Revolver

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

This has always been my favourite Beatles album. Dang heck yeah.

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.

Geweldig album, zoveel prachtige nummers.

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!

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

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. 

Nothing I can really say that others haven’t already.

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.

Album rules. Only (small) thing is I could do without ever hearing Yellow Submarine again. 4.75/5

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brilliant

One of the best!

Beatles. Say no more

Always was my favorite Beatles album. Then diving into the experimental and the eastern music influences. Could listen to the whole thing often.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

Probably my favorite Beatles album.

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.

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.

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

One of my very favorites, a set of incredible tracks

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

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

Yeah, OK. It's pretty good

Duh

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 love this.

A classic. Eleanor Rigby is a goddamn masterpiece

I maintain that Sgt. Pepper's is the best Beatles album, but I enjoy Revolver the most. Best track... Tomorrow Never Knows...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

So so good, what an amazing album with a timeless sound. So different from the other classics yet so incredibly familiar. All timer!

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.

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.

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.

Stone cold classic. She Said She Said perennially underrated.

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

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.

One of my favorite albums of all time

Best Beatles album?

Elsk ❤️

I understand the music but not for me

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

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.

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.

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

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)))

база

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.

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

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.

This is indeed one of the best albums that was ever made. It was a great pleasure to revisit it at this occasion.

John Lenin :)

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

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

4.5

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.

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.

The best Beatles album, bar none.

top 3 beatles album for me, some all-timer songs on here. still not a fan of yellow submarine's tracklist placement, but i don't mind it as a song. every song is really really good.

Eleanor Rigby , Yellow submarine.

Tori Amos was on Take 5 and I was delighted to see her first selection was Eleanor Rigby. It is pretty much my favourite Beatles track. I switched between a few different 'remastered' editions while listening to this. There is a big difference between some of them. Hit up the 2022 version if you want bass forward mixing. I've got to play more Beatles to my kids, STAT! Here, There And Everywhere and I Want To Tell You are totally underrated songs. Some real magic moments in this one.

Worst. Album. Ever. Sorry I meant best. Just an amazing line-up of amazing tracks by amazing people. Still sounds as fresh as if it'd been recorded yesterday. So yes, my favourite album of all time.

An incredible achievement. Best track: Eleanor Rigby

From Revolver and onwards (perhaps with the slight exception of Let It Be), everything coming from the Beatles was sheer excellence. I’ll leave it to others to explain why that was the case, but it seems the band simply matured and stopped trying to please the universe.

One of my favorites

Þetta er besta plata ársins 1966 og þetta er mögulega besta plata allra tíma. Ég gæti skrifað langa ritgerð um hvað ég elska hana mikið, en ég hlífi ykkur við því. Þið megið bara vita að mér þykir hún best.

Things are starting to get weird, and I'm here for it.

Amazing

amazing album, I have never heard it from begining to back because my boyfriend loves the beatles and always listen to a lot of songs to them but yeah, Also, amazing cover, I really liked it

Top notch

my favorite britos

Fantastic

Classic

One of the best of all time for sure!

Classic

Flawless. Should be a 6.

Best Beatles album.. Unreal.. A Masterpiece

Ehkä suosikki The Beatlesilta.

great album. surprised how short it was though. i'm only sleeping was a "hidden" gem I hadn't listened to (or at least not in a long time)... 4 or 5 stars this album is pretty evenly great - mixing experimental rock sounds with pop sensibilities.

So so good.

I mean it’s the Beatles. Also revolver has my all time favorite Beatles song Eleanor rigby. So that’s a 5 from me

Not my personal favorite from the band, but a classic. Several of my favorite songs from the band appear here. It's just a good time.

It's not perfection, but it's pretty damn close.

There are several songs on Revolver that sound completely different from any previous Beatles album, or any previous album by anybody. It’s got that edge, that weirdness, that dreaminess that, if reviews from people who lived through it are to be believed, changed music forever. It’s still got those perfect McCartney melodies. It’s got a song called I’m Only Sleeping which has no right to be as good as it is. They released Yellow Submarine as a double A-side with Eleanor Rigby FFS - what more do you want?!

Bang!

Probably best album ever.

This one I think is the real deal, both good and important from start to finish, no filler and no weak songs.

