Beatles - Rubber Soul (Side A)

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[rubbersole]

1. "In My Life" is my favorite song.

Pretty much got me playing acoustic rather than electric guitars.
Thanks for posting. 👋

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2. I remember the first time I heard this album. I've always loved the Beatles, but Rubber Soul to me was the next ...

... level that gave us everything that followed.

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3. That's so spot on.

The Beatles were always great song writers/musicians but Rubber Soul showed what geniuses they really were. Our crappy garage band relied on loud amplifiers to hide 'imperfections' ....until this album caused us to take clarity and execution seriously. Still working on it 55 years later.

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5. That's how it goes. It's not only the brain and soul but also training and the "way to Carnegie Hall" ...

... now that I'm not paid for it any more I am doing better quality work.

I remember what at a shock it was at a talent night at the junior high school I went to in Akron. Four kids at school formed a band that played Hard Day's Night not six months after the film came out and it was good. It blew my mind that kids my age could make music. The band had a bit of success locally, the Lyme.

60 years later and I still remember it. My first live rock and roll.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Second Favorite Beatles Album

Only Abbey Road tops it for me.
The 2 songs George wrote (Think For Yourself & If I Needed Someone) are so, so good.

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6. 80% of Abbey Road is sublime. Sometimes I get the impression that my favorite bassist wanted to ...

... make the Beatles a skiffle band. But that 80% still makes this and the White Album my co-favorites. If they'd made the White Album a single disk, it'd been the best album of all times.