Post by Amadeus on Aug 25, 2015 22:23:33 GMT
I consider this the album of 'orphan' tracks. The new songs are an important bridge between MMT and The White Album. But they only came out 9 months after the film! And there were only 4 new songs! A new Beatles album or just a film soundtrack? There was talk of doing a 4 or 5 song EP afterwards when there had been some negative feedback on the thinness of the album, but that wouldn't have done the North Americans any good. We probably would've just made the album that it already was.
Now, this album wasn't so much a shock or disappointment to us over here mainly because the last two movie soundtrack LPs we got, Help! and Hard Day's Night, were 5 or 6 songs interspersed with incidental music from Ken Thorne and his orchestrange. The plus with the Yellow Submarine Soundtrack was that all the incidental music was relegated in one lump to side two. We didn't have to keep getting up to skip the orchestra tracks to get to the Beatles tracks.
This is gonna be a short review for obvious reasons. Isn't it the shortest album of new material? Yellow Submarine, the song, lost it's Revolver tinged black and white mind picture and was replaced by a cartoony feel, a little more appropriate. And All You Need Is Love was the last song on the MMT LP (in America) but we (or at least me) never listened to the end of side 2 of MMT because of the terrible fake stereo sound. On this record it was in proper stereo!
What about the new songs? Not a lot of commercial sounding stuff but it was great anyway! As a teen I thought the words for Only A Northern Song were great. And the SILLY sounds throughout. Again, I used to play this stuff to my casual Beatle's fans friends and totally blew their minds. (I think). All Together Now. A total throwaway! But great. Bum bum bum bum b'bum sail the ship, bum b'bum chop the tree.....Heady stuff.
But now for the two completely overlooked classics. These songs should be remembered with all the other great stuff from '67/early '68!
Hey Bulldog. That's never been on any decent comps and it should've been! It's as great a song as any of John's tunes. Of course the mix doesn't do it justice, but it was more than rectified on the 'Songtrack' LP of '98. It sounds absolutely killer on there.
But the next song sounds better on the original LP. It's All To Much. I guess it's pretty much acid rock in a nutshell. Beautifully chaotic, just ONE chord. Just a ravishing six and a half minute (or 8 minute, if you have the bootleg) drone peice with a beat! This is one of my favorite songs ever of The Beatles. Turn it up loud, put on the lava lamp, pour a cup of fortified tea and you're rocketing right into
orbit.
That's my review for Yellow Submarine. I think our (N. American) version of the artwork is better because we got a silly story printed on the back than just a white album review.
I don't know what to say otherwise. I burned all the Beatles stuff on to discs in chronological order, i.e.; shoving singles in between albums etc, Let It Be before Abbey Road, and for these FOUR new tracks, I stuck them in between MMT and The White album. Sounds much better that way. Problem solved
Now, this album wasn't so much a shock or disappointment to us over here mainly because the last two movie soundtrack LPs we got, Help! and Hard Day's Night, were 5 or 6 songs interspersed with incidental music from Ken Thorne and his orchestrange. The plus with the Yellow Submarine Soundtrack was that all the incidental music was relegated in one lump to side two. We didn't have to keep getting up to skip the orchestra tracks to get to the Beatles tracks.
This is gonna be a short review for obvious reasons. Isn't it the shortest album of new material? Yellow Submarine, the song, lost it's Revolver tinged black and white mind picture and was replaced by a cartoony feel, a little more appropriate. And All You Need Is Love was the last song on the MMT LP (in America) but we (or at least me) never listened to the end of side 2 of MMT because of the terrible fake stereo sound. On this record it was in proper stereo!
What about the new songs? Not a lot of commercial sounding stuff but it was great anyway! As a teen I thought the words for Only A Northern Song were great. And the SILLY sounds throughout. Again, I used to play this stuff to my casual Beatle's fans friends and totally blew their minds. (I think). All Together Now. A total throwaway! But great. Bum bum bum bum b'bum sail the ship, bum b'bum chop the tree.....Heady stuff.
But now for the two completely overlooked classics. These songs should be remembered with all the other great stuff from '67/early '68!
Hey Bulldog. That's never been on any decent comps and it should've been! It's as great a song as any of John's tunes. Of course the mix doesn't do it justice, but it was more than rectified on the 'Songtrack' LP of '98. It sounds absolutely killer on there.
But the next song sounds better on the original LP. It's All To Much. I guess it's pretty much acid rock in a nutshell. Beautifully chaotic, just ONE chord. Just a ravishing six and a half minute (or 8 minute, if you have the bootleg) drone peice with a beat! This is one of my favorite songs ever of The Beatles. Turn it up loud, put on the lava lamp, pour a cup of fortified tea and you're rocketing right into
orbit.
That's my review for Yellow Submarine. I think our (N. American) version of the artwork is better because we got a silly story printed on the back than just a white album review.
I don't know what to say otherwise. I burned all the Beatles stuff on to discs in chronological order, i.e.; shoving singles in between albums etc, Let It Be before Abbey Road, and for these FOUR new tracks, I stuck them in between MMT and The White album. Sounds much better that way. Problem solved