Dude so sick, I'm a sucker for any music with cello and/or horns

Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream. You can't say anything about this album that hasn't been said already. It's the gold standard for pop music. The recording, production, genre crossover, mixture of world music, song writing... everything is on point. I do want to say that the hooks are absolutely killer on this album all around. But I think what stands out the most is the amazing amount of experimental music throughout. The use of Harrison's sitar and Indian classical music, Lennon's lean into LSD influence, McCartney's MoTown influences and step away from traditional love songs, even Starr sticks out with his use of heavy bass drum. Yeah it's a good album.

Classic

Discazo

The thing with the Beatles is not to wonder whether the album is good, but it is to know which one of them is the TRUE masterpiece. "Revolver" is probably my favorite Beatles album pre-Sgt Pepper. So good it makes up for all the crap I've had to listen to this past few weeks. Plus, it has one of my very favorite songs of all time on it : "Tomorrow never knows", which is insanely good. Maybe "Revolver" IS the Fab Four's secret masterpiece, though it is often overtaken by Abbey Road or Sgt Pepper... Can't answer that... But I can definitely say that "Revolver" is a true 5/5 piece of art.

I don't even know what else there is to say about this album. It's my favorite Beatles album by far and it's just one of the most ahead of its time and unique albums of the 60s. From taxman to tomorrow never knows each song is at the very least good. Eleanor rigby is one of the best Beatles songs and I grew up with yellow submarine just like pretty much every other kid I think. Also, the reverse guitars on I'm only sleeping really struck me the first time I listened to this album a teenager and it still hits me every time now

Another album I have in numerous formats, including the original LP I purchased when it was first released in the 60's.

Well this is an easy 5 star. One of my favorite albums of all time and I could be persuaded into saying the best album of all time. While rubber soul was the first change in direction this album they really brought all different kinds of elements but yet keep that pop sound. A masterpiece.

I like most (but not all) of the Indian raga influence on this record. And it’s just packed with such a diverse set of songs it’s almost unbelievable how they could go in so many different directions at once, and do it so well.

Yeah, the Beatles are great.

This is another easy 5 star. Picking a favorite Beatles album is like picking a favorite child. You just can’t do it. But this might be my favorite. For this review I listened to both the 2009 Mono and Stereo remaster. Like most early to mid Beatles albums, I much prefer the Mono, but this is the first one where it’s close. They don’t always pan the vocals all the way to one side, and actually play with the stereo mix sometimes in interesting ways. The mono is still my preference though. I’m really looking forward to listening to Giles Martin’s new stereo mix when it’s released. Would be more than 5 stars if I could. This album is on my list of top 10 personally influential albums of all time.

Un classique, probablement mon prefere des beatles. 5

Lots of really good songs. Felt 20-30 years ahead of its time. Personal highlights are Eleanor Rigby, Love You To, and Tomorrow Never Knows

I watched the movie from this album I believe !

Fundamental aproveitar todas as oportunidades para reconhecer a qualidade da criação e evolução criativa deles.

Classic Beatles. Creative, innovative

Goed album, nog niet het hoogtepunt maar wel paar klassiekers

I had listened to the later Beatles much more. I’d definitely been sleeping on this one. For No One is a great underrated tune. I love the that big fat bass sound with the trashy drums on Taxman and so many other Beatles tunes. There are so many great vocal harmonies all over this album. I like the Indian influenced sounds. I wonder why rock sitar never really became a popular sound other groups. I love all the songwriting except for Yellow Submarine. Tomorrow Never Knows really is an amazing track. The melody is so hypnotic over that iconic groove and I love all the drones and crazy tape loops. Deeply satisfying sonically and The lyrics are deep too.

Top 3 Beatles album

Yeah. Peter frampton is like The Bee Gees an example of 70s excess. But damn it, they are wonderful. So well crafted. Stand outs are of course show me the way, baby I love your way, and do you feel like we do.

the best

My favorite Beatles album

Yup

Amazing

Very good. Experimentality was a surprise. 5

Arguably their best album. God tier album.

The best!

I like the Beatles, but I've only heard individual songs. I listened to the whole album in this format and enjoyed it.

