The Beatles (Rubber Soul) 1965 Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
Rubber Soul at #5
Rubber Soul. This is the turning point for the band as far as expanding their songwriting as well as recording techniques and instrument experimentations. Sitar anyone? This has one foot in the past and one foot and two hands in the future of what's to come. This is also the album that
Brian Wilson of
The Beach Boys has said influenced him to make my all time favorite
Beach Boys album:
Pet Sounds. I would agree with
Rolling Stone Magazine with it's placement...or pretty close to it. Definitely Top 10.
It's very hard to play Rubber Soul just one time through. It's an impossibility. I have been playing this one half the day and never get tired of it. Stand out songs include
Drive My Car, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), Nowhere Man, Michelle and
In My Life.
Fave Songs: All of them. But
Norwegian Wood is tops IMO.
Cool cover too. Epic cover is more like it. Iconic.
Amazing album, but nowhere near as good as the stuff that's coming after it.