Albums/Artists influenced by The Beatles Revolver

It's probably easier to ask who wasn't influenced by Revolver as the album's influences are multi faceted. Not only were The Beatles breaking down barriers in Rock Music song composition and structure, the influence of Revolver also branched out to setting a standard that a whole album of stellar songs would be a norm instead of a curio as was found on the preceding Pet Sounds and Rubber Soul albums. Break through recording technologies and experimentation would become the norm, and many maintain that Revolver was the starting point of  British Psychedelic Rock and was a major pioneer of PA's subgenre of Proto Prog, which grew out of Revolver Psych Rock songs like Tomorrow Never Knows.I've noticed in the past your extreme interest in the Revolver album and there are an incredible number of books written about it, but unfortunately cover the same ground. Anything written by Mark Lewisohn such as The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions covers much of the back story of the album's songs as well as a fascinating look at how many of the songs were done almost ad hoc, with off the cuff thinking, such as the afore mentioned Tomorrow Never Knows. 

Edited by SteveG - April 27 2015 at 15:51

SteveG wrote: It's probably easier to ask who wasn't influenced by Revolver as the album's influences are multi faceted. Not only were The Beatles breaking down barriers in Rock Music song composition and structure, the influence of Revolver also branched out to setting a standard that a whole album of stellar songs would be a norm instead of a curio as was found on the preceding Pet Sounds and Rubber Soul albums. Break through recording technologies and experimentation would become the norm, and many maintain that Revolver was the starting point of  British Psychedelic Rock and was a major pioneer of PA's subgenre of Proto Prog, which grew out of Revolver Psych Rock songs like Tomorrow Never Knows. I've noticed in the past your extreme interest in the Revolver album and there are an incredible number of books written about it, but unfortunately cover the same ground. Anything written by Mark Lewisohn such as The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions covers much of the back story of the album's songs as well as a fascinating look at how many of the songs were done almost ad hoc, with off the cuff thinking, such as the afore mentioned Tomorrow Never Knows.  A simple example of how powerful Revolver was is consider if an album like Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix, released in 1967, would have been possible if Revolver did not proceed it.          Please keep in mind that The Beatles were not the only ones thinking out of box in 1966 as demonstrated by Zappa's first album Freak Out! as just one example.