History YMMV / RubberSoul

* GrowingTheBeard: Many regard this as the Beatles' first truly ''great'' album from an artistic standpoint. This was the album where the band started their experiments with sound and instruments, evolving away from the guitar-pop music of their earlier albums, as well as writing more introspective lyrics on songs such as "Nowhere Man" and "In My Life". Hell, the mangled American version of the album was ''still'' so good it inspired Music/BrianWilson to grow his own beard with Music/TheBeachBoys' ''Music/PetSounds''.

** "Run For Your Life", in which Lennon seems to advocate for ''spousal murder''. This was hardly noticed at the time, but soon enough even Lennon himself considered it [[CreatorBacklash the worst song he wrote for the band]]. Doesn't help that there's an overwhelming about of LyricalDissonance within it. [[PoesLaw Was he intending for it to be a serious love song with an unintentionally unhealthy perspective, or was it made to make fun of people who would actually believe such ideologies?]] Pop songs from 60s girl groups playing StalkerWithACrush straight would probably indicate the former with the style of the time; plus, Lennon [[CreatorBacklash coming to regret making the song]] only increases the likelihood of [[UnfortunateImplications the song intending to actually be romantic]]. Another possible consideration was that a song with a more aggressive lyrical bent might have been a ploy to appeal to male fans more. In interviews at the time the band fretted the perception that their fanbase consisted of screaming teen girls, and admitted that one reason they started getting more adventurous in their music was to get more male listeners.

** "Norwegian Wood" is an elegant little waltz about a date not going well, and it implies strongly that the narrator, after his date took him to her place but nixed having sex with him, lit her house on fire in retaliation. With more awareness about consent and entitlement issues and the repudiation of the notion that anyone is ''owed'' sex, it's not uncommon for the song to leave a bad taste in the mouth of some modern-day listeners. Others would argue the PlotTwist is meant to show that the narrator was a {{Jerkass}} all along, but was being [[UnreliableNarrator unreliable]] before. It's worth mentioning that it wasn't even Music/JohnLennon, the principal songwriter, but Music/PaulMcCartney who threw that ending in, as a ''joke!''

* {{Glurge}}: It's hard to piece together the angle John Lennon was aiming for with "Run For Your Life" thanks to the overwhelming about of LyricalDissonance within it. [[PoesLaw Was he intending for it to be a serious love song with an unintentionally unhealthy perspective, or was it made to make fun of people who would actually believe such ideologies?]] Pop songs from 60s girl groups playing StalkerWithACrush straight would probably indicate the former with the style of the time; plus, Lennon [[CreatorBacklash coming to regret making the song]] only increases the likelihood of [[UnfortunateImplications the song intending to actually be romantic]].

** "Norwegian Wood" is an elegant little waltz about a date not going well, and it implies strongly that the narrator, after his date wouldn't sleep with him, lit her house on fire in retaliation. Nowadays, as most modern feminists will often tell you, men are ''not'' owed sex for any reason, and thus it's not uncommon for the song to leave a bad taste in the mouth of a modern-day listener. And it wasn't even Music/JohnLennon, the principal songwriter, but Music/PaulMcCartney who threw that ending in, as a ''joke!''
** "Run For Your Life", in which Lennon seems to advocate for ''spousal murder''. This was hardly noticed at the time, but soon enough even Lennon himself considered it [[CreatorBacklash the worst song he wrote for the band]].

* GrowingTheBeard: Many regard this as the Beatles' first truly ''great'' album from an artistic standpoint. This was the album where the band started their experiments with sound and instruments, evolving away from the guitar-pop music of their earlier albums, as well as writing more introspective lyrics on songs such as "Nowhere Man" and "In My Life". The album inspired Music/BrianWilson to grow his own beard with Music/TheBeachBoys' ''Music/PetSounds''.

* {{Glurge}}: It's hard to piece together the angle John Lennon was aiming for with "Run For Your Life" thanks to the overwhelming about of LyricalDissonance within it. [[PoesLaw Was he intending for it to be a serious love song with an unintentionally unhealthy perspective, or was it made to make fun of people who would actually believe such ideologies?]] Pop songs from 60s girl groups playing StalkerWithACrush straight would probably indicate the former with the style of the time, but Lennon [[CreatorBacklash coming to regret making the song]] only complicates matters further.

** "Run For Your Life", in which Lennon seems to advocate for ''spousal murder''. This was hardly noticed at the time, but soon enough even Lennon himself considered it the worst song he wrote for the band.

** "Norwegian Wood": The narrator burns down a woman's apartment for refusing to sleep with him.
** "Run for Your Life": John Lennon threatens to kill a lover who walks out on him.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: On a regional level, the American version was particularly popular among the San Francisco Bay Area counterculture and was a major influence on the nascent psychedelia scene, including bands like Music/JeffersonAirplane

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The American version was particularly popular among the San Francisco Bay Area counterculture and was a major influence on the nascent psychedelia scene, including bands like Music/JeffersonAirplane

* GenreTurningPoint: ''Rubber Soul'' marked the point where rock musicians started to focus on albums rather than singles.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: "In My Life" where a man stops and reflects on the loves and friends from days past he misses now. Almost a TearJerker song except that the man is still happy to have known them, realizes he will ''not forget them'', and compares them favorably to a current lover he knows he loves most of all.
-->''Though I know I'll never lose affection\\
For people and things that went before\\
I know I'll often stop and think about them\\
In my life I love you more...''

* CutAndPasteTranslation: As with every Beatles album up to ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' in its original U.S. release.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: As with every Beatles album up to ''Music/{{Revolver}}''.

* GrowingTheBeard: Many regard this as the Beatles' first truly ''great'' album from an artistic standpoint. This was the album where the band started their experiments with sound and instruments - evolving away from the guitar-pop music of their earlier albums - as well as writing more introspective - "Nowhere Man," "In My Life" - lyrics. The album inspired Music/BrianWilson to grow his own beard with ''Music/PetSounds''.

** "Run for your Life": John Lennon threatens to kill a lover who walks out on him.

* GrowingTheBeard: Many regard this as the Beatles' first truly ''great'' album from an artistic standpoint.

** "Run for your Life": Yes, it's about threating to kill an unfaithful lover.

* GrowingTheBeard: Many regard this as the Beatles' first truly ''great'' album from an artistic standpoint.

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: It doesn't matter how horrible [[MisogynySong the sentiments]] expressed in "Run For Your Life" are, Music/JohnLennon just makes them sound so damn cool.