Revolver August 1966 All tracks are credited to Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.
[edit] Side one
1. "Taxman" (Harrison) – 2:39 2. "Eleanor Rigby" – 2:07 3. "I'm Only Sleeping" – 3:01 4. "Love You To" (Harrison) – 3:01 5. "Here, There and Everywhere" – 2:25 6. "Yellow Submarine" – 2:40 7. "She Said She Said" – 2:37
[edit] Side two
1. "Good Day Sunshine" – 2:09 2. "And Your Bird Can Sing" – 2:01 3. "For No One" – 2:01 4. "Doctor Robert" – 2:15 5. "I Want to Tell You" (Harrison) – 2:29 6. "Got to Get You into My Life" – 2:30 7. "Tomorrow Never Knows" – 2:57
Rubber Soul December, 1965 Side one
1. "I've Just Seen A Face" - 2:07 2. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" – 2:00 3. "You Won't See Me" – 3:19 4. "Think for Yourself" (Harrison) – 2:16 5. "The Word" – 2:42 6. "Michelle" – 2:42
[edit] Side two
1. "It's Only Love" – 1:53 2. "Girl" – 2:26 3. "I'm Looking Through You" – 2:20 4. "In My Life" – 2:23 5. "Wait" – 2:13 6. "Run for Your Life" – 2:21
S.t
· 1 year ago
...although I'd take The White Album & Abbey Road over Revolver & Rubber Soul
logicalextremes
· 1 year ago
I have to agree... Rubber Soul and Revolver are both great albums, but I'd put the White album and Abbey Road (and A Day in the Life from Sgt. Pepper's) as the best of.
cyanbane
· 1 year ago
The last 15 mins of Abbey Road maybe the best medley of all time.
As a cohesive album from the Beatles I still vote Sgt Pepper.
I hope the concept of an album still has as much relevance for my daughter in 15 years.
I think it might not. :(
sam
· 1 year ago
If my memory is correct, my Rubber Soul starts with "Drive My Car"
John A Arkansawyer
· 1 year ago
I don't see how there can be any debate. "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" is the pinnacle of the Beatles' career.
S.t
· 1 year ago
I'd have to go with the "Hey Jude"/"Revolution" single
John A Arkansawyer
· 1 year ago
That was my second Beatles single, I do believe, and it is a good one. But you can feel the weight of Beatleness beginning to wear on them terribly in both those songs. What you get from "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" is that wonderful moment where they've just grasped what was at the edge of their reach and gone for it and gotten it.
It's a young work, and the Beatles were a band of youth.
"Revolution"/"Hey Jude" (he said contentiously) has that world-weary, Romantic, old-before-their-time vibe. At least, that's how it looks in the rear view mirror.
(Not that I have anything against the rock of age, and of ages--let me know when we're talking Dylan so I can argue for Love and Theft as his best work.)
Michael F. Martin
· 1 year ago
Why would you ever choose? Why do we love to rank things?
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
good point but that was her task, to write about her favorite
bfeld
· 1 year ago
I'm with Emily.
jjfreitag
· 1 year ago
Abbey Road, Revolver, Rubber Soul, White, Sgt Pepper - my favorites in that order but I love them all. Great topic.
kidmercury
· 1 year ago
rubber soul, no doubt.
ppearlman
· 1 year ago
just listened to both of them... and while both filled w brilliant collection of songs rubber soul is the better 'album' themtaiclly cohesive and chock w vibrant harmonies...
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Like I said. The never ending debate!
fakedjs
· 1 year ago
I went to that camp as well and remember hearing Radioead from campus. Radiohead was playing live not too far away. In Rainbows is my favorite Beatles album.
Neil Harris
· 1 year ago
Personally, I have to vote for A Hard Day's Night and Help! These albums represent the crown of the Beatles as British invasion rock band -- less mature but perhaps more fun.
I read your wife's post on the subject - very, very good.
grahammudd
· 1 year ago
yup, emily is spot on! revolver all the way. sgt pepper beats rubber soul in my estimation.
jquaglia
· 1 year ago
Out of these two, I think that Revolver has to win out, but they are oh so close.
However, I think that Sgt Peppers is more a consensus number 1 ever. "With a Little Help," "Lucy in the Sky," "A Day in the Life," all on the same album?
Revolve was a summer album. I remember the day it came out and the sun was shinning... but we worked long hours in the summer. Rubber Soul was a winter album.... so you hung out in friends rooms playing and talking (and copying the chords) - wasn't it good Norwegian Wood.... but then Revolver has McCartney's greatest song "Elennor Rigby" but then Rubber Soul has Lennon's greatest song "In my life".... ho hum
vantelimus
· 1 year ago
Interesting question, but as others have pointed out, the Beatles have produced many great albums. Given the opportunity to wax philosophically and emotionally, I could argue for each of them, even the American pastiche Beatles '65, with its Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins covers along with the first recorded use of feedback on a song ("I Feel Fine"). However, in the Revolver vs. Rubber Soul debate, I think today I'd choose Revolver if for no other reason the other day while fumbling around with my iPod I accidentally hit "And Your Bird Can Sing". Not having heard that track in ages, I was transfixed.
