ARTiST : VA
ALBUM : This Bird Has Flown-The 40th Anniversary Tribute to The
LABEL : Razor and Tie Records
GENRE : Indie
ENCODER : Lame 3.90 / APS
QUALiTY : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
RELEASE : Oct-20-2005
STREET : Oct-25-2005
SOURCE : CDDA
TYPE : Album
PLAYTIME : 43:14 min
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
01. The Donnas - Drive My Car 02:36
02. The Fiery Furnaces - Norwegian Wood 02:56
(This Bird Has Flown)
03. Dar Williams - You Won't See Me 03:32
04. Low - Nowhere Man 02:46
05. Yonder Mountain String Band - Think For Yourself 02:14
06. Mindy Smith - The Word 03:02
07. Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Michelle 02:54
08. Sufjan Stevens - What Goes On 05:48
09. Rhett Miller - Girl 03:01
10. Ted Leo - I'm Looking Through You 02:26
11. Ben Lee - In My Life 03:10
12. Ben Kweller Feat. Albert Hammond Jr. - Wait 02:24
13. Nellie Mckay - If I Needed Someone 02:17
14. Cowboy Junkies - Run For Your Life 04:08
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http://www.thisbirdhasflown.com
The BeatlesÆ Rubber Soul was a turning point in the history of
popular music. You could see that it was different even before
you slit the plastic wrap and put it on the turntable. Unlike
any record before, the cover did not display the bandÆs name.
An astigmatic image, shot in a Dutch angle, served as the
BeatlesÆ sole representation, while the malleable
pre-psychedelic lettering -- ôRubber Soulö -- hovered in a
corner like a hip icon. Perhaps Capital Records allowed this
unprecedented design concept because the BeatlesÆ faces were
so well known that spelling out the groupÆs name was
superfluous. But it could also be that Paul McCartney, John
Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Star were just plain tired
of being called ôThe Beatlesö.
In this picture a sense of weariness is apparent in their
faces. Still in their early twenties, they had already set the
world on fire with their buoyant pop tunes and the moptop hair
that was adored, disdained and endlessly discussed. But in the
Rubber Soul portrait the Beatles are no longer smiling. They
have lost their baby fat, and there is apprehension in their
eyes. John looks through us, and each of his three colleagues
gives a sideways glance.
The pressures upon them at this moment were immense. They were
the biggest recording act since Elvis Presley, with ecstatic
young fans screaming and fainting before them. Coming to
America, theyÆd experienced huge and unexpected success. On
February 9, 1964, seventy-three million people -- forty-five
percent of the countryÆs entire population û sat glued to the
TV, fascinated, watching them on ôThe Ed Sullivan Showö. They
had been awarded the Members of the Most Excellent Order of
the British Empire, bestowed upon them in a formal ceremony by
Queen Elizabeth herself. And days later they had to endure the
news that many past recipients had turned their awards back
in, protesting that this ultimate honor had been cheapened.
At the time of Rubber SoulÆs release in late 1965 the cultural
ferment of the decade was well underway. Bob Dylan had proved
that a successful song could be more than something that got
you to dance. A song could change minds. Maybe even the world.
The Beatles got people up and dancing (and screaming and
crying and feeling good) and now they wanted and needed to do
more. Up until this time, fans knew the Beatles as a group.
With Rubber Soul they began to know them as individual
artists, as their songwriting took a dramatic leap forward.
For Rubber Soul their subject matter expanded and became more
mature.
Moving on from writing singles of giddy adolescent love The
Beatles focused on their real experiences. The tone became
bittersweet, sometimes even harsh. They turned their
creativity inward, emerging on the other side with ôIÆm
Looking Through Youö, where cynicism sheds doubt on a loverÆs
integrity, and ôNorwegian Woodö, in which John Lennon sifts
through the ashes of a one-night stand.
A shift of direction toward more confessional lyrics can be
seen in two songs written within a year of Rubber Soul: ôHelpö
-- John LennonÆs outreached-hand plea from the whirlpool of
fame -- and soul-baring ôIÆm A Loserö. In Rubber SoulÆs
ôNowhere Manö a loser is again granted a voice, but this time
there is a way out. In this revolutionary work Lennon attempts
to evict the outcast from his fearful shell, urging him to
take charge and live his life, issuing a universal challenge:
Why are we all so afraid to act out our destinies, live out
our dreams? ItÆs a far cry from ôShe Loves You Yeah Yeah
Yeahö.
Love is still on the Beatles' minds with Rubber Soul, but the
parameters of the subject have expanded. Amid the growing
sense of cultural possibility, a Motown-like ôThe Wordö asks
ôHave you heard? The word is love. ItÆs so fine. ItÆs
sunshineà.ö ôYou WonÆt See Meö, on the other hand, explores
the darker side of a romance, as Paul McCartney takes on the
role of a stalker-like ex-boyfriend who refuses to let go, yet
is uncertain that he truly wishes to be back in his loverÆs
arms. ôI wonÆt want to stay, I donÆt have much to say. But I
canÆt turn away and you wonÆt see me.ö The more the ex-lover
avoids him, the more tormented he becomes.
With Rubber Soul the Beatles also incorporated a number of
musical innovations. George introduced the sounds of the east
by way of the sitar, Paul the fuzz bass, and, on ôMichelleö,
the bass as a lead instrument. And, for the first time,
instead of going in and cutting the songs live, they
experimented with studio effects and tinkered with sounds.
Rubber Soul helped to usher in an era when pop song themes
became more complicated, relationships more mystifying and
lyrics more intelligent. Rubber Soul stands as a rock song
cycle like none before, one of the first albums in which each
member wrote and sang the songs. It has served as a blueprint
for young bands everywhere, ever since.
With This Bird Has Flown weÆve sought out some of the most
gifted and groundbreaking kindred spirits of this era --
people whose own lyrics are grounded in the same kind of
realism. Each new track they have lovingly laid down reveals
these Beatles songs to be as meaningful, as beautiful, as
powerful as they were forty years ago. With hindsight, it is
clear that in bypassing the expected ôcute shotö, the cover of
Rubber Soul perfectly captured a remarkable moment in the
unfolding of the BeatlesÆ wonderful body of work.