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My favorite Beatles LP. McCartney in particular comes up with some gorgeous tunes such as "Here There and Everywhere" and "For No One". Harrison comes up with "Taxman", his first big hit and Lennon with "Doctor Robert" (on the UK release) and the one-of-a-kind "Tomorrow Never Knows".

The Beatles working at full throttle,very inventive.

Much superior to the overrated Sgt.Pepper. In fact the Beatles at their their peak on this album.

Far better in my opinion than Sgt Pepper.

Brilliant!
First album I ever owned.

Classic piece of composing. Superior in most aspects to ' Sgt Pepper'.

First of all, you have to put it in perspective . . when this album came out, no other group had the nerve to write and sing anything of this intellectual magnitude. It was earth-shaking. What is so great is that 40 years later these tunes still can move your mind and body. Transcendental!

The greatest album in rock/pop. An astounding achievement.

Masterpiece that still shines 40 years after the event. This album and Pet Sounds are watersheds in the history of popular music.

Unlike most groups, who lose their identity after the release of their debut albums, The Beatles continued to grow and challenge their genius with each new release. It seems nearly impossilble to believe that this band could expand our universe so completely and so many times over the space of only seventy or so months. But then, there has never been a group like the Beatles. I feel sorry for people who refuse to give these brilliant artists a chance to enrich the fabric of their lives. I can't even imagine living in a world untouched by the music and magic of these four. Just grab a copy of this opus and take John Lennon's advice..."Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream...."

Kudos to the other reviewers. . .this is one of the best the band produced.

Beatles magnum opus. Much better than Pepper.

Your right, it is the transistional album that takes us to St. Peppers and Magical mystery tour. It is great to hear it develop.

the crossover album into the psychedelic age a great album to listen to

Together with Sgt. Peppers, Rubber Soul & Abbey Road one of their best albums.

Best album of all time- all classics

Pretty solid. Not my personal favorite, but worth listening to.

Amazing album.

The greatest album of all time (as VH-1 dubbed it a few years ago?) No. Not even the Beatles' best (my vote goes to the White Album). But this has its share of classics (like all Beatles albums). And John's She Said She Said and Tomorrow Never Knows....well, it was a sign of things to come. I can probably die without hearing Eleanor Rigby or Good Day Sunshine again, but who's complaining.

Rubber Soul influences Pet Sounds influences Revolver influences Smile influences Sgt. Pepper... These were the years of revolutionary progress in rock music. Brian Wilson and Lennon/ Mc Cartney were having a pivoting role in it, bands like the Rolling Stones could do nothing more than follow. Revolver is one of these great albums. Just ask a techno act like the Chemical Brothers what a song like Tomorrow never knows still means to them today!

A largely unremarkable Beatles' album that lacks the charm of Please Please Me or Sargeant Peppers. The only two good songs, really, are Yellow Submarine and Good Day Sunshine. Taxman isn't remarkable and Elanor Rigby is just too depressing.

This is my favorite album, and it often is at the top of best-album polls. Revolver is a treat from start to finish. Each song has a unique sound and style that represents the individuality of each member of the Beatles. It's like a musical box of chocolates. LOL

Best Beatles album, accept maybe The White Album.

the beatles were revolutionary in the 60s and without them many of todays top bands would not exist. they made experimental music, clever lyrics and most importantly wrote classic songs. they were true originals. Revolver was the first of many beatles' all time greats and all three songwriters were on top form. Harrison churned out three songs, (his most on any one beatle disk), including the incredible love you too using far out eastern instruments and the simple and essential rocker taxman, McCartney probably had the biggest range for the album, ballads like here, there and everywhere and for no one were beatiful and melodious, the sheer joy of got to get you into my life and the sunny optimsm of good day sunshine cannot help but infect the listener. Lennon was being far out and experimental and thus supplied the albums more interesting and deep side. the groundbreaking tommorow never knows must have sounded out-of-this-world back in 1966, elsewhere john was writing great songs (dr. robert, i'm only sleeping) and rocking out (and your bird can sing, she said, she said) marvellous. to those of you who dismissed yellow submarine for being to childish is say this: whoever decided music had to be serious all the time? without stuff like this where's the fun? the joy? i doubt you'll find it anywhere around modern music. oh and i couldn't rate this album and not mention eleanor rigby, just an unbelievable song, espeically to think McCartney was about 24 when he wrote it.

I hate Beatles music.

My personal favorite of the Beatles Albums. It has a bright, alive sound that continues to inspire. Psychedelic, but intelligent and coherant at the same time. There hasn't been another album like it since. PEACE.

one of the top 3 albums from the greatest rock band of all time.....and just a note, the reviewers who rated this album one star are clearly the same the same user (are they are through some bizzare coincidence all beegees fans and right wingers)

a shining moment in pop history

A true rock and roll and 20th century music masterpiece. Even the "childish" songs as Yellow Submarine are so well crafted that they reach the level of genius. Eleanor Rigby and Tomorrow Never Knows alone are the philosophal stone of rock and roll bringing together Dylan´s lyrical influence, the Beach Boys´ sound effects experimentation and the outstanding Beatle melody and harmony in a truly organical way. More intriguing and dark than Sgt Pepper, more unified than the White Album and more direct than Abbey Road, Revolver is a classic that shows rock evolving into a true and complete art form.

