Rubber Soul (1965 album)

Every Beatles album (especially in their early days) was always in a new style that was radically different from previous Beatles albums. From the early winter in 1965 to early summer of 1967 the Beatles made a trilogy of albums that continued to eclipsed not only their own previous work but even contemporaries at a time when the Kinks, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes and Otis Redding were on the radio. Of course with Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Monkees, Pink Floyd, the Who, Sly & The Family Stone and the Jackson 5 all breaking out so shortly after this peak turning point in their career a lot of their transitional work isn't as noticed as their later work which was at the beginning of the new era leaving albums like Rubber Soul and Revolver seem like quaint Sinatra and Elvis records that didn't fit into the new world musical order. Of course that could not be further from the truth as Rubber Soul was the birth of the new age in music. As relevant as Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" is to songwriting Rubber Soul was a new standard in album making. Thank goodness though the British version is on CD so you get 14 songs instead of 12. It isn't as simple as they cut 2 songs from the British LP. In a horrendous move from Capitol Records they released the Help! album as half soundtrack half Beatles (a problem to a lesser extent on the Yellow Submarine album as their wasn't enough new material for a new album). But that meant 7 Help! songs were now stranded to be put on American releases predominately the American Rubber Soul and the American only album Yesterday...And Today which the latter had some of the better songs. Of course as this was a key transitional period for the Beatles it causes a less harmonious mix of Beatles songs that don't sound as unified as it could've been. Double checking as I always do here are the differences between the American and British Rubber Soul:
American only:
I've Just Seen A Face
It's Only Love
British only:
Drive My Car (WTF?)
Nowhere Man (COME ON)
What Goes On (an early Ringo tune that's a nudge better than the American songs)
If I Needed Someone (REALLY?)
All the British songs cut were put on the Yesterday...And Today album along with "Yesterday" "We Can Work It Out" and "Day Tripper" so when going through my father's vinyl collection before I got a CD collection I was bummed Yesterday...And Today as well as Hey Jude were not on CD. But on CD I appreciate Rubber Soul for the masterpiece it is and should have been.