Rubber Soul.
| The Beatles
Rubber Soul.
Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 3 December 1965 in the United Kingdom, on EMI's Parlophone label, accompanied by the non-album double A-side single "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out". The original North American release, issued by Capitol Records, contains ten of the fourteen songs and two tracks withheld from the band's Help! album. Rubber Soul met with a highly favourable critical response and topped sales charts in Britain and the United States for several weeks. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The Beatles' first undisputed masterpiece is their quietest and most folky record, reflecting the influences of contemporaries like Dylan and the Byrds.
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Rolling Stone
It was the most out-there music they’d ever made, but also their warmest, friendliest and most emotionally direct. As soon as it dropped in December 1965, Rubber Soul cut the story of pop music in half — we’re all living in the future this album invented. Now as then, every pop artist wants to make a Rubber Soul of their own.
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BBC
Rubber Soul demonstrates how The Beatles, with Martin in tow, were beginning to exploit the recording studio – afterwards, boundaries were to be pushed. And where The Beatles led, other rock and pop acts soon followed.
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The Guardian
Today marks 50 years of the band’s sixth studio album – and with tracks like Girl, Think for Yourself and Norwegian Wood, it will be fresh for 50 more.
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AllMusic
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. Musically, too, it was a substantial leap forward, with intricate folk-rock arrangements that reflected the increasing influence of Dylan and the Byrds.
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NME
For all its frustrations, ‘Rubber Soul’ remains the most satisfying listen in The Beatles’ canon: full of variety, full of struggle. At its best, there’s a perfect balance between tradition and experimentation, a sweetly sugared pill rather than the forced ECT of ‘Sgt Pepper’. The rubber might snap back and hit you in the face sometimes, but it doesn’t mean you should stop stretching.
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Neon Modern Times
Rubber Soul is one of the best albums ever made and one of my favourites. I would listen to it throughout my teenage years and it was the perfect soundtrack to that time of discovering girls, love and heartbreak. An album with so many ridiculous highs that they could have been many a bands’ greatest hits collection. Instead, this was just the beginning of things to come for the Beatles.
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Hokeyblog!
Rubber Soul is firmly entrenched in the upper echelon of classic and important rock albums, but it’s also a damn great one as well, a magnificent album experience from start to finish.
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Treblezine
Most Beatles fans can be put into camps, those who prefer `early Beatles,’ the harmonizing and head shaking, and those who like `later Beatles,’ the trippy, weird, and generally way ahead of their time Beatles. The great thing about Rubber Soul is that it’s for everybody.
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My Rock Mixtapes
I just love how they started searching for a new meaning in music and came up with this highly appealing record… Always (and forever) a pleasure to listen to it!
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Keno
Overall, of all the early Beatles' albums, this one just might be the best.
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Mr. Miniike's Tea
Perfect melodies, fun arrangements and emotional maturity. One of the great meeting points of accessible and brilliant. A masterpiece.
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Consequence
To review this record’s brilliance is like telling someone how awesome the Grand Canyon is. It’s there for all to see and you can’t help but marvel at its brilliance. No words can describe it, and certainly no review can pay justice to it. The Beatles haven’t sounded better, and Rubber Soul on any part of the day is certainly a great piece of pop music that makes the soul happier with each passing year.
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