The context
It was August 1966. Only 2 and half years since the Beatles first broke onto the scene in the United States with "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and the hysteria accompanying ("Beatlemania.") Since then the Beatles music had is rapidly evolving from their previous pop rock in a rock art more sophisticated.
Rubber Soul
Their latest album was Rubber Soul, which was released in December of ' 65. While these days just 8 months between album release is a short period of time, in those days it was considered a reasonably long time to wait for the world's greatest band to release their next album. Rubber Soul itself was a major step forward from the album before (help!) Included the first use of the instrument on a pop record the Indian sitar ("Norwegian Wood") and is also characterized by texts more introspective (as in "Nowhere Man" and "In My Life") which generally were granted a hearing on their previous albums.
Revolver
While Rubber Soul was a big step forward, revolver was sonically a leap forward. The track more far-sighted was naturally the album closer, "Tomorrow Never Knows" that still sounds like future 42 years later. I'll watch that song more in depth at the end of this article.
While Rubber Soul "Norwegian Wood", which had some sitar on it, "Love You To the revolver" was something else entirely. This song by George Harrison based entirely on Indian instruments that seemed totally unlike anything the listeners of music pop of the time he had ever heard before. In fact, I bet that sounds totally unlike anything more listeners of today's pop music has ever felt too (unless of course you've heard revolver or Sgt Pepper.) "Love" certainly broadened horizons for what might seem a pop record. But it was far from being only about it in this album.
"Eleanor Rigby" features a Quartet of arcs and voice of Paul McCartney. With the poetic texts and unique accommodation, it remains as a classic in popular music today.
"Yellow Submarine" is a song childlike, written by Paul McCartney and sung by Ringo Starr that went on to inspire the characteristic of cartoon of the same name, released in 1968. Is really a strange song, isn't it? This was a great example of Beatles just completely ignoring the rules for which must be the type of songs on an album of folk music.
"I'm only Sleeping" functionality of George Harrison's backwards guitar. I don't know if this is the first song pop to include back the guitar, but it is probably one of the first. Harrison learned to play the melody you want backwards so when inverted you would fit well with the song. Just another example of the Beatles push the envelope in the Studio with their regime.
"Tomorrow Never Knows"
While there are many amazing discoveries in this album, it was said that every song on the album inspired a new genre of sub of rock music, which is "Tomorrow Never Knows" that really stands out as a piece of ground breaking. Surprisingly enough, this was the first song recorded for the album (in April 1966, John Lennon wrote in January of ' 66.)
All about this song by texts is the song writing at its disposal for the production was very experimental. The vocals were laid through a Leslie speaker to get a vibrato effect. This was the first time that such an effect was used. The texts are based on The Psychedelic Experience from Timothy Leary (and that the book was based on the Tibetan Book of the dead). The song featured very inventive use of tape loops, reverse reverse drums, guitar and many more sonic explorations. Another unusual on the song is that the song is almost entirely played on a rope. This was probably influenced by Indian music, which often is played so.
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