Revolver

The Beatles dropped more innovations on this one album than most bands do in their entire careers. Spins: 3 Playlist Additions - Taxman - Eleanor Rigby - Here, There and Everywhere - Yellow Submarine - Good Day Sunshine - Got to Get You into My Life

Think this is this third Beatles album I’m getting on this list. This is one of my favorite albums ever. For a long time, I considered it their best. But nowadays that’s all dependent on mood because there are 3 or 4 Beatles albums that could’ve be their best. I’ve listened to this recently actually, but will give it another re listen today. Just a great album. More of that psych rock sound and I guess some of the beginnings of that era. Feels like quintessential mid 60s Beatles. Eleanor Rigby always holds up. What a song even all these years later. There’s so much to love here. The evolution in sound with something like the sitar on Love You To. There are some great under appreciated songs throughout the album. Something like She Said She Said is just a great song. And this all leads to the quality of the album. Where nothing is a miss and the variety of the sound is just enough yet it all feels a part of the whole. The guitars in this album are so underrated. It’s not a “rocker” but there’s such a good sound on a lot of the songs. And Your Bird Can Sing is great for this. A lot of the newer sound is coming on the Lennon songs. For No One is one of my favorite songs ever. And the type of short quick masterpiece Paul McCartney writes that always amazes me. And Tomorrow Never Knows is one of the best Beatles songs ever. I love this album. This is an easy 5. One of the greatest albums ever that sounds amazing today and just never gets old. Despite the fact that it’s 60 years old this year. Amazing. I might listen again on repeat. Or to Sgt Peppers. Because listening to one Beatles album makes me want to listen to them all.

There are no bad Beatles. Not even mediocre Beatles.

I’ve heard this before and I own it. I’m one of those music snobs who insists this is the best Beatles album and more important overall than Sgt. Pepper, but I truly believe this and am not being contrarian. Personally I think the psychedelia on Revolver is much better and isn’t marred by any circus music. In case you are saying so, Yellow Submarine is not circus music, and is one of the best expressions of joy in recording history. The studio innovations are amazing and the songs in more standard format they bring in backward guitar solos. And certain songs such as Eleanor Rigby don’t need any studio tricks. Every song is fantastic and they close it out on tomorrow never knows which is probably the best psych song of the 60s and should give pause to anyone who says Ringo isn’t a great drummer.

9 - EXCELLENT

favorite Beatle album. my favorites: Elenor Rigby, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, Got to Get You into My Life.

When i saw this alblum come up, I promised I would be impartial and not give an automatic 5 stars. However as hard as I tried i could not not rate as a five. Found myself singing and smiling while listening to every song. On top of that, if these are the top 1000 or so alblums, mathematics average indicates that approx 200 alblums should get a five. This alblum is EASILY in the top 200. This is not even my favorite Beatle alblum. Looking forward to the others coming up.

Of course I enjoyed it.. there are other albums of theirs I enjoy more. You can tell their music was developing and exploring into new areas.

Исторически важный альбом, на котором The Beatles расширяют границы поп-рока, экспериментируя со студийными эффектами и психоделией. Однако новаторство не всегда превращается в убедительный музыкальный результат: эксперименты местами кажутся наивными, а соседство сильных мелодических композиций с откровенно придурковатыми песнями вроде «Yellow Submarine» нарушает целостность альбома. Revolver заслуживает уважения, но Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper’s и Abbey Road кажутся более убедительными работами группы.

Nice, 4/5

Just a classic with some incredible gems.

I don't know who the hell decided to give the bottom-right guy realistic eyes but I want to strangle whoever did this cover art. I see that damn face when I close my eyes. Anyways, the album itself is fine. Tomorrow Never Knows doesn't feel like it fits in the album at all, but I can't tell if that's because they wanted to make an album to be able to put the song out or if they just needed an extra song at the end. Either way it makes the entire rest of the album sound like filler.

This is up there for my favorite album. So many great tunes by each of the ones that actually wrote the songs here. Paul making some of his best with for no one or here there and everywhere. George with maybe the best opener taxman. Lennon with she said, I’m only sleeping. There are no skips on this album.

