Why This Revolver is the WORST Beatles Album

[cherry.ckee]

They had the AUDACITY to get rid of “I’m Only Sleeping” How dare they!

[daytripper]

Capital records at its worst. When I bought revolver back in 1966 I didn't even realize what they had done until the 87 CDs came out.

[darryl]

Capitol removed so many songs they created an entire album Yesterday and Today

[joanlorente]

Three of my favorite songs, that's why I prefer UK original LPs

[toms]

All that aside what wrong with George having more songs than John? On any album?

[vladdrakul]

IMHO 'With The Beatles' is their best early LP and my 5th place best. It has the best covers by far ('Roll over Beethoven', 'Please Mr Postman' etc) and no poor songs: it is still fresh and enthusiastic, while being their first properly recorded LP and it and it's cover is a classic. I don't get the lack of love for it. It needs no skipping songs at all.Just put it on and enjoy. Their first LP is fresh but is less well produced while 'A Hard Days Night' has all too many similar hits and starts to sound stuck in a rut and tired to me. 'Beatles for Sale' on the other hand indeed has some poor covers and filler but it also shows them starting to do new things and grow as they clearly had had enough of just pumping out new hits in the same repetitive vein AHDN did! 'Baby's in Black' is almost pre Velvet Underground or in the vein of the Rolling Stones and of course the Dylan influence is there as well.

[monaural.]

What it was that happened is that Capitol executives got panicky over no June Beatles album to release, so the mess that is “Yesterday & Today” came to be. EMI & George Martin ripped John’s three compositions slated for the UK Revolver to fill out this hodgepodge, so of course John was going to be heard only twice on the American edition. The fault is totally on Capitol executives in 1966, who couldn’t relax for a couple more months so that Revolver could come over complete. Nope…just had to have that Beatle profit money. Epstein also shouldn’t have waited until “Pepper” to set his foot down on the makeup of the albums. Thus…the Damage is Done.

[daBEAGLE]

Ringo was seen hugging John in the corner telling him "it will be alright".

[ilovemaccaroni]

No! I'm only sleeping and and your bird can sing are my favorite songs on that album!!

[drrayman]

“Revolver” without THREE John Lennon tracks (and “I’m Only Sleeping”, in particular) is not “Revolver”. It’s “Sacrilege” !!!!

[jimebjim]

US had the missing tracks before the UK. US version was still fantastic and groundbreaking - ahead of the game compared to almost everyone.

[BuChan]

Still better than the original Let It Be!

[georgeprice]

And, inadvertently, Capitol already knew that Harrison was blooming as a songwriter and by removing the three Lennon tracks, showed this.

[roundsrapid]

Capitol were never very good at picking good albums. They didn’t care much for Pet Sounds, and released a Beach Boys Greatest Hits six weeks later.

[thomascars]

To me, their worst is still Yellow Submarine because it’s 2 old songs repackaged, 4 new ones, and the rest is orchestra. At least you have 5 more Beatles penned songs on the US Revolver.

Not to forget the Stereo pressing, which had a fake stereo mix of “It’s All Too Much”, terrible 2-channel hard panning on “Hey Bulldog” and “All Together Now”, god awful and empty sounding mix of “It’s All Too Much, ” and the terrible stereo mix of “All You Need is Love, ” where all of the song starts on the hard left channel. The Martin compositions were fine. The mono pressing isn’t even a real mono mix, like the mono masters album had, folding down all tracks including “It’s All Too Much, ” which in of itself is a fake stereo mix. That means yes, the 1969 mono record has a fake mono mix of “Its All Too Much” that in of itself was created from a fake stereo mix that was made from the real mono mix.

The album was so pointless that it was ditched completely when creating the 2014 mono box, because 2 of the songs already appeared on Revolver and Magical Mystery Tour, so the remaining 4 tracks were put on a compilation.

Yellow Submarine also failed to reach number 1 in the UK and the US because it was held down by their glorious self-titled album. Speaking of which, this album was so pointless that the back of the jacket is literally a REVIEW OF “THE BEATLES.” At least on the UK release, which is of course the release that is canon since reissues made by apple all adapted the UK jacket. At least the US jacket, which was printed by the wonderful Stoughton printing factory, had actual text and lore from the movie.


HOWEVER, it is still a part of the Beatles catalogue and story. Although I think “A Collection of Beatles Oldies” is much more of an album than “Yellow Submarine” is, we still have to buy a copy in order to complete our collections! I’ve been on the hunt for a 1969 mono copy, since the fold down mix of “Hey Bulldog” is the only reason why I’d buy it. I had a 1981 mono pressing and the fold down mix of “Hey Bulldog” sounded killer

[thebelen]

Even then, that's not The Beatles' worst album. That's how good Revolver is.

[beatlesfan]

My least favorite Beatles albums are Introducing The Beatles, Something New, and Yellow Submarine

[carloszarate]

Nooo, I recently bought the Revolver but the US edition, and I didn't see that 😭

[deusdedithkojiuchino]

Is the worst, because no have all the songs and also your remix leave the wish a few.Because this I prefer yet the English version where is complete and can hear all songs in a unique album only.Uchino of Japan. I see you Andrew.

[josephst.george]

“And your bird can sing” is my favorite revolver song so to know there’s copies of this album out there without this song on it kinda sucks