Behind The Recording Of 'Rubber Soul' -The Beatles

The Beatles 6th album Rubber Soul released at the end of 1965, saw the band start to really move away from their previous rock n roll band set up and experiment with new instruments, effects and more mature subject matter.

This is the story of how it was recorded and the techniques and equipment used.

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[westfield]

My all time favorite album. Seriously Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man, Michelle, In My Life are just amazing by themselves but to have them on one album is incredible.

[jacobgonzalez]

When I bought the mono version of the album I was blown away. Its like listening to a whole new album, with the rhythm section locked in as it should be. The mix and the overall sound of the mono is fantastic.

[monovision]

Drive My Car was not Paul's first lead on a Beatles song. He played lead on three Help! tracks: Ticket To Ride, The Night Before, Another Girl.

[PaisleyPatchouli]

This series is very well done, with clear insights to the recording methods and gear on these iconic albums. Newly subbed; hope this series goes on for a long while!

[TheFuzzman]

Initially we already have some misinformation. The Beatles did not go into this recording with "more time" as the narrator suggests. On the contrary, having been given absolutely no time for preparation, they were cast into the studio after several years of nonstop touring, movie making, and record making, and told they had two months to record a new record. This all came coincidentally just as they had exhausted their cache of early originals and the many covers worked out in Hamburg and the early Cavern Club days. The band had been wrung ragged for several years and were exhausted. This is when any other band in history would and should have either put out a flop, or at least an average ho hum offering, which makes Rubber Soul an even more impressive collection. A masterpiece if you ask me, and easily my favourite album by the Lads.

[elmolewis]

One of the seminal records to come out. Terrific research and presentation on the video.

[ericbgordon]

Essentially for myself, I digested the whole Beatles discography (other thsn *Let It Be)* when I was seven and Apple Records redistributed their whole catalog on compact disc. Inside of a year, I heard both editions of *Rubber Soul, * the original Capitol Records format from 1965 and the EMI format that was distributed on CD. (I can recall also listening to *Help!* and wondering what "I've Just Seen A Face" was doing there.) It took me a short extension of time to learn all the different levels of history that *Rubber Soul* represented for the Beatles and their evolution as musicians. I would not have considered likening it to *Revolver, * an album I considered vastly different, so it was really interesting when The Beatles Anthology came out in 1995 to hear George )Harrison) thinking those two records were like Volume 1 and Volume 2 in his mind.

[JP-hsii]

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) was the first track Paul used the Rickenbacker on. (source: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 2)

[vinylarchaeologist]

Perhaps the craziest jump in songwriting maturity in the shortest amount of time, if you consider Help! had come out only a few months before these recordings, and a few months later they would record Tomorrow Never Knows.

[fredfox]

I want my. I want my. I want my MMO. Another great one MMO, and I truly appreciate the close ups of the vintage gear.

[mrr]

Enjoyed that!
Thank you very much sir

[rjw]

excellent work! interesting that on Think For Yourself, paul also recorded a "normal" non-fuzz bass line on the opposite side of the mix, perhaps realizing the fuzz bass line wasn't enough to carry the bottom, which was crucial in those days of mediocre, mostly mid-fidelity audio systems. chris squire of yes, who had an notoriously punchy, middish sound, used the Rickenbacker effectively, with and without fuzz. but i think paul preferred the more bottomy hofner for bass, which had punch and boom.

[lamper]

7:49 Cue the big arguing between the accidental and (frankly superior) of the American version of Rubber Soul resulting in that Folk-Rock mania vs Beatle's vision which included the horrible What Goes On. (I've NEVER heard anyone who had a kind word for that song!) BUT: They weren't "angling to push for a folk rock sound"

[franktreppiedi]

Paul's Ric was called Model RM 1999. Specially made for the British market.

[abradfordajb]

The like the Euro version of this album better than what we got in the states. In the states we got an album called "Yesterday and Today" which included material cut from the "real" Rubber Soul.

[JohnJanuary]

Very thorough and entertaining, but I wish you would slow down a bit. I had to slow playback speed to 75% in order to enjoy the photos and descriptions.

[overjoyous]

I prefer the capitol version of Rubber Soul in Mono. I find that it's much more cohesive. I've Just Seen A Face makes for a great and upbeat opening track. That flows into Norwegian Wood, setting the mood nicely. Not to mention, I think Michelle, It's Only Love followed by Girl is the best sequencing of songs on any Beatles album.

[owenstunes]

Without George Martin and his crew it would have been a different sounding record.

[alexanderdragiev]

Love your videos! Can you make one about Raw Power by The Stooges?

[vonsboy]

Paul walked out at one point of the sessions but I’ve never been able to find out what the fight was about. Anyone?