Just like the pop your ears make when adjusting to higher elevations or how a praying mantis’s old skin pops off when it grows its wings, the Beatles album Revolver had the same effect to the world of music. As soon as the first song “Taxman” fires off you know these four young troubadours have come with blazing ammunition. After the first blazing rocker the guitars disappear to give way to the song of “Eleanor Rigby” a Paul McCartney track musing on “all the lonely people” backed up by a string octet and no guitars. The other half of the great writing duo, John Lennon, begins to experiment with the effect of guitars recorded and then played back backwards on the songs “I’m Only Sleeping” and “Tomorrow Never Know’s”. This is also the album where George Harrison’s love for Indian sitars become evident on the song “Love You To”. Ringo’s song “Yellow Submarine” (written by Lennon and McCartney) first appeared on this album as well, which would inspire the Beatles psychedelic cartoon movie under the same name. And if all that wasn’t enough, this was the first album of theirs that brought horns to some of the songs. Finally, the album ends on a brilliant note with John Lennon’s psychedelic lyrics of “Tomorrow Never Knows”, solidifying the Beatles position of outpacing the rest of the competition. With a single stroke this album effectively burst the bubble of the bubble gum pop world just like the shot of a Revolver.
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