Revolver

don't ever fucking make me listen to these piece of shit rat boys again you malfunctioning toaster

She said: "Revolver is the best Beatles album. It doesn't overwhelmingly rock, roll or pop because its strategy is to transport the listener to the until-then uninhabited space between all three via melodic aggressiveness and sonic inventiveness." I said: "Who put all those thoughts in your head? It's got Yellow Submarine, for Christ's sake. And that strategy meant they took their eye off the ball lyrically and out popped Good Day Sunshine and Doctor Robert. (Let's just ignore the Harrison lyrics)." She said: "No, no, no, you're wrong. What sounds like filler or a lack of cohesion is the embodiment of the main theme: alienation. Listen again to how many of the songs take a side-on approach to loneliness and people talking past each other. As standalone songs, they're crystal clear, but together they jar. That's deliberate." I said: "Even though you know what you know, you're wrong." She said: "Then how come you're using one of their songs as a framing device for your review?" I said: "..."

One of the most influential albums of all time and the point where the Beatles started changing the game. Tomorrow Never Know’s is perhaps one of the greatest finale’s on any album.

Just a damn great album. Just ... just so great. If I didn't have a soft spot for the sheer quirkiness of "Rubber Soul", "Revolver" would be my #1 Beatles album. Great songwriting, performances, production, and arrangments from top to bottom. Hands down, one of the all-time greats of rock and roll.

1 good song (eleanor rigby) + a whole heap of stuff that sounds like kmart jingle fodder, only it's considered some of the best music ever written. either i'm a philistine, or the world is full of idiots.

This album scores highly purely on innovation and influence but when you add the quality of songs that feature on this album (minus Yellow Submarine) it gets full marks. Lyrically it’s probably their best work - “wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door.” 👌 The Beatles at their songwriting and creative peak, I love this album.

Finishing this classics week with a BANG. I've been looking forward to the day we'd get a Beatles album for months now, and here we are starting with my favorite! Revolver is such an unbelievable piece of art. The recording techniques are still mind-blowing by today's standards, and the genre exploration is such a welcome reprieve from the band's earlier work. There are, frankly, too many hits on here. I could list them, or you could literally just read the tracklist. Eleanor Rigby?? Taxman?? This is also home to one of my all-time favorite songs ever made, "Tomorrow Never Knows." What a dazzling, mystifying piece of music. And of course there's also "Here, There and Everywhere," famously sampled by Frank Ocean on Blonde. "She Said, She Said," reworked by the Black Keys. It's an experimental pop rock album, and it still manages to be a hit parade. As cliche as Beatles praise has become, it's almost frightening how good their albums like this are. This was made in 1966. Who was anywhere near this in 1966? We've heard so many rock albums on this list from that decade and decades after, and it's crazy how this holds up compared to any and all peers. This could never get less than a perfect score from me. Favorite tracks: Tomorrow Never Knows, Love You To, Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Got to Get You Into My Life, Here There Everywhere, She Said She Said. Album art: Definitely iconic. I don't know what my favorite cover from the Beatles is honestly, but it isn't likely this one. Still, I can't escape it. 5/5

I kind of wish I were listening to the Beatles albums in order, to follow their evolution, but it's also interesting to look at each album as a snapshot of one point in time, and to hear the familiar and unfamiliar songs in their original collections together. I do remark how this album represented an exploration of what it meant to craft recordings in a studio as its own thing, as opposed to capturing a group performance. I wouldn't really have noticed that if I hadn't read about it, but it's quite interesting to me to learn the details and innovations they came up with. I loved all the songs, from the very familiar to the less. I'm sure there would be a different favorite every time I listened. Today, unpredictably, it was "Got to Get You Into My Life."

