The Beatles - Revolver [UK]
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Free Music Review: Rubbed my soul
Hit: 5 Stars
What a complete album for boys so young. This is probably my favorite album. I'm only sleeping should be rereleased and should go straight to number 1 if there were only a god.Free Music Review: I remember Revolver
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember going to the record store with the purpose of buying this one when I was 11 years old in the late 70's. The girl who took money told me it was a good one, mom thought I had enough Beatle records already. I felt I had made a big purchase, entered an adult, older world. I heard about the record from an older cousin and it was supposed to be a big step for them. He was there in the 60s. The songs were a new world for me and I listened again and again, sometimes concentrating on the left, other times the right speaker, searching for hidden surprises. Even now I listen to the Beatles and I find new, interesting things. As I have grown with age and experience, I can 'tune' into new elements and nuances. That for me is part of the magic of the Beatles - their music corresponds to child-like curiosity and adult experience. But it isn't really only the music that does this, touches something essential, it is their collective spirit - even when the music on the surface is not so deep. This is something that can't be copied, imitated or put into a formula, much less analyzed and 'figured out'. So, buy this CD and begin listening to music that can accompany you. It is fantastic and beyond words.
Free Music Review: Landmark
Hit: 5 Stars
If all documentation of music was destroyed (99% of today's music should be anyways)this album would be the only blueprint needed for an ALBUM.Free Music Review: Definitely the best
Hit: 5 Stars
Even more than Pepper, I think this was the album that changed pop music forever. I was in the UK and a teen at the time, and I have to admit it took several listenings and a healthy dose of illegal srimulants to figure it out. Today the music is still revolutionary and I no longer need the stimulants (sniff) but it ranks as one of the best 5 albums of all timeFree Music Review: Whose Top 10?
Hit: 3 Stars
I've no designs on being iconoclastic or a hater or anything like that, so before you read on, please understand that. I fully understand that Beatles fans can be a fanatically loyal bunch who back up their beliefs with scores of critical support from the "experts" who have annointed the Beatles as kings of rock and roll music and innovators of all sorts of styles, production values, and other musical milestones. One reviewer even had the audacity to say that this album was "unquestionably" one of the greatest works of art of the 20th century. Well, I certainly question it. Am I able to say that "Road to Ruin" by The Ramones is unquestionably one of the greatest works of art of the 20th century as well? Why not? It's all subjective no matter how much one wants to convey their expertise. This album is good but there are dozens I'd rather hear instead and that criterion alone is the sole one I use to rate albums. As with so much of the Beatles, a bit less of the excessive banner waving and veneration would be a nice change.
For the record, the Beatles wouldn't place in my top ten favorite musical acts of all time, but that's just the point of my review.
So then, Revolver. I don't mind it and I think the three stars is a fair rating since half stars aren't possible. Too much psychedelia, the moronic cartoon throwaway of Yellow Submarine, and the dated sound are all negatives. On the plus side, of the fourteen songs, eight are good to great, four are fair, and two are throwaways.
The Good: I'm Only Sleeping is a good song and the backward solo is certainly novel. For No One and Here, There, and Everywhere are good songs indeed in the McCartney mold, with the latter being so sweet I think I should get a check-up for cavities. Eleanor Rigby is the gem of this release for me. This is McCartney at his best, and Paul is the Beatle I'd rather listen to over the others. Taxman is a great song, second only to Eleanor Rigby. Rocking, riffy, and with a bitchin' haywire solo, this one is a highlight. Good Day Sunshine is classic Beatles; the harmonies, the peppy turn of the century melody, and that golly gee-ness of so many Beatles songs, and yet I still like it. Doctor Robert, And Your Bird Can Sing, and Got To Get You Into My Life are all very good songs as well, especially the last two.
The Fair: Love You To, with its harsh lyrics, is full of the Indian sitar sounds of the age. It is interesting if not altogether toe tapping. I Want To Tell You is okay but nothing remarkable, She Said She Said has the chimey sound of their earlier work mixed with some of their trippy guitar work.
The Ugly: Yellow Submarine is just too silly. This is one of the problems I have with the Beatles (the other being the psychedelic sound). I just don't get the need to put ridiculous songs like this on albums. Amazingly, even with this Peter, Paul, and Mary tripe, people still say the album is the greatest of all time. How can that jibe? I just don't get it. Yeah, they have a sense of humor. Great. Save it for the outtakes. Tomorrow Never Knows? How is it that this is so frequently mentioned as the favorite song on the album? It is the most painful for me. Granted, I truly can't stand psychedelic music, and, if one reviewer claims, the Beatles, and this song in particular, are responsible for that wretched sub-genre, then that's a knock against them and not a feather in their cap. I can take Pink Floyd, some of the Beck-y Yardbirds stuff, and "Third Stone From The Sun" by Hendrix, but beyond that, take that psychedelic stuff and bury it in the ground beside the tie-dyes and hippie beads or save it for your next thematic get-together. Seriously, give me disco or the synth-pop of the 80s over psychedelic crap any day. Talk about dated music...ugh. No redeeming qualities at all for me.
Lastly, I'm curious why there seems to be the need to bolster your review's credibility by citing music rags and their Top 100 lists. Either you're a mob follower feeling protected by the reputation of these rags or you're uncertain of your own beliefs and need the support of the so-called "experts." However, let's put at least Rolling Stone magazine in perspective; they recently claimed that "Presence" was the best Led Zeppelin album.
Spare me the heresy bit and the condescension of "You're entitled to your opinion even though you're wrong." I'm just being honest to my own taste aka my definition of art.