That’s for you Dawson

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I decided on this listen that this is my favourite Beatles album. I love the lazy psychedelic feel and the influences from Indian music. It's more coherent than The White Album or Abbey Road, but more open than Sergeant Pepper. Unfortunately, I can't give it 5 stars because I always have to skip the first track. Millionaire rockstars whining about paying their taxes can get to fuck.

This is one of their better albums. Gotta get you into my life is a great song.

The Beatles are my all time favorite. This is a seminal album. It's almost the demarcation point between the early rock era and the modern rock era. Underneath it all is just all-time great songwriting and wonderful, breakthrough production values.

i love this album

Might be their best....so hard to pick though

Favourite Beatles album / excellent

´Taxman´ no me gustó 3/10, ´Eleanor Rigby´ es de mis favoritas de The Beatles 9/10, ´Only sleeping´ ya la había escuchado, me recuerda mucho a mi early teenage years, me encanta, creo que de estas tres me gusta muchísimo esta, aww, 10/10. Me gusta la intro de ´Love You To´, pero de ahi 2/10, ´HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE´ ES HERMOSA NO PUEDO 1010101010101/10. ´Yellow submarine´ me gusta pero me la arruino una serie para niños por ahi del 2015, 7/10. ´She Said She Said´ pues me parece cute, pero hasta ahí, 5/10. ´Good Day Sunshine´ esta skippable, 3/10. ´And Your Bird Can Sing´ mid, 4/10. ´Doctor Robert´ también me aburrió, 6/10. ´I Want To Tell You´ Tampoco me gustó, pero está bonita, o sea agradable, le doy un 7/10 me gusta que esta como out of tune el piano. ´Got To Get You Into My Life´ Creo que salió en los minions, me encanta, se me hace muy cuute, y esta movidita, ya la había escuchado, 8.5/10. Tomorrow Never Knows es un solid 8/10, me gustó. Overall le doy un 7.5 al álbum, pq tenía muchas canciones que me encantan. Fin.

Virkelig en vild musikalsk rejse, de fire gutter var på. Jeg kendte få, men kunne godt li' det.

Typical Beatles. Some classics, some unknown.

It was good; I found out I had already listened to a bunch of these songs, but listening to the full album was a different experience. My favorites were I'm Only Sleeping, Tomorrow Never Knows, Love You To, For No One and Here, There and Everywhere. Eleanor Rigby was kinda ruined for me bc of all the memes that were used with this song. I also don't see the hype with Yellow Submarine; I didn't like it. It seemed too childish, like a cartoon intro song, not my hit. For an album that's known to be experimental, I was expecting them to take more risks with the vocals. Rubber Soul is still my fav Beatles album.

Not the best Beatles album. Not bad. 7/10.

Oh boy! Time for my incredibly original opinion on this album: It fucking rules. Seriously, I'm not gonna try and be some contrarian here, this is just and incredible album and obviously deserving of every bit of praise it gets. I've only heard Elanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine prior, but the former has always been one of my favorite Beatles songs with its beautiful strings. Yellow Sub is just iconic, not my absolute favorite but the chorus with all four singing is one of the most well known in music and its super catchy. The rest of the album though I was unfamiliar with as I like the Beatles but I've never been a super fan. Immediately caught in by Taxman and that super catchy reapeating riff and eventual cowbell. Sounds famaliar enough I actually may have heard it somewhere before, but I'm not quite sure at the moment. Still, a great start here especially when its followed by Elanor Rigby. I'm Only sleping is a cute ode to sleep (obviously) but its also quite experimental in its vocal effects for 66 and another great song. Love You To was completely left field with its heavy Indian influence further showing their creative muscles by taking this style and making it sound theirs yet completely unlike anything else they had done. Another highlight for me was She Said She Said, just a really easy on the ears and fun progression in the instrumentals. Good Day Sunshine is also great with its fun little reapeating piano motif makes for yet another quick burst of great songwriting back to back. And Your Bird Can Sing just continued to confirm that I love the repeating guitar riffs throughout this whole album thus far. Its definitely one of the strongest aspects to me. They build a very catchy guitar loop and keep it going throughout while also expanding on it in sections while never leaving behind the base. It really gives each song a unique identity while not driving each sound into the ground that it becomes grating. Again other great ballad with beautiful lyrics in particular for me and a simple guitar and tambourine sound that create an effective environment. I'm suprised they are able to extract so much interesting sounds out of songs at only around 2 minutes each. They're short yet I feel like they take them all to a fully fleshed out version of that idea that never feels lacking. It lets this album just come in and pummel you with great track after great track. One of those great tracks being Got To Get You into My Life, who knew I'd come out of this with one of my favorite songs being a song about marijuanna with some funky ass horns throughout. That outro song too, its noisy, fuzzy, and abstract af but its still built on such a catchy drum loop and interesting effects it will stick in your head and end off an incredible track list with a massive explosive finish. I'm obviously not uniqe on anything I can about this piece of absolute art (we're about 60 years too late at this point to have anything fully original to say), but its just undeniable that this is amazing. I've always been of the opinion that The Beatles were amazing musicians they've just never been the best ever to me but Revolver if anything shows that they were in the conversation and I would not try and argue if you hold that opinion. Personally, this gave me a new appreciation of these guys and its very clearly one of the best albums ever created objectively. Very easily my favorite Beatles album now.

