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Is the Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ the Best Rock Record Ever?
The Daily Beast ^ | August 4th, 2016 | Colin Fleming

Posted on 08/05/2016 5:35:44 AM PDT by Mariner

In the spring of 1966, riding high on the artistic success of ‘Rubber Soul,’ the Beatles went into the studio to begin crafting what would become their greatest record.

It is spring 1966, and the Beatles are ensconced in London’s EMI Studios, where they have embarked upon their latest manipulation of time. The Christmas season just passed had seen the release of the band’s sixth album, Rubber Soul, a game-changer of a disc that wedded American rhythm and blues to English folk music, as if the two genres were meant to go together all along. The Beatles, as the popsmiths-cum-pied pipers for teenyboppers, the lovable lads behind A Hard Day’s Night, were no more. Their middle-career era of high-toned, big boy art had commenced.

Rubber Soul continued to dominate the charts that spring. It featured organic sounds sourced from the streets of the city and countryside fields where one might have pictured John Clare wandering, but the Beatles, being the Beatles, were now moving entirely beyond Rubber Soul’s rustic-tinged soundscapes, as if such a masterwork were a mere digression in their journey towards something bigger, something better, something more “next,” if you will.

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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: beatles; music; no; nope; notevenclose; notrock; revolver
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To: Albion Wilde

huge fan of Zeppelin III...ranks right after Physical Graffiti on my list...


101 posted on 08/05/2016 10:33:16 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: steve8714; All

should also add trying to pigeon hole the mighty Led Zeppelin as a “guitar band” is more than wrong...

Thank You, Misty Mountain Hop, Trampled Underfoot, Carouselambra and of course Kasmir prove that assertion wrong..

if its electric guitar you are referencing I’d also throw in half of Zeppelin III, Battle of Evermore, Going to California, The Rain Song plus a bunch on Physical Graffiti...


102 posted on 08/05/2016 10:40:32 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Mariner

I go back and forth on this, but I might give a slight edge to Rubber Soul. Tremendous quality throughout, and works as a whole. Revolver and the White Album have lots of quality, but feel disjointed. Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road are well put-together albums, but their song quality is a little more uneven. I’ll probably change my mind on this tomorrow.

And I won’t even attempt to rank among different bands...


103 posted on 08/05/2016 10:54:02 AM PDT by Burma Jones
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To: Red Badger

Hell to the ya!


104 posted on 08/05/2016 11:04:31 AM PDT by crazydad
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To: rawcatslyentist

Yes, Dogs and Sheep are amazing.


105 posted on 08/05/2016 11:05:04 AM PDT by crazydad
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To: Mr. K

Oh my god, Echoes is my favorite Pink Floyd song followed by Comfortably Numb. Check this out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2uuRG9l1JA


106 posted on 08/05/2016 11:06:22 AM PDT by crazydad
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
Absolutely.

Everyone knows that was LZ2. ;0)

107 posted on 08/05/2016 11:12:12 AM PDT by daler
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To: drjimmy

Some of the “reject” songs The Who did are great.

Have you ever heard “Melancholia”? How the heck did that not make it onto an album? Perhaps Pete thought it too dark. But it’s now become one of my favorite Who songs.


108 posted on 08/05/2016 11:14:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: God luvs America
Thank You, Misty Mountain Hop, Trampled Underfoot, Carouselambra and of course Kasmir prove that assertion wrong..

And my favorite all-time Zep song, "No Quarter". John Paul Jones is a very underrated keyboard player.

109 posted on 08/05/2016 11:16:08 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

how could i forget that one??? thanks for bringing it up...i’ve literally listened to the live version of this song a dozen times this week from TSRTS...


110 posted on 08/05/2016 11:19:49 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: dfwgator

I first heard that one on Thirty Years of Maximum R&B, then it showed up on the expanded Sell Out. The one that kills me is After the Fire, which never had the chance to show up on a Who studio album (though there are some live versions around).


111 posted on 08/05/2016 11:28:49 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: drjimmy
The one that kills me is After the Fire, which never had the chance to show up on a Who studio album (though there are some live versions around).

Roger did it on his solo album.

112 posted on 08/05/2016 11:54:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mariner

“Days of Future Past” by the Moody Blues (1967) or “Out of the Blue” by the Electric Light Orchestra (1977) might give it a run for its money.


113 posted on 08/05/2016 1:09:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: crazydad

WOW ! Epic ! Thanks !


114 posted on 08/05/2016 3:48:00 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies)
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To: ADemocratNoMore

I am not a pot smoker, but in this instance I wish I was. My luck though, I would have a total melt down. It is one of the best synchronizations ever.


115 posted on 08/05/2016 4:20:24 PM PDT by crazydad
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To: dfwgator
Close to the Edge is their masterpiece.

Yes it was. It was their "Foxtrot"/"Dark Side of the Moon"/"Thick as a Brick"

116 posted on 08/05/2016 6:18:01 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: God luvs America

Never got into Physical Graffiti. Bad breakup with guitarist boyfriend. Went silent for a couple of years, started a business and built a house. Almost made up for it?


117 posted on 08/06/2016 5:51:20 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

never to late....


118 posted on 08/06/2016 7:03:17 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: dfwgator

The over the top drumming was the only irritating aspect of Quadrophenia


119 posted on 08/11/2016 11:40:44 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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