The Beatles - Yellow Submarine (Songtrack)
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Free Music Review: Amazing Sound Quality Improvement
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, the idea of a songtrack, as opposed to a soundtrack, is a great one. Instead of getting a CD with a lot of movie instrumental fluff people buying soundtracks from movies based on rock groups generally don't want (Case in point: the original American release of the Help! album), with this CD you get a collection of actual Beatles songs, several of which come from stellar albums such as Revolver and Magical Mystery Tour, as well as the important ones from the Yellow Submarine film itself.
Secondly, and even more important a point, is the fact that the sound quality of these remastered tracks is amazing. You will be able to hear "sonic" details on these tracks you never knew were there before. The song "Love You Too" from the Revolver album is a good example of this. The clarity of the mildly static humming of the rhythm instrumentation in the background of this raga-inspired George Harrison composition is a treat that we Beatles fans have been missing all these years while playing the vinyl and previous CD releases of this song. On this CD these sounds come through with an almost haunting quality that we would never have known was part of the original Beatles effort. The remaster of "Baby You're a Rich Man" is also an incredible quality improvement over the version on the Magical Mystery Tour CD. It is so clear and crisp it will make you love the Beatles even more than you may have already just because you won't believe you didn't know all these years that they were this good! Similar comments can be made about the other tracks on this disk. If you like the songs on this CD and want to hear them in a way you've never experienced before, buy this CD. I only wish they would remaster all the great Beatles tracks the way they did the ones on this disk. In a word: Wow!
Free Music Review: Blue Meanie Alert!
Hit: 4 Stars
When the "Yellow Submarine" film was reissued on DVD, the Powers That Be decided that its soundtrack should be totally remastered and remixed. Like most movies made before 'Star Wars,' 'Yellow Submarine"'s soundtrack was very flat compared to what audiences demand from films at multiplexes nowadays. (It's a cool cartoon, so check it out if you haven't already.)
This soundtrack CD is an important fringe benefit of that project. For the first time outside of a bootleg, (almost)every Beatles song featured in the cartoon is collected on a single album. To be blunt, the few original songs the Beatles composed for the movie aren't very good by Beatle standards, so the best musical moments in the film come from the songs borrowed from the Sgt Pepper and Revolver albums. For the most part, these remastered versions sound pretty good, and unless you listen to the CD with headphones and do an A/B comparision, you're unlikely to notice any major differences in the mixes as a rule. However, the vocals have (for the most part) been moved to the center of the stereo picture as opposed to the classic George Martin trick of having them on just one speaker. I enjoyed these remixed versions a lot as it's pretty obvious that a great deal of time and care went into giving these songs a better stereo spread than they originally had. Again, if you listen on a boombox these differences won't be obvious; listen on a better quality stereo or with quality headphones and the songs will really come to life. I still don't care for "Hey Bulldog" and "Only a Northern Song" but they sound far, far better here than they did on the original issue.
I can understand why some diehard fans are upset that George Martin's instrumental score isn't included. In all fairness to Sir George Martin, however, the best thing for Apple to do is reissue all the film music he recorded for "A Hard Day's Night" "Help!" and "Yellow Submarine" on a single CD so that those people who enjoy can listen to them in pristine stereo sound. Back in the day, many American fans skipped over Martin's orchestrations and felt a bit cheated that a Beatles soundtrack would contain only 50% Beatles material.
Oh, and which song ISN'T included? That would be "A Day In The Life."
Free Music Review: If you're lonely you can talk to me
Hit: 5 Stars
Yay, all the Yellow Submarine songs on one CD! Without the instrumental score! I waited a long time for that. And I'm glad to have it, but I would prefer that the songs be in the same sequence that they appear in the movie. Guess you can't always get what you want. (Sorry, wrong group.)Free Music Review: Good but Pathetic at the Same Time
Hit: 2 Stars
Without much doubt this is the crappiest of all the Beatles Albums(which all earned between 3 and 5 stars) basically because as you can see there is absolutely nothing new or original about it, it is like a greatest hits record rather then a full fledged album. Not one original song...kind of pathetic for the greatest band of all time isnt it? The songs are all good though...just nothing new. If I am not mistakin this is the only Beatles album to never take No 1 on Billboard...and deservingly soFree Music Review: Sounds incredible
Hit: 5 Stars
Great selection of songs,and the sound is just great. Glad I own this,I play it all the time.