The Beatles - Revolver (1966) {1987, US Early Press}

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Artist: The Beatles
Title: Revolver
Year Of Release: 1966 / 1987
Label: Parlophone #CDP 7 46441 2
Genre: Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:34:59
Total Size: 276 / 146 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 5 August 1966, 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 group's interest in the drug LSD, Eastern philosophy and the avant-garde, lyrically addressing themes such as 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; "Eleanor Rigby", a meditation on loneliness featuring a string octet as its only musical backing; and "Love You To", a foray into Hindustani classical music. The sessions also produced a non-album single, "Paperback Writer" backed with "Rain".

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".

Track List:

01. Taxman [2:39]
02. Eleanor Rigby [2:08]
03. I?m Only Sleeping [3:02]
04. Love You To [3:01]
05. Here, There and Everywhere [2:26]
06. Yellow Submarine [2:40]
07. She Said She Said [2:37]
08. Good Day Sunshine [2:10]
09. And Your Bird Can Sing [2:02]
10. For No One [2:02]
11. Doctor Robert [2:15]
12. I Want to Tell You [2:30]
13. Got to Get You Into My Life [2:31]
14. Tomorrow Never Knows [2:57]

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