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intereact!The Beatles
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Manufacturer: Capitol
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com essential recording
Revolver wouldn't remain the Beatles' most ambitious LP for long, but many fans--including this one--remember it as their best. An object lesson in fitting great songwriting into experimental production and genre play, this is also a record whose influence extends far beyond mere they-was-the-greatest cheerleading. Putting McCartney's more traditionally melodic "Here, There and Everywhere" and "For No One" alongside Lennon's direct-hit sneering ("Dr. Robert") and dreamscapes ("I'm Only Sleeping," "Tomorrow Never Knows") and Harrison's peaking wit ("Taxman") was as conceptually brilliant as anything Sgt. Pepper attempted, and more subtly fulfilling. A must. --Rickey Wright
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Revolver [Rating: 5 out of 5]
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. The album features one of George Harrison;s best songs "Taxman", followed by one of Paul McCartney's best songs "Eleanor Rigby". Other outstanding tracks include "Good Day Sunshine", "Here, There and Everywhere" & "Got to Get You Into My Life". The closing track "Tomorrow Never Knows", though disowned by John Lennon, is one of Lennon's best songs leading the way to the psychedelic era.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.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!2) Don't believe the hype [Rating: 3 out of 5]
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.3) The only revolver you'll ever need [Rating: 5 out of 5]
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.4) Trust Your Instincts [Rating: 4 out of 5]
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.5) The Beatles' high point [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Say what you will about Sgt. Pepper and all that, I still say this is their best...without this album, there is no Sgt. Pepper to speak of, so here we go with this one. In comparison to Sgt. Pepper (and even the album preceding it, Rubber Soul) this is a lot harder-edged....the songs seem to rock more (except for Paul's stuff, of course) with all sorts of guitar stuff going on here - some of George Harrison's finest moments as a Beatle come on this album. This must have been one jarring listen back in 1966 - as a whole, it's way beyond anything else that had been done at that time.If there was any doubt as to whether the Beatles were done with their all love song formula by this point, it's all erased with George's scathing opener "Taxman," the Beatles' earliest direct socially-motivated number (Who'd have thunk? Quiet, content George, not angry, scathing John Lennon, would be the first Beatle to make a social statement in a Beatles song!) Paul gives us "Eleanor Rigby," which you probably now, so I'm not gonna dwell much on it, but the string arrangement and lyrics are killer. John's drugged-up "I'm Only Sleeping" - an anthem for the lazy everywhere (Go John!) - is up next, with George's psychedelic guitar solo and Lennon's voice drowned out a bit by the intruments...quite the sonic experience. George's Indian fascinations manifest themselves fully for the first time on "Love You To" (sure, his sitar playing on Norweigan Wood predates this, but it was nowhere near as Indian-influenced as this.) Paul's "Here, There and Everywhere" proves the Beatles CAN still do love songs (well, Paulie can, at least) and do them very well - it's one of the best in the Beatles' canon, with a bit of Beach-Boy-like harmony thrown in (think "God Only Knows" had anything to do with this one? I do!). Ringo gets his normal vocal performance with the world-famous "Yellow Submarine," a song perfectly suited for good old Ringo, another of the Beatles' most famous numbers. More drugs from John, as "She Said She Said" allegedly recalls a bad acid trip with Peter Fonda, who apparently DID know what it was like to be dead. Lots of swirling guitars, the melody changes at the end, all stuff unheard of in popular music at this time. "Good Day Sunshine" is more Paul pop, one I've heard a few too many times, but it's a nice little sunny day song. I have no idea what "And Your Bird Can Sing" is about, other than the fact that it's a really cool song, featuring dueling guitar riffs from George and Paul....more classic stuff. Another dose of Paul with "For No One," complete with a horn solo and more strings. "Doctor Robert" is more John, and another one I honestly have no idea what it's about, but I always did enjoy this song, although by this album's standards, it really is quite pedestrian. "I Want To Tell You" is George's third entry here (rare for him, he usually only got 2) and probably the worst of the three, but it still would have been a massive hit single for just about any other band at the time (these guys were REAL good...). "Got to Get You Into My Life" is another Paul song with more horns, which was quite stunning at the time, but to be honest I'm downright sick of hearing this song and I don't know why. "Tomorrow Never Knows" is undoubtedly the weirdest thing here, with John singing phrases straight out of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, with all sorts of psychedelic swirling reverse guitars and tape loops and Lennon's processed vocal. Easily the most groundbreaking here, as it's probably the first psychedelic song by an act of that stature, bursting open the genre that would define 1967. It's easily the most revolutionary thing here, as great as the rest of this album is, and even if you aren't a fan of the track, you can't deny its importance.So there we have it. Revolver is just plain fabulous. I don't know what else to say, except....yeah. Totally worth the price of admission.