REVOLVER

The Beatles is a pop rock masterpiece it combines very new things in rock music at the time. Psychedelic music was very early in the game when it came out and it is a good arguement for popularizing it. It also combines traditional Indian Music in Love You To, avant garde, backward tape loops and Indian Drone in Tomorrow Never Knows, classical art song in Eleanor Rigby. You hear mixed meters in She Said She Said, and Love You To not really common in rock music at the time and a definite progressive rock feature. You hear also backward guitar solo's in I'm Only Sleeping and Tomorrow Never Knows.

I rate Revolver a 5 because not only you hear early strains of progressive rock in some songs but it also intergrated outsdie sources of music with pop with incredible ease and many future progressive rockers like Yes to Styx have tried this approach. Other innovations or sort of new things the vocals through a leslie box on Tomorrow Never Knows, Automatic Double Tracking on many songs, twin backward guitar parts on I' m Only Sleeping, the tamboura drone on Love You To and to the double string quartet and no rock intruments on Eleanor Rigby. Of course they were the usual pop rock songs like the hard rock protest song in Taxman, the pop gems in Good Day Sunshine and For No One. The Beatles were not exclusively a prog rock band, but they are one of the biggest influences on progressive rock