While the Beatles still largely stuck to love songs on Rubber Soul, the lyrics represented a quantum leap in terms of thoughtfulness, maturity, and complex ambiguities.
Rubber Soul shows a group of performers just before their unstoppable and insurmountable height – it’s brilliant, refreshing and wholly influential, but it’s nothing compared to what’s coming in the following years.
On Rubber Soul, the Beatles grew up with an album of bittersweet romance, singing adult love ballads that feel worldly but not jaded.
It's where pop begins to blossom from black-and-white into colour.
The History of the Albums – n°287 [For this last episode of the year 1965, here is a complete rework of the review on Rubber Soul, Love]
Exhausted by the hellish pace of touring and their entire workload, Rubber Soul marks the time when the Beatles will leave their costumes (metaphorically), looking for a way out, to focus solely on the artistic. We are not talking about just any door, which opens and closes at will, the four boys were more precisely looking for a door to seal for ... read more
It's a crime to hate on this.
I will stand as a witness when you're on trial for your heinous acts, trust me.
its a really interesting and wholesome album that shows them in this transition between their pop era to the more experimental one
1 | Drive My Car 2:27 | 89 |
2 | Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 2:04 | 92 |
3 | You Won't See Me 3:19 | 86 |
4 | Nowhere Man 2:43 | 92 |
5 | Think For Yourself 2:18 | 84 |
6 | The Word 2:43 | 81 |
7 | Michelle 2:42 | 92 |
8 | What Goes On 2:48 | 77 |
9 | Girl 2:31 | 88 |
10 | I'm Looking Through You 2:26 | 85 |
11 | In My Life 2:26 | 95 |
12 | Wait 2:14 | 84 |
13 | If I Needed Someone 2:22 | 85 |
14 | Run For Your Life 2:19 | 74 |