I say yes. Pretty much every song on this album is great. Probably the only slightly below par track is "Doctor Robert". Other than that it's perfection. Like all great albums it's consistent but versatile at the same time. It's so good you can almost overlook their weak singing voices. Anyone have any favourite tracks from this album?

Not sure if it's the best of all time, but it's definitely one of my favs!

Pop album? Hardly. It's a great album, but I wouldn't call it pop.

I'd say no. Why? Two words. Yellow Submarine.
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emilio319 said:

No...Rubber Soul is.

superspaceboy said:

You wouldn't call it pop? Good Day Sunshine, I Want To Tell You, Got To Get You Into My Life. If that's not pop I don't know what is. Unless you've bought into the myth that pop = manufactured junk. It may do in today's music industry, but that was not always the case.
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Tomorrow Never Knows, is my favorite Beatles song...

No

Great album

But I can't stand Yellow Submarine.

Pet Sounds wipes the floor with Revolver. Pop means so many things though, i mean i think The Go-Go's Beauty and The Beat is a great pop album, one of the best ever but it's not upmarket enough.

Purple Rain...by far.

Revolution said:

I actually consider that a serious contender too.

Revolver kix ass.

i have bought it and it was a disapointment for me.
i would say thriller is one of the very best

Romeoblu said:

That song is horrible.

But at least it's better than "Revolution 9."

Rubber Soul is my favorite Beatles album.

ITs a great album. Im Only Sleeping and And Your Bird Can Sing are my favorites and the reason I bought the album.

I don't know how you can say they have weak voices (Paul & John). I think they are great singers. Very unique voices that you can pick straight away. Is it because they don't over-sing every song to death? Or because they don't sound like Marvin Gaye or Donny Hathaway or Otis Redding?

It's a "pop" album in the sense that it's "popular music". By that standard just about anything that isn't chamber music or folk music is "pop", Which I don't really have a problem with although I think "pop" can also have the connotation of accessible/commercial as opposed to "challenging" and "difficult". In other words if a band is "poppy" that just means that they're music is easy to like, has an accessible melodic quality, although I think music can be catchy and challenging at the same time.

The Beatles I think were among the all time masters at being musically cerebral as well as highly accessible. to me the beatles were "pop" but they weren't just simple pop, they were "great pop", pop that had more going on underneath the surface.

Annnnyway, I think Revolver is a great album. Greatest pop/popular music of all time? i'm not sure. It's up there, but I'm not even sure it's my absolute favorite Beatles album. Yellow Submarine is a bit too cute, even though I do like it, and Doctor Robert and And Your Bird Can Sing are pretty MOR (for the Beatles) rockers, so hardly every song is equally earth-shattering, but then again what album ever made is comprised of all equally high quality songs? I think it's much tighter song for song than Sgt. Pepper, and has a much rawer, sparer and edgier quality that definitely puts it above the overrated (but still great) Pepper in my book.

Uhm...thriller.

Revolver would be a great contender... Tomorrow Never Knows is simply amazing. Paul's work on the sound effects and overall song is cutting edge.


John's lyrics ain't to shabby either

I think John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album shits all over the entire Beatles collection.

I prefer Rubber Soul

Dewrede said:

I always consider these two albums Sister/Brother... George Harrison considered these two albums one in the same.. yet it's so easy to pick up on the groups musical growth.


very organically cool to listen to.. hearing their talent unfold with each album

yes
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What's cool to me is how you can almost feel the emotional sea change in the white album... so many bittersweet moments, anger, confusion, sadness... yet with everything changing and the problems that were at hand, it's like they all said "Fuck it" and did the album (damn near individually) only to create some of the most innovating music of their career...


I tip my hat to George Martin for the stellar tracklisting.. its perfectly odd, and the tracklisting is what makes the album so damn strikingly odd, and interesting to listen to.


Moments like this are rare for a group, i'm just glad it got released, and documented the way they intended it. Each artist kindof got their way, thus creating a intriguing double album that could only be called The Beatles... simplicity, yet genius.

yes , the best band ever

Yeah, it is

jacktheimprovident said:

Exactly. And it's because the Beatles were great, and "pop" is seen as trivial, that people sometimes get indignant when you call the Beatles "pop", but the fact is, they not only were pop, but they were pop as pop is meant to be. Accessible and layered at the same time.

I also agree that Revolver is a much more consistent album than Pepper, which is only great half of the time. However, I totally disagree with your assesment of "And Your Bird Can Sing", and I would recommend you inspect your CD to make sure you haven't got some other song in it's place.
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WildStyle said:

Lennon was the best singer in the group, but the other three weren't great singers. To this day McCartney fluffs his notes in live performances. He can sing, but ultimately it's the quality of his material, not the quality of his voice that makes him worthwhile.

midnightmover said:

Well McCartney's voice has deteriated quite a bit as he has gotten older. But I think McCartney at his best does measure up to Lennon. "Got To Get You In To My Life", "Michelle", "Helter Skelter", "The Fool On The Hill", "Maybe I'm Amazed", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "All My Loving"... the list goes on. All great vocal performances in my mind. If I had to make a choice, yes I probably would say that I prefer Lennon's voice, but McCartney was no hack.

George... well no, he can't compare really. Although I do love his voice on some tracks. "Something", "My Sweet Lord" among others.