The Beatles - Revolver POLL

I think Ringo himself has gone on record as saying 'Rain' is his finest drumming, but for me it's between 'She Said She Said' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows', really!

for me it's always going to be the backing tracks to "Strawberry Fields Forever", especially that end bit with the multi percussion. it's at the one of one of the outtakes on Anthology 2 CD 2.

OK after 45 years listening to this album I have just realised that only two songs make it to three minutes - and then only just. I would have thought Tomorrow Never Knows was, like, nine minutes. Every song a world.

Otm

yup. i dug this and Rubber Soul out the other day and I was amazed that I managed to listen to them both in the space it took to cook, eat and wash-up my breakfast.

Eight of the fourteen under 2:30 and three more between 2:30 and 2:40.

The Overlanders in 1966: 'It's just mediocre [...] I'd be embarrassed to say that I had written some of the numbers on this LP."

"Revolver: it sucks" (Record Mirror, 3 Sept 1966) pic.twitter.com/D86CK0QlYK

— Bowiesongs (@bowiesongs) July 25, 2022

lol more like The Underlisteners

From wikipedia: Although they released twelve singles on the Pye record label between 1963 and 1966, the Overlanders' only British hit was a cover version of the Beatles' "Michelle."

I guess they would've preferred more "Michelle"-type songs.

"We haven't been in the charts of late"

The Popular Overlanders thread is quite lovely IIRC - a lot of them turn-up and it turns into an ongoing reunion where they trade reminisces of others and a different era.

after two decades of being way too cool for the Beatles I have started listening to Revolver and it's really fucking great!!!

(re Overlanders' complaint)Yeah, and the L.A. jazz saxophonist Bud Shank also had a lounge-y hit w "Michelle"(not one of the better Beatles ballads, for sure: I enjoyed Albert Finney's sarcastically intoning the tres Frawnch lyrics in Shoot The Moon), after which he too dissed the Bs, though he may have taken it back when he very eventually swore off the cocktails.
"Tomorrow Never Knows" totally deserves to toppermost this poll, though I'm surprised that "Taxman" gets 0: wry and poised,not stingy with the rockin', to say the least: on my imaginary Beatles playlist, it follows"TNK" in perfect counterweight: two heavy views of dues, equally real.
The original US Revolver appealed as something on the cusp and motorbike handlebars, wearing shades and a tie, on the way to and from high school: pop values, but slipping something else in there--especially dug the darker side of "She Said She Said," like notes passed in class, and high spirits x striving of "Good Day Sunshine" and "Got To Get You Into My Life," w final revelation-->intrigue of "Tomorrow..." Although this was US, so had to wait for "I'm Only Sleeping", "Doctor Robert" and "And Your Bird Can Sing" to appear on cobblefest Yesterday and Today with tracks left off American Help! and Rubber Soul, but resluts were cool, even groovy,in a raw collage-y way:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_and_Today Though this says that the CD version, which didn't come out 'til 2014, uses some UK mixes and so on, and might not hit me the same way, but that's okay. More of a loss from this era's experience were "Rain" and "Paperback Writer," highlights of Revolver sessions, but I had them on a single single, and eventually on cobbled Hey Jude, and def on aforementioned imaginary friend playlist.

I suppose they might have been left off both versions of the LP because some of their devices, the droniness and so on, were considered to make other tracks less distinctive, also I've read that back then the inclusion of hit singles on UK LPs was considered a waste of space or some shit. Early pop-rock LPs that were mainly a few hit singles and a lot of filler may have led to this idea of "reform," so pop-rock LPs could be as legit as jazz and classical albums.

Oh wow, how did I miss the Overlanders comments gold on Popular back in the day?? An absolute treasure.

this one, from a band member who left just a few months before those Revolver comments hit the stands, is quite interesting in this light: Take it from me as one of the original trio comprising Laurie Mason Peter Bartholomew and myself Paul Arnold Friswell and the first to leave in summer 1966, we had no delusions of grandeur and we didn`t think we were the greatest thing since sliced bread as many do today.

from the same: Michelle was our tenth single getting to No 1 Jan 1966.I don`t really give a monkeys what people think of it, its history, Getting to No 1 was my Mount Everest and I climbed it alongside some great people. right on.

another member reports: When we returned to England (I think, New Years day 1966.) all the music papers were giving the release of Michelle, rave reviews and none of us imagined that how our lives would change in the course of the next few weeks. Fantastic times: touring, radio, TV and meeting an unbelievable galaxy of stars. It was very disappointing not to have a follow up hit and it all started to come unglued from the middle of 1966.

also I've read that back then the inclusion of hit singles on UK LPs was considered a waste of space or some shit

except for their soundtrack albums, the beatles in particular were pretty strict about keeping their singles separate from their albums for most of their career. (which is why the "past masters" cds exist!)

Jeez come on guys

Got to Get You into My Life 0
I Want to Tell You 0
Good Day Sunshine 0
Taxman 0

except for their soundtrack albums, the beatles in particular were pretty strict about keeping their singles separate from their albums for most of their career. (which is why the "past masters" cds exist!)

Ha, contextually funny because they made their first exception to that rule with the Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby double A-side. Why? to supposedly thwart any hit covers of Eleanor Rigby (a decision which likely doubles as a sly dig at the Overlanders' Michelle).

I think that exclusivity was mostly for the "lead" singles - I'm not sure what to call them because even though they're not on the forthcoming LP, they kind of promoted them as a preview of how they'd sound. Either that or the singles couldn't be on an LP before the single was released (only at the same time or after).

Or I should say, I always thought that exclusivity etc

another road where maybe
i could see another kind
of mind there

Was about to moan about the number of songs that got zero votes, only to see I’ve done it twice already.

Third time is the charm

Three times!

Got to Get You into My Life 0
Good Day Sunshine 0
Taxman 0

0__o

― piscesx, Sunday, January 4, 2015

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Got to Get You into My Life 0
Good Day Sunshine 0
Taxman 0

scenes.

― piscesx, Monday, October 31, 2016

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Jeez come on guys

Got to Get You into My Life 0
I Want to Tell You 0
Good Day Sunshine 0
Taxman 0

― piscesx, Monday, July 25, 2022

haha oh man.

Good Day Sunshine is Paul at his most unbearable. I agree that the other three got robbed though

agreed, perhaps my least favorite Beatles song

does anybody else really really love the “got to get you into my life” demo on anthology?

I don't mind "Good Day Sunshine." I'm not a fan of "Taxman." George Harrison grumbling about having to pay taxes drags it down. The Jam did use the bassline and guitar riff to good effect, though.

quite like Good Day Sunshine, even more so in the "Bad Night Moonlight" version by Peter Serafinowicz where he puts it into a minor key and changes all the lyrics "I need screams / and when the moon is out / I've got something you can scream about"

Got To Get You Into My Life is straight up magnificent