YELLOW SUBMARINE

The Beatles

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Conor Fynes
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'Yellow Submarine' - The Beatles (5/10)

'Yellow Submarine' is the soundtrack to one of the most twisted and trippy cartoons I've ever seen in my life. The movie, despite being incredibly juvenile and childish is in fact incredibly entertaining and vivid. I honestly love it.

With this bias in mind, my views towards the Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' soundtrack might be a bit more generous then some others. Still, while I enjoy the music on it alot (including the orchestral scoring) an entire half of the music isn't even the Beatles! They don't write the music, or even play the instruments. It is a symphonic arrangement by George Martin. I honestly would have loved it if one of the Beatles had written all the orchestral music; I would be much more open to rating this higher.

The actual Beatles songs here are really good, and some of their most psychedelic material they ever did. Because none of the songs (besides the title track) have anything necessarily to do with the storyline of the movie, its easier to think of this as an EP. The individual Beatles songs are great, with the possible exeption of 'All Together Now' which is a little annoying, to say the least!

The orchestral arrangements are pleasant enough, but not mind blowing. In the context of the film however, they did what they needed to. The bouncy Pepperland theme always stood out to be though, both on screen and on disc as being a really great piece of music.

Thinking about it, I can really see why some people may be harsh on this being that it's not really an actual Beatles album, but the music works with the movie, trust me. A decent, but non-essential record.

Conor Fynes | 3/5 | 2009-3-19

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