Equality - Wailing Souls (The)

Advantages: Innovative, Challenging, Highly Original
Disadvantages: Schizophrenic Mood Changes

...the A-sides) of a song. The darkly psychedelic pop-feel is furthered on “The Caterpillar” and the wonderfully zany “Piggy In The Mirror.” Said Pig in said Mirror is as daft as a hamster playing domino’s! In fact it’s dafter…think of Moira Stewart arm-wrestling a drunken Boris Yeltsin in Dame Maggie Smith’s utility room. That’s the sort of territory “Piggy In The Mirror” resides in. A curiously inimitable vocal, which is in equal parts comedic and tragic, serves both the goth-tinged verses and the cheeky, upbeat chorus equally well. Smith’s lyrics are once again bizarre and deranged; “Flowers in your mouth And the same dry song The routine from laughter land Sixteen white legs and a row of teeth I watch you in secrecy” A beautiful Spanish guitar solo breaks up the two halves of a song, which is as notable for it’s musical... Read review

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Advantages: Lots of brilliant stuff
Disadvantages: Some not-so-brilliant stuff, "Revolution 9"

...fingers!" make this one of their best. The blaring sounds of "Helter Skelter" are followed by the barely-audible "Long, Long, Long." This Harrison composition is actually quite good if you can hear it, and the ghostly wail at the end is really weird but cool. The slow version of "Revolution" (the B side of "Hey Jude"), "Revolution 1," is next. "1" is more bluesy, and it features Paul and George singing background vocals of "Shoo-be-doo-wop." This version was actually recorded first, but somebody thought it wasn't fast enough. I like the way Lennon says, "Don't you know that you can count me out - in" on this one. "Honey Pie" is a charming 1920s-style tune from Paul. The lyrics are about a working girl who goes off to Hollywood, and the music is very oldies, with a piano and a brass section. It's impossible not to love it when Paul says... Read review

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Advantages: The Beatles
Disadvantages: None

...Hi: 'Rubber Soul' was one of the two 1965's albums, the first one was 'Help'. The name of the album was decided during the recording sessions od 'Can't buy me love', not included in this album. The thing is that Paul McCartney was saying 'plastic soul, man, plastic soul' in every break of this recording session. This 'plastic soul' was the way black singers used to call The Rolling Stones, because they used to sing in this black soul way. So, Lennon said: "well, if the Stones are 'plastic soul, we'll be 'rubber soul'". And that's the story of the name of the album. The cover's got another interesting story. They were having a photograph session with their usual photographer at Lennon's garden. This man made some mistake with the focus, so the photographs happened to be unfocus, and a bit deformed. But the bealtes liked it... Read review

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