This album blows my mind. Every single time. This is a pop/rock album, right? But here's Eleanor Rigby, a piece of chamber music with pop lyrics; Love to You, with its tabla and sitar; Yellow Submarine, which feels like something written for Sesame Street; For No One, backed only by piano, percussion, and French horn; and Tomorrow Never Knows which still sounds, in 2021, like it's from the future. The rest of the songs are more traditional rock and pop but they are an eclectic mix that I find difficult to place in a specific time period. Here, There and Everywhere sounds like 1960 Beatles. Got to Get You Into My Life sounds like 1970s Wings (which is honestly ok with me). Here is a short list of the things on this album that make me exclaim, "Are you kidding me?" to these geniuses when I listen to Revolver: The too slow countdown + cough + in tempo countdown that open Taxman and the guitar solo in the middle. The psychedelic fuzzy guitar on She Said She Said. The staggered entrances of the instruments and vocals at the beginning of Good Day Sunshine and the change to the melody on "Sunshine" the last time through the chorus. The way the bass and the piano play with each other on I Want to Tell You. The entirety of Tomorrow Never Knows. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This is my favorite Beatles album.

For about 15 years, I believed, and would argue, that this is the best Beatles album. I'm less certain now - purely because so many are brilliant, but it still feels like the balance of pop and experimentation is so perfect on this album, at least for me. It really isn't worth going track by track with the Beatles, as you'd almost believe every song is a single, such is their impact. It's perfect, or so near it doesn't matter anyway.

Honestly has to be a 10. This album revolutionized the studio as we know it. The Beatles experimented so hard with recording styles and it changed everything.

One of the greatest albums of all time. You can hear the seeds of experimentation which would explode the next year in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This album represents a huge leap forward musically, and technologically as the Beatles began using the studio as an instrument in itself.

Are you strapped in? Got your helmet on? Ready to clutch your pearls? I’ve got a doozy for ya: “Tomorrow Never Knows” is the best song The Beatles ever committed to tape and it’s 99.9% of the reason why I’m giving this record 5 stars.

Good album :)

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.

mmmmmmmmmeh

Decided to be more lenient with what I consider a 5. When it comes to the Beatles, you might assume they’re overrated. That is until you listen to their catalogue. Beyond the big hits, they have so many beautiful songs and this album is full of them. It's is so soothing that takes you to different places looking at love, regret and living in a fucking yellow submarine. For an album to come out in 1966 and still sound this good speaks volumes about what a generational band they were. I absolutely loved this album.

I hate the Beatles. I like the album cover drawing

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

Here are The Beatles about to leap headlong into their new psychedelic personas. From the backwards guitar solo on Taxman to… the backwards guitar on Tomorrow Never Knows, the band is firing on all four cylinders. Everyone has their spotlight songs, and the album shows a group taking their first real step into the unknown.

I sure hope I don't lose any friends over this, but The Beatles don't do much for me. I think my dad was probably a Stones-over-Beatles guy, and I don't recall 97.5 or 98.5 playing much of the Beatles when I was a kid, so I never listened to them much despite their popularity. I think I listened to one of their greatest hits albums about a decade ago, and it didn't grab me enough to ever follow up. I feel like "Yellow Submarine" is a terrible song; I just don't get how that became one of their hits. I thought maybe I was missing something, so I listened to the version on the "Yellow Submarine" album, and it still sucks. They named a whole album after this dogshit?? I know people smoked a lot of pot in the '60s and '70s, but I can't imagine being high enough to think this is a good song. Then again, I don't have a great imagination. I guess I just had to be there at the time? Some of the songs on this album are decent, but I can't say I loved any of them. "Got To Get You Into My Life" was pretty good, though. Sorry. I know this is sacrilegious, but I can't honestly give this any better than a 2, and I wouldn't blame anyone who gives it a 1. I will now turn in my Music Fan card, admit to being uncultured swine, and delete the 1,300 or so albums on my laptop/iPod.

Great use of other instruments for background parts. I was not a big fan of the Beatles before listening to this album, and my opinion has not changed much. I can acknowledge that it is quality music, but I don't particularly enjoy it.

The only band to release 6 five star records consecutively.

One of the most influential albums of all time. An easy 5 for Tomorrow Never Knows alone.

Does nothing for me

my god....boring.

Their best album. Yes, I mean it. Want to fight about it?

