40th anniversary of Rubber Soul

This Saturday marks the 40th Anniversary of the release of The Beatles landmark album Rubber Soul. It was issued in the UK on December 3rd, 1965 and in the US three days later.

This Saturday starting at 7 am, Highway 61 Revisited's, Host Barnes Newberry will look at the incredible impact of Rubber Soul on other artists and genres over the years by airing a few of the proper Beatles' tracks as well as numerous cover versions of those great songs.

Streaming live - www.wumb.org

I remember buying it and listening to it and listening to it and listening to it . . . I'm still listening to it. ("She was a Bealtemaniac until her dying breath.")

You'll feel less of a relic.

Other than that, who cares?

Johnny we hardly knew ye...

(December 8, 1980)

:toast:

That was more like the Sgt. Pepper of Oasis though, and Definately Maybe was their Revolver. They were not in need of a "transitional" album such as this Rubber Soul.

Score one for Oasis.

Note: I do not mean to imply that Oasis copied or had to copy the Beatles by this comparison.

It is tied for the best album ever, with a couple other Beatles' albums. The English release is, of course, superior.

I remember when my brother brought it home. The songs were so different than anything I had ever heard before. The lyrics are so different from "she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!" The music is my favorite type.

Oh crap, now I feel old.

Guess I need to go cue up my old copy so I can try to feel young again.

Thanks.

Forty Years?!? Damn, I'm old. :)

But those tunes are NOT. They're still as fresh as ever.

The November 28, 2005 issue of Newsweek has a small feature on Billie Joe Armstrong in their John Lennon tribute. They had Billie Joe say a few words about Lennon's song "In My Life", which was a release from the US version of the album "Rubber Soul".

He said,

"There are two songs I want to be played at my funeral: David Bowie's 'Life on Mars' and 'In My Life'. On the bus late at night, we'd play 'In My Life' 15 times in a row. It reflects on everything: sometimes it reads like a tombstone, or your last will. It's not about money. It's about your soul and what you hope to leave behind. It's such a beautiful song - even the drums are so simple - and it's one of the first times that the Beatles were really getting into something of true substance about what was going on down deep in their hearts. It was personal, but it could affect all these other people at the same time. It did me, anyway.

thinking of the good old days. I remember thinking it was such a giggle that they snuck in the "dirty lyrics" on "Girl" .... which remains one of the best examples of a song that illustrates one side of the very complicated John Lennon .... though the sneaky chorus is Paul and George.

In the 1982 concert below, the "main act" opened with a heck of a good version of "Drive My Car."

Speak of the devil, Barnes is playing it now.

Here are the "dirty" lyrics.

Is there anybody gone to listen to my story
All about the girl who came to stay?
She's the kind of girl you want so much
It makes you sorry;
Still, you don't regret a single day.
Ah girl! Girl!

She's the kind of girl who puts you down
When friends are there, you feel a fool.
Didididi..
When you say she's looking good
She acts as if it's understood.
She's cool, cool, cool, cool,
Girl! Girl!

When I think of all the times I've tried to leave her
She will turn to me and start to cry;
And she promises the earth to me
And I believe her.
After all this times I don't know why.
Ah, girl! Girl!

She's the kind of girl who puts you down when friends are there,
You feel a fool.
When you say she's looking good, she acts as if it's understood.
She's cool, cool, cool, cool, Girl! Girl!

Was she told when she was young the pain
Would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back to earn
His day of leisure?
Will she still believe it when he's dead?
Ah girl! Girl! Girl!

"Didididid" was actually spoken as "tit tit tit tit" by the Beatles themselves. I read in an interview (I think it was in Playboy) that they did it as a private joke, Ringo said. This is the "dirty lyrics" you've heard tell about.

by Nicholas Schaffner, still perhaps the single best book about the group, has the following on page 128:

"After all, the Beatles were notorious for sly, outrageous stunts -- ranging from slipping a falsetto chorus of 'tit tit tit' into 'Girl' in 1965, to ...." There are numerous other places where this was documented, including interviews with two of the (ex) Beatles.

hardly a secret to Beatle fans.

whilst sitting in American History class in junior HS. My two classmates and I were intensely pleased with the songs, particularly with Norwegian Wood, Girl and I'm Looking Through You. The next release to greater critical acclaim was Revolver, but Rubber Soul held a warmer spot in my heart.

that came out on the bootlegs several years ago? I liked it even better than the version that was released.

And wonder what John would be saying about B***. Actually I know, but love to see how he'd do it.

This is a great morning of music!

:)

I think it marked a definite shift in the Beatles' music from the pop oriented to more serious and thoughtful music.

what great music to grow up with during a tumultous period of life (middle school....). i have an 11 year old, and i wish there was something great like this for kids her age. i was just reading that teens and esp pre-teens listen to music, because it voices their garbled opinions and emotions better than words can. i find this age very interesting, and to know i had this music then, warms my heart.

this has to be one of my favorite albums of all time.

:thumbsup:

British lineup:
Drive my car
Norwegian Wood
You won't see me
Nowhere man
Think for yourself
The Word
Michelle
What goes on
Girl
I'm looking through you
In my life
Wait
If I needed someone
Run for your life

American lineup:
I've just seen a face
Norwegian Wood
This bird has flown
You won't see me
Think for yourself
The Word
Michelle
It's only love
Girl
I'm lookng through you
In my life
Wait
Run for your life

It was in response to this "butchering" of their album lineups on this and other lps, that the Beatles chose the famous "Butcher block" photo for their Yesterday & Today album cover. It was their way of saying, "You're butchering our babies".

Some twenty years later I left it at the apartment of a guy I was dating and never got it back. I ran into him ten years later and I asked him about it in the first few minutes. He had gotten rid of it- can you imagine~!

I remember making a much-anticipated special trip to the record store with my dad and sister to go buy it.

really significant is because of John's "The Word." It was his first in a line of songs such as "All You Need Is Love," that showed a social conscience. It was unheard of in pop music. Wonderful song.

:shrug:

I hung around with a girl I couldn't stand all because she had this album and I didn't have the money to buy my own copy at the time.....bad, bad