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The Beatles - Revolver

Revolver

by The Beatles

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Released
01/01/2001
Music Genre
Pop
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All the rules fell by the wayside with Revolver, as the Beatles began exploring new sonic territory, lyrical subjects, and styles of composition. It wasn't just Lennon and McCartney, either -- Harrison staked out his own dark territory with the tightly wound, cynical rocker "Taxman"; the jaunty yet dissonant "I Want to Tell You"; and "Love You To," George's first and best foray into Indian music. Such explorations were bold, yet they were eclipsed by Lennon's trippy kaleidoscopes of sound. His most straightforward number was "Doctor Robert," an ode to his dealer, and things just got stranger from there as he buried "And Your Bird Can Sing" in a maze of multi-tracked guitars, gave Ringo a charmingly hallucinogenic slice of childhood whimsy in "Yellow Submarine," and then capped it off with a triptych of bad trips: the spiraling "She Said She Said"; the crawling, druggy "I'm Only Sleeping"; and "Tomorrow Never Knows," a pure nightmare where John sang portions of the Tibetan Book of the Dead into a suspended microphone over Ringo's thundering, menacing drumbeats and layers of overdubbed, phased guitars and tape loops. McCartney's experiments were formal, as he tried on every pop style from chamber pop to soul, and when placed alongside Lennon's and Harrison's outright experimentations, McCartney's songcraft becomes all the more impressive. The biggest miracle of Revolver may be that the Beatles covered so much new stylistic ground and executed it perfectly on one record, or it may be that all of it holds together perfectly. Either way, its daring sonic adventures and consistently stunning songcraft set the standard for what pop/rock could achieve. Even after Sgt. Pepper, Revolver stands as the ultimate modern pop album and it's still as emulated as it was upon its original release. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG

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Product Details

Artist
The Beatles
Year of release
1988
Label / Studio
EMI
Media Content Format
Album
SPARS Code
AAD
Media Format
Audio CD
Recording Environment
Studio
Number of Discs
1
Run Time (minutes)
34
Original year of release
1966
Title
Revolver
Cast & Crew
The Beatles (Music Performer)
George Martin (Producer)
Geoff Emerick (Sound Engineer)

Press Reviews

Ranked #35 in Classic Rock's "100 Greatest British Rock Albums" - "REVOLVER is the sound of The Beatles growing in confidence as their ideas became more potent. Classic Rock (04/06, p.56)

Ranked #2 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time. Melody Maker (10/2/93, p.29)

Ranked #1 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...The most shocking Beatles record....combining an astonishing mix of styles with a weirdly consistent sense of purpose....[mapping] out the pop universe...perfectly... Q (6/00, pp.92-3)

Ranked #10 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...The Fabs tune into Dylan, the Stones, the Beach Boys, decide to top to top them all... Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.106)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Taxman
  2. Eleanor Rigby
  3. I'm Only Sleeping
  4. Love You To
  5. Here, There and Everywhere
  6. Yellow Submarine
  7. She Said She Said
  8. Good Day Sunshine
  9. And Your Bird Can Sing
  10. For No One
  11. Doctor Robert
  12. I Want to Tell You
  13. Got to Get You Into My Life
  14. Tomorrow Never Knows

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