The Beatles - Revolver (FULL Album) REACTION 

This is an awesome reaction, I really enjoyed watching the dissection. I also am hella impressed that yt hasn't taken this down for copyright cause yall played the whole damn album lol edit: some of the comments are fucking lame and the Beatles would not approve. These guys are doing a first reaction, not a goddamn dissertation. Errors are excused, hot takes are welcome, and inaccurate information is expected to a degree. Not very peace & love to be a dick to two people hearing Revolver for the first time (and loving it while listening!)

You said... "It's insane what they did in ten years." They recorded their first single in September of 1962... and finished recording their final album in August of 1969. That was SEVEN years total.

Kids today will never know the exhilaration of waiting for a new Beatles album

Paul played the guitar solo . Also John is a brilliant guitarist .

When you listen to "Tomorrow Never Knows" you have to understand no one had ever attempted anything like that before,it was truly groundbreaking and revolutionary.And that's what the Beatles were all about

John Lennon was a great musician. Great rhythm guitarist, pianist, composer, songwriter, singer.. He rocks the bass absolutely in "Helter Skelter" John Lennon was a great musician

Taxman- 3:08 Eleanor Rigby- 7:15 I'm Only Sleeping- 12:01 Love You Too- 17:39 Here, There and Everywhere- 22:38 Yellow Submarine- 28:04 She Said She Said- 32:21 Good Day Sunshine- 36:35 And Your Bird Can Sing- 40:02 For No One- 44:21 Doctor Robert- 47:26 I Want to Tell You- 51:05 Got To Get You in My Life- 55:13 Tomorrow Never Knows- 59:54

For two guys who can appreciate the production aspect, Abbey Road would be perfect. One of the best produced albums to this day.

Lennon actually never said that about Ringo , it was said by some comedian in the 80s , no Beatle said that .

John was so tight on Guitar, seldom does he look at his fret board during a set. Not only did he contribute the dirty sounding 3 finger yukelele chord,, so raunchy sounding, Jimi Hendrix added the chord to his tool bag. The ever present Melody , a new element in Rock, at the time,, is most prominent!y utilized by every Metal Band,, and hard rock,. Melody, a very unusual texture in Rock during the 50s and up to the Beatles decade (60s) was distinctly their contribution. btw, Johns axe was solid , and tighter then most musicians,, they all were more then proficient musicians, who were much like the American musicians from the 50s were the first ,working musicians,,traveling to Hamburg Germany from 1959, to 61, where they worked 7 days a week, 3 shows a day. When they returned to Britain, they were so good, no band on the Isle could compete, Most of all,,, not one band at that tiime,, especially in Britain could write a song even remotely close to Lennon/McCartney.

The "Fifth" Beatle, producer George Martin, wrote the string quartet arrangement for Eleanor Rigby.

The Beatles are the best group of artists ever. When this album came out it was if it was coming from space, this was so new music like. Remember this group changed everything!!!! They did almost did everything first, the were musical geniuses.

Good reaction. In the context of the time Revolver was released, as a mainstream pop/rock album, this album is just a continuous series of WTF moments. Taxman, insane guitar solos by Paul, Eleanor Rigby, all strings and dorian mode, I'm Only Sleeping with the tape speed manipulation and backwards guitar, Love You Too, with flat-out Indian instrumentation, The whacky kid song Yellow Submarine, the disonance on I Want To Tell You, the tape loops and guitars in Tomorrow Never Knows, etc, etc, etc. There was nothing like it at the time. And all done with a four-track analog tape machine.

Tomorrow Never Knows was the First Song they composed for the album. Ringo came up with the title

Hey guys. Enjoy your reactions. Paul actually played the lead on "Taxman".

Paul did lead guitar on Taxman, joint lead on And Your Bird Can Sing, etc. He doesn’t get enough credit for how great a musician he is!

John Lennon was one of the greatest rhythm guitarists of all time and his acoustic playing is sublime. Check out his playing on acoustic version of “Nobody Loves You When You’re Down and Out”.

