The Beatles Bible - Topic: "The Word" from Rubber Soul -- so quintessentially Sixties sounding http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-word-from-rubber-soul-so-quintessentially-sixties-sounding/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 Von Bontee on "The Word" from Rubber Soul -- so quintessentially Sixties sounding http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-word-from-rubber-soul-so-quintessentially-sixties-sounding/#p60067 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-word-from-rubber-soul-so-quintessentially-sixties-sounding/#p60067 Agreed with the funkiness - that one rhythm guitar chord is practically James Brownian.

]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:20:21 +0000 RunForYourLife on "The Word" from Rubber Soul -- so quintessentially Sixties sounding http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-word-from-rubber-soul-so-quintessentially-sixties-sounding/#p60051 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-word-from-rubber-soul-so-quintessentially-sixties-sounding/#p60051 I always thought of it as a proto-funk song, with the (implied) D7#9 chord, George's little bit during the bridge and Paul's bass line.

 Though if you listen to the full ending on the "RockBand" version, it does sound very "psychedelic" with the droning harmonium and the little guitar flourish.

It is an interesting song, I'd love to have heard it coming together in the studio.

]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:37:32 +0000 Funny Paper on "The Word" from Rubber Soul -- so quintessentially Sixties sounding http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-word-from-rubber-soul-so-quintessentially-sixties-sounding/#p60045 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-word-from-rubber-soul-so-quintessentially-sixties-sounding/#p60045 I just listened to the song carefully for the first time (though I've heard it a few times before in my life in distracting circumstances, involving a bong and a pouf...) and it sounds like The Doors, the Mamas and the Papas, and The Byrds all rolled into one -- and George Martin on the "harmonium" doesn't hurt!

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