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Re: The Album of No Return

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Re: The Album of No Return

Kit Stolz — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:16:51 -0000

That's all? I kinda agree, but...more please!

(For a chaotic but entertaining discussion of this song, check out:
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Re: The Album of No Return

Tom Watson — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:57:30 -0000

Hey Jude, too...and yeah, their experimentation clearly was a huge part of this.

Re: The Album of No Return

Slappy — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:09:53 -0000

"The pop was strangling them. They had no public life."

How much of the Beatles new sound was due to their increasing drug use? I think it had a lot to do with it. Experimentation doesn't always create masterpieces but in this case it did.

Tom W, "Rain" is at the top of my list of favorite songs that never made it onto an album.

Re: The Album of No Return

Tom Watson — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:52:15 -0000

Love Revolver - my favorite Beatles record. Funnily enough, recently read the Beatles biography by Bob Spitz and there's a lot of truth to what Steve says. No question that Rubber Soul was very different, but Revolver was the leap - and think about it preceeding Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane release. What a period of productivity. I think the songs on Revolver are actually better than the songs on Sgt. Pepper, and I play it far more often. Strange from our modern p.o.v that Strawberry Fields didn't appear on an album, but such was the custom in those days - if you had a single, out it went, alone.

Re: The Album of No Return

Viscount LaCarte — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:04:08 -0000

Because the Beatles had nowhere else to go. The pop was strangling them. They had no public life. They needed to make changes and this was the start.

Agreed, but I think it actually started with "Rubber Soul," and then expanded upon with the "Paperback Writer" single.

On "Revolver" it took off like a rocket.

If you like this post and this album, you might be interested in Neddie's take on the same subject, "When I'm In The Middle of a Dream."

Re: The Album of No Return

John Baker — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:44:30 -0000

Revolver was seminal, no doubt about it. But these things happen incrementally, don't they. We'd already had Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man and In My Life on the Rubber Soul album. So Revolver, with the startling Eleonor Rigby and the innovative Tomorrow Never Knows were not a complete surprise.
OK, the signs were all there, and hindsight is a wonderful thing, but could anything have really prepared us for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?