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Poll Question: What is your favorite track off the album?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2014 at 21:29
Tomorrow Never Knows followed by Here, There and Everywhere and Eleanor Rigby.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2014 at 23:47
My favourite Beatles album.

1. Eleanor Rigby
2. Tomorrow Never Knows
3. She Said She Said
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 01:49
TNK without question - and that's not even 'jumping on the bandwagon'......
Love all the album except Yellow Submarine (though I like Ringo's snare sound on this track). Close call with Taxman.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 02:28
I love Revolver, and think it's a giant leap from their previous album.
My fav from this album is I'm Only Sleeping, I just love it's slow sleepy rhythm, quite psychedelic.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 04:31
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I know what you mean - but I think that Rubber Soul in itself was one a big leap from its predecessor. The opening quartet of songs off RS comfortably match its counterparts from Revolver (IMHO).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 05:04
Rigby. Or Rain if you count the single not on the album. Rather thought of this album was where guitar based indie  type music originated. Except for E. Rigby and the psych stuff.Lost of Fine tune there.

Oh having the US and UK remastered versions circulating should not cause many problems - should it?

Wonder when the box set of hi res versions will emerge. TNK does it...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 06:30
I'm going with "She Said She Said".

Gov't Mule did a fine cover of it.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 06:30
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

I'm going with "She Said She Said".

Gov't Mule did a fine cover of it.


Check out the Lone Star version as well from their debut album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 07:16
I like the whole album but Eleanor Rigby has a special place. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 08:15
I'll go with Taxman...love how it starts with that raw guitar chord.

My kids would be displeased that the only two songs they really like from the album have no votes. Then again, they probably wouldn't care.Smile


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 08:24
For a moment, I considered voting for Tomorrow Never Knows over Eleanor Rigby. Tomorrow Never Knows is probably more progressive in its combination of elements.  However, Eleanor Rigby is simply beyond.  It's my favorite Beatle song, and a good candidate for the greatest song ever written.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 21:16
I like the 801 version of TNK a lot, but nothing beats the original. None of those weird sound effects are reproduceable, and there is just an aura or otherness and uniqueness about the whole track. Other faves include Taxman, She Said, Eleanor Rigby, And Your Bird, Doctor Robert (heh), and I Want to Tell You. Great album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2014 at 22:28
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2014 at 01:17
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2014 at 11:57
Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

I like the whole album but Eleanor Rigby has a special place.


I agree. And as innovative and groundbreaking as "tomorrow never knows" (my second choice)was I still have to go with Eleonor Rigby. I like the cover version by Kansas also. Not sure if it's on youtube but it's worth checking out.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2014 at 13:18
Eleanor Rigby and Tomorrow Never Knows are too comfortable the choices here as the former was a vanity piece (and a very good one) for Paul while the latter seemed just the strange add-on from John done in by over nasally vocals and a clunker of a backing drum track. And Your Bird Can Sing adventurously exemplified the whole spirit of the album (and times for the band) with its hyped guitars, John's deadpan vocal delivery, the glorious backing vocals by Paul and George, and keen lyrics marking John's growing independence from a would-be lover and the rest of the band (he'd been quoted around the time of Revolver that it was around this period when he started wanting out of the Beatle machine).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2014 at 21:28
Eleanor Rigby is the only song I really liked from this album (but what a song it is). Though to be perfectly honest, it is the only song I remember from this album. Perhaps I didn't give it enough listens to find something else to like.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2014 at 11:07
Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:

I'll go with Taxman...love how it starts with that raw guitar chord.

My kids would be displeased that the only two songs they really like from the album have no votes. Then again, they probably wouldn't care.Smile

Yellow Submarine and Good Day Sunshine i reckon?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2014 at 02:48
Originally posted by snowsnow snowsnow wrote:

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I know what you mean - but I think that Rubber Soul in itself was one a big leap from its predecessor. The opening quartet of songs off RS comfortably match its counterparts from Revolver (IMHO).

The whole musical landscape changed with Rubber Soul onwards. Up until that point The Everly Brothers and The Beach Boys competed quite comfortably with The Beatles.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2014 at 05:42
Stuck between Taxman and Eleanor Rigby Confused 
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