Five stars. (Favorite track: For No One.)

This one is like standing in the rain while the sun is out. Full of potential, electrifying, the light reflecting off each drop, ….leaves me wondering what’s possible.

Brilliant and iconic.

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

I loved this album. It started strong, with Eleanor Rigby as the second song. Then throughout the album there are so many classics. Even the songs that I didn’t know going into it, I really liked. My favorites were Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere (this one makes me feel peaceful), Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine (this one makes me feel so happy and in a summery mood), For No One, and Got To Get You Into My Life. I listened to it twice through to be sure I wanted to rate it a 5, and I enjoyed it immensely both times.

This is a beautiful album of artwork and I always enjoy listening to it. It's not even my all-time top fave Beatles album but it's still deserving of 5 stars. I love where these songs take my imagination and I had a great time listening to some classic genius song-writing which did in fact change the direction of pop music inspiring millions globally. Well done Beatles love you long time.

I often fall on the Alan Partridge trap of listening to ‘The Best of The Beatles’ and inevitably miss out on rediscovering songs that would be the pinnacle of most bands’ careers. Revolver is full of these, in particular Tomorrow Never Knows, Taxman, I’m Only Sleeping, and Got to Get You Into My Life. 5 stars in spite of Yellow Submarine.

A dynamic album with top notch production value. There is a fair amount of experimentation with stereo sound, instrumentation and arrangements. When used, the harmonies are excellent. The drum lines simple and true. Individual songs differ enough from one another so as to not make for a monotone collection. There are pop-hooks a plenty, making fans of first-time listeners.

Enjoyed several songs but Got to get You into my life was a favorite. Not a Beatles fan or should I say groupie. Can’t name a band I have ever screamed, cried or lamented for. Better writers than singers.

Was an okay album. Maybe wasn’t in the mood but just didn’t hit right

Willingness to be experimented for a band like this but that fact doesn’t make this album any better

I just really don't like the Beatles. Completely burned out on them. But this does get 1 additional star for Eleanor Rigby, which is a great song.

No denying they have a unique sound but it doesn't really appeal to me.

didn't like it that much, felt kind of bland

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.

It's got a few familiar tracks this one. It gets a 4 for enjoyment, but about a 10 for cultural and musical significance/long-lasting impact.

It’s a 10. When we got “Rubber Soul” back in May, I said the jury was out, at least for me, on if this album had the energy that would be especially prevalent by “Sgt. Pepper’s”. It’s here, alright. This is our last go-around with the Beatles, and it’s a good one to go out on. It’s not my favorite one, but I can hear how it would be anyone else’s, and it more than plants the seed for the rest of the Beatles’ eclectic discography to come down the line. Hell, it feels like it’s planting the seed for the rest of music itself to sprout every modern innovation of the artform you hear today. This might be their most influential album on the list. Just like Rubber Soul, I think it would be futile to go track by track, especially 60 years out. That said, a lot of the deeper cuts here really got me good. Everyone knows stuff like “Taxman”, “Eleanor Rigby”, & “Yellow Submarine”, but all 14 tracks here, packed into 35 of the tightest minutes ever put to tape, just flow as naturally as possible. There’s practically no downtime between tracks, so the barrage of musical styles & innovations is left to simmer throughout. For every great vocal harmony, there’s a quick guitar solo to pull your focus back in. For every biting line, there’s a violin chord to draw your attention that way. Sometimes, they’ll just play the guitar backwards because it sounded cool on accident, & they just wanted to fucking do that. They are throwing ideas at the wall here; not in the same way that they would on “The White Album”, but something that feels… “Revolver”, to me, is kind of indescribable. It’s what happens when 4 people get bored with the boundaries imposed on them. Nobody told them they COULDN’T make these tracks, so they just did it. It’s indescribable because the Beatles practically created the boundaries of modern music on a whim. They are pushing the entire artform forward here, and doing it almost perfectly on a first try on every single track here. How can you possibly describe that? Sure, you can point to their contemporaries like the Beach Boys & the Rolling Stones & acknowledge iron sharpening iron, but “Revolver” feels like being the first to win the Space Race. They’ve hit escape velocity. This is the blueprint for how to do it. Everyone's been following it for the last 60 years. It’s probably the most influential Beatles album here. Hell, it may be the most influential one on the entire list, period. As far as “Revolver” goes, it’s a 10. As I said, it’s not my favorite Beatles album; that’s probably a tie between the White Album (sheer quantity of styles) & Abbey Road (endless barrage of hits) for me. This surpasses Rubber Soul for me, almost entirely on the peppier energy & how much stronger of a closer “Tomorrow Never Knows” is, and it’s probably right behind Sgt. Pepper’s, just for the quantity of bigger hits on that album. That said, they’re all 10’s. It’s like comparing brush strokes on the Mona Lisa. The Beatles, as a band, are meant to be treated in their totality. There’s more impactful parts of the painting, sure, but each song is a stroke that helps to tell the story of the most influential band of all time. Yes, they were easily disillusioned by their success & by each other by the time they broke up just 4 years after this album’s release, but that doesn’t change their place in history. Going into this whole 1001 Albums thing, I had never heard a Beatles album in full. I can only wish I had told my younger self to do so, but better late than never. They are that damn good, and if you only know the songs everyone knows, you’re somehow doing them a disservice.

