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Best Song on Revolver?

Best song on Revolver?

  • Taxman

  • Eleanor Rigby

  • I’m Only Sleeping

  • Love You To

  • Here There and Everywhere

  • Yellow Submarine

  • She Said She Said

  • Good Day Sunshine

  • And Your Bird Can Sing

  • For No One

  • Doctor Robert

  • I Want To Tell You

  • Got To Get You Into My Life

  • Tomorrow Never Knows

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#42
For me, it's Eleanor Rigby I remember the first time I heard it I had this overwhelming sense of sadness and joy. I was sad because I was a loner kid and could relate to the lyrics and I had joy because even then I knew I was bearing witness to absolute genius I would lie in my bed looking at the album cover wondering how in the world they came up with this incredible material.
 
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#46
Favorite Beatles album by a mile. She Said, She Said was one of the few covers we played in my college band. So uncool to play a Beatles cover in the new wave 80s, but such a great song, and few people knew it (weird) so it came off cool. Actually had some people ask if it was one of our originals! (even weirder) Lots of fun to play.

Thanks—haven't thought about that in years...
 
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#48
'Got to Get You Into My Life', the horn chart hook makes it for me. I've often dreamed of having that riff sampled and then triggered by an alarm clock to a small but loud PA to blow my ass out of bed once daylight has resumed . . . .
 
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#49
Michedelic said:
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.
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I don't think I'd go so far as "hate" for Yellow Submarine. I didn't say it was bad; just "inane". Which, I'd venture to say, it most certainly is - and I imagine most of us who weren't kids on a school bus when the album was released would agree. I was a 20 year old E-4 when Revolver hit the Base Exchange, myself; and, far too old and sophisticated for "silly" songs....:whistle:
 
#51
This my TB Beatles fans is an amazing book.. album by album and song by song in the studio and the story behind each recording.The flubs and dubs and eureka moments told by the EMI engineers' official daily logbooks. I got it for Christmas and couldn't put it down. This blurb is true>>>>(Researched from hundreds of unreleased Abbey Road archive tapes, featuring thousands of previously unpublished studio documents and interviews with many of the key recording personnel.)
The Tales Behind Every Song
[This invalid link has been removed] by Mark Lewisohn (1988)
 
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#52
Coot said:
This my TB Beatles fans is an amazing book.. album by album and song by song in the studio and the story behind each recording.The flubs and dubs and eureka moments told by the EMI engineers' official daily logbooks. I got it for Christmas and couldn't put it down. This blurb is true>>>>(Researched from hundreds of unreleased Abbey Road archive tapes, featuring thousands of previously unpublished studio documents and interviews with many of the key recording personnel.)
The Tales Behind Every Song
[This invalid link has been removed] by Mark Lewisohn (1988)
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PS By the way, I don't have a box of these books in my garage that i'm trying to flog ( lol)check one out of the Library.
 
#56
Tomorrow Never Knows
I'm Only Sleeping
She Said She Said
And Your Bird Can Sing
Taxman
Dr Robert
For No one

I can't decide. But thanks for reminding me how amazing this album is. I think I'll go and have a listen.

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#58
Son of Wobble said:
If I never heard "Submarine" again, I'd be a happy camper.
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Agreed. Without a doubt my least favorite on the album. As for best, that is so hard. I think Here, There, and Everywhere is one of the most beautiful pop songs ever written. But then I could say Taxman, for its lead guitar and incredible bass line (BOTH played by McCartney). Or Tomorrow Never Knows for its envelope-pushing composition and vocal.

And speaking of Here, There, and Everywhere, there is a great book by Geoff Emerick, the recording engineer on almost all the Beatles albums by that title that describes the recording process for almost everything the Beatles did. Definitely worth reading.
 
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