That's some great shots of Oasis. Seriously though, the top one is one of my fave, taken by Robert Whittaker if I recall correctly. Shorty after the mustache period began when they started to look much older.
If anything, I would have suggested keeping Paperback Writer as the single (love it as an A-side), but putting the sing-a-long Yellow Submarine as the b-side. Then, Rain could go on Revolver, and with the animated film soundtrack a couple years later, fans could get YS on an LP for the first time. I like this: 1. Tomorrow Never Knows 2. Got to Get You Into My Life 3. I'm Only Sleeping 4. Eleanor Rigby 5. Love You To 6. Rain 7. Good Day Sunshine 8. Taxman 9. She Said She Said 10. Dr. Robert 11. For No One 12. I Want to Tell You 13. Here There and Everywhere 14. And Your Bird Can Sing
I love Oasis myself, especially What's The Story Morning Glory which is a brilliant album. Noel is an excellent song writer and Liam a great front man. Probably a minority opinion here though
This is the right order, of course! Burnt into my brain. Side 1 01 Good Day Sunshine 02 And Your Bird Can Sing 03 Doctor Robert 04 I Want To Tell You 05 Taxman 06 I'm Only Sleeping 07 Yellow Submarine Side 2 08 Eleanor Rigby 09 Here, There and Everywhere 10 For No One 11 Got To Get You Into My Life 12 Love You To 13 She Said She Said 14 Tomorrow Never Knows
If the Here There and Everywhere outtake mix (with backing vocals flown in at the end) is anything to go by, my answer is “yes it can.” The way the backing vocals were presented, and how Ringo’s exquisite toms resonate clearly show what can be done. The “strings only” mix of Eleanor Rigby on Anthology 2 is quite nice too, perhaps the most natural sounding presentation of the strings yet (and the perfect amount of echo). I say that as someone who is generally not opposed to remixes. I have preferences as to which ones I feel are successful or not, of course.
My Revolver: Taxman Eleanor Rigby I'm Only Sleeping Love You To Here, There and Everywhere Yellow Submarine She Said She Said Good Day Sunshine And Your Bird Can Sing For No One Doctor Robert I Want to Tell You Got to Get You into My Life Tomorrow Never Knows
It's a monster of a song. That's why it was a stand alone single and all the better for that. It's some times easy to forget that for much of the Beatles career singles were more important than albums, and were always as important. Yellow Submarine is just as important though - British psychedelia at its very best - and the fact that people miss this 60 years later, shows just how subversive and multi-layered it is. Pure Beatles genius. Dr. Robert I love, but its a pieces of country boogie, hidden by its drug hinting lyrics and studio production. It's 'What Goes On' with acid (or maybe pot!)
It could easily replace any track on the album - but it was given the much more important role (at least in 1966) as a stand alone single.
...and mine, I added and re-sequenced for a CD I burned 1. - Paperback Writer 2. - Eleanor Rigby 3. - I'm Only Sleeping 4. - Here, There And Everywhere 5. - Yellow Submarine 6. - She Said She Said 7. - Rain 8. - Good Day Sunshine 9. - And Your Bird Can Sing 10. - For No One 11. - Doctor Robert 12. - I Want To Tell You 13. - Got To Get You Into My Life 14. - Tomorrow Never Knows (hit eject) 15. - Taxman 16. - Love You To
If we are doing fantasy Revolver line ups, it is a simple matter of replacing Love You To and Taxman respectively with Paperback Writer & Rain. Leave the cool opening count in but time it to work as an intro to Rain.
If you sped the verses up, you would get something not dissimilar to "Bread And Butter" by the Newbeats:
If we're going to go off topic I have to ask a question that may or may not be pertinent to what will happen to the Revolver mono. Here are the waveforms the mono Within You, Without You; from the Mono box on top and from the Pepper box on the bottom It looks like someone cut all the peaks off the mono box version and slightly lowered the volume. My question is why? Here is a comparison of Back in the USSR mono, this time the top version is from the mono on the White Album BD; the bottom is from the Mono box. If what I've read is that the White Album's mono is a flat tape transfer similar to what has been described to be on the Revolver CD box and possibly on the LP as well. Will this be as quiet as the WA box version?
Well George would have like the standalone single that ensued, as I guess you think that Taxman was more worthy than Paperback Writer.
The author of this article actually calls out the Blu-ray in the track order. Hmm.. so this looks promising, maybe... I see he did say "rumoured" so this is not confirmed, but somehow he or someone put it in the track listing. Blu-ray audio Dolby Atmos Mix 5.1 Mix Possibly the mono transfer
Here's a crack at it: Taxman Eleanor Rigby I'm Only Sleeping Paperback Writer Love You To Here, There and Everywhere Yellow Submarine She Said She Said Good Day Sunshine And Your Bird Can Sing For No One Doctor Robert I Want to Tell You Got to Get You into My Life Rain Tomorrow Never Knows
I'm planning to get the SDE if there's a Blu-ray. If there isn't, I'll get the 2-CD version, and Apple will lose some money.
I agree, I always though Revolver should've started with Tomorrow Never Knows. Having that as the opener would have had even more impact upon hearing the album. And I also would put Got To Get You Into My Life second. Your idea of swapping Rain with Yellow Submarine to make a double A side single is really good. Besides that, I would shake things up overall. You have to have sunshine after the rain, don't you? 1. Tomorrow Never Knows 2. Got To Get You Into My Life 3. I Want To Tell You 4. Rain 5. Good Day Sunshine 6. And Your Bird Can Sing 7. Love You To 8. Taxman 9. For No One 10. I'm Only Sleeping 11. Dr. Robert 12. Here, There and Everywhere 13. She Said, She Said 14. Eleanor Rigby
I love all Beatles LPs as released. That's how they were. I don't see any need or point in changing song selections or track orders at all. The canon is what it is (and probably one of the most perfect in recorded music history). So why alter anything?!?