Very good

luego del gran cambio musical de los beatles a partir del "rubber soul" (el cual dejaba aspectos mas folk rock) el cual impulsaria a bandas como "the beach boys" a realizar trabajos competentes a tal obra, ej: pet sounds, la represalia del fab four no tardaria en llegar un año despues a este con el titulo de "revolver", para mi gusto un disparo de revolver a la industria. aca llegaria el cambio definitivo soltandose un poco de ese estilo tan merseybeatero que los identificaba a llegar a por lo que los conocemos al dia de hoy. por muchos el mejor disco de psychodelic pop, para mi, el mejor disco de los beatles sin duda alguna. fav songs: taxman eleanor rigby ✰ here, there and everywhere ✰ she said she said ✰ got to get you into my life ✰ tomorrow never knows 5.0, realmente este album estaria entre mis 5 albums que tenes que escuchar antes de morir

One of my top 10 albums of all time

What is there to say? Probably their best album, so good that it contains their worst song by far (yes, worse even than the throwaway stuff on the White Album and Let It Be) yet still is unimpeachably excellent and ground-breaking. Sensational

Revolver is great 5/5. A lot of great tracks, some of the mixing is a bit tin-ny. Which works for the groovy/ psychedelic tracks not so much for the others though. I did not enjoy yellow submarine that much. The change from here there and everywhere to yellow submarine was hating lol. Going from something complex to something so simple. Standout tracks Taxman (groovy af 🔥) Eleanor rigby 🔥 Here, there and everywhere 🔥 And your bird can sing For no one (fuck the French horn part btw, I thought there was something wrong with my car when it first came on 😮‍💨) Doctor Robert (groovy af 🔥) I want to tell you Got to get you into my life 🔥🔥 (mixing is a bit tin-ny though) Tomorrow never (dies) knows🔥 (hella psychedelic)

Genuinely not a bad track on this album and many that are just Beatles at their best. I can understand why why this is considered to be the best album they did, is a look back at their past and a sneak preview of where they were going

A real turning point for music. Although the stereo mix sounds a bit lopsided on headphones now, this is a huge evolutionary step in using the studio as an instrument. I'd say Sgt Pepper's is a bit more polished and has a more unified concept to thread it all together, but Revolver is an amazingly impressive trial run. The ultimate balance of experimentation and catchy accessibility.

FINALLY I get a Beatles album; FINALLY I get a record I actually own on vinyl (because I live in the US however, I have to listen to it on two separate albums because Capitol was run by a bunch of greedy bastards). Revolver was really the first Beatles album I became intimately familiar with as an adult - as a kid, you know the hits, but you’re not old enough to understand how each album functions. Revolver wasn’t the Beatles’ first great album, but for me, it’s the first one that was truly revolutionary. Songs like “Taxman”, “I’m Only Sleeping”, “She Said She Said”, “And Your Bird Can Sing”, “Doctor Robert”, and of course, “Tomorrow Never Knows” cement this album as on of the greatest and most musically-progressive albums of all time. I don’t think this is the “best” Beatles album, but it just might be my favorite.

For most of my adult life, my reply to the query “What’s your fave Beatles album?” was Revolver. When It was released, I’d just turned 16. The same day it was released, the new Beatles’ single was released - in Australia, the A-side was, unbelievably, Yellow Submarine. The B-side was Eleanor Rigby, one of McCartney’s greatest compositions. None of the Fab4 play on it. George Martin claimed his score for the strings was inspired by Hitchcock’s favourite composer, Bernard Herrman. It’s exceptional. McCartney was also responsible for Got To Get You Into My Life & Good Day Sunshine, both up-tempo belters, and two beautiful ballads, For No One (just Paul & Ringo) and Here, There And Everywhere (with beautiful vocal harmonies which Paul claimed was inspired by Brian Wilson’s God Only Knows). George got 3 songs on the album, more than ever before, including the opening track, Taxman, on which Paul played lead; Love You To, with George on sitar, Anil Bhagwat on tabla & no other Beatle taking part; and I Want To Tell You. Ringo got to sing Yellow Submarine, which was actually a #1 single. And Lennon featured on I’m Only Sleeping; She Said She Said (inspired by an acid experience with Peter Fonda); the wonderfully poppy And Your Bird Can Sing; Dr Robert (re a NY dealer who supplied hallucinogens); and Tomorrow Never Knows, a track which single-handedly changed the course of popular music. We’d never heard anything like it before. But then, we’d never heard anything like The Beatles before. This is a great record.

