# What's the best song off of "Revolver"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708 "2010-09-22T22:16:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/21 "2010-09-23T00:51:21Z")
“She Said, She Said” I really like the guitar opening. And the lines “She said you don’t understand what I said I said no no no you’re wrong.” Just like real life. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/22 "2010-09-23T00:54:00Z")
“Got to Get You Into My Life”-mainly because I nostalgically remember it being played on the radio when I was 4-5 shortly after the album came out. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/23 "2010-09-23T00:59:03Z")
Quick pick (because if I think about it, I’ll go crazy): _I’m Only Sleeping_. _Keepin’ an eye on the world goin’ by my window…_ ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/24 "2010-09-23T02:35:02Z")
Please don’t spoil my day, I’m miles away. Another 6- or 7-way tie for me, really. And I love playing “Love You To” on the banjo, so there. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/25 "2010-09-23T03:46:46Z")
I went with Tomorrow Never Knows barely ahead of I’m Only Sleeping, Taxman, Elenor Rigby and Love You To. That shuddering drum part is so damned cool and I love the vibe of the song. Incidentally the mashup of TNK and Within You Without You is probably the highlight of the _Love_ album. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/26 "2010-09-23T11:22:49Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > > [@WordMan](#): > > > > Yep - I skipped over TNK because it was the obvious choice in terms of blowing open the whole psychedelic scene, but it doesn’t bring the smile to my face the way I’m Only Sleeping does. Same with the descending riff on She Said - every time I hear them cycle through that riff, I smile. TNK is a song you can’t go wrong with as a choice, however… > > > > I would disagree with your statement about Revolver vs. Rubber Soul - the Conventional Wisdom choice for best Beatles is Sgt. Peppers; deep hipster fans and other middle-era Beatles nuts go with Revolver and hardcore power-poppers go with Rubber Soul since that album basically invented the Power Pop genre in one fell swoop. The Power-Poppers then go on to lament the tragedies of Badfinger and Big Star, the failure of the Raspberries to get and stay huge, Cheap Trick’s underappreciation, etc. - all of which I agree with (I love power pop), but not obsessively so. > > > > …just sayin’ 😉 > > :eek: > > My hat (the one I don’t wear anymore) is off to you sir. Well played. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/27 "2010-09-23T23:56:22Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > And I love playing “Love You To” on the banjo, so there. I think I need to hear this. (Seriously, my dad is in a bluegrass band.) This might just be the most awesome cover ever. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/28 "2010-09-24T00:43:22Z")
“Got to Get You into My Life” has the edge, though I love “Taxman” almost as much. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/29 "2010-09-24T00:50:35Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “Got to Get You into My Life” has the edge, though I love “Taxman” almost as much. As I said upthread, even though I didn’t vote for it, I’m glad this song is doing so well. On any album without “Tomorrow Never Knows” (or “She Said She Said” or “Eleanor Rigby” or “For No One” or…) this would be considered a classic track. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/30 "2010-09-24T00:53:56Z")
I chose _She Said, She Said_, but really, I could have gone with _ER_, _Got to Get You Into My Life_, _And Your Bird Can Sing_ and _I’m Only Sleeping_ and it would have been just the same. Although I had both _Sgt. Pepper’s_ and _Abbey Road_ long before this one, it has become easily my favorite Beatles album and one of my top ten faves of all time. It really was the junction between the 3-minute-and-a-bit pop machine that came before, and the increasingly elaborate psychedelia that came after. No particular theme that I can see, just one concise, brilliant tune after another. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/31 "2010-09-24T02:58:08Z")
I voted _For No One_. Very few songs tug on my gut like that one. When I was young I would have picked ER. Got to Get You Into My Life and I’m Only Sleeping were also in the running. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/32 "2010-09-24T04:11:38Z")
> [@Lilacs](#): > > > [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > > > And I love playing “Love You To” on the banjo, so there. > > I think I need to hear this. (Seriously, my dad is in a bluegrass band.) > > This might just be the most awesome cover ever. I could point you to a banjo version of [Within You, Without You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKYAOEa2I8g&feature=related), but you **don’t** need to hear that. (You also don’t need to hear banjoey [“Birthday”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUZi7NZbmGk&feature=related), [“Yesterday”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhudI9LMcSk&feature=related), [“Revolution No. 9”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IncUO_OCNs&feature=related), [“Helter Skelter”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FJmWdLi60&feature=related), [“Imagine”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYyaVpeeXX0&feature=related), or [“The End”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8T2QcZyk8&feature=related). So don’t click on them. Really. I’m warning you!) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/33 "2010-09-24T04:43:14Z")