I started listening to the 2009 remaster and then realized by the end of the first song there was a more recent one. Much improved stereo mixing. Excellent record, The Beatles continue to be good. Fun harmonies, interesting instrumentation, simply lovely. Nothing quite as towering to me as the back half of Abbey Road, but really, what is. Also, I think the other reviewers are being too hard on Yellow Submarine. Did I like it as a kid? Of course I did; not sure why that's relevant.

im sure you did, ringo. im sure you did.

Fourteen songs, zero filler. "Eleanor Rigby" with its string octet and no guitars, one of the great lonely songs in any genre. "Tomorrow Never Knows" closing the record with backwards tape loops and a Tibetan Book of the Dead lyric that sounds like it was made a decade later than it was. "Got To Get You Into My Life" as a pure soul horn workout that Motown would have been proud of. "Here, There and Everywhere" as the most perfectly constructed pop ballad they ever wrote. "Taxman" opening everything with George Harrison's sharpest lyric and a guitar solo played by Paul, which is the kind of detail that reveals itself slowly and rewards the closer listening. The range is the achievement — classical, soul, psychedelia, folk, rock and roll, and genuine experimental music covered in sequence without any of it feeling like genre tourism. Each song sounds inevitable in its own context and surprising in the album's flow, which is the definition of sequencing done at the highest level. A five that needed no deliberation and no argument.

5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background

Nice and tight! They should have included "Rain"/"Paperback Writer"

It's Revolver by The Beatles. If you're not giving this a 5, there is something very wrong with your brain.

This record could be made of Eleanor Rugby plus an hour of assorted fart noises, and it still would be a 5/5.

wait the beatles r gas

Listened previously. Expectations: High - Verdict: Masterpiece - These days this is probably the album that people pick as the peak of the Fab Four. It's hard to argue with that assessment. The incredible pop songwriting of the early years crashes into all-out psychedelia in a way that blows away anything else of the era. I could choose Pepper or Abbey Road over it on any given day but they are all just mindblowing. The best band ever at their very best.

Whether or not you’re a fan, I think all good music nerds should decide their favorite Beatles record. For me, it’s Revolver. Now, I didn’t grow up a Beatles enjoyer. Of the thousands of classic rock, new wave, and 90’s songs on the family computer (carefully curated by my dad via Napster) not a single one was by these blokes. Because of this and the Beatles not even being on streaming until 2015, I was like 21 before I’d gotten around to listening to a full album. When I finally dug in, the music resonating with me was modern psych rock and indie rock. For me, the Beatles album that aligns with that music taste the most is Revolver. Tomorrow Never Knows is a key part of that, with its warped tape effects and vocals, driving bass and drums, and left-field sound. On this finale track, it was clear how much it inspired my all-timer album: Tame Impala’s Innerspeaker. Revolver has its hits too, but ones that haven’t been played to death — so I enjoy hearing them still. You’ve got a dash of sitar too. I think it encompasses everything that makes the Beatles legendary and is the first album where they were at their peak.

