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9 years, 2 months ago at Mar 9 22:14

charidotes20

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The Beatles are my favorite band, but I also never signed a contract to consider each and every one of their albums, as their best album. If that's already too much for you-- then just cover your ears now....

Some people, who can think think that which they please, of course-- think that "Revolver" is.....

I mean, "Taxman"-- the song just pisses me off. It's like: Ge... read more

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この頃から、オーバーダビングやテープ編集を大きく取り入れるようになり、サウンドが複雑化していく。ジョージが英国税制への皮肉を歌った"Taxman"。この曲はポールがリードギターを弾いているが、ジョージは「気に入っているよ、インド風で」。弦楽８重奏をバックに歌う"Eleanor Rigby"
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Description: Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 5 August 1966 in the UK, and three days later in the United States, accompanied by the double A-side single "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine". The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology to date, building on the advances of their late 1965 release Rubber Soul. It has since become regarded as one of the greatest albums in the history of popular music, with recognition centred on its range of musical styles, Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 5 August 1966 in the UK, and three days later in the United States, accompanied by the double A-side single "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine". The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology to date, building on the advances of their late 1965 release Rubber Soul. It has since become regarded as one of the greatest albums in the history of popular music, with recognition centred on its range of musical styles, diverse sounds, and lyrical content.

The Beatles recorded Revolver following a three-month break from professional commitments at the start of 1966, and during a period when London was feted as the era's cultural capital. The songs reflect the influence of psychedelic drugs such as LSD while the lyrics address themes including death and transcendence from material concerns. With no thoughts of reproducing their new material in concert, the band made liberal use of studio techniques such as automatic double tracking, varispeed, reversed tapes and close audio miking, in addition to employing instrumentation outside of their standard live set-up. Among its innovative tracks are the psychedelic "Tomorrow Never Knows", recorded using tape loops controlled on several machines simultaneously, and "Love You To", a foray into Hindustani classical music. The sessions also produced a non-album single, "Paperback Writer" backed with "Rain".

In the United Kingdom, the album's fourteen tracks were gradually distributed to radio stations in the weeks before its release. In North America, Revolver was reduced to eleven songs by Capitol Records, with the omitted three instead appearing on the June 1966 LP Yesterday and Today. The release there coincided with the Beatles' final concert tour and the controversy surrounding John Lennon's remark that the band had become "more popular than Jesus". The album topped the Record Retailer chart in the UK for seven weeks and the US Billboard Top LPs list for six weeks.

Revolver is credited with expanding the scope of pop music and its changes in studio practice were soon adopted throughout the recording industry. It was influential in advancing principles espoused by the 1960s counterculture and in inspiring the development of genres such as psychedelic rock, electronica, progressive rock and world music. The album cover, designed by Klaus Voormann, combined Aubrey Beardsley-inspired line drawing with photo collage and won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts. Aided by the 1987 international CD release, which standardised its content to the original Parlophone version, Revolver has surpassed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in many critics' estimation as the Beatles' best album. It was ranked first in Colin Larkin's book All-Time Top 1000 Albums and third in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It has been certified platinum by the BPI for sales since 1994 and 5× platinum by the RIAA. ... (more)

Manufacturer: Parlophone
Release date: 5 August 1966
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0077774644129 UPC: 077774644129

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