Reviews (page 9 of 15)
I rember my english teacher showing us the Yellow Submarine song. I love it.
The Beatles = The Beatles Taxman and Eleanor Rigby are great songs. The rest are typical Beatles, straight down the middle. However. Yellow Submarine is the WORST. SONG. OF. ALL. TIME.
It is the Beatles - great Album, many of the songs were unfamiliar, but still a really interesting listen.
Great album with one of my favorite Beatles song on it “I am only sleepin”…
THIS is my Valentine's Day gift? The most overrated band of all time? Come on, generator, I already haven't been laid in years, please be kinder to me. It's the best Beatles album I've heard so far, but other than some isolated moments, it's typical Beatles mediocrity.
Ok I see why people say this is theo4 best album
The butterfly emerging from the cocoon. Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant What's to come is mind-blowing. But looking back into this early morning shadow, this album really shines.
Fantastic album. Lots of genres of music I like
For many years this was my favorite Beatles album. Time has shown me that Abbey Road is probably my favorite, but Revolver will always be up there. There are so many timeless tracks. Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing, For No One, Tomorrow Never Knows: all of these are bangers and many of them were innovative at the time. Tomorrow Never Knows still sounds like nothing else. Arguably the Beatles at their most psychedelic, it’s a timeless record.
Yeah, it's a 5
ALL TIME CLASSIC
It starts of really great the first two songs amazing even I know them at 17 years old that’s how good they are This is not my taste in music at all however I really enjoyed most of it the fourth and last few songs not so much but especially Good day sunshine Doctor Robert And of course Eleanor rigby Taxman And yellow submarine were truly amazing and very fun to listen to The album in itself also works really wel so wel that I listened 10 times to it today
Great songs. Legendarily album in which the Beatles were able to move into a next level of creativity
On m’a toujours vendu Revolver comme l’album qui a sorti les Beatles de la pop à fifilles. Dans le contexte de l’époque, sûrement novateur, il y a un avant et un après. Mais la je le réécoute sans grand engouement malgré les 2/3 hits qui sortent clairement du lot, sans pour autant souffrir. J’attends Sgt. Pepper…
One of the better albums.
4.5*
Taxman - 4/5 Eleanor Rigby - 5/5 I'm Only Sleeping - 4/5 Love You To - 3/5 Here There And Everywhere - 5/5 Yellow Submarine - 4/5 She Said She Said - 4/5 Good Day Sunshine - 5/5 And Your Bird Can Sing - 3/5 For No One - 5/5 Doctor Robert - 3/5 I Want To Tell You - 3/5 Got To Get You Into My Life - 3/5 Tomorrow Never Knows - 3/5 Average score: 3.8/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Masterpiece of course. Accidentally had Spotify on shuffle so enjoy: Love the beat on Taxman. Love the depth of For No One. Love the ominous piano on I Want To Tell You. Love to joy of Got To Get You Into My Life. Never noticed how goofy the drumming was on Yellow Submarine. Till now. Stunning guitar on And Your Bird Can Sing. Here, There and Everywhere is just ethereal. Love the key change on the last word of "but to love her is to need her everywhere". Doctor Robert is just so COOL. Love the 'WHENNNN' coming in early towards the end of I'm Only Sleeping. Love You To is still the weakest, but I appreciate it more in my old age. Eleanor Rigby I mean W H A T more can be SAID what a SONG. The harmonies on She Said She Said are so trippy and delicious. Tomorrow Never Knows - trippy delight. Love the birds. Good Day Sunshine - cute but best bit is the key change at the end, and the fade out.
Awesome variety of songs, including the classics Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine, and Got To Get You Into My Life. This album is full of powerful lyrics, harmonies, and instrumentals. It may be the best album created by the Beatles!
A good album although the covers from Earth Wind and Fire and Suggs and Maccas solo stuff are IMO better. Don’t like some of the tracks. 7/10
Not sure if I've ever listened to this entire album. So many awesome songs on here, the deep cuts are pretty great too. I guess calling them "deep cuts" is stupid for Beatles songs, but the ones that aren't as huge of hits. I hate the sitar song, but the rest is really god damn good.
Hooked from the first notes Songs don’t outstay their welcome Experimental sounds British sound also Indian and Motown Favourite song: Eleanor Rigby
WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE!!!
Not every song is stellar, but lots are and its a historic album
Taxman, Elanor, and I’m Only Sleeping still holding up neatly 60 years later. That’s a great threefer to start the album. A lot of variety in the next eight songs, which are all strong but don’t hold up quite as well. The ast three songs make for another great threefer. And what a finish with Tomorrow Never Knows, there was absolutely nothing like this at the time. Definitely the start of psychedelia; but listen to the color of your dreams… L = (2.95*s) J = (3.8*s)
Does the list include every Beatles album ever written, honestly starting to wonder. We should just listen to them all in order then. That said, I'm not mad at this entry, it's a solid album of exploration. I don't really care for "Taxman" (especially as an opener) but "Eleanor Rigby" is a bonafide hit. I like the next two then it gets a little slow on "Here, There" before it picks up again. You can hear the innovation and they get top marks for creativity and variation here. "Tomorrow Never Knows" is probably one of the best album finales I can think of. Always loved the album art, a few meh songs in the middle, 3.35.
Great precursor to the ultimate Sgt. Peppers. With a little help from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, The Beatles continued to venture out, away for the bubblegum popcorn rock from their beginnings. I really like Harrison at this stage. The more I listen to his tracks, the better and deeper they get. Weird, great cover art to boot...4.05.
As much as I love The Beatles I think they are receiving too much attention on 1001. There is no doubt that they had the ability to crank out a multitude of solid 30 minute albums with a bunch of good songs and occasional smash hits. However, the continuous feed of Beatles and individual member albums is softening the impact of their entries. It's really hard to knock Revolver as it doesn't have many low points. However, after already hearing a bunch of Beatles stuff it doesn't stand out as much as it does in my memories. I think if a few of the prior entries were removed Revolver would be a reminder of how great their catalog is. Unfortunately, for this specific listen it sounded like just another Beatles album unfortunately. It's got a couple of great songs like Eleanor Rigby, but much of the middle/late parts of the album are relatively run of the mill. The Beatles have the ability to make solid albums seem pedestrian which is an incredible feat. Revolver is a great album and deserves to be discussed as so, but this listen was almost a victim of The Beatles overall success as it didn't move the needle for me as much as it might have if consumed as an independent listen. Credit to The Beatles where it's due but let's pump the brakes on putting every Beatles album on this list. Reluctant 3.48 stars may have to revisit
2nd tier Beatles album, but still pretty great
4.3 Who am I to critique the Beatles
This was another Beatles album that I don't think I'd ever heard all the way through, though I knew a majority of the songs on it. I enjoyed this album a lot. It feels like a transitional album between their early pop music and the super experimental albums still to come, but it lands in a pretty good happy medium of interesting lyrics and a little musical experimentation while still retaining the catchy pop harmonies and hooks. The sitar and tabla on "I'm Only Sleeping" are cool, and a lot of the lyrics are clearly heavily influenced by the spiritual and drug-induced journeys they were starting to go on. Lyrically, most of the songs are well crafted, and thankfully there's not much of the creep factor that sometimes seeps into their songs (e.g., Norwegian Wood, Run For Your Life, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, etc.). "Eleanor Rigby" is definitely up there among their best songs ever. And "Yellow Submarine" is definitely among their worst (sorry, Ringo, not sorry). Fun fact — the violin part on Sisqo's "Thong Song" is apparently a sample of Wes Montgomery's 1967 jazz cover of Eleanor Rigby. 4.5/5 (giving it a 4) — not quite perfect, but one of the more enjoyable Beatles albums for me.
This is the first beatles album i actually listened to and i really enjoyed it!! I don’t know why it took me so long.
Eigentlich ein cooles Beatles-Album, das deutlich den Umbruch der Band zeigt. Merkt man deutlich an einigen Produktionstechniken und den paar Songs mit indischem Einfluss. Wie immer coole Songs, trotzdem radiotauglich. Bemerkenswert finde ich immer die schönen Harmonien im gemeinsamen Gesang. Unangenehm fand ich dagegen öfter das LCR-Panning. Mein Favorit war vielleicht Good Day Sunshine, der so herrlich unaufgeregt und ganz authentisch gute Stimmung vermittelt.
