Rubber Soul - Beatles (The)

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 ...
...U.S. and U.K. versions of Rubber Soul differ significantly. The U.S. version cut four songs ("Drive My Car," "Nowhere Man," "If I Needed Someone," and "What Goes On") and replaced them with "It's Only Love" and "I've Just Seen a Face," which were on the British version of Help!. The U.K. version is the one available on CD, but if you really miss the two American songs, you can buy the Help! soundtrack and create your own American Rubber Soul CD. ... Read review

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 ...
...'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, so they decided that photograph would be the cover for their next album. Another story about this album. Now, every beatles ... Read review

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 McCartney, ...
...of age as vocalists on Rubber Soul. The song has a typical Paul MCartney pop feel to it, and it's really an upbeat, bright number in spite of the fact that the singer is frustrated by a failed love affair. 4. Nowhere Man--A somewhat introspective John Lennon song. John was famous for his insecurities and this is just another fine example of his almost pessimistic view of himself. Musically, the harmonies are gorgeous, and the acapella introduction ... Read review

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 ...
...scope and willingness to try things new can only now be labeled 'Beatlesesque'. The fab four could no longer be defined as anything after this effort. New phases of music were created merely from one song on the album. Norwegian Wood is credited as being the first pop recording to use the sitar; an Indian instrument, which sparked a musical craze in the mind sixties. This song is now classed as one of the cornerstones of what we now know today as ... Read review

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 ...
...introduced the sitar to Western pop/rock for the first time, and the bilingual "Michelle" rapidly became one of their most covered songs, at one stage second only to "Yesterday". John, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr shared writing credits on the jaunty country "What Goes On", a revamped song initially written by John a few years earlier, and George contributed the distinctive "Think For Yourself" and "If I Needed Someone". It's interesting, and significant, ... Read review