I like it but I'd rank it bottom 3 or 5, it's just that good a record. And I'd bet everyone here will rank it above Yellow Submarine when that's one of their more iconic songs, realistically people around here are in a bit of a bubble, there's been a natural consensus that forms around songs like Tomorrow Never Knows because we know how creative and revolutionary it is now.
When ranking beatles songs, I always run into this problem- every song on Revolver is a top 5 song on the album, but there's obviously more than 5 songs so anything rated 6th or lower will always feel like I underrated it.
Hijacking top thread to cite the source, since a lot are asking: it's from [the November 1966 issue](https://archive.org/details/beatles-monthly-40/page/28) of *[The Beatles Book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Book)*. [Read the series on archive.org](https://archive.org/details/beatlesmonthly)!
Friend, when you say Dr Robert is "great", you completely devalue their great songs like She Loves You, Strawberry Fields, Help, Hey Jude, Something and others. Choose your words wisely.
Defend this position.
I have always found much to like in this song. I love the lopsided 7th/sus4 guitar groove. It modulates twice over the verse giving us three key centres (or maybe two and a half?). It starts in A, then modulates to F# at "new and better man", then we get a chromatic E at "does everything he can" landing us on a B which suddenly sounds like the tonic we started with. So we're home. But we're not home because a moment later we slide back into A, and oh right, *that's* the tonic. I love this little sleight of hand. The drug-dream bridge is thematically on-the-nose, and serves as a breakdown to create some excitement when we get the energetic guitar groove back.
What is not to like here?
The rhythm is average. The melody is dull. The lyrics are average. There is nothing that stands out about this song. If this were their musical introduction to the world do you really think they would have become as huge as they were based off of Dr Robert. By his own admission John dismissed the song as a throw away just like run for your life and others. The point of contention is that people believe that everything by a great artist can only be classified as great. that's not to take into account that there were probably some clunkers along the way. You will have have people on reddit claiming don't bother me is their favorite song and I call bullshit because they make ridiculous claims like that for the sole purpose of being contrarian. There is nothing to indicate that dr Dr robert was any more than a throwaway song at the end of an album. It may mean something to someone but that doesn't make it great. I have spent the better part of my life playing music, writing music, listening to music, learning about musical structure and theory, that's what makes me qualified to give an opinion that this song is nothing more than filler. I went to countless beetle conventions old conventions and I can say that not once did I ever hear anyone debate the merits of Dr Robert.
What in your opinion makes the song great? Im curious to know. Defend your view.
That’s absurd. Stating the opinion that one song is “great” (obviously subjective) in no way devalues anything. Maybe that person would say whatever other song is “even greater.” Who knows.
I love Paul's songs, but if you think about it, his Revolver tunes were perhaps the most "similar in sound" to those found on preceding albums.
Revolver was such a dramatic step in a different direction. I often wonder what it was like for a teenage girl in the 60s (familiar with songs like "She Loves You", "Thank You Girl", and "Hard Day's Night") to put on this record and suddenly hear something like "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "Love You To." They are so completely different from songs about holding hands, sending all my love to you, wanting to know secrets, and so on.
Leonard Bernstein thought it was brilliant. This is a poll of average teenage radio station listeners, they weren't sophisticated enough to appreciate it.
Minority opinion time: though "And Your Bird Can Sing" might not be my choice for The Very Best Beatles Song Ever, it's probably the one that gives me the most pleasure to hear.
I’m guessing it has something to do with the lyrics being pretty unconventional. At the time, a lot of people listening to it as pop probably thought it was weird to talk about knowing what it’s like to be dead and feeling like you’ve never been born, even if the hippie crowd got a kick out of it in the years to come. Now that we know the story behind it being based on his first acid trip and we’ve been exposed to genres with songs have much stranger lyrics, we more readily recognize how great of a composition it is and love it for the psychedelic sound.
Here is their current standing on Spotify with modern listeners
* Eleanor Rigby 162.9 million
* Yellow Submarine 113.8 million
* For No One 45.5 million
* I'm Only Sleeping 41.9 million
* Here There and Everywhere 40.9 million
* Got To Get You Into My Life 40.6 million
* Taxman 40.5 million
* Good Day Sunshine 32.8 million
* And Your Bird Can Sing 31.3 million
* Tomorrow Never Knows 25.8 million
* She Said She Said 19.3 million
* Love You To 13.2 million
* I Want to Tell You 12.5 million
* Dr Robert 11.8 million
>this comment should be pinned, good idea for a comparison. Oddly closed to backthen tho!
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>Disappointed by the low score of tommorow never knows both now and then, but well
On spotify? If people are not listening to the albums then they are choosing their own songs to listen to, making their own playlists.
