REVOLVER
Taxman
Revolver is often said (by rock critics at least) to be the best of the Beatles. Certainly almost all its 14 tracks are extraordinary. Paul McCartney never wrote two more affecting ballads then "Here, There And Everywhere" and "For No One". George Harrison's mystic raga "Love You To" is admittedly dated, but his more earthly diatribe "Taxman" bears up well. And if Ringo Starr has to get one song it may as well be "Yellow Submarine". Other inclusions: "Doctor Robert", "She Said She Said" and "And Your Bird Can Sing". John Lennon's trance like closer "Tomorrow Never Knows", served notice that the dancing years were dead and gone. Many fans were mystified, even appalled.
Revolver liberated pop from the limitations of commercial beat music. At the same time it inspired a deluge of indulgent tripe and bad poetry that rock has never quite recovered from. Whatever, the Beatles had freed their creativity and for a few heady years, from 1966 to 1967, it seemed as if literally anything was possible. The group sat back, grew some moustaches and began to dream of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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