Album Rating: 4.5

My only gripe with this album is that they half-assed the concept. They basically did the first two tracks, the tt reprise and then the rest has no thematic tie-in, as good as some of those songs are

Album Rating: 3.3

Rubber Soul is practically a litmus test for people who can recognise strong songwriting without the aid of novelty or gimmicks, and this is, uh, the closest the Beatles have to a polar opposite

Album Rating: 4.5

@MeatSalad: True. Especially when you compare it to Days of Future Passed, which came out that same year and had a fully-realized concept (albeit a pretty simplistic one compared to later concept albums)



Still a fantastic album though

Album Rating: 4.5

"Rubber Soul is practically a litmus test for people who can recognise strong songwriting without the aid of novelty or gimmicks, and this is, uh, the closest the Beatles have to a polar opposite"



Fwiw, Rubber Soul is my second favorite Beatles album, mostly because of what you outlined. But I'm ok with novelties and gimmicks here and there, as long as they still facilitate good songwriting... and this mostly fits that bill for me

Album Rating: 4.5

You can't really go wrong with choosing any Beatles lp between Rubber Soul and Abbey Road as your top pick, unless you count Yellow Submarine as one

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, I don't really consider Yellow Submarine as one of their main studio albums. Same goes for Flash Gordon by Queen or Obscured by Clouds by Pink Floyd

Album Rating: 5.0

GORDONS ALIVE!!!

Album Rating: 4.5

FLASH



AH-AHHHHHHH



SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE!

Album Rating: 4.5

“You can't really go wrong with choosing any Beatles lp between Rubber Soul and Abbey Road as your top pick“



Totally agreed. I have found that my favorite Beatles album varies from year to year.

Album Rating: 3.5

Rubber Soul has a lot of great songs, but mostly not so great songs.





"the closest the Beatles have to a polar opposite"

Perhaps. This is the most studioist of their studio albums. Though I also wouldn't say that this has weak songwriting.

Album Rating: 5.0

EDIT: thanks for the gold :D

Album Rating: 5.0

one reason this one is so good is because john beatle beat his wife extra hard during the recordings

Album Rating: 4.5

~man I was mean but I'm changing my scene~

Album Rating: 5.0

WELL ID RATHER SEE YOU DEAD LITTLE GIRL

Album Rating: 4.5

I am fixing a bowl I mean hole

Album Rating: 5.0

i never really saw any anti-sgt pepper sentiment until rolling stone said it was the best album ever



if anything white album was the polarizing weird one for a lot of folks but its kinda got more avant cred nowadays

Album Rating: 5.0

johnnys take is extra weird to me considering MMT and pepper recorded at the exact same time although i certainly get preferring one batch of tunes to the other



soul and revolver got wacky classical nods and indian bullshit just like pepper and MMT. beatles = progressive rock????? i vote indeed



the true outliers in beatle land are let it queef and the 63/64 shit and theres even good stuff from those eras as well... yet those are the eras with the simplest no frills tunes. unlike the stones, beatles are best when theyre piling on the insanity. within reason of course. the long and winding chode is paul bein like "look can i just make the sounds a little stupider on this one?"

Album Rating: 5.0

of course paul is a genius though, he sold his soul and got fucked over in that deal once he hit his 30s but ive come to realize that guy probably played more badass solos than george could ever be bothered. hell some songs paul is playing every instrument, and weirdest bassist in rock up until what, greg lake on in the court? hell paul is weirder. he's playing more fucked up shit than jack bruce sometimes

Album Rating: 5.0

ringo? killer drummer. yep. but you have to imagine paul and john might have hired a session dude now and then. bernard purdie says he played on beatles records but he also said he played with mozart so idk

Album Rating: 5.0

Coheed prolly better /