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Rubber Soul (Music)
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Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by The Beatles, released in December 1965.As the page quote describes, the album marked an important step forward in the group's artistic development, as they began to shed their early image as the innocent, fun-loving "Fab Four". From the stylish cover art (which didn't even have the band's name on the front) to the introspective, poetic, often bitter lyrics, the Beatles were taking their music to the next level.Indeed, Rubber Soul's innovations led directly to Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). Such tracks as "Drive My Car", "Norwegian Wood", "In My Life", "Michelle", "Nowhere Man", and "Girl" became huge international hits. | |
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This Loser Is You | |
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This Loser Is You: The title character of "Nowhere Man" lives an aimless life, and John compares him not only to listeners, but also himself. | |
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Baroque Pop | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_18230131 | comment |
Baroque Pop: "In My Life" has a baroque-influenced piano solo. | |
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Revenge Ballad | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_1d6befa7 | comment |
Revenge Ballad: "Norwegian Wood", where a man takes revenge on a woman for not sleeping with him by burning her apartment down while she is gone. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: A group shot of the band, but stretched out. | |
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| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_22093e9b | type |
New Sound Album | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_22093e9b | comment |
New Sound Album: Rubber Soul was the first album in their output to sound significantly different compared to the previous albums. Even the album cover looks bizarre. "Nowhere Man" was notable for being the first original Beatles song without any reference to love. "Norwegian Wood" also surprised listeners with its exotic sounding Indian sitar sound. In the US, because of the augmented tracklist, it sounded more like a Folk Rock album – a musical trend that was rising fast at the time. | |
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| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_26cce216 | type |
Age-Progression Song | |
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Age-Progression Song: "In My Life" deals with the singer's reminiscences of past friends and lovers, and concludes that, rather than feeling as though he is in love for the first time in his current relationship (which he feels is a betrayal of the memories of past loves), he finds he loves his current paramour most of all. | |
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Gratuitous French | |
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Gratuitous French: In "Michelle", the second line is initially sung in English ("Michelle, ma belle / These are words that go together well"), and for the rest of the song, it is sung in French ("Michelle, ma belle / sont les mots qui vont très bien ensemble"). | |
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| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_38b33e8d | type |
Love Epiphany | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_38b33e8d | comment |
Love Epiphany: Inverted with "I'm Looking Through You", in which the singer finds he has fallen out of love with the object of the song; to quote the bridge, "Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight". | |
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Fun with Homophones | |
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Fun with Homophones: The title Rubber Soul intentionally sounds like "rubber sole". | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: "Rubber Soul", a pun on "rubber sole shoes", plus a riff on a Black musician calling The Rolling Stones (and by implication other White rock groups) "plastic soul" (apparently, the Beatles were stoned when they heard about that and thought "Rubber Soul" would be a hilarious name for an album). | |
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Just Ignore It | |
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Just Ignore It: "You Won't See Me" about someone ignored by a former partner. | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: "Think For Yourself" involves the singer telling the object of the song to stop living a lie and start thinking clearly. "If I Needed Someone" where the protagonist stresses the "if". | |
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| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_4b0ef86e | type |
Advertised Extra | |
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Advertised Extra: Longtime roadie Mal Evans gets credited for playing organ on "You Won't See Me". His "playing" consists of holding down a single note for the last minute or so of the song. | |
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Wham Line | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: "Drive My Car" "Norwegian Wood" | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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"Norwegian Wood" is set to a trance-inducing 3/4 waltz with a sitar in the background, in a very laid-back manner. The lyrics are about the narrator burning down a woman's wooden house because she didn't put out the night before. | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_50b9b3d0 | comment |
Crazy Jealous Guy: "Run For Your Life" is all over this trope. See Misogyny Song below. | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Ringo takes his turn at singing lead for "What Goes On". | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_5e835a41 | comment |
Gratuitous Panning: Good luck trying to hear the vocals on "Norwegian Wood" if your right channel/speaker/ear is broken. "Run For Your Life" puts the rhythm section entirely on the left channel. | |
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Obsession Song | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_6112fb53 | comment |
Obsession Song: "Run For Your Life" is a pretty aggressive example, so much that John regretted writing it. Those two lines were, however, taken word for word from the Elvis Presley song "Baby Let's Play House" from The Sun Sessions. "You Won't See Me". | |
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Misogyny Song | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_61d6784f | comment |
Misogyny Song: "Run For Your Life". At its heart, the message of this song is that if you decide to end a relationship with the singer, he will hunt you down and murder you. As with the earlier "You Can't Do That", Lennon later regarded this song as an Old Shame. "Norwegian Wood" implies (and McCartney has confirmed that this was the intention) that if a woman invites you into her home and doesn't sleep with you, burning the place down after she leaves for work the next morning is a reasonable response. It's probably worth noting that this was intended to be Lennon's way of writing about an affair without arousing the suspicions of his then-wife Cynthia. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: "The Word". As the chorus tells us: | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: Almost all the songs are about relationships that have some sort of negative aspect. "Norwegian Wood" is about a one night stand gone sour. "You Won't See Me", "Think for Yourself", "What Goes On", and "I'm Looking Through You" are complaints from one lover about how the other is ignoring them or leading them on. "Run for Your Life" also belongs in that group, but the narrator is a Crazy Jealous Guy. "Girl" is sung by a guy in love with a frustratingly-fickle woman. "If I Needed Someone" is sung by someone who's in a relationship but falls in love with someone else. Even the more positive songs have a bittersweet edge: "Michelle" is about an affair that runs into a Language Barrier, "In My Life" mentions that people that the singer used to know have died, and in "Wait", the narrator warns his lover that he'll leave again if he feels betrayed. | |
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Car Song | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_72651184 | comment |
Car Song: "Drive My Car", about a girl who looks for a chauffeur to drive her car. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_74149c93 | comment |
