I've Just Seen a Face (2:02)

Cover of Rubber Soul

From Rubber Soul and 8 other releases

“I’ve Just Seen a Face” is a song by The Beatles. It appears on their 1965 UK album Help!, although in the United States it first appeared on the Capitol version of the Rubber Soul album along with “It’s Only Love”.
“I’ve Just Seen a Face” was written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and features McCartney on vocals. Before its release, the song was briefly titled “Aunty Gin’s Theme” after his father’s youngest sister, because it was one of her favourites. It is one of the very few guitar-based Beatles songs that lacks a bass track.

According to music critic Richie Unterberger of allmusic, “Several songs on 1964’s Beatles for Sale, as well as “I’ll Cry Instead” from A Hard Day’s Night, had leaned in a country and western direction. But “I’ve Just Seen a Face” was almost pure country, taken at such a fast tempo that it might have been bluegrass if not for the absence of banjo and fiddle.” Music critic Ian MacDonald said the up tempo song “lifted the later stages of the Help! album with its quickfire freshness.” Capitol Records chose it as the lead track of the US edition of Rubber Soul, with the intent of giving the album a strong folk sound in step with the then-current Folk Rock movement.

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I've just seen a face
I can't forget the time or place
Where we just met

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  • countryrebel51

    Arlo Guthrie puts this in some of his shows!!! Fun song to sing.

    8 May 5:22am Reply
  • peeves111

    When I saw Paul a couple months ago and he played this it made me unbelievably happy.

    6 Apr 5:44am Reply
  • herownlagoon

    This song was on the American version of Rubber Soul, but not the British (which is now the canon version).

    18 Jan 12:11am Reply
  • ItsAllintheMind

    It never gets old ♥

    12 Dec 2012 Reply
  • doowniwevets

    From Rubber Soul? How accurate.

    8 Dec 2012 Reply
  • Furashubakku

    kudos to Paul

    5 Sep 2012 Reply
  • WLDB

    This was the song that got me into The Beatles originally.

    12 Aug 2012 Reply
  • JessiCoplin

    One of my favorites ever <3

    26 Jun 2012 Reply
  • thevelvetjoel

    I don't think this is from Rubber Soul...

    22 Jun 2012 Reply
  • deviltohell

    <3

    10 Jun 2012 Reply
  • Mango90

    Улыбочка

    21 May 2012 Reply
  • christles

    No matter how down I am, I can't be unhappy while listening to this. [2]

    10 May 2012 Reply
  • WWOMENN

    DIVINE SONG!!!!!!!! ◠‿◠

    20 Apr 2012 Reply
  • piraterie

    No matter how down I am, I can't be unhappy while listening to this.

    24 Mar 2012 Reply
  • oldiesfanjohn

    I wouldn`t say I loved every Beatles` tune..I just got burned out on em every night playin` em up there on Stage...Then you have the Solo Beatles and Their Splintered Individual Bands...Whole can o` new worms you`re bustin` out,grrr,lol...Mercifully,most Beatles songs clocked/came in under 3 mins. Whew!

    4 Mar 2012 Reply
  • larilovesmusic

    I love the beginning of this song <3

    2 Mar 2012 Reply
  • xtwntraphq

    I love every Beatle tune.......But, They should have harmonized the vocals throughout the song. Would have been much better. But I think they did pretty as a band huh? :)

    30 Jan 2012 Reply
  • mabonuob

    Falling, yes I am falling...

    22 Jan 2012 Reply
  • Metasigh

    Ay guey this is good!

    12 Jan 2012 Reply
  • AndyNova

    They could really do with sorting out the Rubber Soul image coming up everytime this comes on on HELP.

    21 Dec 2011 Reply
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