Absolutely superb. Needs no more elaboration. The Beatles are up there and no band comes near
- One of the most famous albums of all time and part of the back-and-forth inspiration/competition between the Beatles and the Beach Boys. What is there left to say? - Tons of creativity on display. That being said, about one-third of this album is not nearly as rich as the rest. For every fascinating "Tomorrow Never Knows," there is a meh "Good Day Sunshine" (a track I have never loved). - Hot Take: "Yellow Submarine" is the highlight. I could listen to that bizarrely warm beat on repeat.
It’s the Beatles, one of the “best”, yeah always something new to hear in the songs but have been played to the point of being a bore. Great foundation to lead to more esoteric bands.
I know it's the Beatles and I should LOVE IT, but each song sounded too Poppy.
Brilliant album
Got bored
Legend. Can't even describe it properly how diverse and complex this album made me feel
Not very impressed. Apart from the 3 songs I already heard, the rest was very average at best.
Mi álbum favorito de ellos
Heard it before. I know it's regarded as one of Beatles's best albums (or even the best album) but... I will be real with you I never understood it. It might be where they started experimenting with different things but I don't vibe with it. It still has great songs though 3/5
Man, I know and love every track on this album. While not quite as concept-y as later albums, this and Rubber Soul were really a turning point for the band. Their earlier work, while still great, had more of an old-timey feel for me. This feels so ahead of its time that it's hard to believe it came out in 66.
4/5
The beatles
I guess I just don't get what all the hype is about.
This is my first time hearing the entire album, although many of these songs were/are popular. Many critics feel this is the best Beatles album, and even the best album ever. Apparently many innovative audio techniques were employed here. For me this was very good but not quite five stars.
More Beatles! I bet all of their albums are on here. Lucky for me I don't actually know how many albums they have. Could be 900 more for all I know. I used to like 'Eleanor Rigby', but it was the soundtrack for a presentation I did in college and I listened to it at least 50 times in the process of getting the timing right, so now I'm weary of it. I do like the song with the sitar in it, but the title ('Love You To') is mysterious and despite the mountains of Beatles lore, I can't find a definitive answer to what the heck it means. George >:( I like 'Good Day Sunshine'. That's a peppy little number. Same for 'And Your Bird Can Sing'. And 'Got to Get You into My Life' (there're horns!) The rest of the songs didn't captivate me, which is possibly just because I haven't heard them before (except 'Yellow Submarine', which I do like, but if I heard it 50 more times I doubt that I would). So I think this is my least favorite Beatles album of the ones we had so far, although it's still a solid album, just not my style (=short poppy bangers).
86/100. The Beatles produced a beautiful record with Revolver. The instrumentation is wonderful and the singing is great. For me, this record doesn't hit as hard as it once did, but it's still an amazing listen.
ah yes, og beatles. not really their best work but some of the classics from this album like taxman and eleanor rigby were epic
"The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few tunes.” ― Bill Hicks Revolver is The Beatles flipping the script, proving they could do anything—and then some. It’s where psychedelia, rock, and orchestral ballads collide in a whirlwind of creative urgency. Harrison steps into the spotlight, Lennon gets high on his own surrealism, and McCartney crafts some of his most ambitious melodies. Even Yellow Submarine—the band’s premiere oddball moment—finds a way to work its charm. Revolver is the spark that set fire to everything that came next in music. Bold, daring, and ahead of its time, it’s the record that made Sgt. Pepper and everything that followed possible.
It is a Good album with Notable good song. I am not a massive beatles fan, so It is not an album i would seek out, but I would possibly buy it if i came across it. It gets 5 stars because of its importance and the number of notable songs on it
it was ok, a few cool songs in the context of the album, but got no urge to add to my own playlists; still unconvinced by the beatles
Greta album!!
Hyvä albumi hyvä brstles hyvä beatlesmusiikki
At least they were nice enough to keep it to 35 minutes.
My penultimate Beatles album to review, and also the only Beatles album that I think I'd listened to from start to finish before starting this project. I'm familiar with quite a few songs on Revolver, and I've been looking forward to reviewing it. Here's hoping that I love this as much as I think I will! Well, I wouldn't say that I absolutely love Revolver, but from a critical standpoint, I do think it's fantastic. One of my favorite things about The Beatles' music is how technically sound all of the bare elements are. The bass, drums, and rhythm and lead guitars are all executed flawlessly, and every note feels intentionally placed. That was present here on Revolver, and those well executed basics allowed the experimental elements to really flourish in a way that's still accessible. In my opinion, this album accomplished what Rubber Soul failed to do: it pushed pop music to stratospheric new heights, where no idea was too far-flung or off-limits. One of my biggest complaints with this album is that its mish-mash of various styles can be a bit much, but every song is quality, and nothing feels forced in or like it was added as filler. I'm not a big fan of The Beatles' incorporation of eastern sounds, and it's not that it's bad, it's just that I'm not a fan of how they incorporate it into their music. Unfortunately, I can't explain it any further than that, because it's just a matter of my personal taste. However, none of the songs on here were off-putting to me, and due to the basic elements of each song being done so well, I was still able to enjoy parts of those songs. I've always thought that "Yellow Submarine" was just a cheese-ball song, but listening to it today, I discovered an appreciation for its allegorical lyrics and the unusual sounds that it was able to incorporate. My favorite song on the album though is "Eleanor Rigby." The strings really capture the atmosphere of loneliness that the lyrics are trying to convey, and it's just a beautiful song all around. "Good Day Sunshine" is great too, and I love its upbeat piano melody. While I'd rather throw on Sgt. Pepper's, Revolver is still an excellent album, and worthy of its reputation as a game-changer in rock and roll history.
Arguably the best Beatles album. This album does not have a single bad song. It manages to sound experimental while still having great pop/rock sound.
Always find myself torn with Beatles records. There's no doubt some amazing songs and song writing on them, but also a lot of nonsense that people either wrongly attribute genius to or just overlook the fact they are not very good. Yellow Submarine is a shit song. There, I have said it. It's nonsense and childish and doesn't flow with the rest of the record. Sure it's a catchy chorus, but it's shit. But then there are tracks like Tomorrow Never Knows which is just fantastic and I go back to being confused by The Beatles all over again. I guess what I am trying to say, is The Beatles have some incredible songs, and no doubt hugely influential, but they also did a lot of shite.
Taxman 4.3 Eleanor Rigby 4.5 I'm Only Sleeping 4.2 Love You To 4 Here, There and Everywhere 4 Yellow Submarine 3.6 She Said She Said 4.1 Good Day Sunshine 3.8 And Your Bird Can Sing 4 For No One 4.3 Doctor Robert 4 I Want to Tell You 4 Got to Get You into My Life 4.2 Tomorrow Never Knows 4.6 Score: 4.114285714
Underwhelming opening, sloppy transitions and poor flow, generally quite boring. Didn't do anything for me. At least it's pretty short. Weird ending as well, wasn't sure what to make of that last track, to be honest.
One of the transition albums, very similar to Norwegian, but not as experimental as Sgt Peppers. I feel this album is more rounded than the former, but it does not skimp on the simply mesmerizing antics of the Beatles. The musicianship is spectacular. The guitar and drum work is beautiful and the singing is of course thoughtful and the lyricism may be at its peak in their catalog. There are so many songs on this album that are just plain ol easy listening, yet they are bountiful in their composition. Other than their talent, what I believe intrigues me the most about this band is that they are able to fully explore their sound over and over but still keep their final product well rounded and with mass appeal, it’s impressive and this album displays that better than their others, short of Abbey Road possibly. Regardless, I believe this and SGT were their absolute peak.
Classic songs, and interesting sound.
Most of songs were good, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14
Started strong and then fell off for me. This feels like the transition album where they were learning how to fuse psychedelic sounds with pop songs and not quite getting there.
I really liked it but maybe its a bit to slow for me
Fun to hear this after their first couple albums. Definitely getting more into more "serious" song writing.
Certified bangers. Favorite Beatles album.
