Originally released : 08-05-1966
Release date        : 08-23-2004
Album name          : Revolver
Artist              : The Beatles

Ripped by           : Velvet Kevorkian
Genre               : Rock
Label               : Capitol

Encoding Software   : Lame EOS
Quality             : --alt-preset standard

Tracks              : 14
Size of Files       : 58,9 MB

01  02:39  Taxman
02  02:08  Eleanor Rigby
03  03:02  I'm Only Sleeping
04  03:01  Love You To
05  02:26  Here, There And Everywhere
06  02:40  Yellow Submarine
07  02:37  She Said She Said
08  02:10  Good Day Sunshine
09  02:02  And Your Bird Can Sing
10  02:02  For No One
11  02:15  Doctor Robert
12  02:30  I Want To Tell You
13  02:31  Got To Get You Into My Life
14  02:55  Tomorrow Never Knows

Total time: 34:58 min

All the rules fell by the wayside with Revolver, as the
Beatles began exploring new sonic territory, lyrical
subjects, and styles of composition. It wasn't just
Lennon and McCartney, either -- Harrison staked out his
own dark territory with the tightly wound, cynical
rocker "Taxman"; the jaunty yet dissonant "I Want to
Tell You"; and "Love You To," George's first and best
foray into Indian music. Such explorations were bold,
yet they were eclipsed by Lennon's trippy kaleidoscopes
of sound. His most straightforward number was "Doctor
Robert," an ode to his dealer, and things just got
stranger from there, as he buried "And Your Bird Can
Sing" in a maze of multi-tracked guitars, gave Ringo a
charmingly hallucinogenic slice of childhood whimsy in
"Yellow Submarine," and then capped it off with a
triptych of bad trips: the spiraling "She Said She
Said"; the crawling, druggy "I'm Only Sleeping"; and
"Tomorrow Never Knows," a pure nightmare where John
sang portions of the Tibetan Book of the Dead into a
suspended microphone over Ringo's thundering, menacing
drumbeats and layers of overdubbed, phased guitars and
tape loops. McCartney's experiments were formal, as he
tried on every pop style from chamber pop to soul, and
when placed alongside Lennon and Harrison's outright
experimentations, McCartney's songcraft becomes all the
more impressive. The biggest miracle of Revolver may be
that the Beatles covered so much new stylistic ground
and executed it perfectly on one record, or it may be
that all of it holds together perfectly. Either way,
its daring sonic adventures and consistently stunning
songcraft set the standard for what pop/rock could
achieve. Even after Sgt. Pepper, Revolver stands as the
ultimate modern pop album and it's still as emulated as
it was upon its original release.

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