This is simply a great, great album, still not my favorite Beatle record, but great. It is certainly where they crossed a line. The period from 1965 to 1966 is my favorite period in all of music history, and probably the most important. When you take the albums by The Beatles and Bob Dylan in chronological order and throw in Pet Sounds you can really hear music and society as whole change: Dylan: Bringing it All Back Home 3/22/65, Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted 8/30/65, Beatles: Rubber Soul 12/3/65, Beach Boys: Pet Sounds 5/16/66. Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde 5/16/66, Beatles: Revolver 8/5/66. Then of course the whole thing culminates in 1967 with Sgt. Pepper's. That's a whole lot of change in a year. It's no wonder that all five of the the top 5 albums on this list are from here.
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Apr 20, 2014, 7:24:40 PM
dean squishman - For the longest time I thought this album was a sort of compilation greatest hits by the Beatles. Now it feels like a warm up for Sgt Peppers----George giving us a taste of his Sitar on Love you to, Paul showing glimmers of things to come, the band giving a flavor of the old Beatles sound on Here, there and everywhere---and the album ending on Tomorrow never knows ---a definitive sound for every Hollywood drug trip dream sequence to follow. A better name for this album might have been Evolver. What else can you say about this one