Voladísimo para su época. Al final lo que más me gusta de los Beatles son sus temas menos conocidos. Para repetir y compartir. Tomorrow never knows a los like. Nota: 4.4
Absolut Classic, Love every second of it
Este álbum es de 1966. Mil novecientos sesenta y seis. Mil no-ve-cien-tos se-sen-ta y seis. No sé si algún día lograré que me entre en la cabeza.
ehh.. didn’t really enjoy i fear😭
Some songs are catchy, but I think most of them are not that good. Also the quality of the recording is not that good.
It's fine I suppose. They're just so overrated. I feel like if I'd never heard of the Beatles I'd give this a 3. Tempted to go for 2 because they come so hyped that what would be a 3 in a vacuum is inevitably disappointing. But I'll be fair and stick with 3
brutal. IT IS NOT DYING.
IHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SEGUNDONA BOA sem discussão. 5 estrelas sequíssimo, apesar de preferir o sgt. pepper. uma explosão de criatividade com dinheiro o suficiente pra ter um absurdo de produção. infelizmente os cara de rato sabia das coisas. aproveito para reclamar: quem fez o "remaster" de 2009 deveria pegar prisão perpétua. vai tomar no cu.
I just don’t get the allure. Sure, some catchy tunes, but just not something I’d throw on, like, ever.
Wait… why did I lowkey enjoy this??
10/10 One of the greatest albums ever released Utterly groundbreaking
Shite haircuts, good music though.
There's a reason this album is usually in the top 10 on any best ever list. Including this one. This influenced the direction of music in my opinion. Like a lot of Beatles albums, it's my favorite when I'm listening to it. And Paul McCartney, he's one of the best bassists ever. The horn section in Get You into My Life is outstanding. 35 minutes of perfection.
Still magnificent.
Incoherent. No real flow to the album, other than being a collection of some of the more famous Beatles songs.
Album 656 of 1001 Beatles - Revolver (1966) Rating : 5 / 5 Just an awesome album. There are a couple of tracks that I just don't dig as much but they don't change the fact that this is a great one.. Even with the diversity of the tracks, it is cohesive and shows their ability to experiment while maintaining the sound for which they're known. Easily near the top of the list.
This is the Beatles music I enjoy. I had most of the songs favorited already.
Best Beatles album? Hard to say for sure, with Abbey Road, Rubber Soul and Sgt Peppers, but an amazing album nonetheless. This album pack a punch, with the amount in just over half an hour, with no track longer than 3 minutes.
Never REALLY looked at this cover before, very amusing. Might buy the shirt 🤔 A great Beatles album is going to be one of the best ALBUMS of all time. Best Beatles album? Maybe... I love this album anyway. Guitars getting heavier, themes getting heavier, beautiful musical contrasts.
good
As with all Beatles albums, this was so far ahead of its time both musically and stylistically. I think people sometimes forget how revolutionary these sounds were in 1966. There just wasn't anything else like it out there. In an era where popular music was still solidly entrenched in the classic Motown sound and bubblegum rock, any kind of eastern sounds, distorted guitars, and lyrics about “making love" were virtually unheard of. It's hard to pick favorites off a Beatles album, as they are all practically greatest hits collections in their own right. That being said, this isn't my favorite Beatles album, but it's definitely up there.
Dang, this one is also delightful. It kind of feels weird listening to these songs altogether on an album since my own experience with these songs were separate from this album. This is a marvelous album and these songs are amazing, but there’s quite a few Beatles classics where I prefer a cover version to the original.
At one point my favorite Beatles album, still extremely high on my list. There’s not a bad song here, and arguably this is better than the next one.
Way back, right out of college, I took a job in a call center. My supervisor constantly, for the couple of years I worked there, whistled Yellow Submarine. I asked her about it and she was like “Yeah, it just won’t leave my brain.” What a wild job, and everyone that worked there are felons now and I’m so glad I left before I got arrested too. (I didn’t do anything illegal while there, but could see myself having been pressured into the shenanigans that happened after I left.) Anyway, this album reminded me of that. Also, 5 stars.
Neato.
Look I’ll be honest this is an objectively really good album but is not my favorite Beatles album, I’ve always been a fan of earlier, simpler Beatles. I do have a great respect for how experimental this album gets with the sitar kicking off in “Love You To” and basically all of what they do with “Tommorow Never Knows”. My personal favorite song on this album is “Here there and everywhere”. Also I feel like “Yellow Submarine” gets too much hate, it’s fun and whimsical and people gotta chill out with it. “And your bird can sing” deserves a bit more recognition than it gets. I’m giving this album a four, it’s not my favorite Beatles album but it’s objectively really good and the influence it had on studio recording is obviously well known.
The mono mix on taxman was hurt by headphones, would've been better on speaker. Eleanor Rigby is one of my favorite Beatles tunes ever. This album in general speaks to the kinds of Beatles tunes I prefer: softer, melodic, sweeter. "Yellow Submarine" is such a classic song, I feel like I rarely listen to it but it just hits so nice every once in a while. "For No One" is another song that for years has been at the top or near the top of my favorite Beatles songs. Overall I feel this album has some of the highest highs for me and I would listen to the whole album cover to cover every once in a while but not on a consistent basis.
yeah
5 sterne
I did not like it but the one about the girl leaving that guy ate tbh
Heard before. Quite good.
Classic but not my favourite
A tricky album because it is neither my favorite Beatles album, nor is it the one I consider to be their "best" (however arbitrarily that would be decided) yet I do believe it to be a masterpiece in its own right. This album is stylistically diverse, including new Indian inspired influences, but still has a twinge of early Beatles flavors. Rubber Soul and Revolver are simultaneously transitionary LPs but also some of the best material the band pulled together front to back over the course of their catalogue. "Here, There, Everywhere", "Good Day Sunshine", "Eleanor Rigby", "Taxman" "And Your Bird Can Sing" are some of my favorites
Eleanor Rigby one of the best songs ever I think. Got To Get You Into My Life is also a megabop.
Pretty fire. Any beatles song is good
“All pop music is just a series of footnotes to the Beatles”.
Classic album, ruined by Yellow Submarine. Marked change from previous efforts, shows The Beatles moving in their own direction, well away from their pop-rock roots and even the folk-inspired Rubber Soul. The final two tracks are my highlights, Tomorrow Never Knows one of my favourite ever tracks.
Not as good as I remember it to be but solid
One of the most underrated Beatles albums. This is the boys all working in harmony (as much as they ever did) while everyone is able to stretch creatively.
This might be the weakest five I’ve ever given. Overall, it was creative and artistic without a bad song, unassailable on that front, but I found myself slightly underwhelmed in comparison to the other albums by The Beatles. I was about to give it a 4, but no album that has Eleanor Rigby could be less than a 5.
I now know what it feels like to have been high in the 60s
Perfect
DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH listened to this on my first run of the year was an interesting vibe. and your bird can sing hittt
It’s Revolver
Beatles at their best. Great album
Probably the best Beatles album. Meaning: it’s rather good.
i. LOVE. this beatles album. shying away from their traditional pop rock tracks and leaning into their more abstract (and most definitely drug filled) discography, this album is full of gold. sometimes jovial and silly, sometimes artistic and melancholy, this album is a pivotal shift and quality boost from the band itself. truly a notable and historical album with tracks that most everyone will like.
I'm only sleeping... :) Maybe one of my favs from them...
They’re going to be big!
Can't be less
Not their best but still great.
yA'LL ALREADY K N O W
Good day sunshine is so cute
Liked it better than expected Interesting that all songs are about 2min long Has a few tracks I really enjoy
Lots of variety in the track list and even the songs I don't like are at least interesting. Clearly it deserves a 5 for its influence, but for me most of the track list falls into the category of "great but not amazing". Eleanor Rigby is fantastic though
Great album. Tracks that have gone on to be sampled, used in films, recut and remixed. Classic Beatles
It's great to start the new year with one of the greatest albums ever and one of my favorites as well. 'Revolver' is one of the most innovative and infuential records, as it revolutionised studio techniques and it had influenced the development of multiple different styles (psychedelic rock, electronica, world music). I loved the varied styles of the songs - classical-influenced, Indian, psychedelic etc and how compact the whole album sounds despite the different styles. 'Tomorrow Never Knows' still sounds futuristic and mindblowing and it's one of the best closing tracks on any album. Bonus is the album's brilliant cover by their old friend Klaus Voormann.
fair bit of good music from the beatles
Beautifully experimental! Never really liked the Beatles, just a little bit of Harrison's solo work, so I was very surprised with myself for liking Revolver as much as I did.
