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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Capitol
Salesrank: 260577
Released: October 17, 1990 |
| Our Price: $9.33 |
| Used Price: $2.20 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Yellow Submarine Track Listing:
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 [Original Film Score]
8. Sea of Time [Original Film Score]
9. Sea of Holes [Original Film Score]
10. Sea of Monsters [Original Film Score]
11. March of the Meanies [Original Film Score]
12. Pepperland Laid Waste
13. Yellow Submarine in Pepperland [Original Film Score]
14. Yellow Submarine Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
Editorial Review:
Japanese exclusive reissue of 1969 album. This Toshiba/EMI pressing features an OBI strip (different from the last Japanese pressings issued in 1990) & an insert with Japanese text & lyrics in Japanese & English. Manufactured & pressed in Japan. This album has been direct metal mastered from a digitally remastered original tape to give the best possible sound quality. Originally released in 1969, features 13 tracks including the 7-track George Martin score. 2004.
Description of Yellow Submarine:
The most dashed-off of the Beatles' records, Yellow Submarine doesn't have much to it: the 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
Yellow Submarine Reviews:
Leaves you with a Feeling of Missed Opportunities 
2009-11-16 - With only four new Beatles songs "Yellow Submarine" has never really been like a real album. The title track dates back to 1966 and "All You Need Is Love" was out on a single in 1967. Side two of the original album was orchestral music written by George Martin, for the cartoon project of the same name.
In addition to the four new songs several older Beatles songs were included in movie. The soundtrack version of "Yellow Submarine", released in 1999, distinguishes itself by having the bulk of those numbers in place of George Martin's orchestral music, which I guess most Beatles fans in reality can easily do without. Moreover, the songs on the 1999 version had been remixed and remastered, which at the time was really a revelation of sound. The somewhat primitive stereo effect here was also markedly improved.
Now we have the new 2009 remastered version. Comparing with the first CD version from 1990 is like comparing day and night. Sonically it is a pleasure to listen to this new version.
Whether it is also an improvement over the 1999 version is probably more a matter of taste. Personally, I think it is unfortunate that the opportunity to enhance the stereo effect has not been exploited. The 1999 release showed quite clearly that this would have been a vast improvement.
Whether one prefers George Martin's Orchestra music over eight previously released Beatles songs, is probably also a matter of taste; again, I think 1999 release takes the plug at that, considering that it contains all the Beatles songs included in movie soundtrack, apart from "A Day in the Life".
Among the four "new" tracks on the album, I would consider "Hey Bulldog" and "It's All Too Much" as classics.
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2009-11-09 - Great Buy! Not a significant change from '87 to today but still great packaging & detail.....
Relive the past ...
2009-11-04 - I owned this LP (album) back when and loved it. I was glad to find a CD, remastered or not. This CD sounds just like I remember the original: fun, sing-along. I don't think my ears detected the "remastering" ... I just like the album and this CD is IT!
Go for the Remixed Yellow Submarine Instead of this One 
2009-10-31 - The three stars are actually for George Martin's soundtrack strings - people bash it for being "not beatles" but it is not that bad really for what it is - orchestral soundtrack music quite well done. The Beatles' songs on this album are in far better form in the recently remixed release. The songs that sound somewhat weak on this album due to bad mixing (especially "Hey Bulldog") shine on the previously released remixed soundtrack album. Instead of George Martin - you get Beatle selections from "Rubber Soul" "Revolver" "Sgt Pepper" that fit right in with the theme of the fantasy and also appeared in the movie soundtrack. The remix from 1999 is one of the few Capitol hits out of the ballpark - this strict remaster is just ok for the purists.
Is it worth purchasing an album for two songs?
2009-10-29 - It is stretching things a little bit to describe this as a Beatles album, since half of the album is taken up with George Martin's orchestral score for the movie. Many of these tunes are pleasant enough, and it's certainly of interest to Martin fans, but the reality is they are not Beatles songs.
So only half of the album (six songs) are Beatles' efforts. And only four of them are new. And only two of those are worth shelling out for. Are two songs worth the cost of a whole album?
Die-hard fans will no doubt answer "yes", but I'm not sure what they'll make of this. 'Yellow Submarine' and 'All You Need is Love' are Beatle classics and certainly worthy of another listen, but the fact is that these are not new songs. Of the four songs that actually are new, 'All Together Now' is a throwaway, and the self-consciously ironic 'Only A Northern Song' is not much more. In contrast, 'Hey Bulldog' is a great song; with a catchy stomping riff, a good performance from Lennon on vocals, and a singalong chorus. And Harrison's epic 'It's All Too Much' is clearly the best of the lot; like many Harrison-penned Beatle songs of the late 60's, it seems to point the way forward to 'All Things Must Pass'.
So two outstanding songs from the mid 60's, a couple of good new songs, some filler, and half an album's worth of orchestral noodling. Even allowing for the old "Beatle throwaways are better than most band's best music" theory, this is a very underwhleming release, and not really a proper Beatles album at all. It's definitely not the place to start for casual fans. Recommended for the ultra-dedicated Beatle fan only, and even then solely for completeness' sake.
