The Beatles - Yellow Submarine (Songtrack)
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Free Music Review: AN ALTERNATIVE LISTEN
Hit: 4 Stars
why are people freaking out about this cd? the original 1969 version is still there. no one's out to monkey up the beatles catalog. if you don't like it don't buy it.if you did try giving it to someone who might like it. think of it as a nice demonstration of the fidelity of the original mutitrack tapes, given a fresh digital remix to enjoy.for example: on "lucy in the sky" where ringo brings in the chorus, his drums have great depth never heard before on the track. it's still the beatles but in "hi fi". don't worry,it won't hurt the original cd's that were mastered with almost 20 year old technology.it's nothing to get hung about.Free Music Review: The better of the two soundtracks!
Hit: 4 Stars
It's true. You get more music from the BAND iteself. Martin's orchestral work on the original is good, but underwhelming. The remixes and remasters (done in 1998 at Abbey Road) represented here are outstanding. A far better value. "Rich Man" , "It's All Too Much", and "Nowhere Man" are sonic standouts. The music sounds clearer, richer, and renewed. Look -if you're a purist to the point of balking at the music being remixed or remastered, consider this; George Martin did just that in 1987 for most of the band's catalogue to issue it on CD. If you must have the orchestral tracks, then go with the original soundtrack. Most listeners would be better served to buy this collection.Free Music Review: Deserves 10 stars
Hit: 5 Stars
These tracks sound absolutely stunning!! You hear all the hidden depths on each track. You hear awesome bass riffs from Paul on Hey Bulldog. Didn't hear that on the original album. All the Indian backing on Love You To. The sensational centered harmonies on Nowhere Man. As for Martin's score, that's what the film's for. This is what has always bugged me about the American versions of A Hard Day's Night and Help!. They decided to include the score music. Granted, the score on all three films is beautiful, they never should have put the score on the soundtrack albums around the Beatles tracks and still call it a Beatles album. A Hard Day's Night and Help! albums in Britain were the Beatles in their entirety. And the same goes for this release. All Beatles songs. All beautifully remastered! The way Capitol treated the Beatles early albums and the group themselves often protested the way their American releases were butchered (hence the infamous butcher cover of Yesterday & Today). Granted the original Yellow Submarine album was released in Britain the same way as it was here. It did take them a while to realize their errors. Capitol should have done what most film soundtracks do now; release a music soundtrack and a score soundtrack (Forrest Gump). Overall, this release is a MUST for everyone and a spelendid time IS guarenteed for all!
Free Music Review: They should remaster every Beatle song like these!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm not a sound engineer, but I know when something sounds better than the original, and THIS IS IT! Forget that they deleted all the 'filler' sympnonic tracks of the original album and open your ears: all these tracks are worth buying especially if you already own the original versions.
In the 60s, I worked in a shop where we only heard the left channel of every Beatle album (the other room heard the right channel), and the stereo mix on those albums was so severe we literally only heard half the music. I only mention this becasue I would never want to "hear" those songs like that again, just as I would definitely never want to hear any Beatle music that can be made even better like these re-mixes.
I would not hesitate for a second to replace every Beatle CD I own if EMI ever decided to issue a full set of remasters.
Free Music Review: SHOULDA BIN A BOOTLEG
Hit: 2 Stars
I must confess. I can be rather radical in my opinions when it comes to the Beatles records. I feel that the EMI work of the Beatles as commercially released during their career, namely from 1962 to 1970, is much too valuable to mess with. Therefore, I believe that all singles, EPS and albums by the Beatles should be remastered and issued exactly the way they were (worldwide) in those eight years. NO remixing. NO bonus tracks. NOTHING that deviates from the original releases.
Remixing the Beatles is nothing new. EMI started doing it a little more than a year after the group bit the dust. The results are around today on the MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR CD. George Martin remixed a bunch of tracks for ROCK 'N' ROLL MUSIC in 1976.
As much as I liked this album, Martin's remixes did nothing in the long run. It's the original mixes that matter. And it's these that should be on CD. (Most are, but some are not and all should be remastered for better sound).
YELLOW SUBMARINE SONGTRACK is simply an attempt to rewrite history. It's Apple's way of saying "This is what the soundtrack album SHOULD have been." Yep, SHOULD have been. But it WASN'T. Instead what we got in early 1969 was half a Beatle album, with two prevoiusly released songs (although "All You Need Is Love" was in stereo for the first time. The other side was entirely made of George Martin instrumentals.
What do we get now, in its place? A fully remastered stereo album ("Only a Northern Song" was mono on the original) featuring all the songs from the film.
Yes, it's what YELLOW SUBMARINE should have been. So why two stars? Because what YELLOW SUBMARINE SONGTRACK should have been is a bootleg. This is NOT the original album from 1969. Like it or leave it, the original is what has existed all these years and it is this release, not some newly created retro-product which should be remastered (in both mono and stereo).
Want new stereo versions? Mono versions? Edits? Outtakes? Live cuts? Songs that sound like the Beatles but aren't? Buy the bootlegs.
But leave the Beatles released product alone. NO live albums. NO greatest hits. NO anthologies.
If this album were not marketed by EMI as part of the Beatles corpus, I would probably give it five stars, but I won't because it has no business being here. The Beatles work ended in May 1970. Accept it.