Another incredible classic from the Beatles. I can't say anything more that hasn't been already said.
Taxman is almost unlistenable on headphones due to the weird stereo mix Eleanor Rigby is perhaps the best song ever written For No One: if someone asks you what the Beatles sound like, this is the song you should point them to 3.75
Not really much to say other than this is a masterpiece album. It changed everything when it came to studio work and experimental sounds. It’s inspired so many works in the future and still sounds timeless today. Taxman, I’m only sleeping and she said she said are my highlight tracks. 10/10
One of the best albums ever made!
I Want to Tell You, listen to this album.
This was nice. I enjoyed this album. A few songs I recognized and some new ones as well.
Not my favorite Beatles album, but you can’t say no to a classic like this. Well, you can, but I didn’t.
Probably one of my favorite albums ever.
One of the great albums of the 20ty century.
Prefer this later version of the Beatles. Lovely cozy sound. Varied. Really chill songs with lovely harmonies and lovely melodies. A dash of LSD.
Typically I like to save my 5s for albums that are conceptual , sound spacey and flow great. Revolver is not quite excelling in any of these categories although it flows well and embodies core 60s rock as well as any. It maybe close to a compilation than a convention 5 album for me but it’s hard to deny it when every single song is an add for me. Whether it’s the sole experimental track , tomorrow never knows or the ever catch taxman or the psycheldic yellow submarine, the revolver never misses . In its own very Beatles way, the revolver is excellence
The only band to release 6 five star records consecutively.
Interesting. Sounds like what the beetles have been described to me as. I like it though
Here there and everywhere is good But other than that no songs really stood out to me (sorry) and there are way better Beatles albums. Still, i respect it for the legacy i guess
4.5/5
Okay, first of all, let's address the elephant in the room: the amount of unwarranted hatred the Beatles get from people who haven't heard any of their albums is just ridiculous. This album is great, and this was my first time listening to a Beatles album. I can now see why people hold them in such high regard. The music is beautiful, and the composition is spot on. I can tell this was very early rock and roll, and they had such a big influence on the artists who came after them. I’m amazed, and I will definitely listen to them more often from now on.
The thing that I’ve really come to appreciate with The Beatles is their melody writing. I still think Leonard Cohen is the best songwriter for pairing simple but beautiful melodies with profound lyrics, but Lennon and McCartney’s knack for melody was uncanny and it’s on especially good form on Revolver. I think I still prefer Rubber Soul, but this is great too
One of the most influential albums of all time. An easy 5 for Tomorrow Never Knows alone.
Love this album!
Listening back this is arguably my favorite of theirs. Every song brings a wave of nostalgia. And Tomorrow Never Knows is easily a top 5 Beatles song for me. Seventh perfect score after 539 albums Rating: 5.0
The Beatles are...ok. I would never have an issue if one of their songs comes on, but I wouldn't choose to play it myself. Normally I'd rate that situation a 2, but they are the Beatles, I think their sound does warrant bumping up to a 3. And there are a few good songs on this album. Love You To has some nice Indian music influences (thank you George), Yellow Submarine is always a classic, and Good Day Sunshine almost feels like it could be a Queen song with Freddy Mercury singing. Best song: Yellow Submarine
This album gets 3.5 stars for what it started. It's a good album, but not as good as what they do later. Also, I can't get that "K-Mart ad fodder" review out of my head after listening a 2nd time. Rounded up because I'm pretty sure the Beatles have proven themselves
Very much ahead of its time, as most Beatles records are. Constantly interesting and while I stayed engaged, I was never really wowed by anything
can you imagine hearing “tomorrow never knows” for the first time in 1966. probably you thought you’d died and that was the sound of your soul on its way out of consciousness. fav tracks: taxman; and your bird can sing; i’m only sleeping; she said she said; tomorrow never knows; i want to tell you
**Laura:** I love this album obviously and it’s still shocking to me how fresh so much of it sounds and they truly were ahead of their time. I think if I were trying to convince someone the Beatles were worth listening to and worth the hype, I’d show them this album. Taxman, Love You To, and Tomorrow Never Knows are really just on a different level to me in terms of pushing their sound / the culture’s sound forward. There’s so many traces of modern music in this album and not to be dramatic but it feels like everything would have been different if this album hadn’t been released… There are a few songs that don’t really do anything for me but they’re pleasant enough and probably would grow on me if I paid attention to them more as most Beatles songs do. They’re not bad but they feel kind of generic Beatles album filler to me (Dr. Robert, I Want to Tell You). Obligatory mention of how much of a tanker Yellow Submarine is. I love you Ringo but that should not have been allowed. Fav tracks: Taxman; Here, There, Everywhere; Tomorrow Never Knows
The mixing on Taxman can be jarring at the beginning, but once you get over that you get one of the most amazing musical experiences. The level of creativity and variety on an album barely longer than 30 minutes is almost unbelievable.
12/19/24. Very good collection of songs here, this is my first time listening through this Beatles album. They definitely had the studio chops!
Olhae, quem diria que tem estilo e história nos Beatles. Eu gosto de Beatles, mas nesse álbum nenhuma música que eu gosto está. Entretanto, é uma boa experiência. Gostei de *Taxman*, *Eleanor Rigby*, *Here, There and Everywhere*, I Want To Tell You e Tomorrow Never Knows. É um álbum que vou dar mais chance depois.
eu quando sou o álbum mais importante para a música como conhecemos hoje e álbum pai da experimentação e do rock psicodélico. a variedade de ritmos, técnicas de produção e conceitos das letras sobre amor, vida e morte são elevados a outro patamar aqui (o rubber soul iniciou bem isso!) here, there and everywhere é a música mais linda do mundo e for no one é a música mais triste do mundo. são os maiores artistas que pisaram na terra SIM
The best (?) and most balanced Beatles record - probably. Competing visions of songs from John, Paul and George - with George really stepping up. Gothic pop tunes, Sitar influenced meditations and straight up rock and roll fill out this record. Hard to find anything to quibble with.
Top 5 All Time album.. Favorite track: here there and everywhere other picks: Eleanor Rigby, love you to, yellow submarine, tomorrow never knows
Classics
-this is really phenomenal, I haven’t heard as much Beatles stuff as I would like to but this is some of the most interesting music I have heard from them. I love the variety between tracks, the oddly fitting Hindustani classical influence, and holyshit Tomorrow Never Knows has got to be the coolest shit I’ve heard from them. love it -Favorites are Taxman, Love You To, and Tomorrow Never Knows
Aaaaaamazing
Spectacular music, lyrics, legacy. We can clearly see The Beatles evolving, what a spectacular band. What a spectacular album.
Absolute classic. Not a bad song on it. I've always preferred the later albums, especially with all the ways they pushed boundaries and expanded their sound. Only thing keeping me from rating it any higher is that The Beatles have other albums I personally prefer over Revolver.
I mean... it's one of my favorite albums of all time. It still has a bit of that bubble gum Beatles sound to it, but it also brings in the sitar and the psychadelia. For No One is a perfect song.
This album truly show the depth and breath of The Beatles music and the progression of rock ‘n’ roll in the late 60s.
I find it hard to listen a full album of the Beatles. But not bad at all
My dad's favourite album Had to be a five
Not my favourite Beatles album and have never really understood why people elevate it above others.. still a banger and a 5/5 tho.
It's not my favorite Beatles album, as I prefer their fully experimental side, but this album is an amazing listening experience
Um. Yes.
Good. Obviously
While not my cup of tea, it was an enjoyable listen , and most importantly, made me finally notice what people mean when they talk about the novelty and experimwntality of the Beatles. I also heard about their eastern influences in music, and this feels like the first one with clear influence
I was wondering how I had missed it. I hadn’t. It is number 1064 on my 1001!
