A day after this turns two, I've got to the 500 consecutive day where I've posted a Song of the Day on here. That might as well be signposted with The Beatles as anything else. I'm not particularly one to knock them though sometimes McCartney's unrelenting show business-ness gets to me and I never care much for the songs they chuck at Ringo every album.
Lennon generally does it for me and Revolver is the album of theirs I like most, so here are the five songs he fronts on that record. He seems to be searching for enlightenment in some ways in all five of these and as I'm stumbling towards fifty and still searching around in that respect they seem to fit.
I can't really find fault in any of the songs here. They're melodic and concise and consistently thoughtful. Even Tomorrow Never Knows doesn't break three minutes which is remarkable given the statement it's trying to make.
She Said, She Said, Dr Robert and And Your Bird Can Sing, seem to look out at the world in all its strangeness and ridiculousness and try to find some peace within it while I'm Only Sleeping and Tomorrow Never Knows search within for some kind of lasting calm.
Lennon, as the great cynic, probably knew he wasn't really likely to find that, at least in this world. All five songs stand up very well to my ears to the fifty plus years that have passed since their initial release. So, good on The Beatles, and onto something else.
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