Podcast 1

Check out my podcast on the Beatles album Revolver here:

MH2 Podcast1 Beatles Revolver

Welcome to Podcast #1. It is about the biggest band in history, The Beatles. My name is Jason Miller and I’m an up and coming music producer for Shout7 Productions. I’m discussing the Revolver album’s influence on Pop music, exotic instrumentation, lyrical themes, and tape loops and found sounds.

The Beatles’ sound prior to this was very fun loving and light hearted. They had done cover songs and popular songs that drove the commercial sales of that day. The sounds we consider to be oldies. Songs like: I Want Hold Your Hand, Can’t Buy Me Love, Drive My Car, and Help! Speaking of covers, the Beatles have had their fair share of covers done of their songs. It is thought that the Rubber Soul album was leaning into this new sound for these 60’s legends.

There was a full-out use of a unique instrument called the Sitar from India that was used on a couple of songs on the Revolver record. This gave them a very different feel than people were familiar with. Kevin Max, from D.C. Talk released a song called My Existence with similar sounds to the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows in 2001, 35 years later. It also has a very Beatlesque sound because it has euro-pop based instrumentation and style.

Eleanor Rigby and Here, There, and Everywhere are lyrically poetic and not just the standard, run-of-the-mill songs. Eleanor Rigby was a song written by a famous, good looking, young man about a poor old woman. It had a great amount of appeal to it because he had it all and was worried about her. Here, There, and Everywhere was written as a song that would inevitably be a classic. It uses the title words poetically in the verses as well as the chorus.

Finally, back to Tomorrow Never Knows. This song incorporates the use of tape loops and found sounds. The Beatles went home one night and came back with a bunch of sounds. They reversed some of them and utilized this new technology to create a new way of making music.

I’m Jason Miller from Shout7 Productions. Thanks for joining me for my Podcast 1 on the Beatles and their remarkable Revolver record.