After a long hiatus (because this list of “must listens” is actually filled with 75% “Oh my God never agains”) it was nice to come back to something solid like Revolver. You can tell it’s good because instead of wishing it would end you’re amazed that it’s over and you feel like it’s just started. Real music by and for real people.
My first Beatles album on here, my first Beatles album as a teenager. Fundamental to my enjoyment of music. The sound of the best band ever at the peak (debatable) of their powers. Too many highlights to mention, but Eleanor Rigby goes above and beyond what a pop song is supposed to be. Great cover art as well.
Some songs on this album that I love, but not everything Yellow Submarine fucking blows
As good as it gets. Not a bad song to be found
Probably the first actually interesting Beatles record. Prior to this they were, for the most part, just a pop band. Rubber soul had a couple of interesting tracks, but this was a record. It’s amazing what stopping touring and taking a shed-load of drugs can do for a music group
My favorite Beatles album, and one of the greatest records of all time. I listened to it front-to-back three times today. If there is a clunker here, it's "Yellow Submarine," which is ironically probably the most earworm-worthy track. The guitar licks are of their era and would be cliche now, but here they are still fresh after nearly 60 years. With "Revolver," we see the genius of which the Beatles were capable as they stood on the threshold of being liberated from the soul-crushing dungeon of touring live to screaming teenagers. We know, with "Tomorrow Never Knows," that we're entering an entirely new era.
It was ok
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No dogs or filler here. All the songs are excellent. https://open.substack.com/pub/richcain/p/project-1001-revolver-by-the-beatles?r=4ztyq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
других таких как битлы не было и не будет, я обязательно послушаю ещё альбомы но этот мне конечно очень понравился пусть он не идеален «лично для меня» но безусловно потрясающий
битлз есть битлз, легенда, классика, прекрасный альбом. спс дос
A masterpiece.
5- Stars (13/15)
Love it
Apart from the two recognisable songs it was a bit of a washout
All this taught me is that I don’t actually know The Beatles. At all.
Albumi #123, 03.12.2024 Beatlesin ehdottomasti parhaita levyjä.
Sounds like the beatles
Great album, middle section kind of weak however
Perfecto!!!
It aint this one
Solid Beatles album. The variety in the song is insane. They truly can do it all. All the songs were great.
Obviously brilliant
One of my favorite Beatles albums..
Listened to this so much on cd I wore it out. Fantastic album that shows all the elements of the Beatles sound that would go on to make them one of the greats. Certainly in the mix for the Beatles best album 5*
Classic through and through. Many strong songs. 5/5, only one of my top Beatles songs on album though.
Ok
Honestly, i thought Revolver was pretty good. It didn't exactly do anything all too special or original but for the things it does do, it does them pretty well. I was never all too familiar with The Beatles discography but i have heard some covers of some of their songs prior to doing this project which include Eleanor Rigby (the Letters From The Fire cover to be specific) and i do like the song's original incarnation. The other songs here all managed to sound pretty good here too. I don't know if i can say much else about this album so I'll say it's a good album and my favorite Beatles album so far (Yes, even beating out Abbey Road). Best Song: Eleanor Rigby Worst Song: Love You To
why does he have analogue horror eyes beatles make good music wow
Intia-tilutuksen olisi minusta voinut jättää pois, Tomorrow never knowsia en siedä. Hieman hajanainen kokonaisuus? Toki hyviä popbiisejä edellä mainittuja lukuun ottamatta.
Vahva alku, vaikken vastustakaan 95% verotusta, mitä tulee tiettyihin ryhmiin. Eleanor Rigby on klisee ja sellaisenaan ainutlaatuinen saavutus. Kaikki raidat eivät ole yhtä kiinnostavia (varsinkaan ajan hengen selkeimmät ilmaukset). Hyvä levy joka tapauksessa.
The Beatles, not a lot to say from me. Have listened to them my whole life and that won't change.
Probably my favorite Beetles album. That said, some of the songs are mediocre at best. And the ones that stand out for me are those that stepped out of the norm for it's time. Like Taxman and Yellow Submarine.
Abbastanza mid, salvo due o tre che gia conoscevo Poi ne è partita una (Good Day Sunshine) che ha fatto alzare il voto di una stella, chapeau
Love! Love! Love!
Great album with some massive songs on it. Avoids the elusive 5 though cause there are a few duds on it.
Another Beatles album on this list, and it is another enjoyable romp. Yellow SUbmarine has always been my favorite since elementary school music class. So this album is up their for me, but still about a 4 out of 5.
Such an odd, uneven album. Has probably my favorite beatles song on it but then also Taxman. 2.5
The motherfucking Beatles opening an album where they describe taxes with the understanding of a 12 year old who had nothing to read but ayn rand on a transatlantic flight did not do much to dissuade me of my stance that the Beatles suck shit, and neither did the rest of the album
If I'm ever hard pressed to name a favorite Beatles album, which isn't necessarily often but honestly it's weird that it happens at all, Revolver is usually my response. It doesn't feel like it's dragging or meandering or trying to take me on a psychedelic adventure, and it also doesn't sound like a record company handed four young men ten to twelve three-minute pop songs.
Still slaps
My 2nd favorite Beatles record after Rubber Soul. Possibly the greatest exercise of melody in any rock album ever.
Very good
'Rubber Soul' was the point where the Beatles took their first steps into the avant garde, but 'Revolver' is where they finally took a deep dive. It's such an interesting album. To the extent that that's not obvious, it's only because the Beatles set the precedent for decades of artists to follow. There are a lot of firsts here. This is the first album where the Beatles rejected touring and gave themselves the freedom to strength the limits of what the studio could do without pressure to ever play it live. It was their first time breaking from the endless cycle of quick recording, promotion, and touring, which gave them more time to devote to crafting the album. It was their first attempt (and maybe the first by any Western pop artist) to incorporate non-Western musical style. It was their first properly avant garde recording with 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. The album is full to the brim with studio experiments which would later become standard practice among rock bands. They reversed tapes, doubled their vocals, and misused everything. They had the express goal of making sure that no instrument sounded like the instrument itself. Lyrically, they broke from their pasrt convention of poppy love songs, exploring drugs, death, politics, isolation, and love for mankind. I have to admit that I always viewed 'Revolver' as more of a stepping stone between 'Rubber Soul' and 'Sgt Pepper'. I'm rethinking this now. While 'Sgt Pepper' is a bit more developed and cohesively, 'Revolver' is truly groundbreaking. So why doesn't it have the same level of fame? It seems that America had a lot to do with that. First was the (infuriating) tendency of Capitol Records to slice up the Beatles' albums and repackage them with different tracklisting. The idea of the album as an art form took a bit longer to reach the states, apparently. The American release of 'Revolver' left off three John Lennon tracks (previously released in a different America-only release). This greatly affected the sequencing of the entire thing. It would take 20 years before the original version was released in the states. Add to this, Lennon's comments about Jesus and Vietnam and you can see how the conservative wing of the US would try to turn kids away from The Beatles of 1966. Whatever the case, people see to now be waking up the brilliance of 'Revolver', myself included. It's hard to really imagine it now, but it must have been revolutionary when first released. As one former fan put it, it's the point where the Beatles went stark raving mad. Luckily for the rest of us, they certainly did.
Not my fav Beatles album
probably my least favourite Beatles album. i generally really enjoy Beatles, but this album didn’t really spark anything in me. i guess it’s ‘objectively’ one of their best, but i will always be more of a rubber soul/please please me kinda gal. was never a fan of their experimental phase
Pretty good, not my favorite Beatles album but still pretty good
Not my personal favorite Beatles, but there isn’t a Beatles album that I don’t like. And I can appreciate how innovative this album is for them. Plus it contains some of their best songs (“Eleanor Rigby” and “For No One”) and some of their funnest (“And Your Bird Can Sing,” “Doctor Robert,” and “Yellow Submarine”). While personal taste makes it not my favorite, it more than deserves its place on the list and its high ranking on this site.
I had never listened to this as an entire album before now. And I didn't know a few of the songs on it. It was fantastic.
I've never understood the enduring popularity/love for the Beatles. Not terrible, not my jam.
