 Revolver (1966) [ larger cover art ] |
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Turn off your mind
Relax and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being
That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
But listen to the
Colour of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
Or play the game
Existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
| dig | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 16:29 Definately one of my favorite Beatles tunes. A hint of things to come for them. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 16:28 10+  |
| martinc (Ottawa Canada) | Posted: Mar 29, 2013 - 14:07 And there were some tunes that laid the foundation for 1969 |
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 14:05 unmistakable from the first note |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Mar 13, 2013 - 16:43 This is a 10 if I've ever heard one! Ahead of its time...and I can't help but hear the Chemical Brothers now too, I'm not sure if that sample was good for me or not?! |
| rmsilva (Healdsburg, CA) | Posted: Mar 02, 2013 - 16:32 Where's the extended remix? 3 minutes is not long enough! |
| nampelkafe (al sur del sur) | Posted: Jan 30, 2013 - 08:41    |
| AphidA | Posted: Jan 30, 2013 - 08:40 This one goes to 11. For reals. |
| hd220 | Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 20:05 Timeless. Could have been written today. Initially didn't care about this song at all. Now one of the best Beatles songs for me. Wow. Compare the drums to Ticket to Ride! |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 16, 2013 - 21:12 Profound and beautiful... we be dancing... love it... |
| britinva (Deepest Darkest Virginia) | Posted: Jan 16, 2013 - 21:12 Perfect song for bedtime. |
| GeneP59 (On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday.) | Posted: Dec 09, 2012 - 14:43 I think I'm in somebody else's brain trippin' man.  |
| PopKombo (Up Against the San Gabriels) | Posted: Nov 28, 2012 - 15:34 Psychedelic weird stuff ... It's got a strange beat and it's harder than hell to dance to. I give it a 10. |
| kojiroh (Istanbul, Turkey) | Posted: Nov 15, 2012 - 03:17 I came here to vote a 10 as soon as I heard the sitar. |
| mrtuba9 (most likely near Normal) | Posted: Nov 08, 2012 - 06:01 wow...as someone who was born in 1970 and never really "knew" the Beatles...just wow... |
| dputlak | Posted: Oct 14, 2012 - 18:56 Heard this two days ago on WXRT in Chicago and I forgot how truly awesome it is. What a feat in sound mixing! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 07, 2012 - 21:04 This song is soooo good it makes us tear our clothes off and dance... |
| impediguy | Posted: Sep 26, 2012 - 20:24 Stingray wrote: I believe (or know!) GEORGE MARTIN is the most Live. Or, still alive, mostly, I suppose. |
| Giselle62 (many bear, big rock, estuary California) | Posted: Sep 26, 2012 - 19:40 much very this like i.... |
| Stingray | Posted: Sep 26, 2012 - 19:39 I believe (or know!) GEORGE MARTIN is the most |
| Kaisersosay (Mighty Mighty Bostown) | Posted: Sep 22, 2012 - 06:29 who are these guys? |
| Ghiaap (Haarlo, The Netherlands) | Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 05:40 Amazing song! prog rock avant la lettre! >10 |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Sep 06, 2012 - 07:38 Another—and one would hope final, but the Paul-was-the-drummer theorists, like the Obama birthers, just won't go away—demonstration of Ringo's mastery. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 06, 2012 - 07:36 We be dancing... love it...  |
| midigitguy (Massachusetts) | Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 18:55 Use the Radio Paradise link to purchase Here, There and Everywhere; My Life Recording the Beatles http://www.amazon.com/Here-There-Everywhere-Recording-Beatles/dp/1592401791/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1345600360&sr=1-1 Great, easy, interesting read. |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 09:03 Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick states that the recording of all records changed dramatically once this was released. Completely revolutionary in '66, it still sounds amazing 46 years later. Much of the production owes its genesis to Paul's interest in avant garde productions by Karl Stockhausen, from whom the idea of multiple tape loops (made by Paul and John) fed into the mixing console emanated. |
| drucev (Brooklyn, NY) | Posted: Jul 21, 2012 - 09:01 Sound engineer Geoff Emerick was 19, or 20 depending on what you read http://www.beatlesbible.com/people/geoff-emerick/ |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 08:04 kaybee wrote: 1966?!!! I thought Revolver came out in '67! I guess because that was the "summer of love" and I seem to have this unwritten rule that psychedelic music didn't come out until that year. "Psychedelia" probably didn't become widely popular until 1967, but there were beatnik types in Greenwich Village and S.F. playing "psychedelic folk" in the earlier 1960s. Don't forget, LSD was synthesized in the late 1930s, and was not made illegal in the U.S, until 1970 or so. |
| deanofox (Yorkshire, England) | Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 07:54 Quite probably the most influential dance song of all time. |
| yuel (Taka-Tuka-Land) | Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 07:53 this is such a great song, unbelievable! |
| raga (Italy - Como) | Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 07:53 Oh my god... |
| Easyrider (Portugal) | Posted: Jul 05, 2012 - 09:38 So ahead of its time considering the year,amazing!
