Reviewing The New 2022 Beatles Revolver Album…In Short, Damn Good Work!
In case you missed it, the 1966 Beatles album Revolver has been re-released in a Special Edition Kit. I just purchased it and gave it a complete read (100 page book) and listen (5 CD’s). Fantastic fresh detail and photography! Here’s a quick opinion.
1966 was a pivotal year for the band. Just two months after finishing Revolver, their 7th studio album, they played their last live show in August and converted to a studio band. Revolver was released that same month.
They were all hungry for new ideas, which were incubating everywhere in the artsy youth culture in “London: The Swinging City”. This lead them to surrealism, which allowed them to find the creative potential of the unconscious minds as subject matter for songs like “Tomorrow Never Knows”. Psychedelia and the Summer of Love were a year away.
This album represents their first heavy adoption of new innovative recording techniques including Automatic Double Tracking (ADT), using random tape loops, experimenting with reversed vocals and instruments, adding Varispeed, recording with enhancements for both the bass guitar and drum to acsensuate the low end of the sound mix and many others. Certainly, no pop album had ever attempted to go so aggressively with this many new production techniques. Most readers are probably…