This is my favourite Beatles album, which I measure by the album I am most likely to put on the turntable. I don't even really know where to start with reviewing this. I think, pound for pound, Revolver is the best album by the best band ever. Eleventy-five bazillion stars.

Such an incredible collection of songs. And the sequencing is so bold. A lot of perfect segues but also a lot of sudden left turns. Somehow I never quite heard this line on “Taxman”: “Now my advice to those who die / Declare the pennies on your eyes.” That’s so good. Really funny. “I’m Only Sleeping” blew my mind a little when I first heard it. It’s such a perfect song about that feeling of not wanting to wake up. I didn’t realize at the time that you could just write a song about a very specific feeling. It seemed kind of radical and freeing that a song or story or any art could be about something mundane as long as it captures a feeling. “She Said She Said” and “And Your Bird Can Sing” are such great rock songs. So tight and lean. “I Want to Tell You” and “Got to Get You Into My Life” each could have been an incredible closing track. Instead the Beatles do one after the other and follow them with “Tomorrow Never Knows,” the most experimental track on the whole album. It’s such a ballsy, brilliant move. “Sgt. Pepper” gets all the credit for being a perfect pop album that dabbles in psychedelia but this album came first and checks all those boxes even better. Of course, “Sgt. Pepper” is great too but “Revolver” could just as easily be the one everyone touts as the “greatest absolutely ever” - it deserves that title just as much or more. Like, if this isn’t a top ten rock album, nothing is. (I gotta start keeping track of how many albums I give the top ten title to 😂 I’m probably about half way to ten and we still have around 879 albums to go.) Listening to this on nice headphones in flawless remastered audio was distracting at first. I think sometimes these remastered versions can almost be too perfect when you get up close to the songs. But I did hear a few new details in the mix that I’d never heard before - a finger snap here, a surprising instrument there - which was cool.

It's the Beatles, It's Revolver, It's Eleanor Rigby, It's Yellow Submarine! Easy 5/5 record for those two tracks alone. Eleanor Rigby is one of my favorite Beatles songs and is probably my favorite pop song to ever use a modal scale instead of the stereotypical major/minor tonalities that you hear in 99.9% of popular American music. While my opinion on Beatles records tend to shift every few years, right now the Revolver/Sgt. Pepper's/Magical Mystery Tour era isn't really my favorite and I've been loving the early raw pop sound from their first ~3-4 albums, but this one is such an enjoyable listen and entry into their fun experimental phase. I'm so glad that the Beatles have finally appeared on this list for us. People don't sit down and simply listen to them enough even though their music is ubiquitous and I love having a reason to plop my behind down and put them through some good speakers.

Favorite tracks are Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, and Got To Get You Into My Life especially. Perfect record.

What can I say... Top 3 Beatles albums, hence in the top 3 albums in my book.

One of the best Beatles albums

Perfect album

Wonderful.

9/10. Most enjoyable

Probably the Beatles album that grew on me the most from when I first heard it. 10/10

Geez, leave some sweet melodies and groundbreaking innovations for the rest of the music industry. How does 'Tomorrow Never Knows' still sound so fresh 57(!!) years later?

Listened to this album the other day. Listened to it again today. Will most certainly listen to it again soon. The cover also prominently features Lennon with a fake beard. Very cool. Best: Eleanor Rigby / I’m Only Sleeping / She Said She Said / For No One

one of the beatles best albums for sure. cant say much that hasnt been said before in a more intelligent way

One of the best Beatles albums. Has a minimum of their ridiculous songs.

My favourite Beatles album and the only one I listen to from beginning to end. I think this is the Beatles at the peak of their powers.

I’ve loved this album for years, some of Paul’s best songs are on here, incredible production, easy 5 stars.

Great album, really shows the beginning of how the Beatles matured as a band in the second half of the 60s. I love nearly every track on the album and grew up listening to a few (Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine). Many are very catchy and hard to get out of your head. Save Here, There and Everywhere I could listen to this entire album all the way through. Fav Track: And Your Bird Can Sing (so hard to choose! Maybe Eleanor Rigby? Got To Get You Into My Life?) 5/5

Classic album. I think Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite but every song is good. The weirder the better.

One of their best albums. I love all the quirky songs on this except the last one. Love to you also isn't my thing (see the pattern?). Still overall 5* for this magnificent piece of history!

