Rubber Soul - Beatles (The)

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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
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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
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"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

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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 ...
...for Yourself," and a piano made to sound like a harpsichord on the instrumental break of "In My Life." While John and Paul were beginning to carve separate songwriting identities at this point, the album is full of great tunes, from "Norwegian Wood" and "Michelle" to "Girl," "I'm Looking Through You," "You Won't See Me," "Drive My Car," and "Nowhere Man" (the last of which was the first Beatle song to move beyond romantic themes entirely). George ... Read review

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...Hi there: 'Help' was the first album the Beatles released in 1965 (the second one would be "Rubber Soul"). The cover shows the four members of the band, Harrison, Lennon, McCartney and Starkey (or Starr), in this order, dressed up as snow skiers, a cover that got nothing to do with the album, but a lot with the movie from the same year and tittle, that would include the whole A side songs of the album. In this cover, there are the beatles with this blue raincoats, trying to spell the letters of the tittle (help) with their hands in a funny and weird way (Harrison is 'H', Lennon is 'E', and so on). The album contains 14 songs, as usual, and there are two not writen by any beatle (this album would became the last one to include any song not writen by any of the members of the band). This is a slow album, mostly acoustic, but... Read review

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...to Paul's over guiding hand. Their last studio album together 'Abbey Road' saw the band returning to their roots, but when they split, their relationships with one another were taught. THE MUSIC: The Albums (UK) Please Please Me With The Beatles A Hard Days Night Beatles For Sale Help! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles (The White Album) Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Early Beatle's Music: When the Beatle's began their albums were raw with pop classics, mostly by timeless Lennon/McCartney combinations and cover versions of old rock 'n' roll numbers. By that time the bands format was formally set, John did rhythm guitar and lead vocals, Paul did bass and shared lead vocals with John, George did lead guitar and sang occasionally, and Ringo played drums. However, when George began... Read review

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Advantages: The classic album you have to have!
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...into action. This wake up call was none other than.....The Beatles. Winter 1965 seen The Beatles unleash "Rubber Soul". "Rubber Soul" was fantastic album and it showed an album that was complete with no filler. It also displayed The Beatles at their finest with the Lennon and McCartney partnership working perfectly. Brian Wilson knew that it was time to get his plan to make "the greatest record ever" into motion. Not just to push The Beach Boys on creatively but also to try and better "Rubber Soul". It would take a masterpiece to beat that and it wasn't going to be easy. Brian was only 23 and he was attempting to produce a complex album by himself. He was on his own, after all Lennon had McCartney and McCartney had Lennon. Finally in 1966 he joined forces with advertising copywriter Tony Asher and together they penned the songs... Read review

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