I picked _Here, There, and Everywhere_, but it was almost a 7-way tie. Man, there was some great music on that album! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/34 "2010-09-24T05:10:09Z")
_Eleanor Rigby_ is the standout track for me. My only complaint about it is I’ve heard it so much I don’t really _need_ to ever hear it again, but it is that good that it deserves to be played as often as it is. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/35 "2010-09-24T07:34:50Z")
Tomorrow Never Knows ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/36 "2010-09-24T07:49:47Z")
‘Eleanor Rigby’, absolutely. The whole record is ridiculously good, though. From _Revolver_ onwards (including _Let It Be_) is one of the greatest run of albums from any artist in history, I think. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/37 "2010-09-24T10:01:25Z")
I chose Got To Get You Into My Life because it’s about weed, huh huh [/Beavis] Anyway, a very difficult choice and really, it could have been any one of 5 or 6 songs off that album for me. As far as the Rubber Soul vs. Revolver thing, I’m still waiting for the great lost Beatles album that they recorded between Rubber Soul and Revolver. They were getting tired of the Kinks and the Who having all the fun with their guitar-bashing, so they hunkered down and got back into Hamburg mode and recorded a proto-grunge-metal album in one beer-and-prellie-fueled all night session. Alas, after they slept it off, they decided no one must ever know, and the tapes have been secreted in a vault, whereabouts unknown. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/38 "2010-09-24T11:53:07Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > I chose Got To Get You Into My Life because it’s about weed, huh huh [/Beavis] > > Anyway, a very difficult choice and really, it could have been any one of 5 or 6 songs off that album for me. > > As far as the Rubber Soul vs. Revolver thing, I’m still waiting for the great lost Beatles album that they recorded between Rubber Soul and Revolver. They were getting tired of the Kinks and the Who having all the fun with their guitar-bashing, so they hunkered down and got back into Hamburg mode and recorded a proto-grunge-metal album in one beer-and-prellie-fueled all night session. Alas, after they slept it off, they decided no one must ever know, and the tapes have been secreted in a vault, whereabouts unknown. Wouldn’t that have been great. Did you ever see the movie [Backbeat](http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Backbeat/60029385) (netflix link) about the early Beatles? The band they used to record the tracks included Dave Grohl on drums and Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs (?) on vocals. Had a great punk energy playing great old tunes. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/39 "2010-09-24T11:56:35Z")
I went with _And Your Bird Can Sing_, because it has two of my favorite Beatles “moments”: the guitar run and the harmonies on the final “tell me that you’ve heard every sound there is.” I’ve heard Revolver enough that much of it has become invisible, but the guitar on Bird still cuts through. (But really I just wanted to give some love to the runt pup; I know that _Eleanor Rigby_ is an unmatched piece of pop songcraft.) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708/40 "2010-09-24T12:29:06Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > > [@An\_Arky](#): > > > > I chose Got To Get You Into My Life because it’s about weed, huh huh [/Beavis] > > > > Anyway, a very difficult choice and really, it could have been any one of 5 or 6 songs off that album for me. > > > > As far as the Rubber Soul vs. Revolver thing, I’m still waiting for the great lost Beatles album that they recorded between Rubber Soul and Revolver. They were getting tired of the Kinks and the Who having all the fun with their guitar-bashing, so they hunkered down and got back into Hamburg mode and recorded a proto-grunge-metal album in one beer-and-prellie-fueled all night session. Alas, after they slept it off, they decided no one must ever know, and the tapes have been secreted in a vault, whereabouts unknown. > > Wouldn’t that have been great. Did you ever see the movie [Backbeat](http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Backbeat/60029385) (netflix link) about the early Beatles? The band they used to record the tracks included Dave Grohl on drums and Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs (?) on vocals. Had a great punk energy playing great old tunes. Yeah… Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum was also involved. He did Paul vocals and Dulli did John vocals. Mike Mills from R.E.M. was also involved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-revolver/554708.md?page=3)