REVOLVER

This is the Beatles second foray into experimental music. Sure, there are some pop songs, and most of the experimental tunes still have a link to their pop beginnings. But still, this was 1966. What do you expect.

Taxman begins the album well. Although it is mostly a straight ahead rock song, the angular guitar style was ahead of it's time. Eleanor Rigby, with it's double string quartet instrumentation, inspired by Vivaldi, is certainly progressive. Love You To with sitar throughout also fills the bill. And She Said She Said is pure psychedelia. And speaking of psychedelia, Tomorrow Never Knows still ranks as one of the best in that genre.

So if someone complains that the Beatles aren't prog, and shouldn't be on this site, point them here.