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- Aluminum Christmas Trees: In the post Ronald Reagan-Margaret Thatcher era, it can be hard to believe that "one for you, nineteen for me" is not an exaggeration; the British government in 1966 really did have a 95% top marginal tax rate.note
- Ensemble Dark Horse: For a long time, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was viewed as the Beatles' artistic peak, and it certainly had the biggest social impact at the time of release. However, many Fab Four fans have claimed that Revolver is the better album at least since 1974, when Roy Carr & Tony Tyler first published the quote featured on the main page.note In 1996, Beatlefan magazine published "a 30th anniversary salute" to Revolver with the provocative title "Their Best Album? If You Say Sgt. Pepper, Maybe You'd Better Think Again!" In his book about the LP, Robert Rodriguez calls it "a dark horse within the Beatles' oeuvre".
- Genre Turning Point: The album continued the band's shift toward focusing on albums, pulling the rest of the rock and pop world with them. They also introduced advanced tape manipulation techniques to popular music with tracks like "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Tomorrow Never Knows".
- Harsher in Hindsight: The album's title is a Pun on a type of handgun and the revolving motion of a record as it spins on the turntable, but it can hard not to feel somewhat uncomfortable about it when thinking about how John Lennon would eventually be murdered with a .38 revolver.
- Sweet Dreams Fuel: "Yellow Submarine," especially if you liked it as a kid, evokes an unprecedented feeling of innocence.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: As hard as it is to believe given that it's now considered one of the Beatles' masterpieces, the album got this reaction from the band's original fanbase of teenage girls due to its experimentalism.
- Unintentional Period Piece: In the song "Taxman" British politicians Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are referenced, making it one of the few Beatles songs that directly reference 1960s society. When George later performed the song in concert in 1991 (in what would be released on his Live in Japan album), he updated the lyrics slightly, adding another verse changing the political references to ones more relevant of the era (John Major, Boris Yeltsin, George H. W. Bush).
