Revolver - the Beatles' biggest experiment
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2024
- The songs on Revolver use fewer chords than any other Beatles album. How did the Beatles overcome this limitation? [When I say other Beatles albums, I only count the Lennon/McCartney + Harrison originals on these].
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Greatest rock album of all-time.
I love this album
1:14 All-time favorite Beatles song right there.
And this isn't even skimming the surface of how this album was experimental.
To be fair, I think it does skim the surface. But, as you say there was a lot more going on.
Well, using fewer chords creates a droning effect, which is a feature of this album
Dude,
You are overthinking it. I am sure that the Beatles did not get together and discuss the fact that they want to use the least amount of chords of any album on Revolver. There is no indication of that thought process in any of the over 100 Beatle books, magazines, and DVD/videos that I own. As Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Nice try.
Good theory, though!
Not quite actually because Paul said that he and John attempted to write a one-chord song for these sessions but only John succeeded in Tomorrow Only Knows -- Paul had to settle for a 2 chords in Paperback Writer. As for George, being at that time heavily influenced by Indian music it was only natural that he would use a minimum of chords in his songs since there are no chords in Indian music.
It’s not “far less chords”. It’s about MODAL music. Indian music is modal; the jazz geniuses who’d previously been doing amazing things with harmonization were also going modal.
Fewer chords, not less. Good video tho'
The only pop rock album that I like its songs individually, but I dislike it as a whole. To me, Revolver is a nice collection of singles, but a bleak album.
And by the way... I never liked it the art cover work by Voormann.