why this is a step forward in music, but it's so dated that it's difficult to enjoy'. This album is just genuinely fun and holds up in every way. Japanese Breakfast recently caused a massive twitter controversy by saying that people whose fave Beatles album is Revolver are unfeeling and contrarian. I don't know if that's entirely fair - I still think there's plenty of emotion in this album. The difficulty with The Beatles is that pretty much all their albums are five stars and merit inclusion on this list! So of course some people are going to gravitate to Revolver and the ways it was revolutionary! Anyway, amazing album, Beatles are GOATed
Yellow submarine tanked this one, overall nice
Yeah it was decent, not my favourite from them but you can hear their sound evolving towards the end of the album. Can see why it's here, probably wouldn't listen again apart from a few songs.
4.5
Only finished listening to the whole album once. I like the album cover especially with the animation. I might write something to sound smart so by writing that sentence, I am more comfortable to be honest with myself. I only knew Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine, so those ones were what I enjoy most about the album. And I think I started to appreciate the Eleanor Rigby song more now. Love You Too and one other song (I dont remember which one) caught my ear and I enjoyed them too. But, I havent really remember most of the songs in the album. And like I said, I only listened it once. That being said, for the sake of this being the first album, and because I dont like to be seen as "not having a good taste" to not like The Beatles, I will give it a 3/5 stars.
An interesting album often referenced as their best. Personally I prefer the White Album.
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Listened Before? N Classic Beatles. It is definitely a great album and there’s several absolute bangers on here. I agree with most other reviewers that I’ve read that the real thing about this album is all the members showing their personalities and styles. Cool album and cool piece of music history. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Elanor Rigby
Following the subtle experimentation from Rubber Soul by dipping a whole foot in the water for Revolver, the Beatles begin to lay the foundation for Sgt. Pepper's on this album. While Pepper's may be their most "musically ambitious" record, Revolver may be one of their more enduring. Featuring several iconic Harrison tracks, orchestrations, and some of their most enduring hits this album makes a strong case for one of the bands best.
4.1
It's the Beatles, and it's the Beatles when they knew how to use a studio. There's so much going on musically (and then there is Yellow Submarine).
Wow, what an album. My first Beatles, I hope I’m not just in a good mood, but this pretty much a perfect album. Banger certified, 5! TBz 1. Eleanor Rigby 2. Got To Get You Into My Life 3. Good Day Sunshine 4. Taxman 5. Yellow Submarine
My first introduction to the Fab Four…wonderful album, great music
One of my favorite Beatles albums, after Abbey Road and Let It Be.
An album with a ton of hits. Each song is unique. And, most include things that other bands were not doing at the time (e.g., use of a sitar; counterpoint guitar riffs; madrigal piano riffs; use of a cello; use of a mellowtone horn; etc.). Tying them all together were the beautiful harmonies. Still a great album after all this time.
No loads to say beyond its a classic.
It was “cool” to say that The Beatles were overrated when I was younger, but the Rubber Soul>Revolver>Sgt. Pepper’s>Magical Mystery Tour>White Album run is insane.
I can see how this would have been amazing in 1966 but was only alright for me.