Review and Analysis of Revolver
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On the 50th Anniversary of Revolver, Colin Fleming of The Daily Beast takes an in-depth look at what makes the album great. http//www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/05/is-the-beatles-revolver-the-best-rock-record-ever.html?ref=yfp
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Artificial Double Tracking, as invented by Ken Townsend, was but one key to the sound on Revolver. Also the idea of putting their voices through a Leslie speaker. Paul played his Rickenbacker bass on this album too, having used it for the first time on the Paperback Writer/Rain single. It was also the first album on which Geoff Emerick worked, having been promoted to replace Norman Smith. "John was so impressed by the sound of a Leslie that he hit upon the reverse idea. He suggested we suspend him from a rope in the middle of the studio ceiling, put a mike in the middle of the floor, give him a push and he'd sing as he went around...they were always said to be 'looking into it!' " John also once asked if it would be possible to record his voice directly into the console, as it is widely believed The Beatles were the first ever to do with guitars. George Martin replied, "Yes, if you go and have an operation. It means sticking a jackplug into your neck!" A cracking read though, that one, thank you!
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Revolver is my favorite Beatles album. And I'll never forget, my Mom got it for me when I was in the hospital with a broken arm (broke it in a bicycle pileup the 2nd day of 6th grade) in those days they kept you forever. I spent 3 or 4 nights in the damn hospital!
So needless to say the first thing I did when I got home was put it on the hi-fi/record player! 
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I know this is not the consensus opinion, but imo, the "leap" from Rubber Soul to Revolver is much greater than the leap from Revolver to Pepper. Revolver sounds nothing like what came before, whereas I think of Pepper as a continuation of the progress made on Revolver. Of course, I'm talking about the UK versions of these albums, & I think that's why the consensus at the time was that Pepper was the ultimate album.
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Nancy R:
Revolver is my favorite Beatles album. And I'll never forget, my Mom got it for me when I was in the hospital with a broken arm (broke it in a bicycle pileup the 2nd day of 6th grade) in those days they kept you forever. I spent 3 or 4 nights in the damn hospital!
So needless to say the first thing I did when I got home was put it on the hi-fi/record player! ________________________________________________________ Great story Nancy. Like me, you had a great Mom.
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JoeySmith:
I know this is not the consensus opinion, but imo, the "leap" from Rubber Soul to Revolver is much greater than the leap from Revolver to Pepper. Revolver sounds nothing like what came before, whereas I think of Pepper as a continuation of the progress made on Revolver. Of course, I'm talking about the UK versions of these albums, & I think that's why the consensus at the time was that Pepper was the ultimate album.
_______________________________________________________ Joey, I agree with you about the leap from Rubber Soul to Revolver. Some Best Album polls actually rank Revolver ahead of Pepper. Revolver is also the album that I realized how great a songwriter Paul McCartney was. I loved a lot of Paul's earlier songs (I'll Follow the Sun, Yesterday, And I Love Her, Michelle etc.) but his Revolver songs were off the charts. And I don't mean "singles" here because they weren't singles. They were "just" album cuts but WOW were they great. Just think on one album, Paul wrote: Eleanor Rigby For No One Here There and Everywhere Got to Get You Into My Live Good Day Sunshine And Paul was the primary writer on Yellow Submarine. During that period, Paul was really in the "zone" to say the least.
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Nancy R:
Revolver is my favorite Beatles album. And I'll never forget, my Mom got it for me when I was in the hospital with a broken arm (broke it in a bicycle pileup the 2nd day of 6th grade) in those days they kept you forever. I spent 3 or 4 nights in the damn hospital!
For a broken arm? That definitely wasn't an HMO.
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B J Conlee:
JoeySmith:
I know this is not the consensus opinion, but imo, the "leap" from Rubber Soul to Revolver is much greater than the leap from Revolver to Pepper. Revolver sounds nothing like what came before, whereas I think of Pepper as a continuation of the progress made on Revolver. Of course, I'm talking about the UK versions of these albums, & I think that's why the consensus at the time was that Pepper was the ultimate album.
_______________________________________________________ Joey, I agree with you about the leap from Rubber Soul to Revolver. Some Best Album polls actually rank Revolver ahead of Pepper. Revolver is also the album that I realized how great a songwriter Paul McCartney was. I loved a lot of Paul's earlier songs (I'll Follow the Sun, Yesterday, And I Love Her, Michelle etc.) but his Revolver songs were off the charts. And I don't mean "singles" here because they weren't singles. They were "just" album cuts but WOW were they great. Just think on one album, Paul wrote: Eleanor Rigby For No One Here There and Everywhere Got to Get You Into My Live Good Day Sunshine And Paul was the primary writer on Yellow Submarine. During that period, Paul was really in the "zone" to say the least.
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HaileyMcComet:
Nancy R:
Revolver is my favorite Beatles album. And I'll never forget, my Mom got it for me when I was in the hospital with a broken arm (broke it in a bicycle pileup the 2nd day of 6th grade) in those days they kept you forever. I spent 3 or 4 nights in the damn hospital!
For a broken arm? That definitely wasn't an HMO.
In 1966, HMOs did not even exist!!
