Best Song on Revolver?

[c10]

I like She Said She Said at the moment, I'd just heard on the XM channel show that George played bass on it, and Paul said it might be one of the only songs he didn't play on ... I grew up with my dad's copy of the American version, I like the British better (more John stuff).

 

[Son of Wobble]

I'm surprised at all the Yellow Submarine hate. I guess none of you were ever children. I certainly was when I first heard that song, and we all used to sing it at the top of our lungs on the bus out to summer camp(in addition to Henry The 8th and B-I-N-G-O). It's no dumber than a lot of drinking songs that get bellowed out. In my earlier comments, I forgot to mention the shear variety of styles and moods on that album; does no one here know the term 'comedic relief'? Richard Starkey performed the role of "Ringo", the sad sack, in the band, and always did goofy, forlorn, underdog, or schmaltzy material that befitted his character. The tune is John at his most mad, maniacal, juvenile self; proto-Monty Python almost. Anyone remember the bathtub scene in "Hard Day's Night"? Not everything has to be the Tibetan Book of the Dead sung from a mountain top.

All yours, have at it

 

[LetItGrowTone]

Yellow Submarine's great misfortune was that it did not get a Joe Cocker redo. Imagine that!

 

[Stevorebob]

Taxman. Love the cough.

 

[Tommyc]

I picked She Said, She Said because the lyrical move to another place, another time in the writer's life, "When I was a boy, everything was right, everything was right" is done in 3/4, a time signature not normally associated with a rock tune. It comes right back to 4/4 when Lennon returns to the present, i.e. "She said, I know what it's like to be dead." Cool also that it's in B flat major, another oddness for a rock tune. And most importantly, I like it !

 

[dalkowski]

"Tommorrow," with "For No One" and "Bird" neck -and-neck to place.

If I never hear "Got to Get" again it'll be too soon. The ONLY Fabs song I flat out just don't like. Give me "Rev 9" or "You Know my Name" even.

 

[Son of Wobble]

If I never hear "Got to Get" again it'll be too soon. The ONLY Fabs song I flat out just don't like. Give me "Rev 9" or "You Know my Name" even.

How'd you come to get so sick of that one?
In the 70s, perhaps? I seem to remember it was reissued as a single in the US mid-70's, and I think it charted?
Being that I was born in 1963, I actually have more memories of it associated with that reissue.

 

[J Gold]

Watch the unedited segment on the making of Tomorrow Never Knows from the Anthology DVD to know why it is the greatest musical composition ever.

Love To You is my second choice, but the whole album is simply perfect.

 

[dalkowski]

How'd you come to get so sick of that one?
In the 70s, perhaps? I seem to remember it was reissued as a single in the US mid-70's, and I think it charted?
Being that I was born in 1963, I actually have more memories of it associated with that reissue.

We are precisely the same vintage! And I might be remembering that 70's reish -- I think it was for the "Rock & Roll Music" LP.

I'll concede that I have no good reason to be down on it. The verse melody (particularly the A) is brilliant. Maybe for me it's the chorus (such as it is). And to be honest, for me the jury's still out on the horns.

 

[Son of Wobble]

Watch the unedited segment on the making of Tomorrow Never Knows from the Anthology DVD to know why it is the greatest musical composition ever.

Love To You is my second choice, but the whole album is simply perfect.

Well you sent me back to replay "Love To You." I'd forgotten how tasty those licks.
George is a little sanctimonious, which of course became an increasing issue with his stuff in ensuing years - but the song is still pretty dope, I guess it can stay on the album . Must have been weird lyrics for a kid back in the day: "Love me while you can/Before I'm a dead old man." Yikes! "Yeah yeah yeah" indeed...

I do prefer "Inner Light" for its sweeter message.

 

[Mannyinnewyork]

So many interesting tunes. Tomorrow Never Knows is different, creative but not particularly musical as far as I am concerned. I Love McCartney's guitar playing on Taxman. Eleanor Rigby is a truly wonderful song and the arrangement is killer.

 

[DJ Bebop]

That album!!!
Hard to pick my fav, Taxman or Tomorrow Never Knows.

 

[Zooberwerx]

Here There and Everywhere 'cuz it was Paul's favorite Beatles song. I heard this in an interview with Sir Paul who likened it to picking a favorite child.

Riis

 

[40Hz]

I like Got to Get You Into My Life and Tomorrow Never Knows equally well for different reasons. Got to Get is a kickass opening number for your second set. Tomorrow is brilliant and groundbreaking on so many levels I wouldn't even know where to begin talking about it. Neither song is my all time favorite Beatles number. But they're both definitely in my top 10 list.

 

[c10]

Tomorrow Never Knows tape loops (so it says)

 

[nixdad]

What an AMAZING album.
So many fantastic songs here, but this has always been and still is my favorite:

 

[Son of Wobble]

Tomorrow Never Knows tape loops (so it says)

Cool find!
These tapes are a huge part of what makes the finished track so majestic.
The stripped down version as heard on Anthology is still an interesting drone from Lennon, but is not nearly so dynamic.

George Martin was definitely the sixth Beatle (Murray the K being dubbed 5th by the band themselves, nyuck)

 

[P. Aaron]

Taxman. Love the cough.

And the bass playing. It's good stuff!

 

[electracoyote]

George Martin was definitely the sixth Beatle (Murray the K being dubbed 5th by the band themselves, nyuck)

Marketing considerations aside, Murray never played an instrument or contributed toward arrangements like George Martin. Very few people (none?) have played on or helped arrange as many Beatles' tracks as Martin, and Murray was certainly never one of them. George Martin will always be the Fifth Beatle in my book for actual musician/arrangement chops and contributions, marketing schmoozing be damned.

IMHO, in a very realistic sense, placing a platter on a turntable and shouting into a microphone for a radio listenership does not make one a Beatle in any respect whatsoever. Even "the band" themselves sold out and got it wrong on that point.

 

[Son of Wobble]

Marketing considerations aside, Murray never played an instrument or contributed toward arrangements like George Martin. Very few people (none?) have played on or helped arrange as many Beatles' tracks as Martin, and Murray was certainly never one of them. George Martin will always be the Fifth Beatle in my book for actual musician/arrangement chops and contributions, marketing schmoozing be damned.

IMHO, in a very realistic sense, placing a platter on a turntable and shouting into a microphone for a radio listenership does not make one a Beatle in any respect whatsoever. Even "the band" themselves sold out and got it wrong on that point.

it was a joke.