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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1787): Revolver by The Beatles
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Today's album of the day
Revolver by The Beatles (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1966.
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Overall rank: 3
Average rating: 91/100 (from 2338 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There And Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said, She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
12. I Want To Tell You
13. Got To Get You Into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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HazeyTwilight
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- #2
- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:05
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My favourite murder weapon...
This album is alright.
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Applerill
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Age: 31
Location: Chicago 
- #3
- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:18
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| Quote: | | This album is alright. |
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- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:33
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i would state my dislike of this record and the reasons why, but most arguments would derail into me having no claim to critique it since {i wasn't alive in 1965/my grasp of art music that came out before and at the same time as this has no relevance because Beatles fans only care to trump up their influence on mainstream music}. on the other hand, because this is old, i could say i like it, and no one would challenge the veracity of my claim, even if i had only heard the singles.
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denmarkman
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Age: 32
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- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:40
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I go back and forth between loving this record and thinking it's really just alright. I've probably just listened to it way too many times.
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craola
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Location: pdx
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- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:42
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it's the beatles. the media darling. what can you do?
it's ok. my sentiments about this (and most of the beatles' music) is too cynical and too critical and too negative.
influential? sure, but that's overblown and disproportionate. there was much better music being released around the same time that's been more influential than them beat'ls on artists who i love today. still a decent album, but it's not really my cup of tea.
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RockyRaccoon
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- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:43
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| Satie wrote: | | i would state my dislike of this record and the reasons why, but most arguments would derail into me having no claim to critique it since {i wasn't alive in 1965/my grasp of art music that came out before and at the same time as this has no relevance because Beatles fans only care to trump up their influence on mainstream music}. on the other hand, because this is old, i could say i like it, and no one would challenge the veracity of my claim, even if i had only heard the singles. |
I mean, personally, I'd be interested in your thoughts, positive or negative, on this album rather than sardonic jabs
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #8
- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:48
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I dunno, if talking about the canon has become boring to me (which, for the most part, it has), then discussing this album would put me into an eternal slumber. And I don't want that.
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- #9
- Posted: 10/21/2015 20:57
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| RockyRaccoon wrote: | | I mean, personally, I'd be interested in your thoughts, positive or negative, on this album rather than sardonic jabs |
it's one of the more listenable Beatles albums. "Tomorrow Never Knows" is an enjoyable experiment and quite a master stroke, honestly. unfortunately, its critical appraisals tend to turn it into this larger than life statement, dismissing all previous musique concrete as academic garbage with nothing to offer besides random noodling and broad blueprints for the future. obviously, this is just because rock music critics aren't real art critics, but it still ruffles my feathers a lot. i find the rest of the album to be generally pleasant besides "Yellow Submarine," which is puerile garbage, but like most Beatles albums, the whole thing just sounds like a collection of pop songs to me with no real streamlined, defining character. i actively notice a disjointedness between the songs that i think a lot of people chock up to the Beatles being pioneers of the LP format. true enough, i suppose, though this post-dates Pet Sounds, which actually works as an album. the music is all very lean besides "Eleanor Rigby" and "Tomorrow Never Knows," regardless of what anti-modern reactionaries in the academy might want to tell you, and, like most of the Beatles' "experimental" "radical" albums from their "psychedelic period," we are meant to be applauding their artistic posturing and willingness to incorporate even the simplest of outdated romantic musical ornamentation. i'm not entirely sold on this.
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- #10
- Posted: 10/21/2015 21:27
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Pretty overrated. That doesn't mean bad Beatle fans. It just means overrated.
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