# What's the best song off of "Rubber Soul"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427 "2010-09-20T16:52:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/21 "2010-09-21T18:58:38Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > Looking ahead, I think the only easy choice is going to be for Sgt Pepper. I think we should be able to select our two favorite songs off The White Album. I might not be able to vote at all otherwise. I ultimately went with _I’m Looking Through You_ because it’s one of my favorite of Paul’s. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/22 "2010-09-21T19:33:43Z")
In My Life. Doubly so, listening to it after Lennon’s death. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/23 "2010-09-21T19:53:49Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I think we should be able to select our two favorite songs off The White Album. I might not be able to vote at all otherwise. The poll will be broken up into Disc 1 & Disc 2. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/24 "2010-09-21T20:27:42Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > > [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > > > I think we should be able to select our two favorite songs off The White Album. I might not be able to vote at all otherwise. > > The poll will be broken up into Disc 1 & Disc 2. Cheers 🙂 I’m sorry that nobody voted for **Wait** , **The Word** , or **What Goes On**. They’re easy to forget when you’ve got such heavy-hitters surrounding them, but they are really good songs. There’s a dark undercurrent in **The Word** that elevates it from a proto-All You Need is Love to something really interesting and a little tense. And I never realized how complex **What Goes On** is until I played it on Rock Band. It’s one of the more difficult guitar tracks! ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/25 "2010-09-21T22:14:43Z")
_Run For Your Life_ is on my top ten list of all Beatle’s songs, so I voted for that. It also contains the Beatle’s song I dislike the most _Michelle_ ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/26 "2010-09-22T08:13:17Z")
This album is, for me, when their apotheosis was first evident. No filler. None. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/27 "2010-09-22T13:12:52Z")
“You won’t see me.” One night near closing time in a tavern I didn’t hang out in often a grizzled old guy with a guitar came in and asked me if I’d buy him a beer. We had a few and talked and he told me he’d been on the streets of this town for years and years scratching by playing guitar and singing on the street. After closing he asked if I wanted to hear a song. I said he didn’t need to but he insisted. So he sat down on step and played this song. He kept up the up beat tempo and sang in a gravelly yet clear voice. It was beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/28 "2010-09-22T13:28:31Z")
_Christ_, this one was hard. I ultimately went with “Run for Your Life”, but it literally could’ve been _any_ song on this album, with the possible exception of “What Goes On”. From here on out, there are gonna be some tough choices to make. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/29 "2010-09-22T13:30:59Z")
> [@choie](#): > > (But picking a fave from _Rubber Soul_ is gonna be a cakewalk compared to the trouble I’ll have with the next one!) Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/30 "2010-09-22T13:32:52Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > > [@choie](#): > > > > (But picking a fave from _Rubber Soul_ is gonna be a cakewalk compared to the trouble I’ll have with the next one!) > > Exactly. Not for me – well, it would be if you excluded one song. ETA: Rubber Soul is probably the hardest choice for me in the list. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/31 "2010-09-23T14:43:53Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > “You won’t see me.” John Lennon said that Anne Murray’s cover version of this song was his favourite cover of any Beatle’s song. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427/32 "2010-09-24T04:51:38Z")
_In My Life_ is probably my second favorite Beatles song of all time (after Dear Prudence). And I absolutely love harpsichord…though apparently it’s actually a piano played an octave low and then sped up for the final recording. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-rubber-soul/554427.md?page=1)