The Beatles - Yellow Submarine (Songtrack)
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Free Music Review: HELLO!!!! SONGTRACK...
Hit: 5 Stars
Hey Kommissar, get real. The old version is certainly NOT better than this remastered version of the "songtrack." I don't know what the original reason for only putting 6 actual "songs" on the original version was, but it was a brilliant idea to finally include the rest of these already released songs, despite some fans objections. The reason this makes sense to me? BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL IN THE DARN MOVIE!!!!! Hence the "songtrack" moniker attached to it!!! Duh... besides, sea of cheese or sea of yogurt or who cares, are not even Beatles songs, but is George Martin-composed orchestral incidental music, so in my opinion is of no real interest to the casual Beatles fan anyway.Free Music Review: Yellow Submarine
Hit: 5 Stars
It sounds really good. It has mixes that are not as distinctive as the original mixes. I don't like this as much as Revolver or Rubber Soul, but they are the best Beatle albums and it only has a few songs from them. I like it better than the Yellow Submarine Soundtrack because it has all the songs from that but more.Free Music Review: Doctored Up Sub: Bleh!
Hit: 1 Stars
Well, I thought this was a simple remastering featuring every song in the film. Not so. I belatedly read these reviews, and I am in utter agreement with everyone who rejects these remixes. The remixers' plan was apparently to jack vocals and certain instrumental features uppity-up, but without any clear aesthetic reasons or regard for the idea that the Beatles and Martin knew what the hell they were about in 1968. The louder voice-tracks don't strengthen the performances, but unbalance the dynamic and textural integrity of the songs, so that many vocals now sound a half-tone flat, or like different performances altogether. If you are familiar at all with the originals, suffering through this is like visiting a beloved restaurant and discovering that a second-banana chef has "improved" a favorite dish with a big wallop of green peppers and monosodium glutamate. Each critic has his own example of "awfulest" remix in this affair, but I pick Harrison's "It's All Too Much," one of the finest psychedelic songs of the sixties, and, in its original form, a sparkling, cheerfully disorienting mix of guitar feedback, baroque horns, and all sorts of silvery orchestral effects. Here it has become a limp lettuce bed for Harrison's beefed-up, isolated vocal, as if the piece were a power ballad. This whole project was a bad idea. Save "Hey Bulldog," which does sound rock solid in its heavier remix, with some flutter in the original piano fixed, there is no reason to get this instead of the original soundtrack. George Martin's Montovani-like orchestral tracks on side B of the original Lp now seem like a quaint and essential aspect of the album, even if you never have, and never will listen to those tracks. If you want the tracks from Pepper and Revolver, get the originals, because, yes, the tracks from those records have been messed with distressingly, too.Free Music Review: A remix that makes sense
Hit: 5 Stars
Finally, these songs can be heard as they were intended to be heard. Yes, the voices are finally "centered" and it's about time. In an interview, George Martin said that the best mix of the Sergeant Pepper album was the mono-mix because that is how the band intended the music to be heard. This is also true of all the music that they recorded until they finally got the stereo mix right in Magical Mystery Tour. The re-mix of the songs on Yellow Submarine closely approximate the intended mono-mixes on all these songs and it is an absolute joy to hear them. Does anyone really think that the Beatles actually intended the voices to come from one speaker accompanied by the drums while the guitars come from another speaker or some other combination? Of course they did not intend this. I deeply lament that mono versions of Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sergeant Pepper are not available. This was a very tight band and this re-mix does justice to their musical cohesion.Free Music Review: The "original"...bah humbug!
Hit: 5 Stars
A lot of people are complaining about replacing George Martin's shmaltzy instrumental score on this version of Yellow Submarine, but I can remember, back when it was first released, when no one would spring for the "original" album because they felt that they were getting ripped off with so few Beatles tracks. Of course we were all young kids and on a real budget, but even as an adult I have always felt that I was getting cheated with the old version; Speaking for myself, I will take the new one over "the original" any time.