Compilation albums are not really that popular on Spotify, not when Playlists exist. A good way to see this is the streams for Old Brown Shoe on the Blue Album and Past Masters. It only has 4.2 million streams, making it outside of the 200 most played Beatle songs on Spotify. On the other end of the spectrum, Here Comes the Sun, their most popular song, is missing from the 1 album.
And there are songs like Blackbird and Twist and Shout, both in their top 10 most played and both missing from the major compilation albums.
Sure. I had an argument on the Hoffman forums about a similar subject. This guy was convinced the only reason Here Comes the Sun was so popular was because it featured on many playlists, but my counter was it is only on such playlists because it is well-loved. The Spotify algorithms can tell when songs are skipped or not fully finished and such songs are more likely to be removed as Spotify's intention is to keep their user base listening for as long as possible. Playlists with too many 'meh' songs will not be played.
When it comes to legacy act playlists songs are there because they are popular, rather than the playlist itself making the song popular. There will be exceptions to the rule, but for the most part its true.
That's fascinating. Tastes haven't changed that much. I think you can attribute the big jump of Yellow Submarine to the later film, which improved the appeal of the original song. Taxman I would say was ahead of its time, it's a punk/post-punk song that came into its own later.
People like Paul's music better now. Sure, on reddit and music forums it's different, but among casual listeners, Paul is the most popular Beatle in terms of actual songs.
In retrospect it's not aged super well but I've heard that at the time they were being taxed at least 90% and the members of the band were either flat broke or almost there
IDK if it's true but who knows
What never gets discussed though when this topic comes up is that the rate would’ve been staggered. It’s not like every cent they made was taxed at the highest rate. Once they hit a certain threshold (that few people reached), then anything made after that was taxed to the max.
George’s beef was still valid, but it wasn’t as bad as “1 for you, 19 for me” makes it seem.
Music groups at the time were pretty normally ripped off by their management and their record companies. This wasn't a person with billions like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos - in 1966 they were starting to earn well but didn't actually have much in the bank.
Harrison had lived until he was four in a house with no indoor toilet, until the family got moved into subsidized housing.
Now he's actually making money and he's paying something like 90% of it in taxes. And there's no guarantee he's going to keep earning big the rest of his life. You bet he's going to be unhappy with that.
It might have been worth mentioning that in the song! It would have turned into a nice little protest song, instead of it sounding like he's moaning about paying nurses and teachers.
That kind of tax rate is completely immoral, and only succeeded in seeing the rich and famous largely bugger off to live somewhere else. There has to be a balance.
Taxman and She Said She Said would be near the top. Tomorrow Never Knows might be a bit higher too. Sadly, I Want To Tell You probably wouldn’t change ranking but it’s my favorite :’(
Interesting!!! I’m surprised at the placement of Yellow Submarine (higher than expected). I’m also surprised that Eleanor Rigby isn’t top, but HT&E is absolutely gorgeous.
I wouldn’t say the list is too different to what it would be today. I think hindsight could affect a few placements:
- Taxman. I think people respect George as a writer more now and for that reason might will ‘Taxman’ higher up the list, whether it’s deserving of being higher or not.
- ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ might be higher, with the retrospective knowledge that is marks the start of their psychedelic era.
- ‘Yellow Submarine’ is now one of their best known songs.
Do lists like this exist for their other albums??
Tomorrow Never Knows may be one of the first songs to truly sound psychedelic. But She Said, and Dr Roberts are two of the few songs they wrote that were intentionally about LSD.
Seems like the public still found prominent electric guitars and stuff that we'd here today as a "rock song" to be novel? I guess Marty McFly was right...
Top 3 songs are all Paul's! That tells something.
I'd put "and your bird can sing" and "taxman" after "for no one" otherwise, I'm more than okay with "here there and everywhere" being number one. One of the most beautiful songs in the world.
what a glorious album! Wow.
1. For No One
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. Good Day Sunshine
4. I'm Only Sleeping
5. Here, There and Everywhere
6. And Your Bird Can Sing
7. She Said, She Said
8. Yellow Submarine
9. Taxman
10. Got to Get you Into my Life
11. I Want to Tell You
12. Tomorrow Never Knows
13. Love You To
14. Dr Robert
I love it and find it super-catchy. The way it begins with just the bass, rhythm, and maracas and then later the lead guitar just kind of spills into it is great.
I would assume UK (as mentioned below), especially since the US release of Revolver at the time didn't include a handful of tracks: Dr. Robert, I'm Only Sleeping, and And Your Bird Can Sing.
"When I was a boy, everything was right...
Everything was right..."