4.5/5 Favorite Songs: Taxman Eleanor Rigby I'm Only Sleeping Love You To Yellow Submarine And Your Bird Can Sing I Got To Get You In My Life

please stop with the 60's classic rock man. im getting burned out on this

i mean come on. no notes.

No words. 10 stars!

My controversial opinion is that the Beatles were pretty good at music

I enjoyed it, quick songs some that I knew but enjoy interesting things

Some great songs and a few I hadn’t heard before that I enjoyed. Maybe a bit too ballad heavy for my liking but I always enjoy listening to The Beatles.

Huh, thought I had gotten all of the Beatles albums already. Anyway, happy 60th to this album! This is probably the actual point in time where the group fully embraced psychedelia, as they eschewed the love song-theming for more conscious and "enlightened" lyricism. Of course, this also meant the introduction of Indian-based instrumentation that would later become more of a regular thing for the group, but also the utilization of a horn section, and literal reverse taping among other techniques. This whole album breezes by before you can even clock what just occurred, which is a testament to the production and effort of the group and how in sync they were during this time. This culminates in the apt finale of "Tomorrow Never Knows", which sounds like it exists in some unspecified point in time, drifting along in outer space or some other dimension. This probably doesn't house a lot of the Beatles "signature" hits, but it's still an extremely solid album that laid the groundwork for Sgt Pepper's, which would follow a year later.

good album, but still worse than i thought but that says more about my expectation of the beatles rather than the quality of the album, Elenor rigby, yellow submarine and got to get you out of my life are wonderful songs, the rest i have already forgot. But a good album all togheter

Meget mere mig. Har svært ved at vælge mellem 3 eller 4. På grund af det flotte album cover og de meget kendte Elenor rigby og Yellow Submarine mm. Hælder jeg til en 4, men jeg tror jeg bliver nødt til at sige 3 for 4 er alligevel også næsten perfekt. Godt er det, ingen tvivl.

An absolutely killer album by The Beatles. Arguably their best. And possibly one of the greatest albums of all time. Wild experimentation, great instrumentation, and a stellar variety of sounds and styles. Plenty of classics on here. They revolutionized the process of recording an album and did so much no one had ever done before. It’s just an all around tour de force and its impact can’t be overstated.

I basically love every Beatles album from Rubber Soul through Let It Be. Revolver has some really great songs - And Your Bird Can Sing and I'm Only Sleeping being some of my favorites. The album doesn't necessarily feel cohesive but I still enjoy it.

Pretty sure I’ve heard this via my parents vinyl collection but was good to revisit. Had always imagined Yellow Submarine as part of Sgt Pepper and I know it’s not always taken seriously but I love that track and Eleanor Rigby. A good length album and great tracks. Don’t get their hype but I do recognise their appeal.

