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limitlessundyinglove laughed from a lake  

Silly Girl pondered from a pond

3- If I Needed Someone  (it’s just so… Rubber Soul -ish)

Funny you should say that, because I always felt it was a rather Revolvery song for the times. A foreshadowing, if you will, of things to come. 

I think I must respectfully disagree with you here. It seems like many people claim that Revolver and Rubber Soul are very similar, like two peas in a pod, and I just don’t agree with that.  I think there is a stark contrast between the two, and Revolver was really the start of their later period.  Rubber Soul has a very smoky, fireside feel- with lots of tambourine and jangle-y guitars.  They’re still the lovable mop-tops that they’ve been since 1962, they’ve just been listening to too much Bob Dylan. Revolver on the other hand, is much more psychedelic and mature sounding.  It has loud, ripping guitars, and much more experimental stuff- not to mention less harmony vocals than Rubber Soul .  The song writing on Revolver is much more sophisticated too.  Heck, just compare the amount of love and love-related songs on the two.  Rubber Soul has about 11 and Revolver has only 4 or 5.  If I Needed Someone just sounds very RS to my ear.

‘Many people’ includes the venerable Mr Harrison himself, unfortunately. I must respectfully disagree with him, and agree with you, there, because while the feel of the recording processes may have been similar, the sounds of the finished products certainly weren’t. And I agree with your verdict upon the very different feels of Revolver and Rubber Soul . However, I do still feel If I Needed Someone to be quite Revolvery (it’s only me, and not my mind), for more or less the reasons ewe2 stated in the post quoted below:  

ewe2 noted aptly  
If I Needed Someone definitely has the 12-string chiming/tambourine feel of the RS period but for George it is akin to I Want To Tell You just a different choice of backing. There’s the close harmony too. <snip> 

It’s the trippy vocal harmonies and the strong focus on riffs– besides the obvious guitar riff, there’s the bass riff as well– that puts me in mind of Revolver . 

And now I’ll make a little prediction: you won’t ever hear If I Needed Someone the same way again, will you? 

limitlessundyinglove sang enthusiastically  

Annadog40 sighed  

limitlessundyinglove croaked 

7- Piggies (I just have to sing along with this one, even though it’s kinda dumb)

At least it’s on the list. :/

I didn’t mean to call Piggies a “bad” song, that’s why I put it on there in the first place.  I just meant that I just can’t quite take it seriously, social satire or not.  That said, the harpsichord is awesome and I love shouting “EAT THEIR BACON!” (even when I’m in public)

Hehehe, same here.  Yesterday I was out for a walk and someone mentioned pigs, so what could I do but start belting it out?  That last verse I did nice and loud, and at the ‘EAT THEIR BACON’ bit I even twirled round. I’m such a Silly Girl 

 Hehe. I don’t think they sound that similar either, but I can see how his experience of them could have been similar. Both were sort of experimental, everyone was getting along, had lots of grand ideas, he was getting to do fab stuff, writing lots of songs, smoking lots of pot. And he even admitted he hadn’t listened to them back-to-back lately… when I heard that I thought, ‘oh, that explains it’. 

So I suppose what I’m trying to say is, they may have been similar from the inside, if not from the outside. 

^^ I thought not  

And by the way, my @tt name is beatlebug. Use that to mention me. If you preview the post and there isn’t a link that you can click and bring up a profile page, then the @tt doesn’t go through. Also mentions don’t mention in edits.

There, more information than you know what to do with. You’re welcome.  

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