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proggman 
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Posted: August 12 2014 at 11:33 |
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Tomorrow Never Knows.
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When he rides, my fears subside.
For darkness turns once more to light.
Through the skies, his white horse flies.
To find a land beyond the night.
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Posted: August 11 2014 at 06:12 |
 Dayvenkirq wrote:
^ I didn't know whether Revolver is prog or not was even the question here. |
Considering this is the ProgArchives Forum, and, more specifically, the Prog section of the ProgArchives Forum, it is a huge issue that is always there, whether you want it or not.
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Posted: August 10 2014 at 12:24 |
RoeDent wrote:
I don't think Revolver is prog, but I voted For No One, because I still like the album.For me, proper prog started with King Crimson's ITCOTCK
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Wasn't Sgt. Pepper's' the start of it all? I once heard Bill Bruford say so at a drum clinic in San Diego in the early '80s. If it was, Revolver was vital in that it was the warm-up for the subsequent album with its pioneering production techniques and deeper (and darker) material. The Fabs knew this and were now ever challenged to pull it off live. The result: 08/29/66 - Goodbye, all, from Candlestick Park.
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 20:30 |
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And Your Bird Can Sing.
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 "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 19:39 |
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Does anyone know if Got To Get You Into My Life inspired what Chicago went on to do ?? It's a well-crafted piece of early brass-rock to me.
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 08:42 |
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^ I didn't know whether Revolver is prog or not was even the question here.
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 08:07 |
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I don't think Revolver is prog, but I voted For No One, because I still like the album.
For me, proper prog started with King Crimson's ITCOTCK
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 06:52 |
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Help me I'm falling!
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 05:42 |
Stuck between Taxman and Eleanor Rigby 
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Posted: August 09 2014 at 02:48 |
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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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Posted: August 08 2014 at 11:07 |
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.
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Yellow Submarine and Good Day Sunshine i reckon?
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Posted: August 07 2014 at 21:28 |
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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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Posted: August 07 2014 at 13:18 |
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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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Posted: August 07 2014 at 11:57 |
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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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Posted: August 07 2014 at 01:17 |
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For No One
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Posted: August 06 2014 at 22:28 |
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I guess ER.
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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Posted: August 06 2014 at 21:16 |
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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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Posted: August 06 2014 at 08:24 |
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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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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.
Edited by Prog Sothoth - August 06 2014 at 08:16
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Posted: August 06 2014 at 07:16 |
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I like the whole album but Eleanor Rigby has a special place.
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