One of the best albums ever by one of the best artists ever

The older I get the more I understand the brilliance of this band. This album is perfection. The ingenuity, lyrics, musicality, production, it’s all working and so unlike anything any other band was doing. They truly are the greatest.

This is an easy 5 on this scale. I'd maybe give it a 4.5 on rateyourmusic. It's a classic album, heavy in parts, light in others. It has groove, pop, and rock, and the influence could never be measured. I think it's one of the best Beatles albums, personally, as well.

Quite possibly the best album of all time. Stick Eleanor Rigby on the White Album (fine song just doesn't fit on Revolver), Good Day Sunshine on Sgt Peppers where it belongs, throw Yellow Submarine into the sun, and replace them with Rain/Paperback Writer and the album is pretty much perfect.

One of my favourite albums of all time. Every track is a classic. No brainer 5 stars. Particular highlight, the Beatles creating dance music 20 years early with Tomorrow Never Knows.

So innovative. Boundary pushing, inviting avant-garde. I stand on my feet to applaud.

wow. A personal favorite. My very first album I bought - in 1972... with some money got for my birthday. $4.27 at Midtown Records in Bayonne. This is really where the Beatles begin to explore their creativity and expand on their craft. A real treat. Great George Harrison,

I want to be that guy and say this isn't a 5 star album. Go against the grain. Say "The Beatles are overrated". But maaaaaaaan, I can't do it. This album is just so good. My one complaint is that the middle half of the album doesn't hold quite the same level of quality as the first half and final 2 songs. But at a crazy nearly 35 minute run time, any other problems I'd be able to think of are minor and I'm already half way through the album again. "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby", "I'm Only Sleeping", "Got to Get You Into My Life" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" are my favorites here. That's 5 entire songs. A huge portion of the album. Ok, so, here is my compromise with The Beatles. I'm going to give this album 5 stars. I'm also going to give Abbey Road 5 stars. Everything else is probably going to get fewer stars than that. But I think with how prominent and influential this band is, it would be actually criminal not giving this album specifically a 5, so I'm going to give it a 5. You've won this round Beatles. Many more to come.

Greta album!!

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.

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 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.

One of the greatest albums ever recorded a must listen for any human. Simply perfection.

This is the second Beatles album I’ve gotten on this journey, after Sgt. Pepper’s. Oddly enough, Revolver is the album preceding that one. At this point, the boys were just about done performing live as a band. They started ramping up their studio production tinkering to create an innovative soundscape inspired by LSD trips, Eastern philosophy, and avant-garde music. There’s the horn section on “Got to Get You Into My Life”, the string octet for “Eleanor Rigby”, the back-masked guitar solo of “I’m Only Sleeping”, the Indian instrumentation on “Love You To”, the tape loops assembled for “Tomorrow Never Knows”, the list goes on for what they achieved. I know these tape effects and instrument choices will be used more frequently by artists in the future, but the Beatles did a lot to make well-structured music with these new-at-the-time methods. Adding to that, the song structures are a lot more varied on this album. A fair amount of tracks are idiosyncratic - the out-of-tempo count-in to “Taxman”, the switching between 4/4 and 3/4 time on “She Said She Said”, and the syncopated drum pattern of “Tomorrow Never Knows” as a few examples. These variations are complemented by more normally structured songs that serve as good palate-cleansers like “And Your Bird Can Sing” and “Yellow Submarine”. As for the lyrics, Revolver largely deviates from the Beatles' prior work of mostly love songs. Instead, the themes range from isolation in "Eleanor Rigby" and "And Your Bird Can Sing", to drugs in "Got to Get You Into My Life" and "Doctor Robert", to other assorted topics like taxes and sleeping on "Taxman" and "I'm Only Sleeping". There's a great deal of variety in the emotional delivery throughout the album, whether a song evokes sadness, joy, angst, or bliss. Honestly, I couldn’t think of a bad or middling track off this album. Each song brought something unique to the table, as every band member was on their game lyrically and sonically. I know they would continue to experiment on Sgt. Pepper’s and onward, but Revolver became a high mark to surpass.

