Listening to a Beatles album for the first time

>>75051358
Expect a collection of songs delivered in the album format

Help is a great album, and a good movie.

Judging by the record cover I assume you're British.

The U.S. version of Rubber Soul and British version are quite different.

The British version was very much in tune with "Swinging London" of 1965-1966. (The U.S. version was packaged to convert "Fence Sitters" who were into both The Beatles and Bob Dylan)

In many ways, you can hear The Beatles on the verge of their "Psychedelic" era, but hadn't quite reached it yet. In many ways, you can hear how everything was leading up to Revolver.

I like both the U.S. and British versions of Rubber Soul. Happy listening.

>>75052115
uh... there were different versions?
I know they released some albums that were just collections of various singles and b-sides (Yesterday and Today for example) but never heard of their real studio albums being different

>>75052115
The UK tracklistings of Beatles albums have been the ones released in the USA since the 80s (sans Magical Mystery Tour which is the other way around).

>>75052872
Just listen to the UK versions. Anyone who still listens to the US versions of Beatles albums must be intrinsically contrarian

>>75051358
Folkier and better

>>75052872
>>75053645
The UK versions are all superior to the US versions, except MMT

>>75051358
Expect the song writing to improve immensely and an exploration of folk rock and hints of psychedelia in the instrumentals. Rubber soul is the 2nd phase of their career so expect their best material from there on wards