Description
*This is a180-gram Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2012
Label: EMI
Track List
Side A
- Drive My Car
- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
- You Won’t See Me
- Nowhere Man
- Think For Yourself
- The Word
- Michelle
Side B
- What Goes On
- Girl
- I’m Looking Through You
- In My Life
- Wait
- If I Needed Someone
- Run for Your Life
Notes
Paul McCartney crooning in French, George Harrison playing a sitar, Ringo Starr crafting innovative drum parts, and John Lennon singing movingly about his childhood — no rock album had ever sounded like Rubber Soul (1965). For that matter, the Beatles themselves were hardly recognizable as the energetic bar band that had recorded its debut effort barely three years earlier. Beach Boy Brian Wilson called Rubber Soul the first rock album without filler, and it certainly was the Beatles’ first album with a consistent, organic sound and feel, despite its enormous stylistic range. There were nods to Dylan, the Byrds, and folk rock (“If I Needed Someone,” “Nowhere Man”); early Elvis (“Run for Your Life”); and bluegrass (“I’ve Just Seen a Face”). But the glue, helped along by George Martin’s intimate production gloss, was the uniformly first-rate songwriting by Lennon and McCartney, which still seems fresh as new paint today.
