Yellow Submarine/Only A Northern Song/All Together Now/Hey Bulldog/Its All Too Much/All You Need Is Love/ Pepperland/Sea Of Time/Sea Of Holes/Sea Of Monsters/March Of The Meanies/Pepperland Laid Waste/Yellow Submarine In Pepperland
This animated film soundtrack album features four new Beatles songs and much filler courtesy of producer George Martin. Yellow Submarine is considered to be the least essential of the original Beatles' albums. (US:2 UK:3)
"Hey Bulldog is the most interesting of the few new songs. And, George Martin, a true genius of a producer, possessed little talent as a film score composer. Apart from the lovely Pepperland, there's not much worth listening to in his contributions here. All in all, a pretty much expendable novelty from The Beatles catalogue. For completists only."
"The soundtrack album is mostly useless. Only the first side is made up of actual Beatles songs, and of that side's six songs, two of 'em - the two best - were already available on albums that any Beatles fan should already own. Side two, meanwhile, is original instrumental music composed for the film by George Martin. Some of his stuff is actually quite pleasant - other parts sound a bit like melodic and tonal riptakes on the most familiar classical pieces."
"The A side includes four new Beatles songs. They were recorded at different times and many weren't intended to be released on an album. Two stand out: Hey Bulldog and It's All Too Much. The first is a rocker driven by a pretty sweet piano riff, and the second is a an airy song by George Harrison. It sticks in my head and I really like it."
"So two outstanding songs from the mid 60s, 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 underwhelming 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."
"Easily the worst thing with The Beatles name on it, only half of it really counts as the Fab Four, and out of that one-half, only 2/3 of it is actually new material. These are all outtakes from either 1967 or 1968, and the only one that is at all decent is Lennon's Hey Bulldog."
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