Revolver

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Revolver
Album by The Beatles
Released	August 5, 1966
Recorded	May 18 - June 2, 1966
Genre	Psychedelia rock
Length	35:01
Record label	Parlophone
Producers	Phil Spector
Professional reviews
Oscar Wilde review	5/5 - A triumph! Simply stunning! And that's just the cover art!
The Rolling Stones review	3/5 - Average, but slightly better than their previous work. Very hard to listen to without drugs, though.
Jesus review	0/5 - I'm still bigger than them!
Beatle Albums
Tomorrow And Three Weeks Ago (1965)	Revolver (1966)	Sgt. Lt. Pepper's Only Lonely Hearts Club Bandana (1966)

Revolver is an LSD trip released by The Beatles in 1966. The last semi-coherent album released by the group, Revolver marks the point in the band's career where they transformed from 4 clean-cut Liverpudlian moptops to the grimy hippies seen on the cover of their next album. It was also the last album to have a retarded cousin released by Crapitol Records in the United States. The cover of the album was reportedly drawn by John Lennon's son, Julian. Revolver is also notable for the fact that it was the final Beatles album that Paul McCartney recorded before his tragic death in late 1966.

Overview

Revolver is The Beatles' seventh album, released on August 5, 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums, such as trippy drug references and more pronounced sexual metaphors. It was originally entitled Bigger than Jesus, but later changed since this fact is implicitely well known.

Revolver is the final album in The Beatles' "Red Album" phase, and marks the band's transition from 4 clean-cut Liverpudlian moptops to the grimy hippies seen on the cover of their next album. It is also notable for the fact that it was the final Beatles album that Paul McCartney recorded before his tragic death in late 1966.

Production

The most astonishing characteristic of this album was the methods used to produce its music. All songs, most prominently the psychodelic, acidic, anti-Catholic, suicidal, Eastern, controversial "Here, There and Everywhere" (whose hideous name had to be changed, as shown below), were created after one entire week's worth of experimenting with depressing drugs, hallucinogens, gold-colour paint spray, three-months-old bean burritos, insecticide, and pretty much everything else that is too disgusting to have inside one's place of residence.

The Biddles (this is the standard pronunciation of the band's name in non-First World countries) have given future musicians a great advice: get yourself stoned to near unconsciousness in order to create revolutionary, amazingly popular music.

Unfortunately, no one has followed their advice. Screw them.

The cover of the album was reportedly drawn by John Lennon's son, Julian.

Songs

"Elephant Rugby"

The song elephant rugby is noted for the lyrics "Elephant Rugby/pick up your teeth in the field...", which some might refer to as part of the theory that Paul is dead, referring to the fact that Paul's teeth were knocked out in the car crash onto a football field. There are also claims that the song "PAUL IS FUCKING DEAD" has a meaning to the urban legend, but most people don't hear it.

"Yellow Tambourine"

The most heart-stopping track on Revolver is the mentally-challenged "Yellow Tambourine." McCartney said that he threw "Yellow Tambourine" into the trash shortly after writing it. However, Ringo Starr had been looking through the garbage for lunch, when he discovered it, and decided to sing it. With the help of their production team, the Beatles overdubbed sound effects they recorded by bribing homeless people with heroin.

"Paul's Fucking Dead"

According to Lennon, some of the psychedelic lyrics of "Paul's Fucking Dead" were taken almost verbatim from an exchange he had with oatmeal spokesman Wilford Brimley in August 1965, while he (Lennon), Harrison and Starr were under the influence of kittens at their rented house in Compton, Los Angeles. During a conversation, Brimley said "I know what it's like to be fed," because he was regularly fed by nurses when he entered the Hospital for complications from diabeetus.

Track listing

All songs composed by Lemon–McFartney, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Ultra-Lax Man" (Harrison) – 2:39
2. "Elephant Rugby" – 2:06
3. "I'm Only in a Coma" – 3:00
4. "Wuv You Too" (Harrison) – 2:59
5. "Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere" – 2:25
6. "Yellow Tambourine" – 2:41
7. "She Said She Sells Sea Shells Down by the Seashore" – 2:37

Side two

1. "G'Day Mate"– 2:08
2. "And Your Bird Can Shit" – 2:00
3. "None For You" – 2:00
4. "Doctor Who" – 2:14
5. "I Want to Smell You" (Harrison) – 2:29
6. "Got To Get You Out Of My Ex-Wife" – 2:29
7. "Tomorrow Never Comes (for Paul)" – 1h 59m
8. "PAUL'S FUCKING DEAD" – 28:IF

Revolver