Album Club: The Beatles, Rubber Soul (1965)
With pick #35 on the Top 100, we turn to an album that quietly changed the direction of popular music: *Rubber Soul* by The Beatles.
Released in 1965, *Rubber Soul* feels like the moment when The Beatles began moving beyond the bright rush of early Beatlemania into something deeper, stranger, and more introspective.
The songs still sparkle with melody, but the themes are more grown-up — questions about identity, love, independence, and the shifting culture of the mid-1960s.
A lot of people...