Actually, if you could take John Lennon’s compositions from ‘Rubber Soul’ and combine them with Paul McCartney’s compositions from ‘Revolver’, you would indeed have the Beatles’ masterpiece. The songwriting depth on ‘Rubber Soul’ makes me prefer it slightly. ‘Revolver’ is the Beatles’ second best album, in my opinion. Chief among the EMI Studios staff was Geoff Emerick, the young engineer who played a crucial role in developing The Beatles’ sound between 19. Lennon had an idea of how he wanted the song to sound, but it was down to George Martin and the studio engineers to realise the vision. It can be heard from the line ‘Love is all and love is everyone’ onwards. For the song’s second half, meanwhile, the Abbey Road engineers ran Lennon’s voice through a revolving Leslie speaker, more commonly found inside Hammond organs. For the first half of the song he manually double-tracked his vocals.
The final remarkable innovation in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ was John Lennon’s voice. A guitar solo by McCartney, reversed and slowed down a tone, was also used in the instrumental break. Six loops were used on ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’: a seagull noise, actually a distorted recording of Paul McCartney laughing an orchestra playing a B flat chord notes played on a Mellotron’s flute setting a second Mellotron on its violin setting and a distorted sitar which is most clearly heard in the instrumental break following the lines “It is being, it is being”. The tape loops were overlaid onto the backing track. The song was a giant leap forward for The Beatles, with its thunderous drum sound, lyrics adapted from Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert’s adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, use of tape loops and Leslie speakers. Of all the songs on Revolver, none was more innovative than the album’s closing song, ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. While the latter predominantly used tape loops, ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ saw The Beatles spend six hours creating the two simultaneous backwards lead guitar parts. Two songs on Revolver featured backwards recordings: ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. Got to Get You into My Life (Lennon & McCartney)ħ.Geoff Emerick The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn Here, There and Everywhere (Lennon & McCartney)Ħ. It turned out pretty nicely now looking back at it! As always, I hope you enjoy, and stay tuned for my version of perhaps one of the most important albums of the 20th century.ģ. As the 2009 stereo remaster features the vocals to the hard left of the track, I took the isolated vocals track and synched it hard right, resulting in a doubled-tracked sound. I added a touch of heavy reverb at the ending chord of the track, it sounds pretty damn cool IMO! 'Rain' is heard here in a special remix made by myself. ThatOneBeatlesManiac provides the fantastic stereo remix of 'I'm Only Sleeping', which includes guitar overdubs only found on the original US mono mix.
The versions of 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Paperback Writer' used here are the latest 2015 stereo remixes found on the 1+ box set. The majority of the tracks used are the 2009 stereo remasters, of course with a few exceptions. Here, 'Paperback Writer' closes Side A, while 'Rain' opens up Side B. I am somewhat fond of 'And Your Bird Can Sing', but I feel like the two other tracks fit in with the theme of the album a lot better than the two removed songs. My version of the album, as controversial as it could be, removes 'Yellow Submarine' and 'And Your Bird Can Sing', replacing them with 'Paperback Writer' and 'Rain'. Revolver is often cited as one of the group's all-time greatest records, placing at #3 on Rolling Stone's '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' list (behind only Pet Sounds and Sgt. Four weeks after the release of the album, the Beatles would preform their last concert on August 29th. The album saw the group experimenting in several new studio techniques, such as tape loops, tape reversal, and varispeeding, best heard in the groundbreaking album-closer 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. As expected, the album topped both the US and UK charts shortly after its release. While the UK release of the album featured all 14 songs recorded for the record, the US release by Capitol saw the deletion of three tracks: 'I'm Only Sleeping', 'And Your Bird Can Sing', and 'Doctor Robert', as they had already appeared on the US album Yesterday and Today. Often regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, the release of Revolver on August 5th, 1966 helped usher in the emerging Psychedelic era to the general public.
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