Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| BBC | (favourable) |
| Blender | |
| The Daily Telegraph | |
| Pitchfork Media | (10/10) |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| The Rolling Stone Record Guide | |
| Sputnikmusic | |
In 1997, it was named the third greatest album of all time in a Music of the Millennium poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM.
In 2000, Q magazine placed it at number 1 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The same magazine's readers placed it at number 4 of greatest albums of all time in 2006.
In 2001, the TV network VH1 named it the number 1 greatest album of all time, a position it also achieved in the Virgin All Time Top 1,000 Albums.
In 2002, the readers of Rolling Stone ranked the album the greatest of all time.
In 2006, the album was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.
In 2006, Guitar World readers chose it as the 10th best guitar album of all time.
In 2007, a PopMatters review described the album's content – "the individual members of the greatest band in the history of pop music peaking at the exact same time".
In 2010, Revolver was named as the best pop album of all time by the official newspaper of the Holy See, L'Osservatore Romano.
In 2012, Revolver was voted 3rd on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It placed behind only the Beatles' own Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
Revolver currently holds the number 3 spot on Rate Your Music's top 1000 albums chart.
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