| Artist |
The Beatles |
| Box Set Title: |
The Beatles Stereo Box Set |
| Album Title: |
Yellow Submarine |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Rock: General Rock |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
01/13/1969 |
| Reissue Date |
09/29/2009 |
| Label |
Apple Corps Ltd./EMI Records, Ltd. |
| Catalog No |
0946 3 82467 2 5 |
| Bar Code No |
0 94638 24672 5 |
| Reissue |
Yes |
| Remastered |
Yes |
| Packaging |
Cardboard Triple Gatefold |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Yellow Submarine (2:39)
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney) |
| 2.
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Only a Northern Song [Mono] (3:24)
(George Harrison) |
| 3.
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All Together Now (2:10)
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney) |
| 4.
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Hey Bulldog (3:11)
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney) |
| 5.
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It's All Too Much (6:25)
(George Harrison) |
| 6.
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All You Need is Love (3:51)
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney) |
| 7.
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Pepperland (2:20)
(George Martin) |
| 8.
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Sea of Time (3:00)
(George Martin) |
| 9.
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Sea of Holes (2:16)
(George Martin) |
| 10.
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Sea of Monsters (3:36)
(George Martin) |
| 11.
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March of the Meanies (2:19)
(George Martin) |
| 12.
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Pepperland Laid Waste (2:12)
(George Martin) |
| 13.
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Yellow Submarine in Pepperland (2:16)
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney) |
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| Date Acquired |
09/09/2009 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
Web Links |
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Notes |
Original release date: January 13, 1969.
This remastered album has been created from the original stereo analogue master tapes except for track 2, which is from the original mono analogue master.
Digital Remaster Ⓟ 2009 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd. Ⓒ 2009 EMI Records Ltd.
Printed in the U.S.A.
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Analyzed: The Beatles / Yellow Submarine
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -0.28 dB -12.41 dB 2:40 01-Yellow Submarine
DR11 -0.37 dB -12.57 dB 3:24 02-Only a Northern Song
DR9 -0.37 dB -12.43 dB 2:11 03-All Together Now
DR9 -0.37 dB -11.31 dB 3:11 04-Hey Bulldog
DR10 -0.37 dB -11.83 dB 6:25 05-It's All Too Much
DR9 -0.37 dB -12.15 dB 3:51 06-All You Need Is Love
DR11 -0.37 dB -14.87 dB 2:21 07-Pepperland
DR12 -0.64 dB -20.01 dB 3:00 08-Sea of Time
DR12 -1.14 dB -19.20 dB 2:17 09-Sea of Holes
DR12 -0.38 dB -16.99 dB 3:37 10-Sea of Monsters
DR10 -0.69 dB -15.42 dB 2:19 11-March of the Meanies
DR16 -0.37 dB -21.94 dB 2:13 12-Pepperland Laid Waste
DR11 -0.37 dB -16.24 dB 2:14 13-Yellow Submarine in Pepperland
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Number of tracks: 13
Official DR value: DR11
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 740 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Richie Unterberger & Bruce Ed
The only Beatles album that could really be classified as inessential, mostly because it wasn't really a proper album at all, but a soundtrack that only utilized four new Beatles songs. (The rest of the album was filled out with "Yellow Submarine," "All You Need Is Love," and a George Martin score.) What's more, two of the four new tracks were little more than pleasant throwaways that had been recorded during 1967 and early 1968. These aren't all that bad; "All Together Now" is a cute, kiddieish McCartney singalong, while "Hey Bulldog" has some mild Lennon nastiness and a great beat and central piano riff, with some fine playing all around -- each is memorable in its way, and the inclusion of the Lennon song here was all the more important, as the sequence from the movie itself in which it was used was deleted from the original U.S. release of the movie (which had no success whatever in the U.K. and quickly disappeared, thus making the U.S. version the established cut of the film for decades, until the late-'90s restoration and DVD re-release of the movie). George Harrison's two contributions were the more striking of the new entries -- "Only a Northern Song," a leftover from the Sgt. Pepper's sessions, generated from a period in which the guitarist became increasingly fascinated with keyboards, especially the organ and the Mellotron (and, later, the synthesizer), and is an odd piece of psychedelic ersatz, mixing trippiness and some personal comments; its lyrics (and title) on the one hand express the guitarist/singer/composer's displeasure at being tied in his publishing to Northern Songs, a company in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the majority shareholders; and, on the other, they present Harrison's vision of how music and recording sounded, from the inside out and the outside in, during the psychedelic era -- the song thus provided a rare glimpse inside the doors of perception of being a Beatle (or, at least, one aspect of being this particular Beatle) circa 1967. And then there was the jewel of the new songs, "It's All Too Much"; coming from the second half of 1967, the song -- resplendent in swirling Mellotron, larger-than-life percussion, and tidal waves of feedback guitar -- was a virtuoso excursion into otherwise hazy psychedelia, that was actually superior in some respects to "Blue Jay Way," Harrison's songwriting contribution of The Magical Mystery Tour; the song also later rated a dazzling cover by Steve Hillage in the middle of the following decade. The very fact that George Harrison was afforded two song slots and a relatively uncompetitive canvas for his music shows how little the project meant to Lennon and McCartney -- as did the cutting of the "Hey Bulldog" sequence from the movie, apparently with no resistance from Lennon, who had other, more important artistic fish to fry in 1968. What is here, however, is a good enough reason for owning the record, though nothing rates it as anything near a high-priority purchase.
The album would have been far better value if it had been released as a four-song EP (an idea the Beatles even considered at one point, with the addition of a bonus track in "Across the Universe" but ultimately discarded). And the original soundtrack was partly supplanted by the release at the end of the '90s of the Yellow Submarine (Songtrack), which marked the first of the remastered Beatles albums, thus reducing the appeal of the original. No one would argue that there's a huge amount more than meets the eye (or ear) there, but listening to the original album anew 40 years on, one is still struck by how mostly second-rate, and recycled and rejected Beatles material still sounds so good. And while George Martin's instrumental music from the film wasn't what a lot of Beatles fans were looking for, it was relegated safely to side two if one wished to ignore it. And even that material offered a pleasant surprise or two -- first, over how much more enjoyable it was than the Ken Thorne-arranged background music for Help! (could one imagine a full side of that on an album?); and, second, the fun that Martin has as an orchestrator with some of George Harrison's recent Hindustanti music excursions on "Sea of Time"; the latter is doubly interesting, as Martin in later years, in his autobiography All You Need Is Ears, admitted to regretting some of the antipathy he showed to Harrison and his music and songwriting during their time together with the Beatles. And, finally, as a Beatles-lite release, Yellow Submarine does have its moments of welcome on the turntable or the CD player -- it's not every time that calls for listening as ambitious and demanding as The White Album, Abbey Road, or Sgt. Pepper's.
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