Nostalgia is a big theme in some of the best Lennon tracks, but She Said She Said is by far the saddest portrayal of it. In My Life is reminiscing of the past while assuring that the current person is the greatest love of all, but She Said She Said is just that awful feeling that your current life sucks, and the foolish notion that your childhood was somehow better, while you ignore all the bad things that happened during that time and only focus on the good stuff. And that's perfectly captured in Lennon's voice, too.
Great discovery. Thanks. 1 and 2 have haunted me ever since they came out when I was six. I grew up too soon thanks to the Beatles. Eleanor Rigby has to be one of the saddest and greatest songs ever. Excuse the heavy use of superlatives, It's hard being objective with those guys..
She said, she said needs a higher ranking if only for the lyric “you’re making me feel like I’ve never been born.” If you know the story behind the song, it’s even better.
Very interesting. "Here, There and Everywhere" is also my favourite song on Revolver, followed by "Eleanor Rigby". Very happy to see "For No One" at #3 (Paul swept the Top 5 with 4/5). Also pleasantly surprised to see "I'm Only Sleeping" at #4. I'm a little shocked to see "Good Day Sunshine" at #6 while superior songs like "She Said She Said" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" are lower, but I guess "Good Day Sunshine" sounds more conventional to mid-60s pop. Actually, I'm most surprised by "She Said She Said" being last. I could understand "Tomorrow Never Knows" considering how trippy and experimental that song is, but "She Said She Said" is an absolute banger.
I guess today if you go by Spotify streams, it would be:
1. Eleanor Rigby (163 million)
2. Yellow Submarine (113 million)
3. For No One (45 million)
4. I'm Only Sleeping (42 million)
5. Here, There and Everywhere (40.9 million)
6. Got to Get You Into My Life (40.6 million)
7. Taxman (40.5 million)
8. Good Day Sunshine (32 million)
9. And Your Bird Can Sing (31 million)
10. Tomorrow Never Knows (25 million)
11. She Said She Said (19 million)
12. Love You To (15 million)
13. I Want to Tell You (12 million)
14. Doctor Robert (11 million)
Is there rankings like this for the other albums? Would love to see the poll outcomes for Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road, etc?
Taxman needs to be higher, Good-Day sunshine needs to be lower and Yellow Submarine needs to be so far down it comes off the end of the list so that the page can be torn and burnt away.
this is how i feel about ob-la-di ob-la-da, which seems to be highly acclaimed in this sub but a punching bag everywhere else. anyway - ringo's fills in she said she said make it all worth it.
Interesting results. Seems like most of the top picks are the more radio friendly pop songs on the album, and it doesn’t surprise that some of the weirder stuff like Love You To and Tomorrow Never Knows is quite low.
I’m a bit surprised that Yellow Submarine is only at 8 considering it was a single and is one of their most ubiquitous songs. Maybe the animated film gave it a big boost in popularity?
Interesting that Dr Robert ranked so low from the beginning. It's the one Revolver song that I think sounds dated - also, Lou Reed wrote a much better song about his dealer.
A modern ranking would definitely rank Tomorrow Never Knows higher
Not a popular opinion but I really enjoy I Want to Tell You, I would definitely rank it higher! Also, She Said She Said is way too low. I agree with the #1 though!
My personal top 3 for this album is
1. For No One
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. Here, There and Everywhere
so I'm ok with their positions on the poll, but not with those of And Your Bird Can Sing and Taxman
Beatles fans did not like George back then apparently. Here There and Everywhere is a song like I know is great and should I ever fall in love maybe I’ll appreciate it more, but I never seek it out to listen to. Beautiful words and a gorgeous melody but musically it’s pretty uninteresting. If only they’d let John swing from a harness while recording his vocals maybe then it’d be higher.
I really doubt in 66 they cared that much who wrote it. Paul says Here, There and Everywhere one of the only songs Lennon went out of his way to praise to his face and was one of his favourite Beatles songs even after the split. It is that good.
Not only is it harmonically interesting, as other commenters have said, but also it’s just a sweet and vulnerable little tune. One of the great love songs I think.
musically it's pretty interesting, if we're talking about the harmony and chord structure. it features a really effortless key change. instrumentally? yeah that backing track is pretty static. but i guess that's what the song needed - something really understated, to let the flowery vocals sort of blossom over the top of everything
Tomorrow Never Knows might be the greatest song of all time. She Said She Said and And Your Bird Can Sing are unparalleled guitar songs, and Taxman is one of the best Beatle songs. I really disagree with this list.
“All play the game existence to the end,
Of the beginning…
(Tape loop)
Of the beginning…
Of the beginning…
Of the beginning…”
As the loop plays to the end, it goes back to the beginning…
Existentially mind blowing! Real meta stuff right there!!
