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The greatest band ever, here on 'Revolver' fulfilling the ultimate promise of band-hood, synergy. Perhaps one of the most over-contextualised Beatles records, 'Revolver' nevertheless sounds like a unit, one bursting at the seams (seams that would soon break) with spiritual introspection and musical ingenuity.

Even the lesser tracks ('Doctor Robert' and 'Good Day Sunshine' being the two clearest examples) offer far more than the 1966 average. These guys were fulfilling at an apparently endless ... read more

Faultless track-to-track, also kinda long. Shorten this baby a bit and then we're cooking.

Sound and Vision, or the sound of vision. 'Low' stretches on-and-on, its meanings being... somewhere over there.

Who cares what it all means, its art.

Relatively weak first half (excepting the doubtless summer-repeat single 'Under You') but HELL, do those last 4 tracks swing... and hit! By the time 'Rest' rolled around, tears, just tears.

A more-than-solid Foo outing! The context around it all obviously adds to the emotional weight, but I'd argue a lot of the record stands on its own regardless; the emotional weight purely being the anvil onto which this hammer can swing.