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Just finished a good book! - Rolando - 10-16-2014
Just finished "Revolver: How the The Beatles Reimagined Rock N Roll" by Robert Rodriguez
http://www.amazon.com/Revolver-How-Beatles-Reimagined-RocknRoll/dp/1617130095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413459704&sr=8-1&keywords=revolver+by+robert+rodriguez
Interesting read, contrasts the how Revolver is both more experimental and universal than Sgt Pepper. I alway had Revolver as my No 1 Beatles album, followed by White and Abbey Road. As much as I love Pepper, it really feels like 1967 (other than "A Day In The Life"), but Revolver could have been a great album in the 70s, 80s or 90s!
All in all, a very good read!
Re: Just finished a good book! - decay - 10-16-2014
I was just listening to mono Revolver on my rainy drive yesterday evening.
Re: Just finished a good book! - wurm - 10-16-2014
I bet you'd enjoy this, too.
http://www.paulingles.com/Revolver.html
Re: Just finished a good book! - datbeme - 10-16-2014
Just sent the sample to my Kindle/iDevices. That's the best way for me to remember a recommended book...and then get a taste of whether it's for me before purchasing. I think I'll listen to Revolver a few times first.
Re: Just finished a good book! - $tevie - 10-16-2014
Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds like a book I'd like to read.
Re: Just finished a good book! - kurtzie - 10-16-2014
Revolver has always been my Favorite album.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Steve
Re: Just finished a good book! - hal - 10-16-2014
Rolando wrote: I alway had Revolver as my No 1 Beatles album, followed by White and Abbey Road. As much as I love Pepper, it really feels like 1967 (other than "A Day In The Life"), but Revolver could have been a great album in the 70s, 80s or 90s!
I never really thought about it, but I think you are right on.... that's my list too now that I think of it. The last time I thought of it - probably 20 years ago, I would have put Sgt Pepper on top.
My favorite moment of ALL beatle docs that I've seen was a an interview with the Dead's Phil Lesh talking about the day he first heard Revolver. It was in a record store in the Haight - back then, you could put play records in the store and listen on headphones.
Tomorrow Never Knows absolutely blew him away. He was in the store alone, but said that he was so excited, he ran out into the street to look for any familiar face to let then in on this new discovery - found no one and just grabs the first cool looking person he finds to tell them about it. It was a great story...
Re: Revolver - meh. - pdq - 10-16-2014
See, when I think of Revolver, I think of Taxman, Good Day Sunshine, and the like - pretty generic Beatles/McCartney pop fare. Maybe I haven't listened deep enough to the record. Eleanor Rigby kind of stands out.
Some of the stuff on St. Pepper and the white album is dreck, but taken as a whole, I think I find either to be more inventive (and culturally significant) than Revolver.
Re: Just finished a good book! - decay - 10-17-2014
1. "Taxman" Harrison 2:39
2. "Eleanor Rigby" McCartney 2:08
3. "I'm Only Sleeping" Lennon 3:02
4. "Love You To" Harrison 3:01
5. "Here, There and Everywhere" McCartney 2:26
6. "Yellow Submarine" Starr 2:40
7. "She Said She Said" Lennon 2:37
8. "Good Day Sunshine" McCartney 2:10
9. "And Your Bird Can Sing" Lennon 2:02
10. "For No One" McCartney 2:01
11. "Doctor Robert" Lennon 2:15
12. "I Want to Tell You" Harrison 2:30
13. "Got to Get You into My Life" McCartney 2:31
14. "Tomorrow Never Knows" Lennon 2:57
revisit these, then:
Love You To
Tomorrow Never Knows
found a cool site with some rarities
http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/song-index/