Only "I'm Only Sleeping" hints of the druggy heights to come but doesn't give too much away to be a spoiler. Those three Lennon songs cut from the album gain collectability (alternate mixes) and gain prominence on Yesterday and Today. Those two cuts serve to humanize Revolver a bit more, and sound quite at home on an album with Rubber Soul and Help castoffs. Revolver that wouldn't sound sonically jarring next to "Act Naturally" and "Yesterday." It's hard to imagine "Love You To" or "Tomorrow Never Knows" being dropped as excess baggage the way "Doctor Robert" or "And Your Bird Can Sing" were. To their credit, Capitol did pick three cuts from the U.K. There are labor laws preventing anything like that from ever happening now. That's right, we got two Beatles albums two months apart in one summer. fans complained of being shortchanged those three songs, thanks to the makeshift Y esterday and Today album that came out two months before, which also gave us the fabulous "butcher cover" in the bargain. No one in their right mind could defend any decision Capitol Records made that shortchanged the fans. Revolver clocks in shorter than a sitcom length at 28:20, and comes off as more compact and weirder than it does in the more generous 35:01 version. (If you're keeping track, those excised songs are "I'm Only Sleeping," "And Your Bird Can Sing," and "Doctor Robert.")įor the sake of argument, and we will argue, I will make a case for the 11-song version also deserving its due.Īrgument 1: The U.S. That's right, the one with three less songs, all John Lennon ones. I held out until August 8 to celebrate the release of the neglected stepchild, American Revolver. Everyone has celebrated the 50th anniversary of the British release, which came out August 5. Pepper (the album that CHANGED THE WAY ALBUMS WERE EVERMORE MADE and perhaps is less fondly remembered in retrospect for that reason). By now, you are aware that every music blog has already celebrated the 50th anniversary of Revolver, the Beatles' seventh long player, the one that paved the way for Sgt.
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