I recently picked up the Giles Martin Pepper cut thinking that a different mix might swing me back towards it but it was pretty much the same. I found myself thinking Mr Kite, A Day In The Life and Lucy In The Sky were outstanding and the rest was OK. I enjoyed it but no more than whatever I'd listened to beforehand.I don’t agree with you on Pepper’s, I like it, but I also completely see where you’re coming from. I’ve never understood it being lauded as their work of genius or the number 1 album of all time, they bettered it 5 times by my reckoning.
It’s one of those albums that I think is more impressive in it being groundbreaking and a great technical achievement than particularly the most perfect musical album give the ground themselves and George Martin were breaking in using the studio as an instrument.
Also substitute Rubber Soul for Revolver and add in Magical Mystery Tour and those are the four that I pull out more often than not when a Beatles mood takes me.
But Revolver! I think Tomorrow Never Knows might be one of my favourite tracks by any band EVER!