Yellow Submarine (soundtrack album) by The Beatles

I'd like to speak up in favour of George Martin's instrumental film score, which people often dismiss when talking about this album. Admittedly I'm biased by nostalgia, since the Yellow Submarine movie was my very first introduction to The Beatles as a child, and so many of those cues are burned into my memory.

But even taking off the rose-tinted specs, I think that the score really is good; at least as worthy of listening to separate from the film as any other instrumental film score album. It features lots of nice pastiches and references to classical music, and the opening of "Yellow Submarine In Pepperland" is wonderfully triumphant.

Una parte para los Beatles, con solo 4 temas nuevos, y otra para George Martin en un disco de compromiso, pero que no deja de tener su encanto.

Weakest Beatles release, hands down. The film score second half was the worst stuff ever included in anything Beatles.

Only a Northern Song - easily the worst Beatles written song in my opinion. All Together Now is also up there. Yellow Submarine and Octopuses' Garden are children songs for everyone to love. All Together Now is just a childen's song that is completely childish and nothing more. Catchy as hell. That's all I can give it credit for.

The A side is absolutely fantastic, if the song haven't been released before and they worked in a proper B side, this could be a high tier Beatles album, Hey Bulldog, It's All Too Much and Only A Nothern Song are amazing !!!

"It's All Too Much" alone is worth the high rating.

Truly, it isn't a real album, only songs, which didn't were enough good to an LP, and didn't were enough to Revolver and Sgt. Peppers. It's just fine.

From Nowhereman1965 09/09/2018 13:58

Without a doubt the least essential Beatles album. It should have been an EP but because of an obscure agreement between George Martin and Beatles manager Brian Epstein, it was expanded into a full album. So it could include instrumentals by Martin. Side One is good but unfortunately contains music previously released. Hey Bulldog is a new track and is brilliant as is George’s underrated psychedelic masterpiece It’s All Too Much. Side two contains George Martin’s instrumental scores and is fairly inessential. Overall, worth hearing, but not an essential purchase.

This doesn't feel like a real Beatles album to me. The second half is the soundtrack to the movie and the first half is a mix of new and previously released songs. There's definitely still some good [new] songs here, Hey Bulldog, All Together Now, It's only a Northern Song, but overall it's a disappointing album.

Kind of a drag. Still worth a listen.