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| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 19, 2012 - 21:00 justlistening wrote: Anyone feel like dancing yes yes yes we be dancing madly... love this groovy song... |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Jun 10, 2012 - 16:00 One of my 10 fav Beatles songs, if I had to pick 10, or could only pick 10. The production and mixing is off the charts. Pre-digital. 5th Beatle George Martin was to '60s recording technology what the Hubble is to Sputnik. This sure ain't Slow Down. |
| justlistening (So. California) | Posted: Jun 03, 2012 - 14:28 romeotuma wrote: Volume is wayyyy up... everybody in my hotel room leaped to their feet and started dancing... love it...  Anyone feel like dancing |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 03, 2012 - 14:10 Volume is wayyyy up... everybody in my hotel room leaped to their feet and started dancing... love it... |
| orquidea (SPAIN) | Posted: May 19, 2012 - 02:01 Just What I need Today to cheer up...   |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 09, 2012 - 20:49 romeotuma wrote: bump... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 02, 2012 - 20:29 This song is soooo good my nipples get hard when I hear it... |
| spindrift (Philadelphia PA) | Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 08:19 I waffled for a while and then hit the mute button. Revolver is a fabbo album but this doesn't sing for me. |
| zanref | Posted: Mar 21, 2012 - 05:03 Hard to admit, but I thought that it was Kasabian's song >_< (reminds me of West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum) yes yes, I am not familiar that much with The Almighty Beatles. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Mar 16, 2012 - 16:35 Bill - your killing me - trying to finish work and go home. PJ followed by my fav song from my fav album by the greatest band of all time. |
| dw (PHill, CA) | Posted: Mar 07, 2012 - 10:54 Definitely my favorite Beatles album!  |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: Mar 07, 2012 - 10:53 An absolute, unabashed, freakin' MASTERPIECE! (the song) Below is a good lecture series (click poster) for those who aren't already Beatles experts in their own right.  |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Feb 29, 2012 - 11:23 unclehud wrote: I'll never understand why Sargent Pepper is valued so much more highly than Revolver. This album has it all: snappy pop (Good Day Sunshine, Got to Get You into My Life), love songs (And Your Bird Can Sing), and the introduction of Beatle psychedelia ... which was the introduction of psychdelia into mainstream Western culture. It's not any more - at least among, sorry - the more discerning listeners and professional critics, Revolver started getting the nod 25 years ago. That said - add Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane to Pepper (they were recorded in the same sessions) and you start to get closer. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Feb 29, 2012 - 11:05 johnjconn wrote: At the risk of setting RP listeners into a crazy state,,,,,, This song is very over rated. Maybe ground breaking when it was released, but disconnected today and rather tired. LMFAO - and the award for the funniest comment on the RP board in 2012 goes to......... |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Feb 29, 2012 - 11:00 At the risk of setting RP listeners into a crazy state,,,,,, This song is very over rated. Maybe ground breaking when it was released, but disconnected today and rather tired. |
| 24noir | Posted: Feb 18, 2012 - 11:06 great... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 21:47 love this song soooo much!!!! |
| Wisespeke (Celina, Texas) | Posted: Feb 04, 2012 - 18:09 It is incredible to think this was produced 45 years ago... damn, but I'm still older! |