Track Listing

1. Yellow Submarine
2. Hey Bulldog
3. Eleanor Rigby
4. Love You To
5. All Together Now
6. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
7. Think For Yourself
8. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
9. With A Little Help From My Friends
10. Baby You're A Rich Man
11. Only A Northern Song
12. All You Need Is Love
13. When I'm Sixty Four
14. Nowhere Man
15. It's All Too Much

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4528 in Music
• Released on: 1999-09-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: CD
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 85 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
To the horror of their most obsessive fans, the surviving Beatles have proven more than willing to tamper with their pop legacy, as witnessed by the various facets of their massive, occasionally myopic mid-1990s Anthology projects (and the suspect notion of its faux techno-marvel "reunions"). In boldly revamping the soundtrack to their 1968 Heinz Edelmann-designed animated fable Yellow Submarine, the Fabs have shown they're not immune to the irony of the age either: their original involvement in the project was both tentative and minimal. This new version completely excises Beatles-producer Sir George Martin's charming, if sometimes maudlin, orchestral score, offering instead a new "songtrack" containing all the Beatles songs (standout cuts from Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in addition to the four originals unique to the project) featured in the film. The pre-announced "unreleased song" on the set turns out to be the original album's rollicking "Hey Bulldog", one of the last true Lennon-McCartney collaborations. "Hey Bulldog" was also the subject of both a previously excised sequence in the film and a newly edited in-studio video cobbled together from footage shot in early 1968 and previously used in vintage promos for "Lady Madonna". Though it may further upset purists, the band has allowed these tracks to be digitally remixed and remastered into 5.1 surround sound, imparting both a stunning clarity and a new perspective (as well as restoring a "missing" verse and the original six-minute plus playing time to "It's All Too Much") on some of the greatest--if obviously overexposed--songs and recordings in the history of rock. --Jerry McCulley

CD Description
The original soundtrack for the Beatles' animated motion picture classic YELLOW SUBMARINE wasn't one of the Fab Four's strongest releases. While it included four songs penned especially for the movie and many Beatles standards, it was bogged down with instrumental pieces from the movie's score.
So in 1999, Capitol issued the 20th century's last Beatles compilation, the YELLOW SUBMARINE SONGTRACK, which replaced the instrumentals with other Beatles songs featured in the movie that didn't make it to the original soundtrack. Fans of uncommon Beatles material will relish "Hey Bulldog" and "AllTogether Now", while the better-known hits such as "All YouNeed is Love", "Nowhere Man", and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" are also obvious highlights.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Remastering
I wasn't convinced. The package seemed a bit like skirting around the issue, a money-spinner, a pointless exercise. Somehow it made me feel that i didn't want to buy this because it seemed like everyone elses Beatles album, and not my own.

But then, four years late, i bought it and wow.

Yes, we all know the songs - i can't bear to listen to All you Need is Love anymore, and can barely face the title track another time - but this goes beyond. Every other beatles cd release sounds dated, not because of the quality of material, but the inexcusable lack of remastering. i have heard the Beach Boys, The Byrds, Dylan, Tim Buckley, all with fantastic remastering jobs that brings the songs out of themseleves and makes them feel not so much current, as timeless. The potential is there with the Beatles to be eternally wonderful, but time and again young fans are introduced to the band through tinny cd editions and can't see what the fuss is about. The supposed greatest band in the world sound flat.

Well, in that case, this is the sound of the Beatles - gone fat. The chunky guitars sounds like I have always dreamt it to sound in my head when humming the tunes back to myself. So clear and fine, so absolutely brilliant.

Yes, Bulldog sounds current, but it is Nowhere Man, Elanor Rigby, Baby Your a Rich Man that really shine.

EMI MUST REMASTER THE CATALOGUE. Why they don't is a mystery, their arogance is losing the Beatles a lot of credit and respect, and here they are on a clean, clear, soulful cd that puts them right back where they belong.

Surely the time is due for a re-issue of the catalogue with singles as bonus tracks? Are EMI too stingy to concieve of giving value for money? Well thank God they went and remixed this, because it sounds brilliant, even if at heart it is a little pointless and silly.

Surely the Beatles are the ultimate holiday car band, the music to listen to when the whole family are on a trip, to sing along to, to fall in love with? This album can do that just fine.

In the Wake of "Love", Don't Pass This By - It Also Brings Out The Best of The Beatles
Sadly, the pleasure of listening to the currently available UK versions of The Beatles albums up to and including "Sgt Pepper's" is marred by the poor, old fashioned stereo mixes. These appear, at best, quaint to modern ears, and at worst, downright shoddy, slapdash and inadequate. EMI should be ashamed. However, for the songs on this release it is put right and the best of The Beatles is brought out.

Excellent remixing by Abbey Road engineer Peter Cobbin and company pumps the music up and highlights the range and depth of sounds and performances. All done with loving care, and it shows. This is an essential purchase for Beatles fans and a tantalising glimpse into what ought to be properly done with all their work.

We get to hear the fullness of "Eleanor Rigby" and "Love You To" with instruments sensibly placed. "Yellow Submarine", the song itself, shines here due to the remixing bringing out the sound effects and the warm quality of the backing harmony vocals. The "Sgt Pepper's" songs are greatly enhanced, but special mention should be made of the 'rarer' tracks. "Hey, Bulldog" bites and along with "Northern Song", "It's All Too Much" and "Baby, You're A Rich Man" (my favourite) is as good as anything todays' pop/rock scene can muster.

If still not convinced listen out for the mighty massed vocals and electric lead guitar on "Nowhere Man". Loud and clear ! Oh, if only we could have all "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" like this.

You hear so much more on this cd !!
As a long time Beatles fan I did not rush out to buy this cd, since I already had the tracks in my collection. Then I heard it at a friends house.......I understand that all the original tapes that made up the four track/ eight track masters were dusted down and broken back so that they could be remixed on the multi track wizardry that exists today. Fed up with your tinny copy of Baby Youre A Rich Man ? Hear it properly for the first time on this disc ! Want to hear the individual vocal harmonies on NowhereMan ? Then buy the disc. This recommendation comes from a converted cynic !