Editing Rubber Soul (section)

==={{Anchor|North American format}} North American format===
Adhering to the company's policy for the Beatles' albums in the United States, [[Capitol Records]] altered the content of ''Rubber Soul'' for its release there.{{sfn|Kruth|2015|pp=7–8}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-beatles-us-albums-how-the-classics-were-butchered-9059809.html|first=Andy|last=Gill|title=The Beatles' US Albums: How the classics were butchered|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=15 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114192809/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-beatles-us-albums-how-the-classics-were-butchered-9059809.html|archive-date=14 January 2014|access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref> They removed "Drive My Car", "Nowhere Man", "What Goes On" and "If I Needed Someone", all of which were instead issued on the Beatles' next North American album, ''[[Yesterday and Today]]'', in June 1966.{{sfn|Kruth|2015|pp=7, 108}} The four songs were replaced with "[[I've Just Seen a Face]]" and "[[It's Only Love]]",{{sfn|Rodriguez|2012|pp=74–75}} which had been cut from ''Help!'' as part of Capitol's reconfiguring of that LP to serve as a true soundtrack album, consisting of Beatles songs and orchestral music from the film.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=62}}

Through the mix of predominantly acoustic-based songs, according to Womack, the North American release "takes on a decidedly folk-ish orientation".{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=794}} Capitol sequenced "I've Just Seen a Face" as the opening track, reflecting the company's attempt to present ''Rubber Soul'' as a folk-rock album,{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=138}}{{sfn|Philo|2015|p=88}} and "It's Only Love" opened side two.{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=219}}{{refn|group=nb|Music journalist [[Rob Sheffield]] describes the Capitol version as a "folk-rock album more conceptually unified" than the Parlophone LP.{{sfn|Brackett|Hoard|2004|p=52}}}} Gould writes that the omission of songs such as "Drive My Car" provided a "misleading idea" of the Beatles' musical direction and "turned the album title into an even more obscure joke", since the result was the band's least soul- or R&B-influenced album up to this point.{{sfn|Gould|2007|p=296}} The stereo mixes used by Capitol contained two [[False start#In entertainment|false starts]] at the beginning of "I'm Looking Through You",{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=794}} while "The Word" also differed from the UK version due to the double-tracking of Lennon's lead vocal, the addition of an extra falsetto harmony and the panning treatment given to one of the percussion parts.{{sfn|Winn|2008|p=375}}