Paar echt briljante nummers. Eleanor Rigby en Paul McCartney's For No One als absolute nummer 1. Het is het zevende album in 3,5 jaar en dat merk je wel. Sommige nummers lijken wat gehaast geschreven. Haperingen in de hitmachine Lennon-McCartney. Maar goed, zelfs Pelé, Maradona en Messi hadden wel eens een slechte wedstrijd. Zelfs Phil Taylor gooide wel eens een pijl mis. Zelfs Usain Bolt zette wel eens een misstap. Zelfs Kendrick... oh nee die kan er niks van.
One of my favorite albums ever. Every song is outstanding (except the last)
don't love it.
Beatles are perfect band to listen at any point of doing this list. There is so many interesting things going there and even 60 years later most songs still feel fresh and interesting.
Ok... zaskakujące. Nie znałem Beatlesów, jak się okazuje (może kojarzyłem głównie wczesne kawałki...?). Zupełnie rozmija się z moim wyobrażeniem, nie spodziewałem się takiej dynamiki, różnorodności, mieszanki stylów. Momentami brzmią wręcz współcześnie. Okazuje się, że wiele późniejszych "eksperymentów" muzycznych to bootlegi kawałków z Revolvera. Nieźle. Najbardziej zaskoczony byłem chyba na koniec, "Tomorrow Never Knows" - taki banger w '66... Kwas rządzi!
"Ah yes. The GOAT. Shall we go track by track? I think we might. Taxman - the off-tempo count-in, the riff, the decision to lead this earth-shattering album with George on vocals. It's a great start, despite, at its heart, being a little Tory. Eleanor Rigby - a song that feels as essential as oxygen and as old as Pangea. It is impossible to conceive that there was a time before its writing. How does Paul do this? It goes without saying that musically, lyrically, thematically, this is extraordinary. I'm only Sleeping - a tiny dip in quality, with a slightly lazy vocal, but still so cool Love You To - often panned I think, but I actually prefer it to Within You Without You, and again, it's hard to imagine that the mop tops had gone from Love Me Do to this in just four years. Here, There and Everywhere - emotional pop perfection Yellow Submarine - am I going to defend it? I think I might you know. Obviously it's a childish vocal, but every aspect of the harmonies and musicality are bang on and quite interesting. She Said - Possibly the weakest song on the album (removing YS from the equation), but still great. A weird riff that never seems to quite repeat itself, which is fascinating. Good Day Sunshine - The horns in this should be prescribed on the NHS And Your Bird Can Sing - A criminally underrated song, that might feature in my top five Beatles songs I think. The harmonies on (I think) the third verse of this are extraordinary. The level of invention in them is off the scale. Also, an incredible 12-string riff written by Lennon, arguably only their third best guitarist. What a band For No One - Another absolute classic slice of Paul. The French horn! Oh my god. Dr Robert - TFW you discover that Dr Robert spiked George and John with acid, and this isn't a nice song at all. I Want To Tell You - One of few Harrison songs where the vocal slips from being 'pleasantly different' to 'a bit nasal and weak', but still lovely. Got To Get You Into My Life - Great fun, but you're waiting for it to finish because... Tomorrow Never Knows - Arguably the greatest song in the entire history of the greatest band. This is probably an album, up to this point, where Paul does the heavy lifting, but John blows everything (in the whole history of music) out of the water. It's like he's got in a time machine, travelled to the 1990s, listened to the Chemical Brothers, written a song that sounds like what the Chems would do if they teamed up with God to write a song, created it out of the technical limitations of the 60s, banged out lyrics based on Tim Leary and probably popped off home to watch the telly in Esher. I do not know how this came from a human man. So yeah, not bad.
Remarkeble for 66!
Already listened
Okay, this is an instant five. I know this album really well, of course. The last three songs on the album are one of my favourite experiences of music ever. Perfection!
Where they are fully embracing ‘your mother wouldn’t approve, but the kids love it’ phase….
Every studio album between late 1965 and 1969 is five star in my world
It’s hard to rate Beatles albums. Almost every single record by The Beatles contains revolutionary ideas and some of my favorite Beatles songs from their catalog. A lot of them also have a few misses for me personally. My ears have never enjoyed the sound of sitar. I respect them for exploring all genres of music, but it turns me off from some of their songs. Some songs like Birthday from the White Album or Good Day Sunshine from this record are just corny to me. The musicianship is always great, but those songs amongst others are skips for me. Despite having a few skips, it’s hard to criticize this record too much because of how revolutionary it was. The Beatles started using the studio as an instrument, which really changed music as we know. And while there’s some songs I personally don’t love, they also have some of their best songs ever on this record.
I have a brain, so 5 stars.
own
Great album, classic, Elenor Rigby
Always good
what can you even say about this, or any Beatles album, at this point? like, yeah, this is really good music. I'm probably not going to say anything even remotely contrarian for the entirety of this review! I've even got the weird stereo mixes everyone likes to complain about! this consistently stays in my top three favorite Beatles albums (I'm almost certain the other two will show up later in this list), and that's for a few reasons. Lennon–McCartney is a powerhouse songwriting team the likes of which was never seen before or since and et cetera, but give it up for George Harrison's three (count 'em, three!) contributions to this album! always nice to see your fave get a bit more shine. "Taxman" is the one everyone loves, and I like it a lot, but "Love You To" and "I Want to Tell You" are much more in my wheelhouse in terms of what I mostly listen to the Beatles for: sonic experimentation in a pop context! yes, many of my favorite tracks here are the weird ones. "Eleanor Rigby" with its creepy string arrangement and double-tracked lead vocals; "She Said She Said", which features some jangly, noisy guitar work; "For No One", a ballad with a Baroque flair, complete with a clavichord; and especially "Tomorrow Never Knows", one of the most mind-altering songs in the entire history of pop music. but then you listen to "Here, There and Everywhere", a song that's so straightforward in comparison with all the rest, and it's still completely captivating. this is a very special collection of tunes from a group of musicians capturing absolute magic in the studio. light 9/10.
Fav: Here, There And Everywhere Least Fav: Doctor Robert Best Beatles album on the list so far, but some of the tracks feel like they’re missing something. It’s shocking that some of these songs were made in the 60s…
Excellent album.
An all-time classic for a reason. The Beatles at the top of their songwriting and performing talents.
Come on...it's Revolver
How to rewrite the rules on how a record can be recorded. So diverse yet cohesive. Every track individually has the power to be a masterclass and together they create a masterpiece. When dealing with the 5* records I strangely find it more difficult to write notes as the words seem not to do justice.
Absolutely phenomenal. "Tomorrow Never Knows" is the perfect Beatles song, showcasing each member's immeasurable talent, but every track is great.
Revolver is where The Beatles stopped being just a band and became full-blown innovators. It’s their first album made after experimenting with LSD, and you can hear the doors of perception flying open in every track. This isn’t just a collection of songs — it’s a turning point in modern music, where creativity, curiosity, and consciousness collided in the studio. “Taxman” opens with a snarl, George Harrison taking aim at the system with sharp wit and funk-infused grit. “Eleanor Rigby” follows, radically different — a stark string arrangement and narrative depth that felt miles beyond anything in pop music at the time. “Here, There and Everywhere” brings a beautiful softness, McCartney’s delicate vocal and ethereal harmonies floating somewhere above reality. “I Want to Tell You” captures the confusion and internal noise of a mind pushed beyond its limits, with clashing chords and hypnotic tension. “Got to Get You Into My Life” brings it all back to earth with brassy, joyful energy — a soul-infused track that channels Motown while still sounding distinctly Beatles. With Revolver, they weren’t just writing hits — they were rewriting the rules. Studio effects, tape loops, backwards guitars, philosophical lyrics — all of it feels fresh, fearless, and forward-looking. It’s the sound of four minds opening up and taking rock music somewhere it had never been before. A psychedelic masterpiece that still stands as one of their boldest and best. Favorite song: "Eleanor Rigby"
++*: She Said She Said, Tomorrow Never Knows ++: Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Love You To, Here, There and Everywhere, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, Doctor Robert, I Want to Tell You, Got to Get You into My Life +: For No One 9,7/10
Maybe other than Rubber Soul, the best Beatles album in my opinion. White album is up there for me as well.