Fun fact: Paul McCartney wasn't involved in the making of She Said She Said. They had a fight/argument and he stormed out. George Harrison had to play bass on that track.

George Harrison was referred to as "The Quiet Beatle". To me, he has the funniest line in 'A Hard Days Night' during the interview vignette scene when the reporter asks: "Has success changed you?" and he deadpan responds "Yes."

34:58 "That was Heavy for a Beatles song" Me: Looks over at Birthday, Yer Blues, I want You, and Helter Skelter.

For my money, Paul's my favorite Beatle. He totally *is* a schmaltzy love song guy, but in-between all those, he has songs I really empathize with. For better or worse, he always seemed like the most "open" Beatle to me; as a guy who walls off his emotions from the world, but couldn't wall them off from himself if he tried, its nice to hear him just sing what he feels, instead of putting it behind something to decipher. Off this album, "For No One" always struck me, because of how clearly hopeless it is: she obviously on her way to leaving him, he knows he can't do anything about it, and he'll carry that wound for a long time. I suppose his solo and Wings stuff is also coloring my decision, but y'know, what can you do? Anyway, this has been my 3AM Paul McCartney rant, I hope you enjoyed, and if you're still reading, have a great day!

The guitar riff on "And Your Bird" was actually two guitars, played by George and Paul.

guys calm down, these two don't know everything about the beatles, there's no need to be aggressive or anything. great reaction guys!

It's great to see two grown men really listen, completely, to Beatles albums albums for the first time in their entirety. First reactions are sacred. If you continue to do the Beatle thing, I strongly recommend that you do them in chronological order. It will help you understand their path. Keep up the great work!!!

Paul is a master of Pop. He brought a pop and show tune consciousness. And revolutionized how a bass could play lead

Oh my....John was a great guitarist. He plays lead on "Get Back" and just listen to him on the round robin guitar solos of "The End".

'Tomorrow Never Knows' is such a ground-breaking song, hard to believe it was released in 1966

John's an amazing rhythm guitarist and pianist, That was Paul's solo in Taxman not George's and it's "All You Need Is Love" not "All We Need Is Love" and that was written by John, not Paul. In For No One, that was a french horn not a trumpet, and John never said that Ringo wasn't the best drummer in the Beatles. Paul to this day still says that Ringo is the greatest drummer in the world.

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is a Ringoism. It's something he'd say, and Lennon just tagged this song with it.

"Tomorrow Never Knows" was featured in an episode of "Mad Men"

Back in 1966, we teenagers - listening to 'Tomorrow Never Knows' for the first time, from this remarkable album - simply thought "My God, The Beatles really ARE beyond 'amazing' ! " And just when many of us felt that they had peaked, a year later came 'Sergeant Pepper's.............' Pure Magic - it's that simple (even if THEY were not) !!

The Beatles are a miracle to humankind.

Absolutely loved your reaction😊 And so far as the 'Ringo is not even the best drummer in the Beatles' joke is concerned, it was never said by John. It was a joke created by a comedian long after the Beatles had broken up

This is a fun transition album. I still remember getting on the school bus on the last day of 5th grade - I had just got a really good report card and had the Summer to look forward to - "Good day Sunshine" came on the bus' radio - it was a perfect song for the moment, that I will never forget.

One thing about the Beatles is that although they experimented with all sorts of sounds and ideas, they never forgot that the basis of music is melody (apart from Revolution 9)

‘Eleanor Rigby’ is the only song that no Beatle plays, it’s a string quartet. Paul saw a tomb marked Eleanor Rigby in a cemetery and a song came to his mind about the woman buried there. She was a real person. And ‘I’m only sleeping’ is, for me, the hidden jewel in the album. Not too many people remember it, because ‘Revolver’ is one of those artworks that is SO GOOD that you can’t choose which song is the best. You simply can’t! But ….we all do that, and I think ‘For no one’ is my favourite Beatles’ song.