With the Beatles I sometimes wonder whether I genuinely enjoy the songs, or whether I just enjoy the fact that I can sing along with literally all of them (indoctrination?). Upon careful reflection of this album, I do have to say that it contains some damn catchy songs. Favourite: Eleanor Rigby.

Listened on a summer night.

Following Rubber Soul, their transformation is refined and almost complete transitioning into their psychedelic phase. Rubber Soul put a focus on folk songwriting and featured forays by Harrison into raga and Starr into country. Here the songs experiment with what their high studio efforts are capable of. Here we have 14 perfect tracks in the span of just 35 minutes. Not a single track is more than 3 minutes, and yet they all feel complete and satisfying. I've listened to this album dozens of times and yet I've never felt the need to extend any of them, nor drop any either. "Taxman" can be seen as a precursor to New Wave-style music (without synths of course). "Eleanor Rigby" is among the most influential track here and stands as a landmark in baroque pop, certainly the best-sounding of its era. "Here There and Everywhere" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" perfect Harrison's raga, and are my favorite Beatles raga songs after Sgt Pepper's "Within You Without You." The psychedelic tracks are by far the most interesting. It's crazy how psychedelic pop was limited at the time to Pet Sounds and 5th Dimension yet they come up with the dream-like "I'm Only Sleeping" or "She Said She Said." I just can't see the natural progression. "And Your Bird Can Sing" is a personal favorite of mine, so short and cheery I just have to sing along every time. "Doctor Robert" is the only weak track I couldn't say much about but I still sing along to it and adore Lennon's vocals. My only complaint is that "Tomorrow Never Knows" should have been the first track to make for the perfect opener and closer ("Got to Get You Into My Life"), but obviously I understand why they didn't.

Sublime. 6 stars.

When I started reading music magazines and criticism in the early 2000s, Revolver would be usually listed as the best Beatles album, and usually best album overall of all time. I think I still consider this my favourite Beatles album, but I’ll be listening to the rest of them during the list so I’ll follow up. Really interesting now with the changing tastes in popular music criticism that I don’t think Revolver would be in the top 20 albums list in Rolling Stone. Further, that they would likely list something like Help! or Hard Days Night as their best. I think the notion was in the early 2000s that music that was difficult, non-populist was automatically graded better as the more straightforward, crowd pleasing fare. Revolver is by no means a difficult album. It has Yellow Submarine on it for Gods sake. The deal is though that this is really when the Beatles started exploring what they could do beyond the confines of a record that would translate to being played live on tour. I also realized listening to this today for the first time in like 10 years that this record was so much more influential during the Britpop and post Britpop UK rock music. Oasis obviously, but as well as Kasabian, Coldplay and Keane. Now if younger artists are ribbing anything from the Beatles it’s likely from their first few albums. Crazy how the circle of influence from one band continues going. In another 20 years Revolver will once again sit in the highest esteem of the Beatles output and likely at the top of the Rolling Stone album list. For now though we can enjoy this for what it is, a amazing constructed collection of songs from a band that is going in different directions and succeeding because of it.

Superb

Tää on meikän lemppari the Beatlesilta. Tarpeeks monimuotosta ja tyylikästä. Maniavaihe on selätetty ja ollaan jo bändinä aikuisempia - hippejä, ja vitun kokeilevii siis toki koko levy käytännössä jatkuvaa muutosta. Studiotyöskentely myös aika mintissä koska tää kuulostaa helkkarin hyvältä. 5/5

Napakoita, vaihtelevia ja ennen kaikkea hyviä kappaleita. mitäpä sitä sen enempää satuilemaan, 5/5.

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Revolver? I barely know her! 5 stars for both this album and that joke. Both classics.

Yes. One of my favorite albums.

When I was younger, I had the "red" and "blue" albums. Pretty much the greatest "hits" of the Beatles. This still had a bit of the whimsy of the earlier albums, but something was definitely looming, something big. The songs still hold up (although I could go the rest of my life never hearing "Yellow Submarine" again) for me, unlike a lot of the other albums we have heard. I can't imagine what it was like to hear this when it was first released, thinking "what IS this? How did they do all of these songs like this?" It's just so varied, but nothing really misses. "Got To Get You Into My Life" is one of my favorites. Those horns come in and, man! I just get this big grin on my face every time. Such a great album.