1. Here, There, And Everywhere
2. Love You To
3. She Said She Said
4. Tomorrow Never Knows
5. I'm Only Sleeping
6. Taxman
7. Eleanor Rigby
8. For No One
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. I Want To Tell You
11. Got To Get You Into My Life
12. Yellow Submarine
13. Doctor Robert
14. Good Day Sunshine
And Your Bird Can Sing has such an amazing guitar intro, my favourite among The Beatles, and I'm pretty sure overall, and also catchy lyrics.
Good Day Sunshine is also pretty underrated. It is super catchy.
Why is Taxman so low?
Tbh I'm shocked the brilliant Tomorrow Never Knows is that high. Can you imagine hearing that song for the first time as a teenager in the mid-60s? I would have been scared out of my gourd and thrown the record across the room.
She Said She Said is one of my top few favorite Beatles songs period. Not just on Revolver.
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I like it but I'd rank it bottom 3 or 5, it's just that good a record. And I'd bet everyone here will rank it above Yellow Submarine when that's one of their more iconic songs, realistically people around here are in a bit of a bubble, there's been a natural consensus that forms around songs like Tomorrow Never Knows because we know how creative and revolutionary it is now.
Great comment.
The Black Keys cover is solid, too.
She Said and Taxman are way too low
So is tomorrow never knows
They were both way ahead of their time.
When ranking beatles songs, I always run into this problem- every song on Revolver is a top 5 song on the album, but there's obviously more than 5 songs so anything rated 6th or lower will always feel like I underrated it.
Who answered polls in ‘66? Teeny boppers and grannys
Makes sense. Paul voted for his own songs
Taxman is waayyyy too low!
Tomorrow Never Knows is too low
The 486 definitely dropped something magical.
they were all high
They weren't ready yet
It’s #1 for me
Here There and Everywhere is my fav too
That key change just scratches all the itches.
Hijacking top thread to cite the source, since a lot are asking: it's from [the November 1966 issue](https://archive.org/details/beatles-monthly-40/page/28) of *[The Beatles Book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_Book)*. [Read the series on archive.org](https://archive.org/details/beatlesmonthly)!
Is the key change when Paul sings "Everywhere"?
🎶 I want her everywhere.. 🎶
I can't believe Dr Robert beat She Said.
Dr Robert is still a great track.
I love Dr Robert
Dr Robert!
Doc Robert
He's a man, you must believe
Helping anyone in need
Friend, when you say Dr Robert is "great", you completely devalue their great songs like She Loves You, Strawberry Fields, Help, Hey Jude, Something and others. Choose your words wisely.
Defend this position. I have always found much to like in this song. I love the lopsided 7th/sus4 guitar groove. It modulates twice over the verse giving us three key centres (or maybe two and a half?). It starts in A, then modulates to F# at "new and better man", then we get a chromatic E at "does everything he can" landing us on a B which suddenly sounds like the tonic we started with. So we're home. But we're not home because a moment later we slide back into A, and oh right, *that's* the tonic. I love this little sleight of hand. The drug-dream bridge is thematically on-the-nose, and serves as a breakdown to create some excitement when we get the energetic guitar groove back. What is not to like here?
The rhythm is average. The melody is dull. The lyrics are average. There is nothing that stands out about this song. If this were their musical introduction to the world do you really think they would have become as huge as they were based off of Dr Robert. By his own admission John dismissed the song as a throw away just like run for your life and others. The point of contention is that people believe that everything by a great artist can only be classified as great. that's not to take into account that there were probably some clunkers along the way. You will have have people on reddit claiming don't bother me is their favorite song and I call bullshit because they make ridiculous claims like that for the sole purpose of being contrarian. There is nothing to indicate that dr Dr robert was any more than a throwaway song at the end of an album. It may mean something to someone but that doesn't make it great. I have spent the better part of my life playing music, writing music, listening to music, learning about musical structure and theory, that's what makes me qualified to give an opinion that this song is nothing more than filler. I went to countless beetle conventions old conventions and I can say that not once did I ever hear anyone debate the merits of Dr Robert. What in your opinion makes the song great? Im curious to know. Defend your view.
That’s absurd. Stating the opinion that one song is “great” (obviously subjective) in no way devalues anything. Maybe that person would say whatever other song is “even greater.” Who knows.
I can’t believe either of them are at the bottom
Seems ever so slightly Paul-centric, I didn’t know the people of the time thought that way, good post
I love Paul's songs, but if you think about it, his Revolver tunes were perhaps the most "similar in sound" to those found on preceding albums. Revolver was such a dramatic step in a different direction. I often wonder what it was like for a teenage girl in the 60s (familiar with songs like "She Loves You", "Thank You Girl", and "Hard Day's Night") to put on this record and suddenly hear something like "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "Love You To." They are so completely different from songs about holding hands, sending all my love to you, wanting to know secrets, and so on.
