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This Bird Has Flown: A 40th Anniversary Tribute To The Beatles' Rubber Soul  Hear it Now

RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

2005

Indelibly catchy, but also one of the first albums to expand rock & roll's Fifties and early-Sixties confines, the Beatles' Rubber Soul turns forty in December. This tribute album celebrates that milestone by gathering together fourteen alternative pop, folk and rock acts contributing respectful, but irreverent, covers sequenced to duplicate the original U.K. album's track listing. Given the material's familiarity, the most radical revisions here reap the greatest rewards. The Fiery Furnaces psychedelicize "Norwegian Wood" with heaps of echo and foreboding organ, while Ted Leo turns "I'm Looking Through You" into dubby New Wave and Nellie McKay spins "If I Needed Someone" into slinky bossa nova. Changing chords, rewriting melody, overhauling rhythms and resequencing large chunks of lyrics, the ever-ambitious Sufjan Stevens turns "What Goes On" inside out with an intricate stop-and-start arrangement that affirms Rubber Soul's elastic strength.

BARRY WALTERS

(Posted: Nov 17, 2005)

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