Great album. Eleanor Rigby is one of my favorite Beatles songs of all time - the musical arrangement and the lyrics. Which brings me to two points. One, people (particularly those in the US at the time) need to get over themselves - can't believe how little airtime this song got because of people's religious views. And two, related to one, it is astounding that this is not a diamond album yet Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause is. I guess at least people stopped being so uppity on that one. Back to Revolver. I love the different instruments and techniques on this album - especially the Indian-inspired work on Love You To and Tomorrow Never Knows. Also a big fan of the softer songs - Here, There and Everywhere, For No One - sweet and beautiful. Which takes nothing away from the more up tempo songs - Taxman, Good Day Sunshine, Got to Get You into My Life - also fantastic for their fun and energy. No matter the style, they really nail it on this album.

I’m almost afraid to write this review. What can I write about one of the greatest albums of all time that hasn’t already been written and written by much better writers than myself? It’s been decades since I first heard the album, and it still sounds fresh every time I listen to it. I just took a Beatles class this summer (yes, they have those now) and you would think I’d be tired of them after a 6-week deep dive but I’m not. The song “Tomorrow Never Knows” still blows my mind. It’s one of my favorite Beatles songs and I can’t for the life of me figure out how this song it was recorded in 1966 on such primitive equipment by today’s standards. I am fortunate enough to have both the mono and stereo version of this album and they’re both interesting in their own way, but I like the mono mix for most of the tracks (except “Tomorrow Never Knows”). The stereo at the time was simplistically done and some of the instruments that should be further up in the mix (such as the guitar in Taxman) gets a little buried in the stereo version. I could go on about each of the tracks and bore the living hell out of all of you who are reading this, but I’ll just say that both versions get 5 stars.

Easy 5 - a perfect album. Although it's commonly viewed these days as one of the best albums of all time, it's not my favorite Beatles album (behind Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road for me). But it's still perfect start to finish. Favorite tracks: Eleanor Rigby, Taxman, Tomorrow Never Knows.

Meilenstein-Album!

I don't think I need to explain this album to anyone. It's an absolute masterpiece, whether you like the Beatles or not. And it would be a 10/10 album if Yellow Submarine wasn't on here. Now it's a 9/10. Taxman is also one of the best songs Harrison ever wrote. The tempo, the bassline, the extra cowbell, the sneering lyrics, the guitar solo. It's nigh on perfect.

Was ready to give this a 4 until I heard the last track.

Absolute masterpiece. The first Beatles record I listened to where I finally \"got\" it as a teenager. Elanor Rigby is in my top 5 Beatles songs to this day.

An obvious all time classic. I have to get some sort of physical copy of this though, since the remasters available on Spotify are truly awful.

post drugs beatles. even the songs that you initially can't be arsed with you suddenly remember are quite good.

Try and stop me having a wank in the shower about this. I dare you. Yes, YOU! Come and watch me, you dirty little pervert.

I could write a massive 8 paragraph review of each song if you like, but i think people have heard this album before and there's loads of reviews out there, so why waste everyone's time?

A fantastic album! It's not my favourite iteration of the Beatles, but damn you hear so much innovation on this record. They are sowing major seeds of influence here that countless acts have been reaping for over 50 years now. I do love that we're treated to George's vocals right off the hop, on the very first track, Taxman. He's my favourite Beatle, he was the very best one, it's indisputable, and I just love listening to him sing. Just incredibly influential and an impressive display from masters at the top of their game.

Classic. I actually like Rubber Soul better as an album, but Revolver has some of the best Beatles songs.

One of the best albums of all time, Eleanor Rigby changes what a pop song could be, For No One and Here, There and Everywhere are masterpieces of arranging, and Tomorrow Never Knows is a game changer in cultural terms. Everyone knows it. Yellow Submarine isn't very good tho.

Excellent album from start to finish. Tons of well known songs. 9/10

Part of the peak before their baroque period. My favorite album of the Beatles.

one of the best of all time

Best band forever. First album cover with no band name on it. Interested in Taxman song, because it is not talking about love. "Taxman" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. Written by the group's lead guitarist, George Harrison, with some lyrical assistance from John Lennon, it protests against the higher level of progressive tax imposed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, which saw the Beatles paying over 90 per cent of their earnings to the Treasury. The song was selected as the album's opening track and contributed to Harrison's emergence as a songwriter beside the dominant Lennon–McCartney partnership. It was the group's first topical song and the first political statement they had made in their music.

