Doctor Robert (track)
by The Beatles
Doctor Robert appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- Revolver (track #11) (this album) (1966)
- Yesterday And Today (track #4) (compilation) (1966)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #100) (compilation) (1988)
- The Beatles In Mono (track #94) (compilation) (2009)
- Mono Collection (track #94) (compilation) (1982)
- The Beatles (track #94) (compilation) (2009)
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| ! | 12/16/2025 20:45 | Foxforce5 | 4,718 | 77/100 |
| ! | 12/10/2025 19:28 | Exist-en-ciel | 45,416 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/30/2025 13:12 |  Tamthebam | 44,439 | 79/100 |
| ! | 11/29/2025 00:30 | culwin | 19,695 | 75/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2025 09:12 | kinginsomniac12 | 4,398 | 100/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.0/100, a mean average of 80.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.0.
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Has a slight earlier era Beatles sound to it which I quite like in the context of the rest of the album as in it feels like a less experimental track than many of the others on the album.
I rather like the experimentation on Revolver but this has turned out to be one of my favourite tracks on the album.
Very straightforward and I rather like John’s vocals on this track.
To be honest I like this a much more than Yellow Submarine and a little more than Good Day Sunshine... So it's not bad at all actually, my favorite part is the bridge. My rating is 88/100 rounded to 90/100.
Most under-rated track on this record, predating the Velvet Underground sound from their debut. It's not quite on the same level with Rain or other classics on this record, but on it's own it's a pretty flawless song.
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LukasAntoine00s 11/10/2019 03:42 | #244613
Even the weakest song of the album is really good.
I can't help buy singing every time it pops up.
Some say it should have been replaced with Rain or Paperback Writer tho.
One of my favourites on the album, surprisingly. It pumps along really well with that cool rhythm and the catchy vocals. The key changes in the riff are very satisfying also.
Sounds like their early stuff, maybe the weakest on the album, but in itself an OK song :)
Possibly inspired by the dentist that slipped LSD into John Lennon's and George Harrison's coffee at a dinner party, Dr. Robert, is probably the weakest of Lennon's contributions to Revolver. It's decent enough, a kind of country acid blues, if there's any such thing, but in truth it's one of Revolver's lesser tracks. Still brilliant though.
M42K0 02/13/2016 06:47 | #159533
Surely weakest track on the album. Sounds like early Beatles songs.
Grzywa 01/02/2016 14:36 | #155591
Possibly the weakest link of the album, but still OK.
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