Advantages: Many of the Beatles best songs, new sounds like fuzz bass and sitar, cool cover Disadvantages: I'm Looking Through You gets on my nerves. It's not horrible, though
...began recording their sixth album, Rubber Soul. As was typical in those days, the Beatles recorded for about a month and completed the album less than three weeks before its scheduled release date. But this album marked a turning point in Beatles history and is often seen as their first masterpiece. Their previous album, Help!, had shown signs of the Beatles' maturity, with more personal lyrics and different sounds. With Rubber Soul, the Beatles moved ...
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'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, ...
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Advantages: It's The Beatles, of course Disadvantages: Will always suffer from being compared to Revolver
...think that the title to Rubber Soul was born there, but I can't say that for certain. One thing I do know for certain is that Rubber Soul was the precursor to the Beatles' greatest achievement, Revolver. Rubber Soul, although not quite as grand and groundbreaking as Revolver, is still a great album in its own right.
A list of the tracks and my interpretation of each follows.
1. Drive My Car--A flat out rocker. A driving piano, played by Paul ...
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Advantages: pop perefection, lyrics, evolutionary Disadvantages: none
Rubber Soul was the key which opened the door to an evolution of pop pin ups into musical visionaries. Often regarded as one of their finest efforts (behind Revolver), rubber soul contains every aspect of the Beatles broad musical taste, with each of the main songwriting members all contributing equally (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison). There's pop perfection with songs like 'In my Life', dirty old rock n roll (drive my car), classic ballads (girl), and ...
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Advantages: Timeless songs from start to finish Disadvantages: None
"Rubber Soul" is the first of a trilogy - one of the three essential Beatles albums which 99% of fans and music historians rightly regard as their best, and which they never surpassed in the final years. Which was the very best of these - this, "Revolver", or "Sergeant Pepper" - is down to personal opinion, though there's little to choose between them. Me, I'll sit on the fence...
In "Nowhere Man" and "In My Life", John Lennon penned two of his most ...
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...stuck to love songs on Rubber Soul, the lyrics represented a quantum leap in terms of thoughtfulness, maturity, and complex ambiguities. Musically, too, it was a substantial leap forward, with intricate folk-rock arrangements that reflected the increasing influence of Dylan and the Byrds. The group and George Martin were also beginning to expand the conventional instrumental parameters of the rock group, using a sitar on "Norwegian Wood," and Greek-like ...
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Rubber Soul
Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied
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discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning s...
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied
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discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning s...
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