I was around when Revolver was first released in 1966. I thought at the time that it was a groundbreaking album, the like of which I had never heard. I still listen to it & my feelings are still the same. The Beatles were the most influential rock & roll bands of all time & historically, that is beyond dispute. The fact that this discussion is going on, nearly 40 years later, proves that. Is the same thing happening about the Monkees??

omg how can ANYONE not love this album??? ARE YOU DEAF? this is what real music sounds like!

the Beatles are the best

This was the first Beatles album I ever bought and listened to. I did it my second year of college, and the very first time I ever heard "Eleanor Rigby," I knew that this was the greatest band of the 20h century, and I would be in for a huge treat. I fell in love with the entire album, and the Beatles motivated me to study music. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the Beatles from 1964-1966, during their time of greatest growth. This album should be treated with the highest respect, and if you believe it deserves any less, you really need to educate yourself on the methods of making quality, eternal music.

The first of many 5-star Beatle albums. SO many excellent songs to choose from.

This album takes time to sink in. Once it does, you realize that if any other band yesterday or today came out with a record like this, they would instantly influence their time and place... and record industry executives just wouldn't understand the record's success. Revolver blends so many of the Beatles earlier style together with later developing styles. Its really the missing link. Many people don't understand this record. Its not made for your average Joe or the conformist pop rock audience. Revolver is not only a transormation for the Beatles, but also one for the technicians who recorded this record... they were experimenting just as much (like in "Tomorrow Never Knows"). Their playing with 2-way stereo and the way the drums are recorded in Revolver is just one of a kind. George starts out the record with Taxman and Ringo and Paul (drum&bass) create such a cool little vibe that even Beck has ripped off this beat in his New Pollution. The strings in Eleanor Rigby sounds so authentic that I think no string piece today can sound the same again because there are too many sound engineers nowadays who would just screw it all up. Ringo's drum playing is at its best in "She Said, She Said". Paul's songwriting is probably at its peak in this record, and John's "I'm Only Sleeping" grows on you like no other song. I still can't beleive that in 1966 when Revolver was released Capitol Records pulled this song off the record for its US release fearing that it might influence kids to do drugs... oh, onservative America. Overall, Revolver is indeed pretty dark with moments of the early Beatles popping up in between. Revolver has been very influential among musicians... to me, it's the one Beatles record that was made for that smaller group of people who actually stop to listen to and appreciate music.

Taxman, Elanor Rigby, Here There Everywhere, Good Day Sunshine, Got To Get You Into My Life make this LP a surefire classic.

Even after Sgt. Pepper, this is still considered THE modern-pop masterpiece, and also considered one of the greatest albums ever made. (And I agree fully.) I used to hate the Beatles too before I really listened to them, now I think they were really brilliant songwriters. Even the worst producer on EARTH wouldn't stop this kind of genius from shining through.

One of the best of the best.

Personally-Revolver is one of my favorite Beatle albums-each Beatle totally shines on this masterpiece. It's a CD that you can listen to over, and over, and over, and still adore! A complete and utter masterpiece. And why must we have some Led Zeppelin album in order to rate a BEATLES album?-who cares about Led Zep-this is a rating of Revolver-an album by the Beatles-definitley NOT Led Zepellin-they could never make a masterpiece like Revolver.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Beatles, buy the best in Rock & Pop Cd's?! Hardly...Now let's be reasonable people. The best Rock album of all time is indisputably ZepIV. Beatles are overrated sometimes and Zep is underated because of them. I love both bands, but the beatles didn't create pop and rock like some of you may think. I hope this opens some eyes of people (Beatle freaks) who are so narrow minded who can't see past the end of their nose. So go out and buy ZepIV if you don't already have it (and if you don't, you shouldn't be rating!).

The absolute BEST album ever! Nice to see JenSecret and Vicky5 on here again. They've bashed everything Beatles all over this site and are obviously frustrated BeeGee fans AND the same pitiful person. Read their comments, guys. She's just a very sad girl. We should feel badly for a person who spends their time spreading hateful things that clearly don't make sense.

I wouldn't rate it as #1 like the vh1 list did. However, it is in my top 10 and I can see why they did put it as #1. At the time in 1966, not such a psychedelic album had ever been recorded. A song that is overlooked for some crazy reason is "And Your Bird Can Sing." It is such a powerful song. Bill Clinton believes that Elanor Rigby is the most brilliant piece ever, which I can relate to. Taxman is an upbeat, powerful song. I think my personal favorite from the album is Doctor Robert (only on the British version). It is another absoulte masterpiece from the far and away greatest band.

This album was pivotal for the beatles. Released during a period where they wanted to move away from the mushy pop ballads and into more exprimental , innovative work - pre- sgt pepper. The song "Here, there and Everywhere", has to be one of the most beautiful ballads ever released. "Taxman" is incredible - love George Harrison's vocal work on that song. what an impact the beatles have had on pop culture/music.

