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  • Format: LP
  • Label: EMI
  • Genre: Rock / Pop

Official 180gr Vinyl Reissue
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."

Track Listing

    The Beatles

  • A1 –The Beatles Yellow Submarine
  • A2 –The Beatles Only A Northern Song
  • A3 –The Beatles All Together Now
  • A4 –The Beatles Hey Bulldog
  • A5 –The Beatles It's All Too Much
  • A6 –The Beatles All You Need Is Love
  • Original Film Score Composed & Orchestrated By George Martin

  • B1 –George Martin Pepperland
  • B2 –George Martin Sea Of Time
  • B3 –George Martin Sea Of Holes
  • B4 –George Martin Sea Of Monsters
  • B5 –George Martin March Of The Meanies
  • B6 –George Martin Pepperland Laid Waste
  • B7 –George Martin Yellow Submarine In Pepperland