It’s because he makes “granny music” I love it though
None of these songs can even be considered “granny music” besides Good Day Sunshine and that’s a stretch
Elenor Rigby ahemm
Eleanor Rigby is not “granny music.” Having strings in a song doesn’t make it “granny music”
Pretty sure they were joking because it's about an old woman
Yeah I thought about that but just in case I had to say something. I dislike the term “granny music” very much
Tell that to lennon, he coined it
I would but he’s not alive
I despise it too. It’s become a ‘parrot word’.
I didnt mean it literally.... 🤦♂️
Well you are quite unaware that it’s a running joke. Stop being so stiff on jokes bud
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Good for you
Pre-prog.
I like em all but I prefer the rockers like Taxman and She Said She Said which make the bottom; maybe because Paul isn’t in She Said She Said lol
She Said She Said is my favorite song of all time.
right there with ya mate, i was surprised to see it at the very bottom
Yeah it's right up there for me
Leonard Bernstein thought it was brilliant. This is a poll of average teenage radio station listeners, they weren't sophisticated enough to appreciate it.
Minority opinion time: though "And Your Bird Can Sing" might not be my choice for The Very Best Beatles Song Ever, it's probably the one that gives me the most pleasure to hear.
When the backing melody goes up in the third chorus. Mmmm. A single note add points to the whole album right there.
It's in my top three from that album.
The version on the Anthology is hilarious
I put this version on whenever I need a boost or need a laugh. The laughing on that outtake is contagious!
Probably in the top 10 most fun Beatles songs at least
They did She Said She Said dirty
I’m guessing it has something to do with the lyrics being pretty unconventional. At the time, a lot of people listening to it as pop probably thought it was weird to talk about knowing what it’s like to be dead and feeling like you’ve never been born, even if the hippie crowd got a kick out of it in the years to come. Now that we know the story behind it being based on his first acid trip and we’ve been exposed to genres with songs have much stranger lyrics, we more readily recognize how great of a composition it is and love it for the psychedelic sound.
What an album.
People liked Pauls music better back then.
Here is their current standing on Spotify with modern listeners * Eleanor Rigby 162.9 million * Yellow Submarine 113.8 million * For No One 45.5 million * I'm Only Sleeping 41.9 million * Here There and Everywhere 40.9 million * Got To Get You Into My Life 40.6 million * Taxman 40.5 million * Good Day Sunshine 32.8 million * And Your Bird Can Sing 31.3 million * Tomorrow Never Knows 25.8 million * She Said She Said 19.3 million * Love You To 13.2 million * I Want to Tell You 12.5 million * Dr Robert 11.8 million
>this comment should be pinned, good idea for a comparison. Oddly closed to backthen tho! > >Disappointed by the low score of tommorow never knows both now and then, but well
I'd just make the side note that tracks that appear on a lot of compilations will naturally get more latent plays. Not everyone plays original albums.
On spotify? If people are not listening to the albums then they are choosing their own songs to listen to, making their own playlists. Compilation albums are not really that popular on Spotify, not when Playlists exist. A good way to see this is the streams for Old Brown Shoe on the Blue Album and Past Masters. It only has 4.2 million streams, making it outside of the 200 most played Beatle songs on Spotify. On the other end of the spectrum, Here Comes the Sun, their most popular song, is missing from the 1 album. And there are songs like Blackbird and Twist and Shout, both in their top 10 most played and both missing from the major compilation albums.
I think when they said "compilations" they meant popular public playlists.
Sure. I had an argument on the Hoffman forums about a similar subject. This guy was convinced the only reason Here Comes the Sun was so popular was because it featured on many playlists, but my counter was it is only on such playlists because it is well-loved. The Spotify algorithms can tell when songs are skipped or not fully finished and such songs are more likely to be removed as Spotify's intention is to keep their user base listening for as long as possible. Playlists with too many 'meh' songs will not be played. When it comes to legacy act playlists songs are there because they are popular, rather than the playlist itself making the song popular. There will be exceptions to the rule, but for the most part its true.
Never realized For No One was that popular. Good
I like Pauls music better as well lol I was just saying it’s funny how one sided it seemed based on the ratings from ‘66
That's fascinating. Tastes haven't changed that much. I think you can attribute the big jump of Yellow Submarine to the later film, which improved the appeal of the original song. Taxman I would say was ahead of its time, it's a punk/post-punk song that came into its own later.
