The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
- Date: 2008-09-06 - Word Count: 491
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The Beatles 7th album, Revolver, is considered by many music experts to be one of the greatest albums of all time. For example it was ranked #3 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album includes some of The Beatles best known songs including "Eleanor Rigby" & "Yellow Submarine" and it also includes some of their most experimental songs, in particular "Tomorrow Never Knows" which closes the album in futuristic fashion. Even today, many years later, "Tomorrow Never Knows" sounds like the distant future to me.
Revolver includes an incredible variety of songs from the rock of "Taxman" to the childlike "Yellow Submarine" to the Indian music influenced "Love You To." It has been said that every song on Revolver started a new sub genre of rock music and I would say that's probably only a slight exaggeration.
Another factor that makes Revolver really stand out among Beatles albums is how evenly the songwriting duties were spread out among Lennon, McCartney, & Harrison than on most of their albums. George Harrison really made himself known as a songwriter with this album. 3 of the album's 14 songs were his, 6 were primarily Paul McCartney's, and 5 were primarily John Lennon's.
While the album doesn't have the same flow to it that their next album (1967's Sgt. Pepper) would have, it does arguably have more consistency. There really are no weak points in the album. Every song on Revolver has it's charms.
Looking at the songs that Paul McCartney wrote for this album in particular is very impressive: "Yellow Submarine," "Here, There and Everywhere," "Eleanor Rigby," "For No One," "Got to Get You into My Life," & "Good Day Sunshine." Talk about timeless classics. McCartney really couldn't do any wrong at this point. While almost everyone knows "Eleanor Rigby" & "Yellow Submarine" (and "Got to Get You into My Life" is very well known too) the other songs are just as excellent.
McCartney himself has said that "Here, There and Everywhere" is one of own favorites. For me "For No One" is right there with it. These are songs that are just too beautiful and too perfect for words to properly describe.
It's sometimes said that Rubber Soul was The Beatles "marijuana album" and Revolver was their "LSD album" (or their first LSD album, there would be more to come!) And I can definitely see where that perspective comes from. Revolver is an album of ideas. The arrangements and instrumentation are very thoughtful. This is really music to really listen to, not just to sing along to. This is "art rock." But it's usually subtle enough in it's artiness ("Tomorrow Never Knows" & "Love You To" being some obvious exceptions) that just regular music listeners (rather than true music lovers) can get down to the tunes too.
While Revolver isn't actually my favorite Beatles album (The White Album takes that honor for me) it is an amazing album that deserves all of the accolades it has received.
The album includes some of The Beatles best known songs including "Eleanor Rigby" & "Yellow Submarine" and it also includes some of their most experimental songs, in particular "Tomorrow Never Knows" which closes the album in futuristic fashion. Even today, many years later, "Tomorrow Never Knows" sounds like the distant future to me.
Revolver includes an incredible variety of songs from the rock of "Taxman" to the childlike "Yellow Submarine" to the Indian music influenced "Love You To." It has been said that every song on Revolver started a new sub genre of rock music and I would say that's probably only a slight exaggeration.
Another factor that makes Revolver really stand out among Beatles albums is how evenly the songwriting duties were spread out among Lennon, McCartney, & Harrison than on most of their albums. George Harrison really made himself known as a songwriter with this album. 3 of the album's 14 songs were his, 6 were primarily Paul McCartney's, and 5 were primarily John Lennon's.
While the album doesn't have the same flow to it that their next album (1967's Sgt. Pepper) would have, it does arguably have more consistency. There really are no weak points in the album. Every song on Revolver has it's charms.
Looking at the songs that Paul McCartney wrote for this album in particular is very impressive: "Yellow Submarine," "Here, There and Everywhere," "Eleanor Rigby," "For No One," "Got to Get You into My Life," & "Good Day Sunshine." Talk about timeless classics. McCartney really couldn't do any wrong at this point. While almost everyone knows "Eleanor Rigby" & "Yellow Submarine" (and "Got to Get You into My Life" is very well known too) the other songs are just as excellent.
McCartney himself has said that "Here, There and Everywhere" is one of own favorites. For me "For No One" is right there with it. These are songs that are just too beautiful and too perfect for words to properly describe.
It's sometimes said that Rubber Soul was The Beatles "marijuana album" and Revolver was their "LSD album" (or their first LSD album, there would be more to come!) And I can definitely see where that perspective comes from. Revolver is an album of ideas. The arrangements and instrumentation are very thoughtful. This is really music to really listen to, not just to sing along to. This is "art rock." But it's usually subtle enough in it's artiness ("Tomorrow Never Knows" & "Love You To" being some obvious exceptions) that just regular music listeners (rather than true music lovers) can get down to the tunes too.
While Revolver isn't actually my favorite Beatles album (The White Album takes that honor for me) it is an amazing album that deserves all of the accolades it has received.
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Learning to play The Beatles songs is a great way to learn music. Marvin J. Markus recommends learning their songs on both the guitar and on the piano.
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