What's the best track on "Revolver"?

My vote for "Here, There And Everywhere", one of McCartney's best ever ballads. But this album is crowded with contenders.

"Tomorrow Never Knows," easiest choice ever unto eternity.

We did this already, didn't we?

Yeah, looka!

Best Song on Beatles' "Revolver"

"Tomorrow Never Knows" winning last time might explain Geir redoing it.

So if he can get 17 likeminded souls together...

Anyone who fails to vote for Yellow Submarine is an idiot.

"Wee all failed to vote for Yellow Submarine"

OK lock thread and poll then.

I predict a pretty even spread on this one.

"Tomorrow Never Knows," although it only just beats "I'm Only Sleeping".

Here There and Everywhere - one of the great, great songs by anyone, ever

I voted for something different this time.

Haha--voted for "And Your Bird Can Sing" last time, "She Said, She Said" this time, will probably vote for "Tomorrow Never Knows" next time, etc.

Here's the last Revolver poll, which took place on ILE:

Best Song on Beatles' "Revolver"

I said it then, and I'll say it now: "Tomorrow Never Knows", though lots of excellent stuff to choose from.

I already added that.

If only somewhere there was a thread where I could link previously linked links to previously polled polls.

this is easy enough. TNK by a long shot.

As far as I'm concerned, this thread could be duplicated another half-dozen times and I'd happily vote for a different track each time out. (Awestruck am I, still.) But I've been calling "She Said She Said" my favourite for years, so why change now?

I'm Only Sleeping! Most underrated Beatles song ever.

Best Beatles album, too.

You guys are nuts. Paul dominates this album with For No One, Eleanor Rigby, and Here, There, and Everywhere. Although She Said, Tomorrow, and Your Bird are great as well, I have to go with For No One.

No love for "Taxman"?

Not here

Who's nuts? You're nuts. I bet you also like "the long and winding road". Man, you're nuts. I mean, really nuts.

John and Paul do a nearly equal level of ass-kicking here - but John has a slight edge I'm afraid. He knocks it out of the park with ever song (with the possible exception of "Dr. Robert," which still RULES).

xpost

Long and Winding Road isn't in the same league as Paul's Revolver songs. For No One is understated and achingly beautiful.

I love Taxman. Great guitar solo.

"And Your Bird Can Sing" has a great George solo, maybe my favorite.

Man, the guitar on that melts. I went with "Tomorrow Never Knows," although I secretly wish I could have voted for "Love You To," such a sinister George raga affair.

I didn't realize there was alot of love for I'm only Sleeping. It gets my vote, followed by She said

Eleanor Rigby.

I'm Only Sleeping

I was part of a John Lennon tribute concert here in Portland last month - there were about 10 bands playing 3 Lennon songs each. One of the artists, amazingly, performed "Eleanor Rigby" with an 8-piece string section, oblivious to the fact that it was not a Lennon song. It was an awesomely uncomfortable moment.

Taxman's great hook is undermined by the goddamned whining of the lyrics. OH NO GEORGE HE'LL TAX YOUR FEET!

My gut reaction was to go for TNK, but I think I might go contrarian and pick the song prior.

I loves that record to pieces. (And woulda loved it even more if "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" been included)

"Tomorrow Never Knows", but "Good Day Sunshine" is a close second.

Last time I voted for "And Your Bird Can Sing." This time I'm voting for "I'm Only Sleeping." Thank you ILM.

"I'm Only Sleeping" here. Best song on an album full of top quality tunes.

for no one

no love for "got to get you into my life"? "i want to tell you"? yeah, but i'm still voting for "tomorrow never knows." i guess it's because none of it's throngs of adherents have really caught up with it yet. that's gotta count for something.

I can't get past the tiresome didactic psychedelic lyrics on "Tomorrow Never Knows." It just seems very very flawed to me, despite some interesting things going on in it.

"And Your Bird Can Sing" for me please. I just love how the guitar keeps chattering. And it wasn't until this year that I realized how nasty (or rather, relentlessly critical) the song is. Adorno would've loved it. Also, you can sing the last bit to your rock crit friends (if not to yourself):

"You tell me that you've heard every sound there is
And your bird can swing
But you can't hear me, you can't hear...me"

In other news, I JUST figured out my increasing problem with McCartney. He was the first popist (before rockism ever existed). He was heavy and self-satisfied about how light and unselfconscious his creations were. Which means starting with this album, his songs were getting heavy and self-satisfied.

