Rubber Soul LP

Rubber Soul came together in thirteen days at EMI's studios in 1965, the first time the Beatles weren't recording in the cracks between tours and film shoots. George Harrison's sitar shows up on "Norwegian Wood," Paul McCartney plays fuzz bass, and the piano on "In My Life" was sped up to sound like a harpsichord. Parlophone handled the UK pressing; Capitol's US edition shuffled the track list. It topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and still sits at No. 5 on Rolling Stone's 2012 list of the 500 greatest albums.