The Rubber Soul Project is the first and only album by the band Rubber Soul Project

Rubber Soul Project

The Rubber Soul Project was a Serbian band. They recorded a single album, called The Rubber Soul Project, in 1996. The band took their name from the famous Beatles record Rubber Soul released in 1965. The band recorded an imaginary Beatles album, by writing music and lyrics to songs for which...

 released in 1996.

Track listing

All songs written by Rastko Ćirić and Goran Skrobonja.

1. "All Together On The Wireless Machine" (2:33)
2. "Home" (2:23)
3. "Little Eddie" (2:40)
4. "I Should Like To Live Up Tree" (3:46)
5. "Shirley's Wild Accordion" (2:45)
6. "Colliding Circles" (3:05)
7. "What's The New Mary Jane" (2:28)
8. "Heather" (2:10)
9. "When I Come To Town" (2:45)
10. "Bound By Love" (3:05)
11. "Indian Rope Trick" (4:28)
12. "Four Nights in Moscow" (2:20)
13. "Thinking Of Linking" (2:30)
14. "Watching Rainbows" (3:40)
15. "Rubber Soul (3:12)

Personnel

• Rastko Ćirić (lead, harmony and backing vocals, acoustic guitar on tracks 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 piano on tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15, block-flute on track 14, tambourine on track 15, maracas on tracks 5 and 15, whistling and laughter on track 1, Kazoos, Jingle Bells and Opera Voice on track 9, Xylophone on track 6, Knees on track 5)
• Nebojša Ignjatović - (lead and rhythm guitar, 12-strings guitar on tracks 6 and 15, acoustic guitar on tracks 4 and 7, piano on track 12, harmony vocals on tracks 5 and 9, 'Tibetan' voice on track 11, laughter on track 1, tambourine on track 12, cabassa on track 1, synthesizer on tracks 1, 5, 15, flute on track 1)
• Miroslav Cvetković ('Hoefner' violin-bass, tambourine on tracks 2, 9, guitar on tracks 7 and 15, piano bass on track 11, maracas on track 7, slide guitar on track 7, backing vocals on track 9)
• Čedomir Mačura ('Ludwig' drums, percussion on tracks 1, 14, 15, triangle on track 8, lead vocals on 9, cow bell on track 10)

Additional personnel

• Aleksandar Lokner (piano on track 7)
• Boban Novaković (piano on track 9)
• Dejan Mitrović (cello on tracks 8 and 14)
• Dragan Petrović Čupa (clarinet on track 1)
• Goran Skrobonja (reading on track 1, kicking the piano on track 9)
• Đorđe Petrović (keyboards on tracks 3, 4, 5, 7)
• Nenad Petrović (saxophone on track 3)
• Predrag Necić (trumpet on track 3)
• Kumari Pradhan (sitar on tracks 11 and 15)
• Narmani Pradhan (tabla, fadeout vocals, counting on track 11)
• Jelena Isailović (lead esaraj on track 11)
• Mahodari Takač (tanpura, mantra vocals on track 11)
• Darpada Milosavljević (shwar-mandal on track 11)
• Gordana Matijević Nedeljković (Violin on tracks 8 and 14)
• Biljana Kitanović (violin on track 14)
• Rastko Roknić (viola on tracks 8 and 14)
• Zoran Božinović (lead guitar on tracks 4 and 14)

Promotional videos

There are two promotional videos for this album. One of them is for "Colliding Circles", created on Silicon Graphics platform in Softimage 3.0 by Srdjan Marković and Jelena Obradović, and for "Rubber Soul" by Aleksandara Dević on PC platform by using software such as 3D Studio 4, Adobe Premier i Ulead Media Studio.

The video for "Colliding Circles" got the Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 Golden Plaquette for the best mini-film at the 45th Festival of Yugoslav Documentary and Short Films in Belgrade 1998. And the "Rubber Soul" video got the YU-ASIFA Diploma for the best debutante's film at the 45th Festival of Yugoslav Documentary and Short Films in Belgrade 1998.

Original Beatles recordings

All tracks were original compositions based around the titles of bootlegged or rumored Beatles songs. While bearing no resemblance to the tracks on this album, the original recordings were as follows:

1. "All Together On The Wireless Machine" - A brief, comedic ditty by Paul McCartney and Kenny Everett
   Kenny Everett
   Kenny Everett was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole, Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for the Kenny Everett television shows.-Early life:...
   
   , with one section resembling the melody of "Hello, Goodbye."
2. "Home" - No Beatles song by this title is known to exist, though this may have been an early, incorrect title given on a bootleg to the as-yet-unreleased "Two Of Us."
3. "Little Eddie" - Also known as 'There You Are, Little Eddie', this was a McCartney improvisation from January 1969.
4. "I Should Like To Live Up A Tree" - No Beatles song by this title is known to exist; however, it is believed that this title stemmed from a late-1960's bootlegger's mishearing of lyrics belonging to the as-yet-unreleased "Octopus's Garden."
5. "Shirley's Wild Accordion" - An unreleased song by this title was recorded during the Magical Mystery Tour
   Magical Mystery Tour (album)
   The soundtrack was far more favourably received than the film. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for best album in 1968 and reached number 1 in the US for eight weeks...
   
    sessions, featuring Shirley Evans on accordion. However, this song has never been bootlegged.
6. "Colliding Circles" - This title was a complete fabrication, included as a joke by Beatles historian Martin Lewis in a New Musical Express article detailing the Beatles' unreleased recordings.
7. "What's The New Mary Jane" - An avant-garde track recorded during the White Album sessions, which was eventually released on The Beatles Anthology 3.
8. "Heather" - An improvisation by Paul McCartney and Donovan Leitch
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   , recorded during the sessions for Mary Hopkin's "Postcard" album.
9. "When I Come To Town" - A working title (or incorrect title given on a bootleg) for Ringo Starr's autobiographical song "Early 1970."
10. "Bound By Love" - Also known as "The Honeymoon Song," this was performed by the Beatles during their BBC sessions.
11. "Indian Rope Trick" - Also known as "Spiritual Regeneration," this Beach Boys-flavored tune was recorded (with accompaniment by the Beach Boys' Mike Love) during the Beatles' 1968 trip to India.
12. "Four Nights In Moscow" - Another alleged working title for Ringo's "Early 1970."
13. "Thinking Of Linking" - One of the Lennon/McCartney duo's first compositions, this song was performed by the Beatles during the filming of the Beatles Anthology video series. The performance was commercially released on the DVD edition of the Anthology.
14. "Watching Rainbows" - An outtake from the Let It Be sessions, improvised around a variation of the melody of "I've Got A Feeling."
15. "Rubber Soul" - A working title for the 1965 instrumental widely known as "12 Bar Original." (A heavily edited version of that instrumental appeared on The Beatles Anthology 2.)

External links

• Colliding Circles video on Google Videos
• RSP at cduniverse.com
• RSP at acmediaonline.com
• http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rubber+Soul+Project http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430555/ Billboard magazine review