Revolver Entry

The Beatles prior to releasing Revolver were much more a static bunch. The audience knew they would get a hit from these suited up hit men. However with the release of Revolver, that all changed. Mind opening drugs like LSD met up with the Beatles. This helped to create some of the crazy ideas behind the whole album. Many of the arrangements are very loose and often hypnotic. The riffs of the music tend to have a lot of effects on them. The vocals, particularly the harmonies really show a lot of this influence. The Beatles use many choir like harmonies, and deep, trippy lines. The lyrics were very deep and unique. Before this time, people didn’t see the Beatles having so much depth to lyrics. It was all very straight forward up beat do-wappy numbers. These songs had so much dynamics and interest to them. The listener could really tell that the boys really put their hearts into this music. The best example of all of the crazy things the Beatles did on the album is Tomorrow Never Knows. The song combines many incredible elements into one. The use of reversing on instruments brings a strange caught in time feel. The songs bring s very circular vibe of coming back to where you were, and traveling with the music. There is also an abundance of doubled vocals and instruments to really bring out instruments. As a listener, Revolver is one of my favorite albums. It brings a lot of different emotions and brings me on many different journeys. It blows me away every time I get a chance to sit down and listen to the album in its entirety. As an industry professional, I feel like this is the gold of it is age in recording. So many techniques were developed that are still used today. I have on more than one occasion asked how to make a sound from the revolver album, trying to recreate it myself.
"PRX » Piece » Everything Was Right: The Beatles' Revolver." Public Radio Exchange. Web. 11 Jan. 2011.