Aside from "Rigby," the overplayed radio cuts are "Yellow Submarine" and "Got To Get You Into My Life." But the tracks that bring me up every time are John Lennon's "I'm Only Sleeping," "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "She Said She Said" - the first for its airy pauses and loping beat, the other two for the way their notoriously cantankerous songwriter existentially argues with pretentious girlfriends. Also worth singling out: the French horn on Paul McCartney's succinct broken romance song, "For No One," and the discordant pianowork on Harrison's "I Want To Tell You." Hell, just looking at the track listing, I find myself going, "But what about that cut? - or that cut?"
I loved listening to this album as a teenager, and I continue to love listening to it today. Took the storm out of my study window today and replaced it with a screen just so I could Play It Loud this very sunny afternoon. Good Day, Sunshine, indeed. . .
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1 - Eric Olsen
Pretty cool for an old guy.
2 - Bill Sherman
Yup, I turn my hearing aid all way up to ELEVEN!
3 - Jim C.
Just the other day I ripped "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul" (my other favorite Fab Four record) and took them to work. You forget how great these guys were when you don't listen to them for a while.
4 - James Russell
But how can you talk about Revolver and not even mention "Tomorrow Never Knows"? I'd read about the song in books about the band before I ever heard it, but when I did first hear it on radio about eleven years ago, I couldn't believe it was recorded in 1966. I was sure somebody had to have done a new cover of it. But by God, no, it was in fact the Beatles' own version, still sounding as remarkably fresh and out-there as it must've done in 1966. Still does, too.