Revolver

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Besides, it's not as though the Beatle police are going to come around to your place, and confiscate all your existing copies of Revolver, and force you to accept this new-fangled rendering. Which, incidentally, was an album no one was really sure could ever properly be remixed, due to some of the issues described above with instrumented being lumped together on a single track. The Beatles’ career has been so exhaustively documented, chronicled and bootlegged, it can feel as if there aren’t many surprises left to uncover. It was remixed back in 1999 for the “Yellow Submarine Songtrack”, and that mix was a revelation, the first time the strings were truly freed from being shackled together. The biggest thing I was worried about from the use of this new technology was in regards to any anomalies and artifacts left behind on the music, and I’m happy there are not any obvious ones to report.

While Revolver doesn’t necessarily have the kaleidoscopic depths of the 2017 remix of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, that’s no slight. From “Taxman” to “Tomorrow Never Knows,” The Beatles’ Revolver has been newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and Sam Okell, and sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes with audio brought forth in stunning clarity with the help of cutting-edge technology developed by the award-winning sound team at Peter Jackson’s WingNut Films Productions Ltd.

Some 57 years later it is still a remarkable album in terms of songcraft, but those of us who weren’t around at the time probably can’t fully appreciate how paradigm-bending and genre-warping it was when first released. But we also get to see the alternate cover art by longtime photographer/collaborator Robert Friedman, who had done many of their album cover photos including the iconic one for With The Beatles (a. Of course, a few of these were on the "Anthology" series back in the 90's, but many are unique to this set. A literal lifelong Beatles fan, Mark confirms one of his three earliest life memories from his childhood is of watching The Beatles debut on The Ed Sullivan Show with his family in 1964. Let’s go back to the old stereo mix which was crafted by original Beatles producer George Martin in 1966.

You’re right, that guitar solo in “Got to Get You Into My Life” is marvelous, and it does get overshadowed a bit in the new mix. A Lennon home demo of She Said She Said with a tweaked melody is stormier, while a more ascetic Here, There and Everywhere feels like the narrator is pining after someone unattainable. Beatles fans will never agree on what is the band’s finest album, but “Revolver” began to replace “Sgt.There are a couple of places where instruments have been kept fairly close together in the mix, and I’ve wondered if that wasn’t done to disguise the fact they couldn’t be satisfactorily separated. S. The Beatles were becoming good at overcoming these limitations, filling up all four tracks of a tape, then mixing them to a single track so they could have three more for additional overdubs. Pepper albums via special "demixing" technology developed at Abbey Road Studios, but wanted to wait until the software improved enough to be used in such a project. I could go on all day about what a milestone in musical history Revolver was, but it must be conceded that as mighty as it was, Revolver did have one major flaw – an absolutely atrocious stereo mix. Previous boxsets from Universal or Capitol used Rainbo pressing and suffered through poor pressings- particularly the solo John Lennon titles.