It's a 5 star album, except: Rich men complaining about paying taxes always annoys me. Your taxes pay for the roads you drive on, the education of people you will rely on at some point during your life, e.g., doctors, and so much more! We're all in it together, and we all have to pay what we can afford! Also guilty of whinging about not wanting to contribute to society - The Who, Eric Clapton, the Stones. What was it with that generation?! And yes, I do know how high the tax rate was at that time in the UK, but they would still be very rich men even at those rates. Stop complaining about it to the little people! No sympathy! Also, there's a point in the album review here that implies that this LP was responsible for prog rock! Which would automatically be 4 stars off normally, but I can't really hear that. Any album with She Said She Said on it is a winner though, so just a one star reduction.

i fear i don't like the beatles

In my opinion, The Beatles never cut a bad album. This was one of their best. “Tomorrow Never Knows” is one of my all time favorite tunes.

Look... I know it's a legendary Beatles album, but... I dunno, I don't think I would list it in my top 5 Beatles albums. If I could give it a 3.5 I would, but as it is I'm putting it at 4 stars. Eleanor Rigby is doing a lot of the work on that higher score. Also maybe this isn't a hot take but I always found Yellow Submarine to just be quite annoying, even as a kid. I do enjoy the experimental feel to the album, though.

okaaayy…

lol maybe my new favorite Beatles?

Doesn’t get much better than this.

BIBLICAL. CELESTIAL. The best album of all time (by the Beatles, too). Life changing. Mind opener. Favorites: Love You To, Tomorrow Never Knows, Eleanor Rigby, Taxman, For No One

My personal favorite Beatles album.

The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has been called the peak of their career. However in more recent years I have noticed more and more fans giving Sgt Pepper's predecessor, Revolver that honor. It's almost become in vogue to do so. And while I have tried to be open to that possibility, I find myself agreeing with the more traditional viewpoint. That's not to say that this isn't a fine album. Paul McCartney frequently cites Here There and Everywhere as the best song he's ever written. I would rank that and And Your Bird Can Sing as two of my personal favorites, while Yellow Submarine continues to be a song I have a hard time getting on board with.

Revolver is a pretty outstanding release for it’s time, introducting new production techniques, a wide variety of tracks sonically and lyrically and more. As a listen today, I generally enjoy most of the tracks and there are some very cool moments, even if I’m not over the moon for it like many. Maybe that will come with more time and learning more about just how impactful the innovation of this record was. 2 re-listens Favorite Tracks: For No One; Eleanor Rigby; Got To Get You Into My Life; Tomorrow Never Knows; Here, There And Everywhere; I’m Only Sleeping

Most of this is in my 3-range but I really enjoy some, most notably Yellow Submarine and Good Day Sunshine.

Perhaps the most overrated album of all time. Passable. My favorite track was "Eleanor Rigby".

"I Want to Tell You" is the best song on this album, and George Harrison is the best Beatle.

I have always thought that the Beatles are overrated. Listening to this album the first couple of times I had that thought in my head and it wasn’t until my third listen that I started to open up more to the tracks. ‘Taxman’ is a solid opener- however all I can think whilst listening is that the Batman call must have come from this track! Next up ‘Eleanor Rigby’ arguably the best song we have had so far at album 170- hauntingly beautiful and in my top 20 or so songs of all time. The story telling is out of this world. ‘I’m only sleeping’ ‘love you to’ and ‘I want to tell you’ are all very solid tracks. ‘Good day sunshine’ so catchy and sounds fun without been over the top- something that gives me a slight problem with ‘yellow submarine’ yes it’s catchy but it also feels like such a gimmick- like something Sesame Street would be proud of! Yet it’s infectious- especially the shouting repeats, who doesn’t love those moments and you can’t help but shout along! The guitar in ‘And your bird can sing’ was on point! ‘For no one’ is another heartbreaker, and absolutely sublime! ‘Doctor Robert’ for me is terrible! This shouldn’t be on this record! ‘Tomorrows never knows’ also feels weak and like it could have missed the cut for the album. The great tracks and especially my best track- ‘Eleanor Rigby’ completely counteract the weak tracks, however the fact I cannot stand my worst track ‘Doctor Robert’ at all makes this album a 9.5/10 for me.

Full credit for taking chances. They could have put out 12 tracks of singing about their girl with jangly guitars and it would have sold. But this breaks new ground, even though I don’t completely love it.

