Rubber Soul [VINYL]

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Stanley, Bob (4 December 2015). "The Beatles' Rubber Soul is 50: and it's still ahead of its time". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016 . Retrieved 31 March 2016.

Smith, Chris (2009). 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-537371-4. The album was also the source of hit songs for several other contemporary artists. [267] "Michelle" became one of the most widely recorded of all the Beatles' songs. [269] Cover versions of "Girl", "If I Needed Someone" and "Nowhere Man" similarly placed on UK or US singles charts in 1966. [267] Gill, Andy (15 January 2014). "The Beatles' US Albums: How the classics were butchered". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014 . Retrieved 30 June 2018. The Word" is] all about gettin' smart. It's the marijuana period ... it's the love-and-peace thing. The word is "love," right? It seems like the underlying theme to the universe. Everything that was worthwhile got down to this one, love, love thing. [144]Harper also said: "After a few times on the turntable, you realised that the goal posts had been moved, forever, and you really wanted to hear the next record – now. You could sense Revolver just over the horizon. You were hooked." [319] a b c Myers, Marc (2 December 2015). "The Beatles' 'Rubber Soul' Turns 50". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 19 February 2018 . Retrieved 9 November 2019. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys described Rubber Soul as "the first album I listened to where every song was a gas" and planned his band's next project, Pet Sounds, as an attempt to surpass it. [317] Rubber Soul similarly inspired Pete Townshend of the Who and the Kinks' Ray Davies, [318] as well as Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who issued their first album of all-original material, Aftermath, in April 1966. [314] The album was also an influence on Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder [238] and the Byrds. [9] John Cale recalled that Rubber Soul was an inspiration as he and Lou Reed developed their band the Velvet Underground. He said it was the first time "you were forced to deal with them as something other than a flash in the pan" and especially admired Harrison's introduction of Indian sounds. [319] A newly remastered version of Rubber Soul, again using the 1987 Martin remix, was released worldwide as part of the reissue of the entire Beatles catalogue on 9 September 2009. The album was available both as an individual CD release and as part of the Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) box set. The accompanying Beatles in Mono box set contained two versions of the album: the original mono mix and the 1965 stereo mix. [368] [369] a b Rolling Stone staff (31 May 2012). "500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 5. The Beatles, 'Rubber Soul' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 20 June 2017.

Top Compact Disks (for week ending May 30, 1987)" (PDF). Billboard. 30 May 1987. p.54 . Retrieved 26 September 2020. All The Number 1 Albums". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016 . Retrieved 7 April 2016. Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 1-84513-160-6.By the way: Dylan was a big Beatles fan as well – he later “confessed” that he didn’t dare to say so at the time because to his purist folk hipster friends they were sellouts that represented the bad bad establishement (the same “friends” that turned on him when he went electric – a move probably inspired by the Beatles and/or the whole British invasion). Release Date - The Beatles dominated the 1960s, and their records that were printed in this decade are worth a lot because of the authenticity and connection they have to the era. According to Norman, at the time, the song "slipped unchallenged into a world not yet disturbed by feminism or concerns about domestic violence". [197]