Rubber Soul

Week has been cooler after the great heatwave of Monday and in preparation for the arrival in the last in a series books covering the life and times of the Beatles albums, I've been reaquianting myself with the cd portion of their albums here covering as the do a series of box albums (The Mono box, Capitol Albums Volumes 1&2, EP set) loose U.S. albums discs and a bespoke stereo box I assembled of 1987 original cds in stereo and Japan 2014-17 mini lp issues where titles were only release on cd originally in mono.

One that got missed off was the Japan 2017 remastered version of the 1986 remixed Rubber Soul that upsets purists but as the stereo original isn't that great with extreme seperation that one had remained in its rather brash sounding original UK cd form so I recently got a deleted copy in mint condition.

Part of the reason is that mini lp presentation, holding feels like a record rather than a tri-fold digipak and also the sound is fuller that takes some of the cold 80's digital feel from it (the mono cd set version has the original stereo mix as a bonus).

I feel it was worth it in the way with the more flawed remix of the stereo Help it just doesn't so I keep a copy of the original as a reference about.