Epic Rocking: "You Won't See Me" runs a mere 3:18, but was the longest song they'd released up to that point. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: "Norwegian Wood" was supposedly based on an awkward encounter John Lennon had with another woman (although the encounter did not end in arson). | |
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World Music | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_86d9c558 | comment |
World Music: "Norwegian Wood" is one of the first rock songs to incorporate influences from other traditional cultures, in this case India. George Harrison plays sitar during this track, an instrument he learned to master thanks to Ravi Shankar. He would play it again on "Love You To" from Revolver (1966) and "Within You, Without You" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). | |
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Studio Chatter | |
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Studio Chatter: While never legitimately released, there's a widely-bootlegged (and absolutely hilarious) 20-minute outtake from a session for "Think for Yourself". You can hear it (in two parts) here and here. | |
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Questioning Title? | |
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Questioning Title?: "What Goes On (In Your Heart)?" | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
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"Norwegian Wood" implies (and McCartney has confirmed that this was the intention) that if a woman invites you into her home and doesn't sleep with you, burning the place down after she leaves for work the next morning is a reasonable response. It's probably worth noting that this was intended to be Lennon's way of writing about an affair without arousing the suspicions of his then-wife Cynthia. | |
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One-Man Song | |
| Rubber Soul (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | comment |
One-Man Song: "Nowhere Man". | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: Notably averted with "Nowhere Man". It was the first original song the Beatles ever released that wasn't a love song—every other original song on their first five albums, as well as every single and B-side, was a love song ("Help!" was kind of ambiguous, but "I need somebody...not just anybody" tilts it into love territory). You could also argue that "The Word", as a song about the concept of love, rather than a song about being in love, counts as an aversion too. | |
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Scatting | |
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Scatting: "Girl" has a rather amusing background harmonic vocal accompaniment of 'tit tit tit tit' appear before the chorus. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
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What You Are in the Dark: "I'm Looking Through You" | |
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The Not-Remix | |
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The Not-Remix: George Martin was unhappy with the original stereo mix, so for the 1987 CD release, he remixed the album. The 2009 remastered version used this new mix. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: "Girl", in which the singer laments his misery at the hands of the title character. Worse because no one believes him. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Michelle" is named for the object of the singer's affection, who lives on the other side of a language barrier. "Girl" does not actually name the title character, but the song revolves around the singer's inability to get over her in spite of the toxicity of their relationship. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The reference in "In My Life" to "lovers and friends/I still can recall/some are dead and some are living" is a Shout Out to Lennon's close friend and former bandmate, Stuart Sutcliffe, who died in 1962. The opening line of "Run For Your Life" ("I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man") was borrowed from "Baby Let's Play House", a 1954 Arthur Gunter song that was Covered Up in 1955 when Elvis Presley released it as his fourth single for Sun Records. | |
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French | |
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French: | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Girl", "Wait". | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: "Drive My Car", about a girl who wants to become a "star on the screen" and searches for someone to be her driver, despite the fact that she hasn't even got a car yet. | |
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Either/Or Title: "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Norwegian Wood" is set to a trance-inducing 3/4 waltz with a sitar in the background, in a very laid-back manner. The lyrics are about the narrator burning down a woman's wooden house because she didn't put out the night before. "What Goes On" is written in Ringo's preferred peppy, almost country style. The song is about a man who goes completely unnoticed by the woman he loves. "I'm Looking Through You," a poppy upbeat little number about basically writing off an ex's existence. "You're thinking of me / The same old way / You were above me / But not today / The only difference is you're down there / I'm looking through you, and you're nowhere" "Run For Your Life" is a happy, peppy tune whose lyrics are, in essence, "BITCH IMA CUT YOU IF YOU EVER LEAVE ME!" Interestingly, the opening line of "Run For Your Life" ("I'd rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man") is taken verbatim from Elvis Presley's "Baby Let's Play House" (which like other Elvis songs is a cover song). Not only is that song also a peppy rockabilly number, but the rest of the lyrics just focus on the narrator wanting the girl to get back together with him, with no other implied threats, so that one line comes from out of nowhere. | |
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Album Filler | |
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Album Filler: "Wait" was a song that remained from the Help! sessions. | |
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Covered Up | |
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The opening line of "Run For Your Life" ("I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man") was borrowed from "Baby Let's Play House", a 1954 Arthur Gunter song that was Covered Up in 1955 when Elvis Presley released it as his fourth single for Sun Records. | |
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Design Student's Orgasm | |
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Design Student's Orgasm: The Beatles' stretched-out image on the album cover. A photographer had taken their picture and was projecting it on a piece of cardboard as a mockup for the cover. The board tipped backwards, causing the image to elongate, and the band liked it well enough to approve it as the final artwork. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: "Wait", about two lovers who are separated from each other. | |
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In the Style of | |
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In the Style of: "If I Needed Someone" is in the style of The Byrds. (George, by his own admission, took his guitar riff from their version of "The Bells of Rhymney".) "Nowhere Man" was inspired by The Byrds' rendition of "Mr. Tambourine Man." | |
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FolkRock | |
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In the US, because of the augmented tracklist, it sounded more like a Folk Rock album – a musical trend that was rising fast at the time. | |
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Oddball in the Series | |
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Oddball in the Series: "What Goes On", featuring Ringo on lead vocal, is the only song the Beatles ever recorded that received the songwriting credit "Lennon-McCartney-Starkey." When Ringo was later asked what he contributed to get a credit alongside John and Paul, he answered "about five words." | |
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Not Staying for Breakfast | |
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Not Staying for Breakfast: "Norwegian Wood" (though in this case, it's the lady who owns the house that leaves; the guy replies by torching the place) | |
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