The Beatles started releasing singles before the albums were released. Paperback Writer and Rain were the singles for this album and then Penny Lane-Strawberry Fields Forever were the singles for SGT Peppers.

In the context of the music and culture of 1966, 'Tomorrow Never Knows' must have sounded like it came from another world. I can't imagine how it must have been to walk into a record shop at that time, seeing the cover, and thinking, ok we are not in Kansas anymore. Bringing the LP home and sitting with some friends smoking a doobie, and putting this record on. There wasn't anything like it! Also, Ringo totally shines on this LP.

The Beatles were blessed in finding George Martin as their producer in 1962. Martin had produced records by Peter Sellers, the Goons, Flanders and Swann and other comedy albums. His musical input to the group allowed them to crossover into territory unexplored in rock music. His piano solo on " In My Life " was brilliant. It was his idea to set a string quartet to " Eleanor Rigby, " although he had to convince Paul it would work.

Fun fact: "Yellow Submarine" was released as a single with "Eleanor Rigby" as the b-side. Talk about a contrast...

Here there and everywhere Beatles best love song ~

THE BEATLES SONGS NEVER OVERSTAYED THEIR WELCOME LEAVING AN INDELIBLE IMPRINT IN THE MIND OF THE LISTENER AND THEM CRAVING MORE

My reaction at the time? I was 10, and it was clearly The Beatles, but they challenged their fans to go to new places, and the trip was always a good one. The brilliance of what they did was sharp and lovely as a spring day.

By the way, surprisingly is was actually Paul who played the lead guitar part on Taxman.. I just found this out myself a few years ago.

Eleanor Rigby is on a grave stone in the same place where John first met Paul. I’ve been there myself.

Glad to see you were able to persuade YT to post this. Great work guys.

I think most people would agree that Paul was the most talented musician on the Beatles. I understand many people can have the opinion that his music was too accessible, but his music was definitely not simple. He also elevated many of the members tracks with his harmonies, basslines, piano. He even filled in for Ringo on the drums for a few sessions on the White Album as Ringo had temporarily left the group. I just hope you don't think Paul was just there to make granny music all the time. Lol great reaction though! Hope to see Sgt Peppers next

Oddly enough Paul did the heaviest song the Beatles ever did, "Helter Skelter".

Love this video. Felt like a hangout with good friends. Observationally and personally. Tomorrow Never Knows is also my favorite track on the album (of so many amazing songs). That song feels just as fresh and innovative today as in 1966. That's saying something!

"Got To Get You Into My Life" is a love song...to marijuana. The boys were smoking all the time by this point, and McCartney decided to write an ode to pot. BTW, Paul wrote plenty of heavy songs...including "Helter Skelter", generally credited as the first heavy metal song. Also, most of the edgy, angular lead guitar solos on Beatle records, like "Taxman" and "Baby You Can Drive My Car", were played by Paul, not George.

"Taxman" was the first George song to open a Beatles album. If I'm not mistaken, Paul actually played that ripping guitar solo.

John Lennon is a great rhythm guitarist and "All You Need Is Love" is by John, not a Paul song!

1:03:25 so true, you can hear that songs influence in SO much electronic music, the way the beat just hypnotizes you and the tape loops just keep fading in and out, i still cant get over the fact that it was released in 1966. Probably the most modern sounding beatles song by todays standards, id even say it still sounds futuristic to this day.

You guys are funny, love the shag bit! So....Tomorrow Never Knows....Congratulations, you totally got it! It did totally blow us away. We'd never heard anything like it. Yes a John song, but your accessible love song boyo Paul is the one who brought in his electronica tape loop stuff for it. These were complex musicians (listen to Helter Skelter) who were constantly curious, pushed old boundaries, kept moving forward not caring if they lost a few fans along the way, and everybody else got to go along on the trip. And what a ride it was.

Lennon was a brilliant rhythm guitarist. And Lennon helped with the lyrics on "Taxman".

