Comments on: The Album of No Return http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/ culture blogging for the good of the planet Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:42:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: newcritics - » Steve Gilliard, 1966-2007 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-4845 newcritics - » Steve Gilliard, 1966-2007 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:37:04 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-4845 [...] I didn’t know Steve very well personally, but he was a brother in the virtual sense. His voice was entirely his - a true iconoclast with a strong, unyielding point of view. We met a couple of times. Mainly we corresponded in email, in comments, on his blog, on my blog. Just before his illness, he agreed to join our little cultural blogging group here. I treasure the fact that his name appears there as an author. He wrote about The Magnificent Seven and its place in cold war culture, and Revolver - to Steve, the Beatles’ true breakthrough record. [...] [...] I didn’t know Steve very well personally, but he was a brother in the virtual sense. His voice was entirely his - a true iconoclast with a strong, unyielding point of view. We met a couple of times. Mainly we corresponded in email, in comments, on his blog, on my blog. Just before his illness, he agreed to join our little cultural blogging group here. I treasure the fact that his name appears there as an author. He wrote about The Magnificent Seven and its place in cold war culture, and Revolver - to Steve, the Beatles’ true breakthrough record. [...]

]]> By: Kit Stolz http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-710 Kit Stolz Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:16:51 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-710 That's all? I kinda agree, but...more please! (For a chaotic but entertaining discussion of this song, check out: http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=songinfo&song_id=409 That’s all? I kinda agree, but…more please!

(For a chaotic but entertaining discussion of this song, check out:
http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=songinfo&song_id=409

]]> By: Tom Watson http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-614 Tom Watson Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:57:30 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-614 Hey Jude, too...and yeah, their experimentation clearly was a huge part of this. Hey Jude, too…and yeah, their experimentation clearly was a huge part of this.

]]> By: Slappy http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-612 Slappy Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:09:53 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-612 "The pop was strangling them. They had no public life." How much of the Beatles new sound was due to their increasing drug use? I think it had a lot to do with it. Experimentation doesn't always create masterpieces but in this case it did. Tom W, "Rain" is at the top of my list of favorite songs that never made it onto an album. “The pop was strangling them. They had no public life.”

How much of the Beatles new sound was due to their increasing drug use? I think it had a lot to do with it. Experimentation doesn’t always create masterpieces but in this case it did.

Tom W, “Rain” is at the top of my list of favorite songs that never made it onto an album.

]]> By: Tom Watson http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-609 Tom Watson Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:52:15 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-609 Love Revolver - my favorite Beatles record. Funnily enough, recently read the Beatles biography by Bob Spitz and there's a lot of truth to what Steve says. No question that Rubber Soul was very different, but Revolver was the leap - and think about it preceeding Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane release. What a period of productivity. I think the songs on Revolver are actually better than the songs on Sgt. Pepper, and I play it far more often. Strange from our modern p.o.v that Strawberry Fields didn't appear on an album, but such was the custom in those days - if you had a single, out it went, alone. Love Revolver - my favorite Beatles record. Funnily enough, recently read the Beatles biography by Bob Spitz and there’s a lot of truth to what Steve says. No question that Rubber Soul was very different, but Revolver was the leap - and think about it preceeding Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane release. What a period of productivity. I think the songs on Revolver are actually better than the songs on Sgt. Pepper, and I play it far more often. Strange from our modern p.o.v that Strawberry Fields didn’t appear on an album, but such was the custom in those days - if you had a single, out it went, alone.

]]> By: Viscount LaCarte http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-608 Viscount LaCarte Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:04:08 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-608 <em>Because the Beatles had nowhere else to go. The pop was strangling them. They had no public life. They needed to make changes and this was the start.</em> Agreed, but I think it actually <em>started</em> with "Rubber Soul," and then expanded upon with the "Paperback Writer" single. On "Revolver" it took off like a rocket. If you like this post and this album, you might be interested in Neddie's take on the same subject, <a href="http://byneddiejingo.blogspot.com/2006/08/when-im-in-middle-of-dream.html" rel="nofollow">"When I'm In The Middle of a Dream."</a> Because the Beatles had nowhere else to go. The pop was strangling them. They had no public life. They needed to make changes and this was the start.

Agreed, but I think it actually started with “Rubber Soul,” and then expanded upon with the “Paperback Writer” single.

On “Revolver” it took off like a rocket.

If you like this post and this album, you might be interested in Neddie’s take on the same subject, “When I’m In The Middle of a Dream.”

]]> By: John Baker http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-606 John Baker Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:44:30 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/02/14/the-album-of-no-return/#comment-606 <em>Revolver</em> was seminal, no doubt about it. But these things happen incrementally, don't they. We'd already had Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man and In My Life on the <em>Rubber Soul</em> album. So <em>Revolver</em>, with the startling Eleonor Rigby and the innovative Tomorrow Never Knows were not a complete surprise. OK, the signs were all there, and hindsight is a wonderful thing, but could anything have really prepared us for <em>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</em>? Revolver was seminal, no doubt about it. But these things happen incrementally, don’t they. We’d already had Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man and In My Life on the Rubber Soul album. So Revolver, with the startling Eleonor Rigby and the innovative Tomorrow Never Knows were not a complete surprise.
OK, the signs were all there, and hindsight is a wonderful thing, but could anything have really prepared us for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?

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