Revolver

On August 5, 1966, the Beatles released their 7th studio album Revolver. The Revolver album was one of the Beatles better known albums and was number one on the billboard chart for seven weeks. The Beatles were a big hit in America and in London.  Before the Revolver album the Beatles were already touring the world and playing sold out stadiums. Beatlemania as some would call it , took the USA by storm.  The Beatles were use to having their songs on the top charts by the time they made the Revolver album. What made Revolver different from there pervious albums, was that in the process of making the Revolver  album the Beatles experimented with some non-musical influences such as LSD. The use of LSD made the Beatles makes a more psychedelic rock sound then there earlier pop rock sound. A good example of this psychedelic rock is the song she said she said. The Beatles used the studio as an instrument in one of their tracks on the revolver album. They used the sound of the studio room to give the  present of the studio so the  listener could feel like they were there with them. This was an unheard of thing back when they recorded the album. One of the innovations found on the Revolver record was on the song Eleanor Rigby, this song featured nothing but a singer and a string section playing all the parts and even the rhythm of the song. The use of the string section in this song was unheard of in the 1960's  for a pop song. Another innovation the Revolver Album had was the use of compression of the drum set. There was no other band in that era that had a compressed drum sound, which is a very common practice these days. The revolver album has shown me a lot about how a record can sound amazing if you are not afraid to try something new. This album has also taught me that you can use different instruments to play the rhythm part then just drums and that a song doesn't always have to have the same instruments in it as the pervious song did.


References;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver_(album)#Contributions_and_inspirations