It's amazing how some things are so clear when someone else tells them to you ...
In my case I've always seen both more similar than most of the fans seem to (but I'm a wierdo ... liking Guys For Sale
, so I guess nobody here will be sur-prized of that
) ...
Let's remember that Help! was released in August and Rubber Soul only 4 months later, in December 1965 (more or less the same time between A Hard Day's Night and Guys For Sale) ... and that Wait was intended for Help!
Help! has more keyboard sounds (mainly pianos) but the lyrics are a half step between Guys For Sale and Rubber Soul ... music
alley Help! is not one of my favourite ones :-/ but I've always noticed a return to some acoustic numbers like on A Hard Day's Night LP and some sharp electric guitars provided by George like on Guys For Sale ...
There are vocals that remind me of some of the best moments of the Guymania on both albums (they were not composing in a very different way): Yes It Is & You're Going To Lose That Girl and Nowhere Man or even Girl could have been great numbers by late 1963 or early 1964 sung at one mike on stage (so it was Nowhere Man during some concerts in 1966
) ...
And there are some
strange numbers on Help! that didn't fit too well with the previous albums (Tell Me What You See lyrics are silly but music
alley is simple like future tracks -Tomorrow Never Knows- but with mature or at least experimental arrangements and different instruments ... they forgot the harmonica in 1965 but played others) ...
We could say that they were more electric on Help! and more acoustic on Rubber Soul ... but to me there are not so many "electric" numbers during Help! sessions ... the following are more acoustic and music
alley could fit on Rubber Soul sessions:
Yesterday
It's Only Love
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
I've Just Seen A Face
Help
I Need You
Tell Me What You See
On the other hand, Rubber Soul has got some "electric" numbers:
Drive My Car
Think For Yourself
What Goes On
If I Needed Someone
The Word
and from the same sessions: Day Tripper
... and we could say that on Revolver they were both electric and acoustic (I'm Only Sleeping, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine, Here There And Everywhere and Eleanor Rigby) ... but that's a different story