Probably my favourite Beatles album; 35 minutes of perfect 60s music. So much variation, but still feels cohesive enough with the Revolver 'sound'. There is little to separate Paul and John on this one - this is the one album I'd choose to demonstrate the best of both.

Not bad, but just another Rutles wannabe. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐+⭐ ________________________________ 🎧 LPs reviewed: 62 🎧 LPs left to review: 939 🎧 LPs I found great/relevant enough to be mandatory listens (5): 14 🎧 LPs I *might* include in my own list (4): 17 🎧 LPs I will certainly *not* include in mine (1-2): 17

This album has my favorite Beatles song of all time on it (For No One), but might be my second favorite album if theirs next to Rubber Soul. Still essential and a great listen ever for the zillionth time.

Everyone knows Elenor Rigby and Yellow Submarine, but it’s the supporting songs that make this is a classic. My favorites are I’m Only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing, and Tomorrow Never Knows

Rubber Soul was a toe in the trippy pool, Revolver was the cannonball. Put youself in the place of a kid in 1966 dropping the needle on this bad boy. Talk about getting your mind blown. This was the most popular band in the world getting a head full of acid and totally reinventng the game. Virtually every moden band is dirivitive of these guys, be it songwriting, arranments, recording innovations.

Game changer. Revolutionary. Simply staggering. Harrisons sitar solos are mesmerising

Eleanor Rigby and Tomorrow Never Knows are beautiful 5/5

Sometimes this is my favorite Beatles record. You can hear the experimentation of Rubber Soul solidify into a more cohesive expression. So much growth in just the two years from Meet The Beatles safe and an approachable pop melodies. This is a now a group that is reinventing something almost wholly new. The innovation of this album definitely inspired several types of music to be born. "Taxman is a punk song!" - Seantegrity

My favorite Beatles album didn't really blew me away in an explosive sense that albums like "Abbey Road" did. Instead, "Revolver" is deceptively plain and simple. Yet it quickly grew on me. It has beautiful harmonies and melodies, as well as trippy sections which effortlessly blend with the classic rock sound. It's a brilliant and sneaky move towards their psychedelic sound, and maybe the psychedelic sound of '60s rock in general. Amazing, beautiful album overall.

Another Beatles album. What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Kicks off with Taxman and the boys never miss a beat, unlike some other so called “GOATs”. I guess I’ll give you my sleeper song: “Here, There, and Everywhere” very clever and catchy, surprised we don’t hear it more often.

Some of me favorite Beatles songs on this album. It’s the clear start to the separation of styles within the band. Rubber Soul and Revolver are a great pair of albums to hear the past and future genius of all four members.

This was the first Beatles album I listened to, and the density of outstanding songs on this still drops my trap. Rubber Soul appeals to me more as I love the band sound, Abbey Road because it feels richer and sadder, but this might be their greatest achievement.

First song sampled by the Jam in Start

I’ve never been a huge Beatles fan, but I do prefer this sort of experimental psychedelic work to generic love pop songs. It pushed the envelope of production and is a very fun listen.you don’t even know how ubiquitous they are until you hear a b side track that you’ve forgotten was one of theirs.

look at all the lonely people

They’re going to be big!

No. 250/1001 Taxman 4/5 Eleanor Rigby 5/5 I'm Only Sleeping 5/5 Love You To 3/5 Here, There and Everywhere 4/5 Yellow Submarine 5/5 She Said She Said 4/5 Good Day Sunshine 5/5 And Your Bird Can Sing 4/5 For No One 5/5 Doctor Robert 4/5 I Want To Tell You 3/5 Got To Get You Into My Life 5/5 Tomorrow Never Knows 3/5 Average: 4,21 Although not my favorite of their catalogue, this is still an exceptional album. Eleanor Rigby is among the best songs ever written.

