Why Isn't ' Rubber Soul ' Our Favourite Beatles Album ?

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  1. Slick Willie

    Slick Willie Decisively Indecisive

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    Well, we like what we like.
    But I really like the way the album flows, and the way the tracks are weaved together.
    As much as the talent shines, so does the track sequencing and editing/mixing.
    Just a work of art.
     
  2. mbrownp1

    mbrownp1 Forum Resident

    It's fluid. 25 years ago Rubber Soul would have won the poll. Then it became hip to vote for Revolver.
     
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  3. Slick Willie

    Slick Willie Decisively Indecisive

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    The 'hip' crowd just seems to vote on the one they're not burned out on, or what others say is cool.
     
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  4. mbrownp1

    mbrownp1 Forum Resident

    Couldn't have said it better myself.
     
  5. PRW94

    PRW94 Forum Resident

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    My own personal mix of Rubber Soul ... I took the US album and added Nowhere Man back in after You Won't See Me and inserted We Can Work It Out after Girl ... is on the short list of my favorite Beatle albums.
     
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  6. billh

    billh Senior Member

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    Caroline likes it. All except Run For Your Life.
     
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  7. originalsnuffy

    originalsnuffy Socially distant and unstuck in time

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    Rubber Soul was a fulcrum album. It defined the beginning of an amazing run of genre defying and defining albums. But its hard to top Revolver in terms of redefining what pop music can be about.
     
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  8. BourbonAndVinyl

    BourbonAndVinyl Forum Resident

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    It is... for me anyway.
     
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  9. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident

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    Another anti-Maxwellian..but my question is, if you removed MMM and PM, what would you do with She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (maybe flesh it out into a full, longer arrangement a la the Joe Cocker arrangement...?) ?
     
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  10. BeatleBruceMayer

    BeatleBruceMayer Forum Resident

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    I agree even though Harrison, I think, said Revolver was part two of Rubber Soul -- or something like that.
     
  11. Paper Shark

    Paper Shark Forum Resident

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    Not my favorite Beatles album, but it is quite excellent.
     
  12. Mackaveli

    Mackaveli Forum Resident

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    Revolver has some sub par material. Dr Robert is pretty meh, She Said..isn't much better
     
  13. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    Because my results may vary
     
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  14. rednoise

    rednoise Senior Member

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    George did say that, but he has turned out to be one of the least-reliable chroniclers of Beatles history. He often got details mixed up. I figure he was looking at it from the POV of within the whirlwind of Beatlemania, cranking out product at a furious rate and touring until exhausted.
     
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  15. joy stinson

    joy stinson Secret friend

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    Yeh, another abbey road fan…the star in their crown, the composite better than its parts.
     
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  16. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident

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    He referred to them both as “happy albums” to make. Maybe that’s why he lumped them
    together. It’s a rarity that we’ve heard George refer to his “Beatle time” as “happy”.
     
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  17. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    or have them all as favorites at once! ; )
     
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  18. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    each one blows the other away! ; )
     
  19. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    I'll give it great harmony...helping the Ring...
     
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  20. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident

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    …and superb band performance.
     
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  21. Brettlowden

    Brettlowden Forum Resident

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    Its my favorite.
     
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  22. Panther

    Panther Forum Resident

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    To me, Rubber Soul is more like part two of Help!.

    Great album, but it doesn't rock.
     
  23. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    of course!
     
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  24. edrebber

    edrebber Forum Resident

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    I wonder if Ed Sullivan would have let the Beatles perform Run For Your Life on his show. Would Lennon be allowed to sing "I'd rather see you dead"? Makes the Rolling Stones' Lets Spend the Night Together seem tame. I like it.
     
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  25. Invisible Man

    Invisible Man Forum Resident

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    Violent sentiments were okay. Premarital sex was a no-no.
     
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