Revolver - Most Influential Lp?

It may be stretching it to consider Revolver the most influential lp -
but here is my argument.
It was - perhaps- the first 'concept' album and that became the
dominant format for a very long time.

Rizzo...

How was it a concept album? Members of the Beatles even pretty much denied that Sgt Pepper was a concept album, if that one wasn't then I can't see Revolver being one ...

NaturalD...

Johnny Cash released a few "concept" albums before Revolver (most
notably, Ballads of the True West)

The other aspect of the lp that makes it potentially the most
influential lp - is that it was a tremendously experimental lp in a
time when there really weren't so many. After that, the music hit the
fan.

What is your take on it?

Salvador Astucia...

Rev. Love...

Revolver is my favorite album! I love it more than Pepper. However
sometimes topics can change. Normal conversations often do when they
spur on conversaton that is in direct relation to what brought up that
topic in the first place.

Anyway, sorry to get off track, but it's hard not to give opinions on
these things.

Rev Love

I think other rock bands of the sixties were influenced a great deal by
Revolver. In my opinion, it's much better than Pepper because it mixes
the earlier twangy guitar sounds of the Beatles with the more
progressive stuff. I think there is a lot of confusion about Revolver
because there was an American version (Capitol) and a British version.
The British version is much better. The American version dropped
several Lennon tunes which made it sound almost like a solo McCartney
effort. (I remember thinking after listening to it when it first came
out: "I'm sick of this guy's voice.") For the longest time I didn't
care for Revolver because I'd only heard the American version. Then I
heard the British version, years later, and realized it was a great
album. Also, the cover artwork is absolutely top-notch. In my view, it
was Revolver that turned rock'n'roll into an artform, more than any
other album before or after.

Jeff...

I never considered anything a "concept album".....because every album
has a concept..for the
album to be recorded in the first place. A concept is just a plan for
an album or a painting or whatever to be finished..just like when ever
a post is written..it has a concept behind it..or the
post wouldn't have been written in the first place. Without any
concept...no work would be started..nor completed..so I find the
question to be totally absurd. No offense to you. This silly question
has been written a thousand times over again.

bendipa...

I don't think it was a concept album as such. The term hadn't come into
existence at that stage. What the Beatles set out to do in early 1966
was to make an album that experimented with sound and move away from
doing straight love songs which is largely what they had done up to
then. But whereas McCartney still relied on doing these songs, Lennon
never wrote another ' boy meets girl' song

The first song they recorded for Revolver was 'Tomorrow never knows',
even though it was the last track on the LP. That alone was completely
different to anything they had previously (or any other group)
recorded. It also probably triggered the psychedelic movement once the
album was released, but that didn't really take off until 1967. Even
the use of sitar on 'Love you to' was revolutionary in its time., as
was the use of a Stax like soul band backing on 'Got to get you into my
life'. Finally the album sleeve was the first of its kind to depict
artwork instead of a photo of the group, which was the norm for all
groups up to then.

So yes, Revolver was certainly very influential in more ways than one.

Bip Bop...

I agree! They knew what thry wanted, and they went after it, and GOT
it!