Still one of the all time bangers. So many solid tracks, most of the them standards that get played everywhere and by everyone, all the time. My favorites are "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby", "Here, There, and Everywhere", "Yellow Submarine", "Got To Get You Into My Life", and "Tomorrow Never Knows". REVOLVER Opened the door to so many new pop genres, and revealed inspired production techniques that everyone else would quickly adopt. What is there to say about this album that hasn't been said by more articulate people than I? Also, I love "Yellow Submarine" and I will not apologize for it.
EW taxman- stop being british. 3 eleanor rigby- 2. this sounds actually terrible im only sleeping- 3 love you to- 3 or 4 here there and everywhere- 3 yellow submarine- 3 she said she said- 3 good day sunshine- 2 or 3 no more didnt realize music was playing
Another great album from the Beatles, my favorites are “Got To Get You Into My Life” and “Eleanor Rigby”
One of my top 3 Beatles albums.
One of my favorite Beatles albums. Many hits on this one. Some of my favorite tracks like Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, She Said, Good Day Sunshine, Yellow Submarine, Gotta Get You Into My Life and more. A great listen front to back.
#55 It's the Beatles, so great, and some of the songs are 5 stars (Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine). In total I have heard better Beatles albums.
After a solid week of 3/5s this album came through like a breath of fresh air! Every song has something in it, listening on headphones elevated this album even more.
An excellent album with songs that are timeless.
This is the Beatles at their musical peak. The orchestrations, the horns, the contrapuntal melodies, the Indian instrumentation, backwards recordings. They were experimenting, but the songwriting is all solid.
I didn't have this album growing up but so many of the songs are already familiar to me. Collectively it's probably my favorite cluster of Beatles songs wrapped up in one bundle -- the perfect blend of danceable, singable, ennui-inducing, and joy.
With the exception of the truly godawful Yellow Submarine, every track here is a belter. Eleanor Rigby is probably my favourite Beatles song of all time. And then you've got Here There and Everywhere, Tomorrow Never Knows, Taxman, Got to Get You Into My Life... All superb. 5 stars all the way!
Surprised it took so long for another Beatles record to appear after getting Abbey Road as my first pick back at the start of the year. Sigh, I admit I don’t understand the hype with the Beatles. Were they groundbreaking for the time? What am I missing? I just can’t get into them. Anyway, I don’t know if it’s controversial or not but I thought Abbey Road was better. Revolver does get better at it goes on, and I did like the length and all songs being 3 minutes max. 2.5 stars
I’ve already heard this it’s very good I’m only sleeping top 5 song of all time
I don't know many Beatles songs other than the well-known ones, so this was nice to listen to and discover more of their work. Enjoyed it a lot, but I probably wouldn't go back to it because I'm a basic bitch who just wants the big hits
Fantastic album... just not quite the full five for me (4.5)
To me this is the best album ever recorded. The Beatles at their full power. 34 minutes and 14 songs, nothing overstays its welcome. Harrison with 3 songs all completely different yet equally important as we get the first taste of the Indian/Hindu influence he would go on to develop for the rest of his life. The influence of the album is matched by the actual songs. Some songs are better than other, but they’re all top tier. Seamlessly transitioning from in your face heavy guitars to gentle sitars, brass bands and string quartets. The crazy thing is the lack of hits with only Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine as household names. Tomorrow Never Knows is for me up there with the greatest album closers of all time. I always wondered when I was a kid where the managed to get those seagull sounds from. Imagine hearing this for the first time 60 years ago, even now it sounds out of this world. Best: She Said, Got to get you into my life, Love you to, Tomorrow never knows Abbey Road is filled with nostalgia as the last recorded Beatles album, but this is more important. 5/5 - GOAT status
One of the greatest ever made. My favorite Beatles album. Sublime!
It's the Beatles. Obviously they are fantastic. This is in the "later Beatles" side of the Beatles, which I prefer. Someone discovered psychedelics before writing and recording this. Probably Dr. Robert. Not my favorite album, but a good one nonetheless. Yellow Submarine is an absolute classic and is hands down the best song on the album. Eleanor Rigby is good too, but for different reasons. There are some great songs here, but the best stuff is the first half of the album. It sort of falls off on the second half, once Yellow Submarine ends. Definitely worth a listen.
A classic. Just wish Yellow Submarine wasn’t on it. Always enjoy listening to George Martin mixes and it always catches me by surprise to hear bass panned left in certain songs. I get the science behind it being sensible to keep bass straight down the middle, but sometimes it just works to pan, and sounds fun. Anyway, not the Beatles best, I’m giving it a 3 star
Beautifully crafted psychedelic pop which is probably responsible bringing the genre into the mainstream, influencing generations of bands to come. Nice use of sitar, reverse guitar solo's. Great use of harmonies and string arrangements in the more classic sounding Ballads. Also.. WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE A YELLOW SUBMARINE A YELLOW SUBMARINE
I've never understood the hype The Beatles get and this record proves it. It's too bland and I find the vocals annoying. Love You To and Yellow Submarine are some bright spots in the album, but it's far from enough to make this worthy of a decent rating. I like the ideas of the different instruments they used compared to their other albums, but I don't think they executed it as well as they could, or should, have.
Banging
my least favourite of the phenomenal 'rubber soul -> abbey road' run, and still a straight up 5. what a band. ps yellow submarine rules
Not my favorite Beatles album.
Look at the Lads! Growing right before our eyes and ears. Not the innocent Fab Four anymore. Now it’s sitars and sex in a smoke filled package. Love these damn hippies!
Bueno, pero tienen mejores
Perfect album.
Their best
Yeah, what everyone else said.
A classic. One of their best - or perhaps the best? Rolling Stone's readers certainly think so.
4.75
The best album so far on this list.
Revolver What can you say that hasn’t been said a hundred times before and a hundred times more artfully? It’s much a perfect Beatles album and therefore just a perfect album. I’ve heard it so many times but I can pretty much listen to it on repeat endlessly, like I have all day today. Like all of their albums it's amazing how it can sound different every time you listen, and songs you'd previously only liked suddenly become your favourites. For a long time I wasn’t keen on Yellow Submarine, but hearing its genesis on the box set a couple of years back has changed my perspective. For some reason I didn’t appreciate She Said, She Said for a long while, but again, now it's one of my favourites on the album (and I didn’t realise until recently that Paul doesn’t play on it at all) It’s kind of interesting that this is the start of the fracturing of the 4 headed monster, pre-empting what happened on the White Album, with each person’s song very much their own thing. You can feel George wanting to get his songs heard, Paul is at the start of his man about town supremely confident songwriting period, and while John is descending into LSD befuddlement, he still comes up for air occasionally to deliver some incredible songs that really make the album what it is. He only has 5 or 6 songs, but I’m Only Sleeping, She Said She Said and Tomorrow Never Knows are absolute cornerstones of the album, and without them the whole atmosphere and quality of the record would be hugely diminished. I’m also constantly amazed by their ability to synthesise sounds with the ideas and themes of the songs, without heavy-handedness or gaucheness or literalness, as on how the piano is slightly off-key on I Want to Tell You, signifying George’s uncertainty in the words, and the horn on For No One encompassing the wistfulness and realism of people drifting apart. Also George’s backing vocals on the chorus, singing Yellow Submarine on one note (in the right channel on the 220 stereo mix), giving a very welcome air of vague cynical detachment, as a counterpoint to the exuberance of the song. There are countless examples of this throughout the album, and it’s surely one of those things that consistently sets them apart from their peers. I know this is also when George started to fall out of love with the guitar, but some of his parts on here are incredible, not necessarily just for technical complexity, but for feel and most importantly for unusualness, some of the stuff hes does on She Said She Said and Dr Robert are quite odd in a brilliant way. Paul’s bass playing on Rubber Soul is fantastic, but this is at another level. That little groove behind the ‘if you drive too far…’ lines, and the whole of I’m Only Sleeping is just unbelievably good, great in it’s own right but the bass floating around the upper register suits the songs superbly. And Ringo of course is as ever superb - Tomorrow Never Knows (and Rain as part of the sessions) are incredible bits of futuristic drumming, but he’s amazing throughout, I love the deceptively simple pattern on I’m Only Sleeping, the gentle rolls and jazzy feel on Here, There and Everywhere. The into roll and slightly disjointed pattern on She Said She Said is so good, both technically and as a service to the song. He also has that brilliantly tight Stax/Al Jackson pattern and sound on Dr Robert. As with all their albums is also sequenced brilliantly, the groove of Taxman followed by the deeply resonant Eleanor Rigby, followed by the dreamlike and hazy I’m Only Sleeping, then followed by the Indian sounds of Love You To. That must have been mindblowing in 1966. And then you get possibly Paul’s finest ballad, tender, warm, touching before the schoolyard singalong of Yellow Submarine. Then an Indian/LSD influenced guitar pop banger to finish off the first side. A sunny bit of barrelhouse rolling piano kicks off side 2 before that great riffing with And Your Bird Can Sing, followed by the amazing For No One, running Here There and Everywhere close, not quite a ballad, but a quite incredible bit of baroque pop with a superb lyric, before we get some more drone influenced guitar pop and then part 2 of if I Needed Someone, with its uncertain and hesitant lyric counterpointing brilliantly with the declarative and unequivocal effusiveness and exuberance of Got to Get You Into My Life, which in turn acts as a brilliant bit of melodic rnb/pop before the experimental and psychedelic masterpiece of Tomorrow Never Knows. This is possibly my favourite Beatles song and I would love to go back to 1966 and hear this album for the first time and then hear this song at the end, what must that have been like? I oscillate between Revolver, Sgt Pepper the White Album and Abbey Road as my favourites, but this is probably the one I listen to most and if I had a type of pistol to my head this would be my one Beatles album. Something the Beatles music does, and this album in particular does, is make me think everything’s going to be ok, that if something like this can exist then the world is a good place. That four people made this album and brought so much joy, happiness, curiosity and colour to the world and to my life it makes me feel so incredibly hopeful and touched. I’ll stop now, as this is more a patchwork of different thoughts than a review. Obviously a 5. 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫 Playlist submission: Tomorrow Never Knows
It's one of The Beatles best albums, containing some of their most iconic tracks. At the risk of sounding like every other 5 star review, it really marked a new era that had started to peak out during Rubber Soul, but really hit hard by Revolver. I honestly can't gush about it enough.