Этот Револьвер способен "выстрелить" даже в самый худший день зарядом песен на все времена. Чего только стоят Eleanor Rigby и For No One! 9 из 10.

Kind of a hodge-podge of styles and it's quite short for an album with so many songs, so I could nit-pick and dock this a star but there's way too many incredible songs for me to give this any less than 5 stars.

Great album, love the Beatles

My favourite Beatles album (it's back and forth between this and Rubber Soul).

I mean...it's Revolver. Possibly my favourite of all The Beatles Work. Although I do endlessly love Abbey Road Medley.

My favorite Beatles album. A classic.

The best Beatles album. The tightest of the psychedelic era.

Wonderful, fantastic, love it!

Sublimely entertaining.

For me, this is The Beatles’ best album. Their early stuff is great with the harmonies and simple but catchy tunes, then they released Rubber Soul and you got a hint that they were evolving into much more than just a pop band, and then Revolver came out and blew everyone away with the new ground that it broke. With Tomorrow Never Knows, She Said She Said, I’m Only Sleeping, and And Your Bird Can Sing, it’s a really strong album for John. Paul’s contributions to the album are a bit more mainstream but some of his strongest work as well, especially Here, There and Everywhere. George brings a couple of solid tunes as well with Taxman and I Want to Tell You (not so much with Love You To though - the album’s only miss really). It’s eclectic, and the songs just jump off the vinyl. They did great work after this of course, but Revolver was the transition point. 5 stars.

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Seems like an instant classic! Fresh ideas 45+ years later and clearly influential.

Sólo por tener a Eleanor Rigby se merece de menos 3 estrellas pero no, no es lo único excelente del disco. 14 canciones repartidas en 34 minutos y aún así son piezas bien redondeadas. Sin ser el más fan ni mucho menos un experto, creo que es un disco de transición entre el sonido inicial con el de la psicodelia porque no están mezclados, sino que están presentes en algunas canciones de manera independiente. Creo que ningún disco me había provocado clavarme y poner uno tras otro y éste sí lo logró. 4.5 estrellas que suben a 5 por esta razón. Songs: Eleanor Rigby, Got To Get You Into My Life, I´m Only Sleeping, For No One

Por mucho tiempo (y quizá aún) Revolver fue mi álbum favorito de los Beatles: las razones abundan, pero una de las más importantes es que es un disco que me ofrece un poco de todo: cursilerías de McCartney, cosas oscuras de Lennon, las primeras composiciones 100% de Harrison, a Ringo cantando algo sacado de un viaje de LSD, instrumentación occidental y oriental, tracks en reversa, todo. Una de las características que lo hacen especial es que ya tenían tomada la decisión de no volver a hacer giras y eso le da a George Martin todo el espacio para igual tener en el estudio un octeto de cuerdas (¡como único acompañamiento de una canción de "Rock"!), un oboe, un corno francés, o de grabar las guitarras y luego meterlas a la mezcla final en reversa. Tratando de dilucidar cuál rola es mi favorita de este disco, llego a la conclusión de que es más fácil ubicar las dos que menos me gustan: "Yellow Submarine", que de cualquier forma tiene su ondita y es divertida de oír como pieza individual; y "I Want To Tell You", que siento como la menos interesante del disco, musicalmente hablando. Pero es que ahí están "For No One", "Good Day Sunshine" (que por cierto fue rankeada como la peor de ellos en cierto conteo), "And Your Bird Can Sing" y la cereza del pastel que es "Got To Get You Into My Life". No hay como aburrirse con este disco.

Amazing album!

A classic. Their, arguably, best song "Eleanor Rigby" is accompanied only by a string quartet. That's some feat to pull off.

Fantastic, Eleanor Rigby is a tune and yellow submarine reminds me of being 10 singing it a at school

I’ve always found The Beatles to be pretty alright, but I’ve never been able to check into the degree of hype and mystique around them (the most interested I’ve ever been in them is a documentary that came across PBS once that was getting into all the studio techniques they’d used to produce the Sgt Pepper album, like the craft end of things was just more compelling to me than the album’s actual music). All that said, I really like Revolver, kind of marks the beginning of the Beatles era that I find more interesting (lol drugs).