They could be singing a recipe for carrot cake over that music and "Tomorrow Never Knows" would still be one of the best rock songs ever recorded.

ar.

When this closes, we'll have to compare the quantity of voters this time round.

"Love You To". George's curry-house soundtracks are always my favourites.

I'm voting for "Got To Get You Into My Life" again. I think it's the better of the psychedelic tracks on Revolver (horns pwn sitars). If you don't buy that, I'll say it's the best soul song in the Beatles catalog.

Someone needs to do a Revolver vs Pepper thread. I know there's already an albums poll around which Revolver topped, but I suspect a lot of the Magical Mystery Tour and white album people would tend towards Sgt Pepper.

I voted the same way I did last time.

I think I did too - Eleanor Rigby.

Someone needs to do a Revolver vs Pepper thread.

On ILM, I'm pretty sure "Revolver" would win. It would in any case, other than among baby boomers and prog fans.

I prefer "Sgt. Pepper" though.

and your bird can sing is magnificent, one of my very favorite beatles songs, underappreciated

"She Said She Said" for me.

I used to find Eleanor Rigby dark and chilling as a child - it had something of the odour of grimily-veneered church pews at Benediction on a Friday evening in October. Ish. It still feels like that to me but my own daughter loves Good Day Sunshine, so she wins.

yellow submarine!

classic 90s CD reissue!

here there and everywhere, but tomorrow it could be for no-one.

Has anyone ever mentioned that "Tomorrow Never Knows" dances like a motherfucker? You can frug to it like a, well, motherfucker.

and John hated "And Your Bird Can Sing" (and thought the lyrics to "Across the Universe" could stand alone as "poetry")!

The Chemical Brothers most decidedly knew the frugability of "TNK"

I love that album so freakin' much, I'd marry it (if that were legal.)

2MOROW NEVR NOSE

George's curry-house soundtracks

roffle. (I voted TNK.)

The Chemical Brothers most decidedly knew the frugability of "TNK"

My impression is that song was more or less "ordered" by the Gallaghers. They wanted to make their own "Tomorrow Never Knows", but they realized they weren't able to, so Noel wrote a song and told Chemical Brothers to arrange it while Liam provided vocals.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

um, if yr talking about "Setting Sun", that's Noel's singing, on a song he apparently wrote years before (according to Paul Gal).

If you mean "Let Forever Be", that's also Noel singing, but he may well have written that one "to order".

If you are talkign about "The private Pschedelic reel", um, there's no vocals on it.

Speaking "Setting Sun". I thought Liam was the one singing though.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Jeez, it's not even the best sitar track on the album.

sad about the no votes for "doctor robert" and the one vote for "love you to." both fantastic songs. (and only one vote for "taxman" too. where's the love for george?)

"setting sun" is most definitely noel.

I never really noticed how the drawing of paul on the cover doesn't really resemble him at all.

I think it does! The one of George looks more like David Bowie though.

I have a messenger bag with this cover as its print. At a White Stripes concert I was asked "Who's on your bag?" *cringe*

(I voted <u>Got To Get You Into My Life</u> - it's so crisp.)

jeez, now i wish i'd voted for "dr. robert." but i'm still not used to it being on revolver; i grew up with the u.s. version which didn't have "dr. robert," "and your bird can sing," and "i'm only sleeping." i'm still slightly surprised when those songs come on.

You get pretty hard-wired to a certain song order, don't you? My record had a skip in "She Said" and when I heard the song later, somewhere else, it was very strange not to hear that skip. Ah, skips...

Glad to see "And Your Bird Can Sing" getting so high. Somewhere is a "favorite guitar solo" thread where I managed to bring it up on two separate occasions, having forgotten that I mentioned it the first time. Such a gorgeous recording.

This month, pop pickers, the Revolver chart rundown looks like THIS!

1. (1) Tomorrow Never Knows 35 (21)
2. (2) And Your Bird Can Sing 16 (20)
3. (5) I'm Only Sleeping 13 (12)
4. (3) She Said She Said 13 (17)
5. (12) Yellow Submarine 11 (2)
6. (6) For No One 11 (12)
7. (7) Here, There and Everywhere 7 (5)
8. (11) Got to Get You into My Life 7 (3)
9. (4) Eleanor Rigby 6 (13)
10. (8) I Want to Tell You 3 (4)
11. (9) Good Day Sunshine 1 (4)
12. (10) Love You To 1 (3)
13. (13) Taxman 1 (2)
14. (14) Doctor Robert 0 (1)