Which 'Rubber Soul' songs should have been on the Beatles' Red Album (1962-1966) compilation?

One of the most common criticisms of the Beatles' 1962-1966 compilation (commonly referred to as the Red Album), is that Rubber Soul, is over-represented with six songs ("Drive My Car," "Nowhere Man," "Norwegian Wood," "In My Life," "Michelle" and "Girl").

Which songs do you think should have been included? Would you cut any? Add any? Choose as many or as few as you want. Or, do you think that no songs from Rubber Soul should have been included?

 

I actually feel that the RS songs that were included were perfectly chosen. There are others which people have as personal favorites like The Word or I'm Looking Through You but then you'd have more than half the album on there. I think the ones that *are* on there all should be (even though I'm personally not crazy about Michelle, it's a very major song and can't be ignored).

 

Pretty solid selection back in the day. Can’t quibble with it.

 

Interesting that both of you say you would keep the same songs that were selected for the Red Album, yet neither of you voted for the songs selected for the Red Album

 

Nowhere Man, Norwegian Wood, In My Life, and Michelle are my picks. These were the four most popular songs from this album.
If I were to pick two more, it would be Drive My Car and If I Needed Someone. Girl (while not a bad song) would not even be under consideration for me.

 

I voted for the three obvious John songs that everyone else is voting for as well.

 

I think the right choices were made, especially in the cases of “In My Life,” “Nowhere Man,” and “Norwegian Wood.” If I was going to bump one, it would be “Drive My Car;” it doesn’t do much for me as Beatles songs go, but it’s harmless. But really, I wouldn’t change a thing about that second disc of ‘62-‘66. I think it’s perfect the way it is.

 

Beep Beep, Beep Beep NO!

 

They got it right.

 

4 songs
Norwegian Wood
In My Life
Nowhere Man
Michelle

Those songs plus We Can Work it Out/Daytripper are plenty of representation for the Rubber Soul sessions.

The Red album had 8 which it too many but that is a discussion for another thread.

 

Except add the two missing songs (13 does not equal 14) and maybe even more if you lop of the two extraneous songs from Rubber Soul.

But that’s a topic for another thread...again.

 

I always thought "Girl" shoulda been left off. I love the song, just I don't feel it's 'hit'-worthy. If we were talking the Blue album, definitely "Old Brown Shoe." Another one of my favs, but does it belong among the 'hits'? Eh, don't think so. But that's just me

 

Norwegian Wood
Nowhere Man
In My Life

 

Yeah, I didn’t vote because I didn’t want to change anything.

 

That would make an excellent campaign slogan.

 

Nowhere Man, Norwegian Wood and In My Life are a given. I'd say that's where you'd stop if you're trying to give a fair shake to the rest of their releases from that era.

 

Over represented indeed. Could've given slots to other underrepresented albums. I voted for "Drive My Car", "Nowhere Man", "Michelle" and "In My Life". It's also a quite Lennon heavy representation.

 

Only Nowhere Man (a 45), Michelle (a hit in a cover version) and In My Life (a excellent mature reflection on Johns' life) with all else best heard on that album and the space given to songs from Beatles For Sale and Revolver.

 

I think it's perfect as is, it's the ultimate introduction to the Fabs

 

While a great song, it's fair to say 'Girl' holds the less "historical" value of the selected tracks, so it could've been left out and replaced by a Revolver song, Taxman for instance. Because to me, the real issues in the Red selection are the under representation of Revolver and the absence of any George songs…

 

I'm quite sure my votes in this poll were highly influenced by the fact that I grew up with the red (and blue) album. Hence, I unwittingly selected five of the six tracks that were on the red album. Not seeing the attached info, and not having listened to the red album in decades, I was thinking the story was going to be that the red album didn't have any tracks from Rubber Soul - but should have.

I was in the target audience as a teen who only had a couple of other Beatles albums when the red and blue albums were originally released. They were mind-blowing and led my interest in the rest of the Beatles catalog. The original albums were far more compelling with their amazing "deep tracks", so in a few years, the red and blue were completely out of rotation in my Beatles listening routine. I guess the Rubber Soul songs that made it were still branded in my head as the biggies.

 

I don't think anymore should have been included. There is definitely enough of them on there and the whole point of this album is to get you to buy the albums yourself.

 

Cut Drive My Car and include Rain right after Paperback Writer.

 

Oh my god that would have been awesome!