# Album Name: Revolver # Artist: The Beatles # Rating: 5/5 # Comments: This is an absolutely fantastic album. The melodies, the bass lines, the guitar, the lyrics, the drums. Mwah! French kiss. No wonder its considered one of the best. # Top Tunes: every single song imo # Would I listen to it again? fuck yeah!
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I used to be a Beatles-sceptic. This is the second time I listen to this album through. I am now starting to understand the hype for the Beatles (their earlier stuff was not at all to my tastes and seemed rather generic, but this is gold). Can't decide between 4 and 5, I think it's exactly 4.5 star but I'll round up (with some hesitation)
They got better albums but this is still pretty good.
Great album.
It's Revolver! I adore 'And your bird can sing' and 'I'm only sleeping'.
At this stage in history, approximately four hundred years after Paul McCartney first picked up a mediaeval bass and plucked the first notes to Love Me Do the Beatles music has become like the Earth's background radiation: ubiquitous, only detectable with specialised equipment, and giving rise to small genetic mutations in fruit flies. Birds use their songs to navigate their way back to the north pole each year. The English have eighty different words to describe the feeling of listening to a Beatles song, whereas the Japanese only have seventeen. Is this the best album of all time? It's impossible to say. It has always been here and will always be here. It is as much a part of us as we are of it.
For about a year, back in 2020, this was my favourite album of all time. Here's why: Years of stressful touring, tens of thousands of screaming fans sacrificing their dignity/lives to get to you, a goofy comment about being more popular than Jesus leading to the most powerful country in the world turning against you. That's what the Beatles were wrapped up in. It's no wonder they started taking LSD in addition to heavy use of cannabis. The LSD had the side effect of creating some of the best 2-minute pop of the 60s. Taxman is the Beatles' first time opening an album with a George Harrison-penned track, and it's rock-solid. Jam-packed with distorted guitars, biting lyrics, and brash, infectious basslines, there's really nothing to complain about here. The "ah-ah, Mr Wilson" and "ah-ah, Mr Heath" backing vocals are one of the many tricks pulled out of the Beatles' collective hat here. Then we move onto Eleanor Rigby, a depressingly stark reminder that people like Eleanor Rigby, me, and others exist everywhere. One of the earliest uses of strings in a definitively rock-genre song, and it sounds fantastic. The contrast between staccato and legato string playing in the chorus is great. And other than the strings, there's just Paul McCartney and his more-nasally-than-usual vocal (he was sick during recording). "Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name / Nobody came / Father MacKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave / No one was saved / All the lonely people, where do they all come from?" Harrowing stuff. I'm Only Sleeping - one of the earliest, if not the earliest, uses of reversed guitar in a pop song. There's an entire solo built around this and it really adds to the slow, swung, dreamy mood of the piece. Also, fun little bass licks bookending those music breaks. They're three for three so far, these Liverpudlian lads. Love You To is a track I feel gets too much hate simply for being wildly outside the Beatles' pre-1966 sound. I think it's a solid fusion of sounds from Indian classical and British rock (cool instrumentation especially), and George's vocal melody is super fun. Here, There, and Everywhere is gorgeous. Apparently it was Paul's "reply" to the Beach Boys' gentle yet revolutionary Pet Sounds, released a few months before this album, as part of the two bands' ongoing rivalry. It's a huge standout track in the Beatles' discography as a whole, particularly the chord progression, which is a masterclass in harmony by itself. Yellow Submarine is unequivocally the weakest track on the album, but that's not to say it's bad. On the contrary, it's probably the catchiest song released by the band that year (if not in their entire discography). Everybody knows Yellow Submarine. The "band begin[ning] to play" is the best part of the song. She Said She Said features some distorted, layered guitars, giving a very distinctive texture that would feature in many later Beatles tracks (including some others later on Revolver). There's so much going on here sonically that it's easier just to bask in the incredible harmonic work between the guitars and vocals, along with Ringo's crash-heavy percussion. Flip over the record and we come to Good Day Sunshine, an upbeat pop track centred around a very low piano register. What is it about low-register pianos that makes music sound comedic? This song makes me want to laugh, prance about, remember this song's lyrics don't really apply to me, and then sit down glumly and acknowledge the lack of a nearby presence. And Your Bird Can Sing, one of John Lennon's best Beatles tracks (despite the nonsense he spouted about it being a throwaway). The distorted, self-harmonising lead guitar line is brilliant, the vocal harmonies are on-point, and whoever's doing that tambourine at the end should probably be fired. (It's pretty low in the mix, though, don't worry.) This is taking too long to write, so I'll make this quick. For No One is a short, to-the-point ballad that is so simple and elegant that it may just be in my top 5 Beatles tracks. Doctor Robert's guitar riff is maybe a little annoying, but that middle organ section is a moment of spiritual ascension. I Want To Tell You has that great tritone+semitone clash in the piano part that some people apparently hate but I personally love. Got To Get You Into My Life is energetic, brassy, and has an excellent one-liner chorus, as well as a brilliant final section where the guitars take over for the trumpets. Tomorrow Never Knows still sounds like the future even 58 years later, with some of Ringo's best drumming to date, heavily edited guitars(?) that are made to sound like gulls, a pedal tone, an indecipherable lyric (LSD), and some stunning surround-sound mixing. What a freaking awesome album. Of course, as with every sane Beatles fan, I eventually started to prefer Abbey Road over Revolver. But the latter has this brilliant energy and raw creativity that I'll never forget. 5/5 Key tracks: all, pretty much
The mixing on the remastered version I listened to was not very good, but the songwriting gives this a 5 easy
I mean yeah
I would give it a six. Not too big on the Beatles.
Hmm
This was always my favourite Beatles album along with Rubber Soul. Not a 5 currently because I listened to it too much at one point. (I should have given the White album a 3 really as it never was a favourite, but was being sentimental about the Beatles.)
Impossible to overstate how significant a record Revolver is to me personally and to popular music.
I meannnnn come on. Iconic!
Not a huge Beatles fan in general, but it was fine