Rubber Soul US or UK?

[Dragon11]

I just remembered that there are subtle diffences in the two albums. US has I've Just Seen a Face and It's Only Love, but UK has Drive My Car, Nowhere Man, and If I Needed Somebody, and What Goes On.

Maybe they'll have all the songs from both albums. I would be frustrated if we don't get Nowhere Man, but I'd be just as frustrated not to get I've Just Seen a Face.

EDIT: And further, if we get more early albums, will we get the US or UK version?

[justin19954]

Well since we have Drive My Car and it has the album art of RS i'm guessing UK.

[Rich T.]

I'm sure it'll be the "real" version (the UK one with Nowhere Man). That's the version that's been released in both CD issues. I think, from this point on, everyone's going to treat the U.S. LP as a stupid move by Capitol records that should never be resurrected.

[Phisioni]

I wish it was the US version, because I want I've Just Seen a Face so bad. Oh shucks, I guess I'll have to buy every album they release until then, just to tide me over.

Thank goodness I've got a trombone to sell to afford all that...

[sporkthrumyheart]

The UK albums are considered canon, so it's going to be the UK release. Plus HMX released the downloadable tracklist:

Rubber Soul (1965)
Release Date: December 2009

* “Drive My Car”
* “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”
* “You Won’t See Me”
* “Nowhere Man”
* “Think For Yourself”
* “The Word”
* “Michelle”
* “What Goes On”
* “Girl”
* “I’m Looking Through You”
* “In My Life”
* “Wait”
* “If I Needed Someone”
* “Run For Your Life”

[Rich T.]

I wish it was the US version, because I want I've Just Seen a Face so bad. Oh shucks, I guess I'll have to buy every album they release until then, just to tide me over.

Thank goodness I've got a trombone to sell to afford all that...

I've Just Seen a Face is on the UK Help album (not the awful American edition that only had the 7 movie songs), so hopefully we'll get that one as DLC. Help is one of my top favorite Beatles albums.

P.S. Don't sell your trombone! Trombones rock! I mean, even if you just hang it on the wall...It's a TROMBONE!

[NormanCoxwell]

I believe it will be a comilation of the songs from both albums. Like so we get them all.

[Rockbandfan23467]

The UK version. It's sad that the US version doesn't get the credit it deserves.

[ThePaska]

They stated a while back that all the music they put in the game is from UK, that meaning that all the albums they are going by are the UK versions. I can't remember exactly where I saw that, I think it was in one of the announcements, but I do remember it being stated.

[Whiplash]

Like someone else pointed out, they already posted the track list, and it's (unsurprisingly) the UK version. I would assume it's going to be the UK versions for any albums from here on out as they are the official versions and Harmonix has shown in game that they are extremely faithful to that idea. If you start dipping into US versions, you start to screw with track releases.

[Rich T.]

The UK version. It's sad that the US version doesn't get the credit it deserves.

I grew up with the US version and loved it, but it's not the version The Beatles put together. Capitol cut out

Drive My Car
Nowhere Man
If I Needed Someone
What Goes On

to make it sound like a folk album (the folk music scene was huge at the time). They added two tracks from the UK Help album (since our Help album was missing 7 songs).

Capitol then marketed an entire album (Yesterday and Today) of songs cut from the U.S. Help, Rubber Soul, & Revolver (plus 2 singles).

I'm glad the UK versions are becoming the standard, even though it means many songs now have to be included in singles compilations.

[Rockbandfan23467]

I grew up with the US version and loved it, but it's not the version The Beatles put together. Capitol cut out

Drive My Car
Nowhere Man
If I Needed Someone
What Goes On

to make it sound like a folk album (the folk music scene was huge at the time). They added two tracks from the UK Help album (since our Help album was missing 7 songs).

Capitol then marketed an entire album (Yesterday and Today) of songs cut from the U.S. Help, Rubber Soul, & Revolver (plus 2 singles).

I'm glad the UK versions are becoming the standard, even though it means many songs now have to be included in singles compilations.

No need to lecture me on why Capitol Records sucks, I know the story.

While it's good that the UK versions are the standards, the US version of Rubber Soul was an influential album. Without it, there wouldn't be a Pet Sounds or SPLHCB. The album is underappriciated, and it will probably stay that way...

But oh well, things like this happen.

[BevoTheWarrior]

P.S. Don't sell your trombone! Trombones rock! I mean, even if you just hang it on the wall...It's a TROMBONE!

Words to live by.

[timmay9]

No need to lecture me on why Capitol Records sucks, I know the story.

While it's good that the UK versions are the standards, the US version of Rubber Soul was an influential album. Without it, there wouldn't be a Pet Sounds or SPLHCB. The album is underappriciated, and it will probably stay that way...

But oh well, things like this happen.

I'm pretty sure Wilson was mainly influenced by the tracks on both the US and UK versions. So quit b*tching about something that you are mostly alone in thinking.

[Rockbandfan23467]

I'm pretty sure Wilson was mainly influenced by the tracks on both the US and UK versions. So quit b*tching about something that you are mostly alone in thinking.
No, I'm not alone.


Brian Wilson heard the US version of Rubber Soul and was inspired to make a pseudo-concept album that became Pet Sounds (BW was unaware that the unified tone of Rubber Soul US was not the Beatles' doing). After Pet Sounds was done, he then started working on a full concept album called Smile, that would pretty much drive him insane for a couple decades.

In the meantime, McCartney discovered Pet Sounds and decided the Beatles should do a concept album themselves, and thus was born Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

In summary, the top 2 albums of the Rolling Stone Magazine Top 500 albums of all time were born out of the "butchering" that Capitol Records did.

[Rich T.]

No need to lecture me on why Capitol Records sucks, I know the story.

Didn't mean for that to sound like a lecture: At least we can agree about Captiol Records. In either version, Rubber Soul was an astounding album. I prefer the U.K. version, but I also love the two songs on the US edition, and hope like crazy that the Help album is in the cards for DLC.