The Beatles: Rubber Soul

The Beatles: Rubber Soul

Album #50 - December 1965

Episode date - May 11, 2016

The Top 500 of The Top 40
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    After two solid years of unabated greatness, you would’ve had to be bulletproof to avoid the charm of the Beatles.

    For Christmas 1965, the band released an album that was virtually undeniably great in just about every way. “Rubber Soul” added a large chunk of maturity to the band’s rock and roll sound, making their appeal universal, and even crossing generation barriers. Moms were humming along with “Michelle,” and even those who despised rock and roll music saw the undeniable beauty in a song like “In My Life.”

    Never before or since, and very likely, never again, will the world witness a musical act to present such an incredible degree of musical growth in so short a timespan. Even those who resisted the Beatles – jazz fans, R&B fans, Brill Building songwriters, to name a few – could no longer justify their argument that the Beatles were responsible for ‘dumbing down’ popular culture. Quite literally, the Beatles reinvented culture as it happened, and the world followed suit.

    Featured tracks include;

    1) I’ve Just Seen a Face

    2) Norwegian Wood

    3) You Won’t See Me

    4) Think for Yourself

    5) The Word

    6) Michelle

    7) It’s Only Love

    8) Girl

    9) I’m Looking Through You

    10) In My Life

    11) Wait

    12) Run for Your Life

    December 1965 - Billboard Charted #1

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