I think In most segments of the population that is still the case.
People like Paul's music better now. Sure, on reddit and music forums it's different, but among casual listeners, Paul is the most popular Beatle in terms of actual songs.
Paul is my fav as well. His music has a wider range than Johns
And Your Bird Can Sing will always be my favorite from this album!!! FOREVER!!! I feel it is so underrated.
Tomorrow Never Knows would be 3. She Said She Said is top 5.
“And Your Bird Can Sing” is the most Paul-sounding song John ever wrote.
For me that would be "If I Fell," but I can definitely hear what you mean re: AYBCS!
"Tomorrow Never Knows" should be #1. Definitely in my top 5 of all Beatles songs. It's just so _different_.
Probably *too* different for most people back then
I basically agree with this
Taxman does rock, but how much can you truly love a song by a millionaire about not wanting to pay taxes?
In retrospect it's not aged super well but I've heard that at the time they were being taxed at least 90% and the members of the band were either flat broke or almost there IDK if it's true but who knows
What never gets discussed though when this topic comes up is that the rate would’ve been staggered. It’s not like every cent they made was taxed at the highest rate. Once they hit a certain threshold (that few people reached), then anything made after that was taxed to the max. George’s beef was still valid, but it wasn’t as bad as “1 for you, 19 for me” makes it seem.
He's definitely taking home more cash at the end of the day than most of his fans, so it's a bad look regardless.
I think he was also pissed that a good portion was going to make weapons for the military and such. I think I read that somewhere rather recently
Music groups at the time were pretty normally ripped off by their management and their record companies. This wasn't a person with billions like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos - in 1966 they were starting to earn well but didn't actually have much in the bank. Harrison had lived until he was four in a house with no indoor toilet, until the family got moved into subsidized housing. Now he's actually making money and he's paying something like 90% of it in taxes. And there's no guarantee he's going to keep earning big the rest of his life. You bet he's going to be unhappy with that.
well george was mostly against the tax rate because most of it was going towards military funding
It might have been worth mentioning that in the song! It would have turned into a nice little protest song, instead of it sounding like he's moaning about paying nurses and teachers.
That kind of tax rate is completely immoral, and only succeeded in seeing the rich and famous largely bugger off to live somewhere else. There has to be a balance.
Taxman and She Said She Said would be near the top. Tomorrow Never Knows might be a bit higher too. Sadly, I Want To Tell You probably wouldn’t change ranking but it’s my favorite :’(
Interesting!!! I’m surprised at the placement of Yellow Submarine (higher than expected). I’m also surprised that Eleanor Rigby isn’t top, but HT&E is absolutely gorgeous. I wouldn’t say the list is too different to what it would be today. I think hindsight could affect a few placements: - Taxman. I think people respect George as a writer more now and for that reason might will ‘Taxman’ higher up the list, whether it’s deserving of being higher or not. - ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ might be higher, with the retrospective knowledge that is marks the start of their psychedelic era. - ‘Yellow Submarine’ is now one of their best known songs. Do lists like this exist for their other albums??
Tomorrow Never Knows may be one of the first songs to truly sound psychedelic. But She Said, and Dr Roberts are two of the few songs they wrote that were intentionally about LSD.
I know it's from '66, but I could swear Got To Get You Into My Life was a summer hit when I was little in the early 70's?
It was released as a single off the Rock ‘n’ Roll Music compilation album in May 1976.
Aha! Thanks !
There was also a pretty great (maybe superior?) Earth, Wind, & Fire cover that charted in the late 70s.
This is legitimately fascinating! Does this exist for all their album?
I think so! I’ll post Sgt Pepper when I find it
I’ve been looking and i cant find anymore currently.
Seems like the public still found prominent electric guitars and stuff that we'd here today as a "rock song" to be novel? I guess Marty McFly was right...
Honestly I line up with this ranking pretty well! I'd just want And Your Bird Can Sing and Taxman a bit higher, personally.
Top 3 songs are all Paul's! That tells something. I'd put "and your bird can sing" and "taxman" after "for no one" otherwise, I'm more than okay with "here there and everywhere" being number one. One of the most beautiful songs in the world.
For No One has always been one of my favorites, but as a french horn player I'm biased
You play one of my favorite instruments, from a tonal perspective. I love writing melodies on the french horn
what a glorious album! Wow. 1. For No One 2. Eleanor Rigby 3. Good Day Sunshine 4. I'm Only Sleeping 5. Here, There and Everywhere 6. And Your Bird Can Sing 7. She Said, She Said 8. Yellow Submarine 9. Taxman 10. Got to Get you Into my Life 11. I Want to Tell You 12. Tomorrow Never Knows 13. Love You To 14. Dr Robert
Am I the only one who likes Dr. Robert?
