How influential was the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows"

[gryphon]

I think you have posted an interesting post here but it does need a little support in areas

• "the saccharine pop of She Loves You" coy and twee maybe but saccharine it was not
  

I think if you listen again to this you were here a band working under restriction of an EMI producer but still able to project drive and energy .........listen to the song's guitar work and to the vocal punch...................however, you had to be there to realize how different this was from what was in the charts/music scene at the time.

• "backwards drum loops" I have studied the Beatles for along time and as far as I'm aware , that is the one thing that is not tampered with. Ringo essentially did that live............what you here is the clever production work of George Martin....I have one or two outtakes on bootleg or Anthology and they show Ringo is able to reproduce that essentially with a few differences each time............most of the other things are tampered with but not that..............there are one or two drum parts on the tape loops used to assemble the whole things but the core of the drumming is Ringo!
  

• group's interest in transcendental meditation At the time of recording this was not mainstream with The Beatles.............in 66 John was into comparative religions and hence the " The Book Of The Dead" references in the lyrics.............The transcendental things were not yet ripe and followed in 1966..........incidentally the first influences came from the Beatles girlfriends at the time!
  

• Serious academics who study the 60s music phenomenon point to another rack as having the basics of the things you describe as well and this may also be a candidate...........Its All Too Much" is just as strong a candidate for he title and is actually of he correct date.........musically.However George has played this down at times but it does actually ave many of the characteristics under discussion here.