Revolver: Review, Analysis.

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Released - August, 1966

Track List

1. "Taxman" (George Harrison)
 
Good Day Sunshine (McCartney)
There are times when Paul writes a song, it sounRAB like the sappiest, blandest love song, only going through the motions, if you will. There are other times though, when he hits the nail on the head and the song seems to be infused with the joy of life. This is one of those songs.

YouTube - Good Day Sunshine

And Your Bird Can Sing (Lennon)
Commenting on this song, John Lennon said
 
This is tied for my favorite Beatles band (Rubber Soul being the one its tied with), awesome thread. Just so you know you're my favorite n00b. I think For No One is actually my favorite song on this.
 
I think I'm going to do one for all the later Beatles albums. I really have so much useless knowledge about them, I need to let it all out some way.
 
Good summary. Unlike you I love 'Here, There and Everywhere' though, it's so subtle.
The only thing that niggles for me is the bad-pun album title and the stupidly compressed-sounding horns on 'Got To Get You...' I heard they got it by sticking the microphones right into the mouths of the trumpets, that's possibly bollocks though
But what else can you say? It's ****ing Revolver .
 
I think your review is great otherwise, but I have to object to including George Harrison as one of the Beatles' "main songwriters". He wasn't. He wrote no more than about 10% of the band's total songs. And a fair number of those contributions were always considered unimportant and of the throwaway calibre, even by Harrison himself.
 
Harrison wrote 22 of the Beatles 209 songs. You are right about 10%. Lennon wrote 85, McCartney 74, Ringo 3 and the other 25 were cover songs. Certainly when you are in a band with Lennon and McCartney it is going to be difficult to match their song output. I think he was starting to find his place towarRAB the end. "Here Comes The Sun" and "Something" are equal to almost any Beatles composition in my opinion.

Very nice review of a great album Davey, hope to see more like it

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No. Indeed, "Something" is the second most covered Beatles song. But that is really beyond the point. The main songwriters of the Beatles were Lennon & McCartney and no other. Excellent as some of his songs were, you could nevertheless essentially remove all Harrison's 20 or so contributions and the Beatles would still have been a great, great band. You couldn't say the same if you removed the contributions of either Lennon or McCartney respectively.
 
I see your point. Looking at The White Album, I see there's only two Harrison songs on there. It surprised me, I always thought The White Album was a little more even in terms of the three writers but I guess not.
 
Excellent review Davey Moore! Hope you plan to do more! Anyways, I do have a disagreement with at least one of your opinions of course. :) I have to say that "Here, There and Everywhere" is one of my favorite songs on there. Oh, and I believe "Taxman" is Harrison's best song, not "I Want to Tell You". Aside from that, an amazing effort! Thanks very much!
 
I agree with both your judgments, and will add that in my honest opinion "Here, There and Everywhere" is not only one of the best songs on the album but one of the best songs that Paul McCartney ever wrote, period.
 
This is my favorite Beatles album and I totally missed this thread :(

For No One is my favorite, Yellow Submarine is my least, for obvious reasons. :/
 
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