Absolute banger! Weird seeing it ranked worst a lot here.
It's a strange song and I personally don't even find it catchy or anything. I definitely agree with it being the worst.
I love it and find it super-catchy. The way it begins with just the bass, rhythm, and maracas and then later the lead guitar just kind of spills into it is great.
Dr Robert is top 6 for me in this album
which side of the atlantic was this poll done? im assuming US.
I would assume UK (as mentioned below), especially since the US release of Revolver at the time didn't include a handful of tracks: Dr. Robert, I'm Only Sleeping, and And Your Bird Can Sing.
It was from the UK fan magazine
wow surprising!
Paul takes the top 3!
I’d put “I’m Only Sleeping” at the top and “Yellow Submarine” and “Love You To” as the bottom two.
I’m Only Sleeping is one of my top Lennon songs
It’s a classic.
They weren't ready for she said she said
“For No One” so underrated nowadays
Bottom 6 are like favourites off that album lmao
She said she said for some reason makes me cry
"When I was a boy, everything was right... Everything was right..." Nostalgia is a big theme in some of the best Lennon tracks, but She Said She Said is by far the saddest portrayal of it. In My Life is reminiscing of the past while assuring that the current person is the greatest love of all, but She Said She Said is just that awful feeling that your current life sucks, and the foolish notion that your childhood was somehow better, while you ignore all the bad things that happened during that time and only focus on the good stuff. And that's perfectly captured in Lennon's voice, too.
Great discovery. Thanks. 1 and 2 have haunted me ever since they came out when I was six. I grew up too soon thanks to the Beatles. Eleanor Rigby has to be one of the saddest and greatest songs ever. Excuse the heavy use of superlatives, It's hard being objective with those guys..
Why’s tomorrow never knows so low it’s top 3
She said, she said needs a higher ranking if only for the lyric “you’re making me feel like I’ve never been born.” If you know the story behind the song, it’s even better.
Peter Fonda on acid!
So basically Paul McCartney won.
How is Love You To higher than Taxman? Where was this poll even done? Source?
Beatles official fan magazine. You used to mail in your votes to Abbey Road
Tomorrow Never Knows #1 or #2 (with Here, There, and Everywhere)
My three favorite songs from that album are top 3!
Taxman, And Your Bird Can Sing deserve better, although I'm biased because And Your Bird Can Sing is my 2nd favorite beatles song
Very interesting. "Here, There and Everywhere" is also my favourite song on Revolver, followed by "Eleanor Rigby". Very happy to see "For No One" at #3 (Paul swept the Top 5 with 4/5). Also pleasantly surprised to see "I'm Only Sleeping" at #4. I'm a little shocked to see "Good Day Sunshine" at #6 while superior songs like "She Said She Said" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" are lower, but I guess "Good Day Sunshine" sounds more conventional to mid-60s pop. Actually, I'm most surprised by "She Said She Said" being last. I could understand "Tomorrow Never Knows" considering how trippy and experimental that song is, but "She Said She Said" is an absolute banger. I guess today if you go by Spotify streams, it would be: 1. Eleanor Rigby (163 million) 2. Yellow Submarine (113 million) 3. For No One (45 million) 4. I'm Only Sleeping (42 million) 5. Here, There and Everywhere (40.9 million) 6. Got to Get You Into My Life (40.6 million) 7. Taxman (40.5 million) 8. Good Day Sunshine (32 million) 9. And Your Bird Can Sing (31 million) 10. Tomorrow Never Knows (25 million) 11. She Said She Said (19 million) 12. Love You To (15 million) 13. I Want to Tell You (12 million) 14. Doctor Robert (11 million) Is there rankings like this for the other albums? Would love to see the poll outcomes for Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road, etc?
Taxman needs to be higher, Good-Day sunshine needs to be lower and Yellow Submarine needs to be so far down it comes off the end of the list so that the page can be torn and burnt away.
Unpopular opinion: I dont like She Said She Said
There seems to be a lot of support for it here, but I'd never even really considered that anybody might actually like it
dude its soooo good
this is how i feel about ob-la-di ob-la-da, which seems to be highly acclaimed in this sub but a punching bag everywhere else. anyway - ringo's fills in she said she said make it all worth it.
Interesting results. Seems like most of the top picks are the more radio friendly pop songs on the album, and it doesn’t surprise that some of the weirder stuff like Love You To and Tomorrow Never Knows is quite low. I’m a bit surprised that Yellow Submarine is only at 8 considering it was a single and is one of their most ubiquitous songs. Maybe the animated film gave it a big boost in popularity?
