Revolver was one of the Eighties’ most influential album releases, up there with Thriller and Legend and Straight Outta Compton, up there with 1999 and Appetite for Destruction and the Big Chill soundtrack. It might sound strange to call Revolver an Eighties album, but like Legend or The Big Chill, it created new ways to access pop history as a living thing. You can trace the whole Britpop explosion of the Nineties (see Oasis, Pulp, Blur, Radiohead, The Verve, and countless others) to the revisionary experience that went with the 1987 Revolver CD. It also begat a more analytical breed of
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