Yellow Submarine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Capitol - Capitol
The Beatles
Release date: 1990-10-25
Audio CD
British Invasion, British Psychedelia, Pop, Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock Music, Popular Music, Psychedelic, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rock/Pop
1. Yellow Submarine
2. Only a Northern Song
3. All Together Now
4. Hey Bulldog
5. It's All Too Much
6. All You Need Is Love
7. Pepperland
8. Sea of Time
9. Sea of Holes
10. Sea of Monsters
11. March of the Meanies
12. Pepperland Laid Waste
13. Yellow Submarine in Pepperland
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Yellow Submarine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Date undefinedWhat if the Beatles had released this album without the movie. And if they themselves had written the orchestral music on the B-side. And released this as an epic semi-progressive rock tale about a Yellow Submarine. Then this might have been a real classic album in the progressive rock genre, almost a year before King Crimson appeared.
But when we know that these songs were just thrown together, 2 of them previously released, 2 of them from the archives being Sgt Pepper-rejects, and the orchestral score of course being written by George Martin for a film, then it's considered a disappointment. Even if the music in both cases sounds exactly the same. Isn't that an interesting thought?
My advise is this: take YELLOW SUBMARINE with a grain of salt and find that it's an interesting mix between whacky psychedelic rock and lovely classical sounding music. And all in a good spirit. The result is actually not too far from TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION by Alan Parsons Project.
Yellow Submarine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Date undefinedYellow Submmarine is unique. You have to remember it is a soundtrack to the movie. They do Yellow Submarine and All You need is love from other albums.
They do however come out with four new songs.
John contributes Hey Bulldog, which has alot of energy and is probably the best of the rour new tunes.
McCartney contributes the very simple but catchy, All together now, which is not up to his usual standard, but not bad.
Harrison does Its only a Northern Song which was written when he was fueding with his publishing company. George Harrison at this point in the career of the Beatles, was writing his best music.
It's all too much is another Harrison song, but to me is not as favored as Northern Song.
The rest is soundtrack music for the film. This is certainly not their best album, but for Beatle addicts like myself it is worth purchasing to complete the collection.
Yellow Submarine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Date undefinedI was puzzled by the re-issue of the Yellow Submarine soundtrack's omission of George Martin's brilliant score, which set the tone for the film more than the periodic Beatles song. Not knocking the Beatles mind you, but not underrating George Martin.
For tuned-in boomers, this is one of the soundtracks of their youth.
