The Beatles Rubber Soul Original First MONO T 2442 Capitol Rainbow Label SHRINK

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The Beatles Rubber Soul Original First Release. MONO T 2442.I am starting to sell off a large record collection I started in 1966 so check back.Any questions, just ask. I do combine on shipping. Thanks for looking. Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by English rock group the Beatles. It was recorded in just over four weeks to make the Christmas market, and was released on December 3, 1965. It was produced by George Martin. Unlike the five albums that preceded it, Rubber Soul was recorded during a continuous period, whereas the group had previously recorded albums during breaks in between tour dates or other projects.[3] After this, Beatles albums would be made without the burden of other commitments, except for the production of short promotional films.

Rubber Soul is a folk rock album that incorporates R&B, pop, soul, and psychedelic music styles.[2][4][5] The album is regarded by musicologists as a major artistic achievement that continued the Beatles' artistic maturation while attaining widespread critical and commercial success.[6] It was the second Beatles album – after the British A Hard Day's Night album – to contain only original material; the Beatles would record no more cover songs for their records until 1969, with the "Maggie Mae" excerpt appearing on the Let It Be album.

Rubber Soul is regarded by fans and critics alike as one of the greatest albums in popular music history.[7][8][9][10] In 2012, Rubber Soul was ranked number five on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[11] In 2013, after the British Phonographic Industry changed their sales award rules, the album was declared as having gone platinum.[12]

Contents

• 1 Composition
  • 1.1 Music
  • 1.2 Lyrics
• 2 Recording
• 3 Packaging and artwork
• 4 Reception
• 5 Compact disc reissues
• 6 Track listing
• 7 North American Capitol release
  • 7.1 Track listing
• 8 Personnel
• 9 Charts
• 10 Certifications
• 11 Notes
• 12 References
• 13 External links

Composition[edit]

Music[edit]

Virtually all of the album's songs were composed immediately after the Beatles' return to London following their North American tour.[13] The Beatles broadened their sound on the album, with influences drawn fromsoul music, the contemporary folk-rock of Bob Dylan and The Byrds,[9][14] and the vocal harmony pop of The Beach Boys.[15] The album also saw the Beatles expanding rock and roll's instrumental resources, most notably on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" through George Harrison's use of the Indian sitar. He had been introduced to it via the instrumental score for their 1965 film Help!. Although The Kinks had incorporated droning guitars to mimic the sitar after a visit to India on "See My Friends",[16] "Norwegian Wood" is generally credited as sparking off a musical craze for the sound of the novel instrument in the mid-1960s—a trend which would later branch out into the raga rock and Indian rock genres.[17][9] The song is now acknowledged as one of the cornerstones of what is now usually called "world music" and it was a major landmark in the trend towards incorporating non-Western musical influences into Western popular music. Harrison's interest was fuelled by fellow Indian music fan David Crosby of the Byrds, whom Harrison met and befriended in August 1965.[18] Harrison would eventually be transfixed by all things Indian, taking sitar lessons from renowned Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar.[19]

French-like guitar lines on "Michelle" and Greek-influenced ones on "Girl", fuzz bass on "Think for Yourself," and a piano made to sound like a baroque harpsichord on the instrumental bridge of "In My Life" added to the exotic brushstrokes to the album.[20] Ringo Starr had frequently augmented Beatles tracks with standard percussion instruments such as maracas or tambourine, but on the track "I'm Looking Through You" unusually used taps on a matchbook, perhaps influenced by a similar trick as done by Gene Krupa in the 1941 film Ball of Fire.[citation needed]

Lyrics[edit]

Lyrically, the album represents a major progression in the Beatles' music. Though a smattering of earlier Beatles songs had expressed romantic doubt and negativity, the songs on Rubber Soul represented a pronounced development in sophistication, thoughtfulness and ambiguity.[20] In particular, the relationships between the sexes moved from simpler boy-girl love songs to more nuanced and negative portrayals. "Norwegian Wood" sketches a failed relationship between the singer and a mysterious girl, where she goes to bed and he sleeps in the bath.[21] "Drive My Car" serves as a satirical piece of sexism,[22] and songs like "I'm Looking Through You", "You Won't See Me", and "Girl" express more emotionally complex, bitter and downbeat portrayals of romance. John Lennon's "In My Life" depicts nostalgic reverie for younger days, while "The Word" looks at love as an abstract term, arguably the first time a Lennon-McCartney song strayed from their usual 'boy/girl' notion of romantic love, and songs such as "Nowhere Man" and Harrison's "Think for Yourself" explored subject matter that had nothing to do with romance at all.

Recording

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