Revolver

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In 2004, Revolver appeared at number 2 in The Observer 's list of "The 100 Greatest British Albums", compiled by a panel of 100 contributors. [446] In 2006, it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best albums [450] and topped a similar list compiled by Hot Press. [451] That same year, Guitar World readers chose it as the tenth best guitar album of all time. [452] In 2010, Revolver was named the best pop album by the official newspaper of the Holy See, L'Osservatore Romano. [453] In 2013, Entertainment Weekly placed the album at number 1 in its "All-Time Greatest" albums. [451] [454] In September 2020, Rolling Stone ranked Revolver at number 11 on its new list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [455] Miles, Barry (2001). The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-8308-9. a b Du Noyer, Paul (2004). "The Beatles Revolver". Blender. Archived from the original on 4 May 2006 . Retrieved 24 June 2017. In the USA, the “Revolver” and the “Yesterday…and Today” albums are the only confirmed Beatles releases with this “Red Target” label….apparently pressed only during the spring of 1971 (*in Canada, the red target label was more widely used and lasted until early 1972, making them a little more common ...yet still quite rare). The expanded ‘Revolver’ box set is more like the early ‘Sgt Pepper’ reissue in that it does not contain any unreleased Beatles songs. Disc’s two and three feature alternate takes from the sessions, while disc one is a new stereo mix of the original album and disc four is a mono mix of the original album.

All known “Red Target” US releases were pressed at Capitol Records’ Winchester (Virginia) plant, as identified by the “─◁” (rifle) symbol after the matrix runouts in the dead wax ( Side 1 - ST1-2576-W13; Side 2 - ST-2-2576-X10). By 4 a.m. on June 22, The Beatles finished “She Said She Said”, wrapping up their Revolver recording sessions. The album’s final mono and stereo mixes were completed that evening.

Album Top 100 (13/09/2009)". spanishcharts.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012 . Retrieved 28 June 2017. Mojo Special Limited Edition: 1000 Days That Shook the World (The Psychedelic Beatles – April 1, 1965 to December 26, 1967). London: Emap. 2002.

Perone, James E. (2012). The Album: A Guide to Pop Music's Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-37906-2. According to Shawn Levy, writing in his book on Swinging London, this transformation took place between November 1965 and the following April, when the sessions for Revolver began. He describes the Beatles as "the world's first household psychedelics" and "the first stars of any medium to metamorphose fully and obviously from perky and aboveboard to mysterious and covert". [32] With all due respect to the fans that know Revolverinside out, it’s the kids, like my daughter, who asked me the other day ‘hey dad, have you heard this amazing band called Fleetwood Mac?’ that I am interested in reaching with this… A good song is a good song, a good band is a good band,” he says defiantly. “I recently listened through the album together with Paul and he goes, ‘actually, this is maybe some of my best work,’ and he’s certainly done a lot of good work. It’s nice to get at that stage where he can talk about it openly and appreciate it.”

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Nearly everyone agrees that Revolver is one of the best albums of all time, if not the best. So let’s get right to the review of the much anticipated remix. MacDonald deems Lennon's remark about the Beatles' "god-like status" in March 1966 to have been "fairly realistic", given the reaction to Revolver. He adds: "The album's aural invention was so masterful that it seemed to Western youth that The Beatles knew – that they had the key to current events and were somehow orchestrating them through their records." [404] MacDonald highlights "the radically subversive" message of "Tomorrow Never Knows" – exhorting listeners to empty their minds of all ego- and material-related thought – as the inauguration of a "till-then élite-preserved concept of mind-expansion into pop, simultaneously drawing attention to consciousness-enhancing drugs and the ancient religious philosophies of the Orient". [314] Author Shawn Levy writes that the album presented an alternative reality that contemporary listeners felt compelled to explore further; he describes it as "the first true drug album, not a pop record with some druggy insinuations, but an honest-to-heaven, steeped-in-the-out-there trip from the here and now into who knew where". [405] [nb 33] What's not forgivable is the unrelenting inner groove distortion on "She Said She Said" on both the remix and the original mono disc. "Tomorrow Never Knows" has a bit of it too on the remix, but nowhere near as bad as "She Said She Said." None of my other copies of this album have it - not my BC-13 copy, not my 70's reissue, not my 2012 stereo remaster, not my 2014 mono remaster...just these! I am confident it is not my turntable. The QC should have been impeccable on this, as it is The Beatles after all. There’s no point in just doing this to make money or as a sales thing or because we’d done the others," he continued. "It’s more important that we do it for the right reason.” Lewisohn, Mark (2010) [1992]. The Complete Beatles Chronicle: The Definitive Day-by-Day Guide to the Beatles' Entire Career. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-56976-534-0.

Album Top 50 (38/2009)". finishcharts.com. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010 . Retrieved 28 June 2017. Marszalek, Julian (31 October 2012). "Prophets, Seers & Sages: Tony Visconti's Favourite Albums". The Quietus . Retrieved 24 June 2017. Album – Classifica settimanale WK 44 (dal 28.10.2022 al 03.11.2022)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 5 November 2022.Originally, the cover art for the album was going to be an image created by Freeman that included photos of each of the Beatles' faces revolving in circles repeatedly in layers. The band ultimately rejected the idea. [287] Christgau, Robert (December 1967). "Columns: December 1967 ( Esquire)". robertchristgau.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 24 June 2017. Levy, Shawn (2002). Ready, Steady, Go!: Swinging London and the Invention of Cool. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-1-84115-226-4. Savage, Jon (2015). 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-27763-6. Grammy Awards 1967". awardsandshows.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017 . Retrieved 24 June 2017.

Lavezzoli, Peter (2006). The Dawn of Indian Music in the West. New York, NY: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-2819-3. a b "Beatles" > "Albums" > "Revolver" > "Chart Facts". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013 . Retrieved 11 February 2017. Inglis, Ian (2010). The Words and Music of George Harrison. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-37532-3.The title finally broke the streak of new box sets that have commemorated the annual 50th anniversaries of The Beatles’ later works, from 2017 with Sgt. Pepper through 2021’s celebration of the Let It Be film and accompanying music release. Coplan, Chris (20 September 2009). "Album Review: The Beatles – Revolver [Remastered]". Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on 13 June 2017 . Retrieved 24 June 2017.