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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Several pages back, Engine referred to Rubber Soul as "a way better version of Revolver". I have to say I noticed parallels myself, even before reading that comment, but to me it cuts the other way: Rubber Soul feels like a rough draft of Revolver.
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I do like Rubber Soul 'way' more but I didn't say that I think either of the two albums are particularly great.
These two albums are generally lumped together as the middle stage of the band in between their teeny-bop, pseudo 50s-rock phase and their later full-on drug fueled/do-whatever-the-hell-we-want stage. And I think it's a fair lumping.
To me Rubber Soul fits in nicely with the roughly 2 million other floppy-haired psychedelic bands from the mid-1960s. I think it sounds a little more bubble-gummy than Revolver which, to me, sounds like an album made by a floppy-haired mid-60s band trying to get "like, really out there" but hadn't figured out how to do that until they put on some nehru jackets and started growing facial hair.
I don't love either album but I think Rubber Soul, with its relatively more simple/formulaic psychedelic sound, has a slightly better flavor. On Revolver they seemed to try to do things that they simply didn't know how to do.