The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. The album was softened up in its original 12-song American edition to jibe with the Dylan/Byrds folk-rock sound, as well as squeeze money from the Parlophone catalog. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" (both omitted from the U.S. edition) merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; "The Word" can be read as a pre-psych warning shot; the sitar-laden "Norwegian Wood" and the evocative "Girl" (the latter written on the last night of the sessions) stand as turning points in John Lennon's oeuvre. George finally emerges too, with the McGuinn-ish "If I Needed Someone." --Don Harrison

     

• Parlophone - PCS 3075 (Scandinavia) LP
• Parlophone - PCS 3075 (UK) LP
• Odeon - 2C 066-04 115 (France) LP
• Odeon - SMO 84 066 LP
• Parlophone - PMC 1267
• Capitol Records - SW-2442 (US) LP
• Capitol Records - SW-2442 (Canada) LP
• Capitol Records - ST 2442 LP
• Parlophone - PMCM 1267 (New Zealand) LP
• Parlophone - PCSO 3075 (Australia) LP
• Parlophone - PCS 3075 (UK) LP
• Odeon - OSX 232 LP
• Jugoton - LSPAR 70809 (Yugoslavia) LP
• EMI Electrola - 1C 072-04 115 (Germany) LP
• Parlophone - 10 4115 1 (France) LP
• Parlophone - 1A 062-04 115 (Germany) LP
• Parlophone - PMC 1267 LP
• Parlophone - 3C 064-04115 LP
• Parlophone - 3C 062-04115 (Sweden) LP
• Pathé Marconi EMI - 2C 066-4115 (France) LP
• Odeon - 1C 062-04 115 (Germany) LP
• Capitol Records - T 2442 LP
• Odeon - LSO 102 (France) LP
• Parlophone - 3C 062-04115 (Italy) LP
• Apple Records - PCSM 3075 LP
• Capitol Records - C1 0777 7 46440 1 3 (US) LP
• Capitol Records - T 2442 (US) LP
• Apple Records - ST 2442 (US) LP

Images from Vinyl Releases of Rubber Soul

Tracks

• A1)   Drive My Car
• A2)   Norwegian Wood
• A3)   You Won't See Me
• A4)   Nowhere Man
• A5)   Think For Yourself
• A6)   The Word
• A7)   Michelle
• B1)   What Goes On
• B2)   Girl
• B3)   I'm Looking Through You
• B4)   In My Life
• B5)   Wait
• B6)   If I Needed Someone
• B7)   Run For Your Life

Track listing above is from Parlophone - PCS 3075 (Scandinavia) LP

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