I dig it. "Here, There and Everywhere" is one of those songs that even our best pal Lou couldn't deny is a bad tune. I think I heard somewhere that Lennon said that it is his favourite Beatles song, ever. It seems that on each of these albums, there are a lot of great songs, but they just strike gold on one particular track- on "Rubber Soul" it's "In My Life," on "Sgt. Pepper" it's "A Day in the Life." Lately I've actually been doubting the Beatles' adaquacy as musicians, perhaps because I've listened to the few albums that I have too much, and because I hadn't often stopped to think about what I was listening to. I am unsure as to whether songs like "And Your Bird Can Sing," "For No One," "Good Day Sunshine," or "Taxman" are actually quality, or I just like them. But then again, according to whoever-that- painter is, art isn't great, music isn't great, it just tickles us. Perhaps I shouldn't think so much, but I can't help it. "Eleanor Rigby" is a neat little 2-minute poem with nice cellos. "Got To Get You Into My Life" has a nice verse, but it all leads up into a simple phrase. And why don't they make the horns more dynamic? "Tomorrow Never Knows" is a cool, psychedelic, sitar- buzzing, tape-squealing opus. Ringo's drumming is great. "Revolver" has a lot more depth than "Rubber Soul," and I've seen polls on which "Revolver" was voted as the third favourite Beatles record (behind "Abbey Road" and the White Album, and above "Sgt. Pepper" by a good amount of votes).

It's a good listen. With me, rating Beatles albums is like picking your favorite child. You love them all but maybe you "like" one a little better than another. Now don't say you don't. ;)

Come on People! Calling the Beatles Fag Four????? OOoooh, that's low. If you hate them so much why are you rating them? That really gets on my last nerve. Revolver is probably my favorite. It's the album where George really shows his stuff. Taxman is the work of a genius. Some other great ones too, Love You To, I Want to Tell you. What is this world coming to when Beatles Fans are supposedly out of touch with reality? And the term, the Beatles suck? That is the stupidest, most ignorant term I've ever heard in my life. I too would like to see what the people who gave this album less than 5 stars like, and do you think that in 30 years when they don't even exist, that they'll have a hit album on the the number one spot in the charts for over 2 months. There's no way!!! The Beatles were legendary, there's nothing more to say. And people saying the Beatles sucked and calling them the "fag four" need their ears checked and BADLY have "problems". I LOVE GEORGE!

Mongrelpup seems to have a problem with the term fag four. How does that lessen the credibility of a rater? Also, I think Wiggum has lost touch with reality. This whole thing about being revolutionary and groundbreaking is a myth. All they did was make middle of the road pop albums. Nothing more.

First of all, I think Fab Four was being used tongue in cheek. Secondly, I can't believe "Fag" isn't on Rate-It-All's list of undesirable terms along with certain hateful terms for blacks, jews, etc. Thirdly, the opinion of someone who'd sincerely use a term like "Fag Four" in a public forum is most likely crap anyway. Last, it's a great cd.

The reviewers on this site who gave "Revolver" one star are either demonstrating simple ignorance or a complete break with reality. Even if you don't like the music, which I find hard to believe, how can you argue that this album was not incredibly influential? Do you even have a clue how revolutionary "Revolver" must have sounded in 1966? "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul" are the keys to bridging the early, more traditional Beatles (e.g, "Love Me Do") with the later, groundbreaking Beatles (e.g., "Sgt. Peppers"), and even someone with limited musical interest and/or education should be able to appreciate this record of the Beatles' unprecedented transformation. While I personally like "Rubber Soul" even more than "Revolver," both albums contain more than enough classic songs to warrant a five star rating.

First of all, when someone calls this group the "Fab Four" I want to throw up. If anything they were the Fag Four or Drab Four. It seems that fans of this group can't stand that anyone hates the Beatles. Yes, you Beatle fans, a lot of people don't like the Beatles. This album further justifies why I think they sucked.

Eleanor Rigby, brilliant? Surely you jest. And one song does not make an album great or worth 4 stars. Look at the rest of the crap on this album. I don't know what the other two raters like, but it's probably better than the Beatles.

Eleanor Rigby alone would almost justify Revolver's place on this list. It's a truly brilliant song. And while this isn't the Beatles strongest collection overall, there are several other very strong entries here. ExpressJeans and JenSecret seem to have a personal vendetta going on the Fab Four. I wish we could do a search by member and see what kind of stuff you two actually like!

This album deserves to be run over by a pick-up truck, along with the rest of the Beatles records. Give me a break, "Good Day Sunshine" is a joke, "Taxman" is stupid, "Yellow Submarine" is pathetic, and "Love You To" is awful. This record needs a revolver, one that can shoot holes through the middle!

Just a lot of stupid songs (Yellow Submarine, She Said She Said, Love You Too, I Want to Tell You, etc) that showcase this group's lack of depth. All of their album's are full of album fillers that are so mundane, one would think that some of these songs were demos.