The Beatles - Revolver [UK]
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Free Music Review: Taxman
Hit: 5 Stars
Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the best song writing duo ever and that is without a doubt, thus this album is one of the best ever. Not one filler to be found here. George Harrison starts it out with my personal favorite Taxman and it just goes from there. Outstanding lyrics with Paul and John never sounding better.Free Music Review: Revolver
Hit: 5 Stars
ESSENTIAL ALBUM!!! The Beatles so-called transitional album (going from a touring group to a studio only group) is one of their most creative. This album marks where they began experimenting in the studio, expanding their sound that would culminate with Sgt. Pepper's. Revolver was a #1 album & had two singles released from it, "Eleanor Rigby" that peaked at #11 & "Yellow Submarine" that peaked at #2. (I realize I'm reviewing the U.K. version of the album & that the U.S. version was different.) Esomewhat later.) The album cover also is one of the most unique ever done, it's artist is Klaus Voorman who would later play bass for Lennon on his early solo releases.
The album begins one of George Harrison's best songs "Taxman", it has a great riff with guitar & bass playing in unison. Most people don't realize it but it's McCartney that plays the lead guitar in this song. This was a song that could have been released as a single, it still receives a lot of airplay. "Eleanor Rigby" is next, it's a McCartney song & was unusual in their catalog because it only features McCartney on lead vocal, & Lennon & Harrison on background harmonies. None of the Beatles played any instruments on this song which was the second time this had happened; the first being another McCartney composition "Yesterday". "I'm Only Sleeping" follows & isn't a standout song. "Here, There and Everywhere" is a great ballad & actually has lyrics by Paul that make sense. "Yellow Submarine" is next, a novelty song written mostly by Paul & given to Ringo to sing. It's a catchy singalong with a lot of things going on in the background. "She Said She Said" is another song that doesn't standout in this collection. Then comes "Good Day Sunshine", a n upbeat song that still gets a lot of airplay. "And Your Bird Can Sing" is next, once again a song that doesn't live up to many of the other songs that are here. Same thing for "For No One" & Doctor Robert". Then comes another Harrison composition "I Want to Tell You". G\The next song features a horn combo, "Got to Get You Into My Life", a song that has a slight jazz quality to it & another song that could have been released as a single. The album ends with the frightening & very experimental "Tomorrow Never Knows". This is Lennon's best composition on the album. Lennon would later disown this recording but I find it to be one of the best things he ever did. There's a lot of experimentation on this album,in fact, in every song though some experiments are more obvious than some. The Beatles were doing many things at this time that hadn't been done in a studio before. One of the most amazing things about this album was the number of song styles that's covered here; all the way from baroque to pure psychedelic & they did each one equally well.
There is some filler here, mostly by Lennon, but it's great that we have the U.K. version instead of the illegitimate children that Capitol passed off onto the domestic market. I agree with some that this is NOT one of the best albums that they ever did, I reserve that for The White Album & Abbey Road. The one thing about the Beatles, though, was you never knew exactly what you were getting until you played it, which always made it entertaining!
Free Music Review: Don't believe the hype
Hit: 3 Stars
I bought this album believing the hype it's surrounded. I wasn't impress by it. They are a few good songs in it, but I feel that most of them are fillers.I still don't understand why or how this album manages to make it to the top five of every greatest-album-of- all-time list.Most of the time it is chosen # 1. That's why I bought it. I thought it was that good.I'm beginning to think that this album is overrated.I still think Rubber Soul is better and more cohesive than this album. I gave it three stars only because it's The Beatles. Free Music Review: The only revolver you'll ever need
Hit: 5 Stars
Revolver has one of the nicest Album covers and that's not all. It also carries two of John and Paul's greatest songs. I'm Only Sleeping and Eleanor Rigby.
It still sounds vibrant and vital more then 40 years after production.
Free Music Review: Trust Your Instincts
Hit: 4 Stars
Currently, I am studying this album in my Modern Music: Production and Analysis class. This album has a mixture of very good songs and mediocre ones. Personally, I think songs like Love You To just sound like a hodgepodge of musical instruments thrown together. However, their experimental nature did break new grounds in rock, like in Got To Get You Into My Life. They also do very subtle things such as not playing the last chord in For No One. Eleanor Rigby's stinging strings were perfect for the song, and emphasized the song well. The overall shortness of the songs makes the listener begging for more, as the songs are only about an average of 2:10 mins long. The shortness also allows the CD for some short pleasure listening, as not one song goes on forever and ever - as some songs tend to do. Do I think the songs would be as good if they were longer? Probably not. The very fact that they leave the song at its height is a good way of raising the stock of the songs. It's almost like a great sports player retiring at his prime - he is forever immortalized. Other than a few songs such as the ones I mentioned, this is overall a good album, and I cannot refute the fact that this is indeed an important album in The Beatles' career.