To pootytang: The Beatles were too safe? I suppose that's why Nixon considered John Lennon a threat to the Republic, while the Rolling Stones never hit his radar.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Lennon was as unsafe as the come.
Adi
· 1 year ago
Love revolver. Beatls are gods. And I love the new formatting of this blog on my iphone
andyswan
· 1 year ago
Sgt Pepper, from cover, to back (lyrics!!! a first) to the songs and theme. Lovely Rita!!!
But ya, revolver...I think I need to pull that one back out. I'm one of those people that listens to a single album in my car for 2-3 months...over and over and over. I don't know why I do that, but I love it :)
Dave H
· 1 year ago
No hedging here. There is no question in my mind that Revolver is the better album. If covers are the best judge of other artists' respect of a musical work, then the case is closed. It's not only a great rock album, but it also has the most enduring eastern-psychedelic compositions ("tomorrow never knows"), political protest songs ("Taxman") and ballads ("and your bird can sing"). It is still a great listen more than 40 years later. Rubber Soul sounds dated by comparison.
Rubber Soul is the bridge between the early beatles and the Beatles that would make Sgt Peppers and The Beatles (White Album). Great album, but sounds dustier to me, a big beatles fan.
edsull
· 1 year ago
Hello Fred,
What's the Oxford program? My 13 yo daughter is interested in Oxford.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Ed
Email me and I'll give you the details
Click the contact link on the upper right
Fred
edsull
· 1 year ago
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For me, it really depends on my mood and what I haven't listened to in awhile.
I first discovered The Beatles freshman year in high school, about 9 years ago. (Man, I feel old now.) All of their songs sounded strangely familiar and they fit the prerequisite that their entire albums are listenable (not just a few songs) to become one of my favorite bands. Does anyone else have this prerequisite?
Nowadays I've heard everything by them... there's really no way to rank them. Then again, we could look at their record sales, right?
jackson
· 1 year ago
Best? Dunno. Certainly my favorite.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Good point jackson. I think that was the assignment. Not best, but favorite
pweitzman
· 1 year ago
Give me the Kinks and the Stones any day of the week. The Beatles are just too safe and way too played.
All Comments
Revolver
August 1966
All tracks are credited to Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.
[edit] Side one
1. "Taxman" (Harrison) – 2:39
2. "Eleanor Rigby" – 2:07
3. "I'm Only Sleeping" – 3:01
4. "Love You To" (Harrison) – 3:01
5. "Here, There and Everywhere" – 2:25
6. "Yellow Submarine" – 2:40
7. "She Said She Said" – 2:37
[edit] Side two
1. "Good Day Sunshine" – 2:09
2. "And Your Bird Can Sing" – 2:01
3. "For No One" – 2:01
4. "Doctor Robert" – 2:15
5. "I Want to Tell You" (Harrison) – 2:29
6. "Got to Get You into My Life" – 2:30
7. "Tomorrow Never Knows" – 2:57
Rubber Soul
December, 1965
Side one
1. "I've Just Seen A Face" - 2:07
2. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" – 2:00
3. "You Won't See Me" – 3:19
4. "Think for Yourself" (Harrison) – 2:16
5. "The Word" – 2:42
6. "Michelle" – 2:42
[edit] Side two
1. "It's Only Love" – 1:53
2. "Girl" – 2:26
3. "I'm Looking Through You" – 2:20
4. "In My Life" – 2:23
5. "Wait" – 2:13
6. "Run for Your Life" – 2:21
As a cohesive album from the Beatles I still vote Sgt Pepper.
I hope the concept of an album still has as much relevance for my daughter in 15 years.
I think it might not. :(
It's a young work, and the Beatles were a band of youth.
"Revolution"/"Hey Jude" (he said contentiously) has that world-weary, Romantic, old-before-their-time vibe. At least, that's how it looks in the rear view mirror.
(Not that I have anything against the rock of age, and of ages--let me know when we're talking Dylan so I can argue for Love and Theft as his best work.)
--
Thanks for listening to www.fakedjs.com
However, I think that Sgt Peppers is more a consensus number 1 ever. "With a Little Help," "Lucy in the Sky," "A Day in the Life," all on the same album?
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595610/...
but then Revolver has McCartney's greatest song "Elennor Rigby"
but then Rubber Soul has Lennon's greatest song "In my life"....
ho hum
To pootytang: The Beatles were too safe? I suppose that's why Nixon considered John Lennon a threat to the Republic, while the Rolling Stones never hit his radar.
But ya, revolver...I think I need to pull that one back out. I'm one of those people that listens to a single album in my car for 2-3 months...over and over and over. I don't know why I do that, but I love it :)
Rubber Soul is the bridge between the early beatles and the Beatles that would make Sgt Peppers and The Beatles (White Album). Great album, but sounds dustier to me, a big beatles fan.
What's the Oxford program? My 13 yo daughter is interested in Oxford.
Email me and I'll give you the details
Click the contact link on the upper right
Fred
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I first discovered The Beatles freshman year in high school, about 9 years ago. (Man, I feel old now.) All of their songs sounded strangely familiar and they fit the prerequisite that their entire albums are listenable (not just a few songs) to become one of my favorite bands. Does anyone else have this prerequisite?
Nowadays I've heard everything by them... there's really no way to rank them. Then again, we could look at their record sales, right?