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mean the end of music. But they haven't counted on young Fred - he climbs aboard the Yellow Submarine and journeys to Liverpool, where he finds four fab musicians who might just be able to help.
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willing to tamper with their pop legacy, as witnessed by the various facets of their massive, occasionally myopic mid-1990s Anthology projects (and the suspect notion of its faux techno-marvel "reunions"). In boldly revamping the soundtrack to their 1968 Heinz Edelmann-designed animated fable Yellow Submarine, the Fabs have shown they're not immune to the irony of the age either: their original involvement in the project was both tentative and minimal. This new version completely excises Beatles-producer Sir George Martin's charming, if sometimes maudlin, orchestral score, offering instead a new "songtrack" containing all the Beatles songs (standout cuts from Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in addition to the four originals unique to the project) featured in the film. The pre-announced "unreleased song" on the set turns out to be the original album's rollicking "Hey Bulldog", one of the last true Lennon-McCartney collaborations. "Hey Bulldog" was also the subject of both a previously excised sequence in the film and a newly edited in-studio video cobbled together from footage shot in early 1968 and previously used in vintage promos for "Lady Madonna". Though it may further upset purists, the band has allowed these tracks to be digitally remixed and remastered into 5.1 surround sound, imparting both a stunning clarity and a new perspective (as well as restoring a "missing" verse and the original six-minute plus playing time to "It's All Too Much") on some of the greatest--if obviously overexposed--songs and recordings in the history of rock. --Jerry McCulley
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goofy title track and "All You Need Is Love" are reprised from earlier discs, George Martin's trifle of a score to the animated Submarine feature takes up the second half, and that leaves just four relatively insubstantial new tracks. The Beatles' throwaways are anyone else's classics, though: "Hey Bulldog", the last song Lennon and McCartney wrote in full collaboration, has the instinctive urgency of their best work, Paul's singalong "All Together Now" is awfully cute, and more than one band has dedicated its career to trying to replicate what George's guitars are doing on his dazed, pulsing "It's All Too Much". --Douglas Wolk
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Advantages: A superb memory trip for Beatles fans Disadvantages: Will not appeal to people who do not like the Beatles
...to escape using the fantastical Yellow Submarine; he beseeches the 4 Liverpudlians (people form Liverpool) to help the besieged nation and help free the residents. They all enter the Yellow Submarine and begin a journey that will take them through many different fantasy worlds (One in which they become young children, old men etc). As they encounter many different obstacles, and find some surprising allies, we see the Fab Four use a mixture of luck ... ...the music; with songs like Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby, Nowhere Man and Just a Northern Song being used in the story we can appreciate the skill of the Beatles. Other songs such as Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds don't quite add to the story but appear throughout the video.
I find it deeply moving how many of the songs have a similar theme; this theme seems to talk about the loneliness of man and how we should all reach out and use love to heal ...
Simoncook1 12.09.2001
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The only Beatles album that could really be classified as inessential, mostly because it wasn't really a proper album at all, but a soundtrack that only utilized four new Beatles songs. (The rest of the album was filled out with "Yellow Submarine," "All You Need Is Love," and a George Martin score that held little appeal to rock listeners.) What's more, the four new tracks were little more than pleasant throwaways that had been recorded during 1967 ... ...Now" is a kiddieish singalong, "Hey Bulldog" has some mild Lennon nastiness, and Harrison's "It's All Too Much" is highlighted by some tidal waves of feedback guitar. It would have been far better value if it had been released as a four-song EP (an idea the Beatles even considered at one point, with the addition of a bonus track in "Across the Universe," but ultimately discarded). ...
jamiegiles 28.06.2000
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Product details
Title
Yellow Submarine (Songtrack)
Performer
Beatles (The)
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Psychedelic
Release Date
13/09/1999
Recomended Retail Price
16.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1999
Label / Distributor
Parlophone/Apple / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Producer
George Martin
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724352148127
Catalogue Number
5214812
Additional notes
Album Notes
This newly remastered edition of YELLOW SUBMARINE includes 15 fully remixed/remastered tracks, including songs which were originally released on RUBBER SOUL, REVOLVER, SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, and the original soundtrack to YELLOW SUBMARINE. The Beatles: Paul McCartney (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass); John Lennon (vocals, guitar, keyboards); George Harrison (vocals, guitar); Ringo Starr (vocals, drums). Engineers include: Geoff Emerick, Norman Smith, Keith Grant. The original soundtrack for the Beatles' animated motion picture classic YELLOW SUBMARINE wasn't one of the Fab Four's strongest releases. While it included four songs penned especially for the movie and many Beatles standards, it was bogged down with instrumental pieces from the movie's score. So in 1999, Capitol issued the 20th century's last Beatles compilation, the YELLOW SUBMARINE SONGTRACK, which replaced the instrumentals with other Beatles songs featured in the movie that didn't make it to the original soundtrack. Fans of uncommon Beatles material will relish "Hey Bulldog" and "All Together Now," while the better-known hits such as "All You Need is Love," "Nowhere Man," and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" are also obvious highlights.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (10/28/99, p.106) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Without the visuals, YELLOW SUBMARINE...essentailly amounts to an overview of the Beatles' psychedelic phase, and, as such, it's entertaining enough..." Q (11/99, p.142) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Songs such as 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'...stripped down to the crank-case, polished and carefully rebuilt....the music is still wonderful..." Entertainment Weekly (9/17/99, p.81) - "...there's no disputing the enduring charms of these playfully spacey tunes, which add up to a handy distillation of the Fab Four's psychedelic period." - Rating: B+ Mojo (11/99, p.125) - "...a Beatle lucky dip is never less than serendipitous....the Yellow Submarine tracks, throwaways or not, are individual marvels..." Alternative Press (12/99, p.106) - "...the boys' oddest, most wayward period....Why not another chance to celebrate a modern entertainment wonder that never loses its humanity throughout time and repacking - the Beatles?"
Titles on disc 1
1.
Yellow Submarine
2.
Hey Bulldog
3.
Eleanor Rigby
4.
Love You To
5.
All Together Now
6.
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
7.
Think For Yourself
8.
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
9.
With A Little Help From My Friends
10.
Baby You're A Rich Man
11.
Only A Northern Song
12.
All You Need Is Love
13.
When I'm Sixty Four
14.
Nowhere Man
15.
It's All Too Much
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