I’m discovering I like Beatles albums as albums often more than I like individual songs. Eleanor Rigby is my favorite on here. Very beautiful melodies.

Favorite songs: Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, I’m Only Sleeping, Yellow Submarine, She Said She Said, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, For No One, Doctor Robert, I Want to Tell You, Got to Get You into My Life, Tomorrow Never Knows

Taxman - 10/10. Great guitar riff, excellent lyrics, total banger. Also an excellent protest song against the (then) 95% top marginal tax rate in the UK at the time. Eleanor Rigby - 11/10. Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking. One of the all-time greatest songs of any era. Straight to 11. I'm Only Sleeping - 9/10. Only excellent. Love You To - 9/10. The older I get, the more I appreciate the George Harrison sitar songs. Here, There, and Everywhere - 9/10. Simple, beautiful, and excellent. Yellow Submarine - 8/10. Ridiculously catchy. She Said She Said - 9/10. Outstanding guitar, definitely psychadelic, great tune. Good Day Sunshine - 9/10. Upbeat, catchy, and fun. Everything that Yellow Submarine wants to be. And Your Bird Can Sing - 9/10. Awesome guitar riff, solid rhythm, inventive harmonies, just great overall. For No One - 11/10. Subtly heartbreaking. Another candidate for one of the top songs of the 1960s. It goes to 11. Doctor Robert - 8/10. The closest this album has to a filler. Still great guitar work, genre shifts, and The Beatles at the peak of their powers. I Want to Tell You - 9/10. The intro sounds at least 10 years ahead of its time. A jumping-off point for different styles of music. Got to Get You Into My Life - 10/10. Absolute killer. Everything about it is outstanding. No notes. Tomorrow Never Knows - 9/10. This feels like the George Harrison Hindustani music run through crazy recording tricks. That sounds like a negative, but the experiment definitely works. Overall Rating - 4.64/5 (9.29/10). All Killers, No Fillers. The Beatles at their peak.

The best Beatles album

By far the coolest beatles album (except for dr robert all my homies hate dr robert)

It was coo

Apaga y vámonos. Solo existen los Beatles en su vida Sr. Arquitecto? 🤣

Достойный альбом, достойная группа

Альбом крутой, но я просто не очень люблю поздние битлз, психодел этот. Кроме конечно Abbey Road

Eh

I do not connect to The Beatles but respect their unabashed weirdness and lack of creative boundaries (looking at you, "Love You To"). At one point I stopped doing things and just sat, listening to the well-performed foreignness of that sounds wash over me. I do wonder how they managed to dissolve a throughline from their music and make such a wide array of differently themed sounding songs.

ok

starting to make the turn a bit from their sugar pop drivel but still not the late quality of the White album etc. Not a one star effort but not worthy of this list in my opinion. If you wanted to do one early album and one late album I could get behind that but this is mid stream and not worth you time in my opinion.

My favorite Beatles album

I like more Beatles stuff than I may be willing to admit to people I know. And that's okay.

I still think that Eleanor Rigby gets way too much credit, but there's plenty of good stuff (and Yellow Submarine) that makes up for it despite a couple of other duds (Taxman and Dr Robert? Don't hate them but not great maybe). I always like The Beatles more than I think I will, this album was no exception. Would listen to again, favourite tracks were 'Here, There And Everywhere' and 'Good Day Sunshine'.

Apparently this is the more “psychedelic” of the Beatles albums; I feel like I’ll like the earlier ones more. Still, I saved quite a few songs from this one, and I’ve always enjoyed “Yellow Submarine”!

Some good tunes in an overly overrated album. I just don't get it. Yellow submarine reminds me of something that would be in barney and friends. It's so childish! It is something propped up by boomers and their infantile brains.

Surprised it took this long to get my first Beatles album. Solid. Several hits. Very listenable. Loved the sitar in some of the songs. (4.5)

10/10 No notes

She said I know what it's like to be dead. About sums it up for me in a special way when I consider this album in historic context as a Beatles super fan.