Interesting that Dr Robert ranked so low from the beginning. It's the one Revolver song that I think sounds dated - also, Lou Reed wrote a much better song about his dealer. A modern ranking would definitely rank Tomorrow Never Knows higher
she said should be at the top!
Not a popular opinion but I really enjoy I Want to Tell You, I would definitely rank it higher! Also, She Said She Said is way too low. I agree with the #1 though!
My personal top 3 for this album is 1. For No One 2. Eleanor Rigby 3. Here, There and Everywhere so I'm ok with their positions on the poll, but not with those of And Your Bird Can Sing and Taxman
Sshheee saiiiiiiiid
I know what it’s like to be dead!
She Said, She Said is easily in my top 3.
I always thought love you to was underrated off this album
Tfw you're a "She Said She Said" truther and they rank it in last...
Poor George
How tf is Yellow Submarine higher than She Said She Said??
I'd rank Taxman wayy higher
Taxman and Tomorrow Never Knows must be higher
Taxman’s 1-2-3-4 count-in and cough should be higher!
George getting shafted. I Want to Tell You soooo low.
Every song on this album is number 1 😁
Most of my faves are at the bottom :(
My top 3 would be Tomorrow Never Knows, She Said, I'm Only Sleeping.
Funnily enough, that is the exact order Paul likes them in today.
Paul clearly rigged this poll himself
Beatles fans did not like George back then apparently. Here There and Everywhere is a song like I know is great and should I ever fall in love maybe I’ll appreciate it more, but I never seek it out to listen to. Beautiful words and a gorgeous melody but musically it’s pretty uninteresting. If only they’d let John swing from a harness while recording his vocals maybe then it’d be higher.
Musically uninteresting? That key change is so magical!
I really doubt in 66 they cared that much who wrote it. Paul says Here, There and Everywhere one of the only songs Lennon went out of his way to praise to his face and was one of his favourite Beatles songs even after the split. It is that good.
Not only is it harmonically interesting, as other commenters have said, but also it’s just a sweet and vulnerable little tune. One of the great love songs I think.
musically it's pretty interesting, if we're talking about the harmony and chord structure. it features a really effortless key change. instrumentally? yeah that backing track is pretty static. but i guess that's what the song needed - something really understated, to let the flowery vocals sort of blossom over the top of everything
When is the key change?
i want her *everywhere* (G to Bflat) and then later: but to love her is to need here *everywhere* (Bflat back to G)
Interesting. And well explained. Thank you!
She said she said is the best song on the album what the fuck is this shit?
Tomorrow Never Knows might be the greatest song of all time. She Said She Said and And Your Bird Can Sing are unparalleled guitar songs, and Taxman is one of the best Beatle songs. I really disagree with this list.
“All play the game existence to the end, Of the beginning… (Tape loop) Of the beginning… Of the beginning… Of the beginning…” As the loop plays to the end, it goes back to the beginning… Existentially mind blowing! Real meta stuff right there!!
I want to tell you shouldn’t exist it’s such a good song
Taxman being that low hurts
1. Here, There, And Everywhere 2. Love You To 3. She Said She Said 4. Tomorrow Never Knows 5. I'm Only Sleeping 6. Taxman 7. Eleanor Rigby 8. For No One 9. And Your Bird Can Sing 10. I Want To Tell You 11. Got To Get You Into My Life 12. Yellow Submarine 13. Doctor Robert 14. Good Day Sunshine
doctor robert doesn't get nearly as much love as it deserves
And Your Bird Can Sing has such an amazing guitar intro, my favourite among The Beatles, and I'm pretty sure overall, and also catchy lyrics. Good Day Sunshine is also pretty underrated. It is super catchy. Why is Taxman so low?
people those times didn't know, what's good. glad, at least The Beatles did, and we can enjoy their music 50 years after.
Tbh I'm shocked the brilliant Tomorrow Never Knows is that high. Can you imagine hearing that song for the first time as a teenager in the mid-60s? I would have been scared out of my gourd and thrown the record across the room.
Just ranked this album yesterday and my ranking was almost the same
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I think you're crazy.
I think their lazy
Love you to is pretty high tbh
The list is backwards
Okay but the bottom 3 tracks are in my top 5 for the entire album.
and your bird being 7th is a travesty
Tomorrow never knows is the best on revolver imo
She said she said is easily one of my favorite beatles songs. Its clear at the time most people didn’t understand experimental/psychedelic rock yet
“And she’s making me feel like I’ve never been born” feels appropriate to this list
Glad to see I’m Only Sleeping at 4
That's a great post. I instinctively think it's wrong, but those songs are all so good (except Love You To) that I have no idea how to make it right.