Favourite songs: Got to Get You Into My Life, Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby, Love You Too, Doctor Robert Least favourite songs: "Here, There and Everywhere" 4/5

Предисловие: я хуй знает как оценивать альбомы Битлов, потому что в их дискографии как будто нет промахов. Ставить всем 5 не хочется, а низкие оценки - издевательство. Поэтому в данном случае ставлю Револьверу 4 за удивительную для поп-группы космического масштаба тягу к экспериментам (не во всех песнях удачных, но в целом кайфовых). Ну и напоследок - не употребляйте наркотики, только если вы не Джон Леннон конечно же.

The Beatles seventh album is 5x platinum and regarded as the most innovative album in popular music. There's different musical styles, diverse sounds/instruments, new recording strategies, and great lyrics. The album is said to have inspired development of psychedelic rock, electronica, progressive rock and world music. The vibe the band was going for on this album, was sounds that weren't possible during live shows and ones that sounded otherworldly. The album accomplished this and it still holds up today as being extremely rich in different sounds, while holding up that pop rhythm. Furthermore, the album captured the spirit of the times which was progressive social and cultural changes - especially in London which during recording was regarded as a cultural capital. This is the first time I have listened to this album all the way through and I have to agree it sounds pretty epic!

I have never been a true Beatles fan. Maybe it's because when I was able to "get into them" I was too busy getting into "better" bands like Led Zepplin, Rush, and Van Halen. Anytime I listened to them I thought they were just a lighter version of that and never impressed me. But any time I really dove into a song, I tended to like it for the most part. I'm very excited that we have finally gotten an Beatles album on this list so I have an excuse to listen to them and this one didn't dissapoint. With classics like Elanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine (is it the true version?) I was hooked. Even the lesser knowns were enjoyable. I actually ended up listening to the album twice over and I can confidently say I am a fan. I have no ranking of the beatles albums but since this is the first I've fully listened to, I'll say, for now, it's my favorite. Super strange and cool album cover, something I'm sure they made while they were tripping on acid.

I did enjoy listening to this album, having never fully listened to any Beatles albums from beginning to end. Only knowing a few of their major singles, this definitely felt more psychedelic/experimental than perhaps their earlier work. Especially with the sitar and other instruments. It seemed obvious that they were on some good drugs around the time of recording this album. Controversial opinion - didn't care too much for Yellow Submarine. Best: Taxman; Elenor Rigby Worst: Here, There and Everywhere

Maybe it's because I'm not a huge Beatles fan, or maybe it's because I hate "Yellow Submarine" with a burning passion. Either way, I thought this album was average, and I initially wanted to rate it 3 stars. However, I acknowledge that "Revolver" contains a few classic hits, such as "Eleanor Rigby" and the other song I mentioned. I was also pleasantly surprised by "Love You To," which I've never heard before. Therefore, I'll give this album 4 stars.

The translation album between pop and psychedelia. Like every Beatles album it’s jammed with hits!

It's good. Definitely better than the White Album.

I would love this album in mono when listening on headphones. It probably sounds great in stereo on speakers - this wasn't how I listened to it. The instruments and vocals were too spaced out (man).

I understand why people like The Beatles now. I hate John Lennon but this was good. I'm mad that I actually like this but at least Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr seem cool.

Another Beatles album. This is number five. Seriously is the whole discography on this list? Not everything that the Beatles did was great. Never have I thought to myself, "Oh boy! Let's listen to an entire Beatles Album!" This album is no different, but at least the songs are concise and the album is short. Naturally, a lot of the songs are recognizable, but does that mean I needed to listen to the entire albu? The songs weren't as eccentric as other Beatles albums, save for a couple, but there were quite a few campy songs - I am looking at you, Yellow Submarine. Eleanor Rigby is the best song hands down. A Beatles song here and there is fine, and I will probably listen to some of these songs again, but the entire album is not necessary.

Mid, tbh