REVOLVER

As I told yesterday in my review about the Sgt. Pepper album, this week I borrowed The Beatles CD's in order to review these for this site, for me it's a challenge to write an objective analysis from this legendary and highly acclaimed band. To many progheads Revolver deserves five stars and it is often named as "their finest hour" and "their best progressive effort". I have listened to Revolver a few times, ready and eager to make notes but how embarrassing: to me Revolver sounds nothing more than a bunch of pleasant and varied songs, alternating between pop and rock with some progressive elements (adding classical instrumentations, folk instruments like tablas and sitar and using a sophisticated studio sound). Eleanor Rigby is a wonderful track (I prefer Streetmark their rendition) and Tomorrow Never Knows has its moments but sounds superior in the version by Phil Manzanera his 801 Live band. There is some good rock guitar, the vocals by Paul and John are good and distinctive. But what is so innovative about Revolver, I really don't know, I have done my best to get into their music but I can name many bands from the late Sixties that are way more progressive and captivating and still has to be added to this site. Perhaps subjective? Ok but in my opinion the euphoric reviews about The Beatles too.