This was quite nice. I liked Taxman and Tomorrow Never Knows. Is this one of the best albums ever? Far from it. 3 stars

This is fine? The album’s quite inconsistent and overall left me cold more often than not, but it’s inoffensive. Standout Tracks: Eleanor Rigby, and honestly I think Yellow Submarine is fun Rating: 2.5

One of the GOATs, not much else to say.

gran album lleno de clasicos y yellow submarine viejo

A good Beatles album, enjoyable throughout. My cup of tea is sitting on a Revolver coaster right now! The songs bounce briskly along trying different things, and I wish some of them were a bit longer. I think my ideal Revolver would drop a couple of tracks from side two and spend those minutes on some of the others. And as the local Ob-La-Di apologist, I have to also stick up for Yellow Submarine. It's just so fun. Not since the Owl and the Pussy-Cat's beautiful pea-green boat has there been such a landmark piece of nautical whimsy in art! I love Yellow Submarine! It does belong on here!

Nothing to say that hasn’t been said before really. Luckily no deliberation needed over how to rate this one.

My 6th favourite Beatles record!

The first Beatles album I fell in love with, back when the monoculture wasn't quite as solidified and it was still possible to 'discover' bits of the Beatles beyond the hits. Nothing really original you can say about records like this, but I can at least echo everyone's observation that 'Tomorrow Never Knows' still sounds like it fell out of the future and is a great example of why the band are so important - it's experimental but ALSO a great song. Also, 1.20 into 'And Your Bird Can Sing' is one of the most perfect moments in any song ever recorded. I still love it, but my favourite drifted to Rubber Soul over time, and then to Abbey Road, but probably just from overplaying it tbh! Also, 'Eleanor Rigby' is a blight.

The Beatles have three of my top five albums of all time... This is one of them 10 ★★★★★

Not my favourite Beatles album, but still a classic in the history of medern music. 5 stars

Not sure what I can say about this that's not already been said other than it's probably the single biggest game changing album in rock history. It's not perfect, but considering the pop/rock landscape in 1966, this is a revelation. There's interesting ideas on every track and for a lot of them, there's seemingly no precedent. Hard to single out highlights in an album full of them, but "She Said, She Said", "Love You To", "And Your Bird Can Sing", "Here, There, and Everywhere", "Taxman", and "Tomorrow Never Knows" are especially rad. The later sounds decades ahead of it's time. The whole album still sounds amazing despite being made with 1966 technology. 5 stars.

Easy 5. The most classic-iest classic album that ever album’d. 14 absolute corker songs that are in turns radical, cosy, classic and are peak in their individual way. All perfectly in tune with each other with nothing dragging a second too long. Powers above even Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road as greatest Beatles album and knocks 10 shades of shizzle out of anything Rolling Scones could muster.

Not my fav beatles album but still great

Classic album! The harmonies were so good!

FUCK YEAH

Finally, a Beatles album! Of course, I going to have to be biased here, because they are my favorite band ever. There are lovely ballads, rock songs, psychedelic songs, Indian- influenced songs, and quirky songs (I still think Yellow Submarine was my Wiggles when I was a boy and was written for that age group). I know each and every song on this album and is a standard that I may subconsciously measure every album I listen too on here.

Not my favorite Beatles but a heck of an album

Miałem ochotę na beatlesów część piosenek znałem, jednak mój odbiór płyty był zakłócony czytaniem książki a muzyka służyła jako tło.

Amazing album, was my original introduction to the beatles. I love it

4,5/5

Yeah it's still good now, but if I was listening for the first time in 1966, my shit would be blown off.

#245 - This is like the British Beach Boys! Kidding, but have you ever counted how many heads are on the cover of Revolver? It's 43. If you have not heard this album, or even The Beatles, I am sorry for your loss. It's amazing what exposure to drugs will do for the creative experience. What's even more amazing is we can all think of this as an "era" where they changed their sound, but I always think of eras as many years, or even decades. The Beatles changed from clean cut lads to this in three short years, with like 5 albums in between. This would never happen today. These kinds of sound changes are spread out over years now, no one is allowed to grow this fast. It's a shame. Anyway the albums awesome. Biggest Hit - Eleanor Rigby Biggest Miss (if I had to choose) - Doctor Robert Hidden Gem - Here, There and Everywhere

Was decent, I think most of the songs were too basic like the typical pop song structure, the catchy hook, a person representing in the songs, songs just felt too basic