Great reaction guys. Some information just to help. The solo in Taxman was played by Paul because George couldn't find the proper one for the song. The name Eleanor Rigby came from two ways. Paul liked the name of the acrtriz Eleanor Bron who performed with The Beatles in the film Help! and the surname Rigby was from a store name on which Paul put atention while he waited for Jane out of a theater in London. Then, somebody found a grave with that name in Liverpool cementery

Best reaction of the album I've seen on youtube. Great job guys, made me relive the experience a little

Fun fact. Got to Get You into My Life did not come out as a single in the US until 1976

Love your reaction BTW.... This is my favourite Beatle album... Oh yes, there were NO Beatles before the Beatles. They were the trailblazers. From this album onwards every song on each album is different. When you listen to this album just remember that they only had 4 tracks of tape to record to not the multitude that you have today. Just a few responses to your questions during the listen... On "Taxman", Paul decided that he didn't like George's solo so get it wiped and he played the solo himself.. An area of contention between him and Paul for quite some time. The strings on "Eleanor Rigby" were composed, arranged and conducted by George Martin their producer, the true 5th Beatle. The vocals on "I'm Only Sleeping" are just John not liking the sound of his voice so he always wanted George Martin to put some kind of effect on it. On 'Yellow Submarine" John was doing all the yelling. To get an idea of who's song is who's the rule of thumb is that the lead vocal was done by the main composer... After John & Georges' introduction to LSD from "Dr Robert" they both drove home, tripping....!! In "I Want To Tell You" can you tell that they had recently discovered dissonance. Ryan, the comment about Ringos drumming is an urban myth really. He was the ONLY drummer for the Beatles. All the weird sounds on "Tomorrow Never Knows" were tape loops that they bought into the studio, they were then put onto individual tape machines, the end of the loop was held on a pencil and as the song played the various faders were pushed to bring each loop in and out of the mix. As for what was it like when people listened to this album back in the day.. WELL, I was 13 in 1966 and this was the first album I ever bought. Believe me when I say that the record buying public had never heard anything like this before but they were The Beatles so we all went along for the journey. Can't wait for you to get to the next album after this Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Nathan... All the songs were that length back in the sixties, as Arnie said, mainly for radio airplay... BUT, the Beatles, being the Beatles changed all that from Sgt Pepper's onwards, the pinnacle being Hey Jude at 7minutes long... Ryan.... "For No One" uses the French Horn. And the song you are thinking about is "Penny Lane" which was recorded after this album, it uses a Piccolo Trumpet. Paul had seen a Handel classical concert on TV one night, mentioned it to George Martin the next morning, 'cos George Martin knew about these things and the next thing you know, it's on Penny Lane.

Thanks Guys, I really enjoyed sitting through that one with you. A great album, and I'm glad you liked "Tomorrow Never Knows" so much. That is my favourite pop song of all time. 😎

Macca played the solo in Taxman. Drums on Dear Prudence and Back in the USSR, he was such a maverick musician and creator.

I love seeing the reaction from people that have never heard the Beatles before. They were just amazing and so far ahead of their time. And their music is timeless. Was like you said with Eleanor Rigby that they applied rock to an orchestra. They had George Martin which really helped open up their eyes to what they had around them in a studio. But it was The Beatles who experimented with them.

My favorite album of all-time by ANY band!

Tomorrow Never Knows was the prelude to Sgt. Pepper’s , just a natural lead in. Both came out as I was finishing High School. As I’m writing this you brought up Yellow Submarine. A reference to a joint rolled in yellow ZigZag cigarette papers (a sign of the times). Strange how these songs are so contextual. (You had to be there).

Sweet reaction, guys. A really nice listen. I'm not an avid Beatles fan but my sister Alondra is. No doubt how impactful they were to the music scene and industry.💜

Right there at 1:01:20, you have the very first "megaphone" vocal in rock music. This was achieved by feeding John's vocals through the revolving Leslie speaker that connects to a Hammond organ. No one had ever attempted such a thing before.

Thanks for sharing this, I enjoyed it the whole way through. They were a rock band full o soul at that point and then they came up with this "electronic stuff". It was revolutionary.