Incredible collection of songs, love this transition period between "old school" Beatles and what they would become from Sgt. Pepper on. Also, includes perhaps the best Ringo song in Yellow Submarine.

Perfection. Even yellow submarine.

Absolutely fantastic

Easily the best Beatles album. Might be my favorite album of all time. Their best mixture of brilliant songwriting and interesting experimentation. 10/10 1. Eleanor Rigby 2. I'm Only Sleeping 3. For No One

A true classic. The Beatles at their prime, in my opinion, mixing the best from the early and the late era of the band.

Maybe the best one by the Beatles. A collection of solid and tight rock songs here. Before they included more experimental elements.

Along with Abbey Road and maybe Rubber Soul, I consider Revolver one of my favourite Beatles's albums. There's so much going on with a wide range of styles and an increased contribution from all the members. The Beatle's sound was rapidly evolving and after this album, the band settled into the studio and continued to expand and innovate their sound. This has a few hits (Taxman, Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Sub), but really it's a collection of lower key classics that makes this a very solid listen.

When Beatles went pro.

Tiene rolas de diez y unas de dos tres, pero promedia alto.

Only my second 5*. But it’s brilliant, an album I’ve always loved, and has my favourite Beatles song on (‘Here, There and Everywhere’)

I do find the mixes for the beatles kind of weird with headphones where the L/R audio is totally wack

Yeah the Beatles were pretty good, not gonna lie. Eleanor Rigby is probably my favorite song of theirs, but this album also has some other bangers like "Taxman", "Love You To", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and basically every other song (except Yellow Submarine). Gotta love that sitar. I'd be the first one to jump on the "Beatles are overrated" train (or submarine?), but that doesn't mean they weren't amazingly talented musicians. I have to give this a 5/5 or I'm being too strict with these ratings.

Uff tremendo pedazo de arte 5/5

I love the cover. Some classic songs. My favourite was Tomorrow Never Knows.

yeah pretty good

"Eleanor Rigby" was one of the first Beatles songs I heard. "She Said She Said" and "Here, There, and Everywhere" are two of my top favorite Beatles songs of all time. The sounds here are just the perfect blend of innovative and familiar. I get a sense of nostalgia listening to this record even though I was born in the 1990s. :)

Classic, hard to argue with their anthology.

Its always great to get a Beatles isn't it? Obviously this is an incredibly accomplished album, but in the spirit of saving the 5*s for the hard hitters, this isn't my fave Beatles album. So is it a 4... hmm. I love how varied their style is in this, some classic rock, some more alt songs and then some that are a little twee. Ah fuck it its a 5

Top 3 Beatles albums for me. Good day sunshine and Eleanor Rigby are absolute tunes. And the Sitar on Love you to is incredible

one of the truly great albums of all time. Maybe the first 'rock as high art' masterpieces.

My favorite album from The Beatles. I still remember the first time I listened to Eleanor Rigby when I was a kid. It is a masterpiece that changed what was considered pop music. All excellent tracks - no filler at all. Even Yellow Submarine flows perfectly while listening the entire record. Happy to live a life where this exists.

“This is a brilliant album which underlines once and for all that the Beatles have definitely broken the bounds of what we used to call pop.”

classic

Probably the third best Beatles album. That's very high praise, indeed.

It's hard not to love this one, it's so raw and powerful.

Classic

Fab

One of the most important pieces of art in the history of mankind.

A CLASIC

It's not my favourite Beatles album, but the hallmarks of quality still shine throughout

I'd say it's perfect if not for the Yellow Submarine... otherwise it's an amazing album that only cemented The Beatles' status as the best band of their time.

Phenomenal. Good mix of beginning Beatles and old Beatles.

I had never actually listened to a Beatles album from beginning to end, though I've heard a lot of their songs many times. But I really enjoyed this album. It flows really well and I liked the songs I hadn't heard before.

There have been times where this album moves into my number 1 Beatles album, but the White Album usually wins out. This thing is another perfect album on the list. What else is there to say about this album. Just awesome songwriting, musicianship, performances, and creativity. I've heard it tons of times all the way through, but I never tire of it. Even the album cover is magical.