Yes, The Beatles were astounding innovators - and they also synthesized the art of earlier groundbreakers: The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Beatles borrowed unfamiliar time signatures like those created by Brubeck, Morello, Desmond, and Wright. The Four Freshmen - Beatles' lush, tight harmonies found inspiration with this 50s vocal group that also inspired Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. Chuck Berry - Beatles learned the driving backbeat storytelling, walkin' four basslines, killer rhythm guitar riffs, and the unmistakable lead guitar hooks from the master rocker himself.

Impressed that you picked up on the Batman theme. Actually George was a fan of the show and the theme influenced him in Taxman. And Hendrix used that chord 6 months later in Purple Haze (people call it the Hendrix chord lol)

Of course, Yellow Submarine was also a Beatles movie and it's on that soundtrack. The Beatles, as cartoon characters, are in the film. You should check out Hey Bulldog from the Yellow Submarine album.

John never said that about Ringo. It is a myth. Ringo is for my money the best drummer in the last 50 years. He isn't a technical drummer. He is a "song" drummer. He is the king of feel. I am 75. I experienced the Beatles full bore. We loved Tomorrow Never Knows.

As a big Beatles fan, this made my day, glad I found your channel.

The Beatles could get away with songs like "Tomorrow Never Knows" because the fans trusted them not to make it the 'new direction' of the band to the abandonment of more accessible tunes. Beatles fans of the day, myself included, had a higher tolerance for experimental music from the guys because we were, sort of, growing with them, as well. When you listen to the 'weird stuff', there is, still, an underpinning of melody that you can grab on to. That, and listening to the same voice that sang "Twist and Shout" is very reassuring. Also, the music, on this album particularly, sounded very fresh and, at the same time, familiar.

This is without question their best album. Before they got too much into the drugs, before the women came along to mess with their minds, before the critics got inside their heads, before the lack of touring began to manifest itself. You've got three great George tracks, some of Paul's darkest songs, Lennon inventing acid rock a year before everyone else, a Ringo classic, etc.

Maybe someone already mentioned it down here, but the Tomorrow Never Knows drumloop is by many considered as the first jungle beat - 30 years ahead of it's time! So the drums are a tape loop of a fragment of Ringo's drums, but also many other parts you hear are tape loops. Sampling was not possible yet, so instead they used tape loops of pre-recorded instruments or sounds to build up this astonishing track, together with some backwards guitars and a real bass guitar track.

Paul did the solo part in Taxman. Got to get you into my life is about marijuana.

As George fans you should definitely look up “Concert for George” from the Royal Albert Hall. A tribute to George with all his songs and all his friends. See if you can find it - it’ll be worth your while. Good reaction.

"Does John Lennon actually play any instruments?" LOL

Love the Revolver album, their musical direction growing and changing.

Songs were short because the radio stations thought anything longer wouldn’t keep the listener engaged or give them enough commercial time ...then came FM

Re: Taxman. George’s lyrics were not an exaggeration. The rich were really being taxed at close to 95% back in those days. It’s why Paul bought land in Scotland, because if you bought land you weren’t taxed on that money. Oh, and Paul played the solo on Taxman. Elenor Rigby... she is real. But Paul didn’t know it. Her name is on a gravestone by the church where the fete was that John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met in 1957.

"one for you, nineteen for me"..."should 5% appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all" The top marginal income tax rate in Britain at this time was 95%

I am 67 and grew up with these guys. I can't even express in words how different this album hot us and how forever music was changed!

The Beatles were the Silver Beatles, I believe, first, among other earlier band names.... Well, not sure if the song Yellow Submarine was made specifically for the movie Yellow Submarine, but--you know--it is a kind of psychedelic in nature, isn't it? I think that was Paull yelling.... Songs 3 minutes or less because of radio play. Just a few years later, songs got longer.... I was 11 or 12 years old when this album came out, and I loved it all. Maybe my mother, who really enjoyed them, didn't go for some of the more psychedelic tunes, but they always had so many tuneful songs on every album. There was something for everyone.

Yellow Submarine was the Revolver Ringo song. The Beatles allowed him to sing one song on every Beatles album. It wasn’t on Sgt Peppers, it was an album in it's own right featuring the songs from the animated film Yellow Submarine. The album included Hey Bulldog that at the time was not considered interesting, but today is revered as ground breaking.

John Wrote I'm only Sleeping after somebody said He's the most laziest man in all of England and he gained weight in that year. Paul Wrote Here, There and Everywhere for John saying he's waiting for him to wake up because he always sleeping when Paul came to his house to wrote songs.

I envy you guys getting to experience each song for the first time. I remember what that was like, AWESOME!

"Tomorrow Never Knows": That's not a sitar, it's a tamboura. That wasn't sampling. Those backwards things coming in and out randomly were tape loops that Paul made at home of various sounds that he screwed with by speeding them up, slowing them down, running through various effects, etc.. For instance, I'm pretty sure the one that sounds like seagulls is actually Paul laughing. He brought them to the studio for this session and each loop was given it's own tape recorder to play them back on and they were all just played constantly throughout the entire final mix of the song so, that mix was actually done live, in that, it could NEVER be duplicated exactly the same way twice!! This is why, on the first pressing of the album, which went out by mistake, those various sounds were in different places in that version of the mix. Each of those tape recorders was fed into a single track on the mixing board and, whoever it was that was doing the mixing, would raise and lower the fader on each of those tracks randomly to inject the sound from that tracks tape into the final mix.

Just to have a "fit in"...with 2 other songs recorded during these sessions, listen to "Paperback Writer "...& "Rain"....They would have fit well on Revolver but back then it was customary to release X number of 45's (singles) per year.....Do Sgt.Pepper next...it was chronologically in that order...It started with the single "Strawberry Fields Forever".backed By "Penny Lane"...Recording started in late Nov 1966 & continued well into April 1967...Thanks for your listen/review.

I'm not sure the Beatles ever topped this album. Sgt Pepper and the White Album were epic, legendary albums and worth their due as some of the greatest rock music on vinyl, but for me, they were at their best here.

5:56 It's Paul playing the guitar solo on TAXMAN, and it's the same solo comped in at the end fade. Also, John was a very good and rather sophisticated rhythm guitarist, and he was capable of playing pretty decent lead guitar, when he got the chance.

Peter Fonda was actor Henry Fonda"s son and he starred with Jack Nicholson in the film Easy Rider . Twas a famous sixties movie with music and motorbikes and drugs!

Waited through this whole album to see your reaction to "Tomorrow never knows". Knew you would react to this one differently than other songs on this album since its so experimental and unique. This song Feels good on your brain, especially in headphones. Lennons son "Sean Lennon" does this song live in tribute to his dad. "Claypool Lennon Delirium" is the band.

Paul McCartney played the solo guitar on Taxman. He was apparently the best guitarist (and musician) of the four.

This is a really great RU-vid channel I'm glad I subscribed

From Revolver on-all their mid-to late great music-they never performed (except a few TV shots and the roof concert) which means they were rehearsed a day or so in studio, recorded and released… and then never again played by them as a band! Imagine the stones playing Gimme Shelter once then never again, or Sinatra my way in studio once to record it then never again, ever! It’s unprecedented in recording history, then or now. Will never be repeated.

Every song is a Ringo song. He's the heart and soul of the Beatles.

Good job guys... Glad you guys liked She Said She Said, always thought it was the best track on the album

I Want to Tell You's intro always reminded me of Monkee's Pleasant Valley Sunday (since I heard that first.) I'm sure the Monkee's used it as an influence/homage.

Yes it was and is a Kids song and the guys had a blast recording it, not their only kid song either. They did a handful and it was popular with the parents. You might have confused the Yellow Submarine soundtrack album from the animated feature, with the Sgt. Pepper album. . Help from my friends was the Ringo hit on that one,