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Post by RockoRoll on Jan 23, 2011 9:42:03 GMT -5
Yellow Submarine Songtrack
Soundtrack / compilation: album by The Beatles Released: 13 September 1999 Recorded: 1965–1968 at EMI, Olympic and De Lane Lea studios, London Genre: Rock Length: 45:38 Language: English Label: Apple, Capitol, EMI Producer: George Martin
Yellow Submarine Songtrack is a compilation /soundtrack album by The Beatles for the 1999 re-release of the 1968 film Yellow Submarine. Such film was re-released on 13 September 1999 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States.
In sharp contrast with other Beatles remasters available (2009 box sets), the songs were fully remixed from the original multitrack tapes, something not done for the original Compact Disc release of The Beatles catalogue in the late 1980s except for Help! and Rubber Soul, not even in 2009.
This album contains only The Beatles songs used in the film, including tracks absent from the original Yellow Submarine album. The extra tracks replaced the George Martin film score from the original release, while the complete score was included as a DVD audio track in the CD/DVD package featuring the album and film.
The album debuted in the UK charts at #8 selling 19,000 copies in its first week. It also peaked at #15 on the Billboard 200, with 68,000 copies sold in its opening week. In France the album debuted at #13.
Structure: The remixed tracks of the album feature many alterations and adjustments from the original stereo recordings. Almost all of The Beatles songs included in the film are on Yellow Submarine Songtrack. An exception is "A Day in the Life", which was not put in because EMI did not want too many songs from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to be included. Although all of the tracks were remixed, the songs included on Songtrack are the standard catalogue recordings that were previously available on other releases. Consequently, the extra verse of "It's All Too Much" or the off-the-cuff rendition of "Think for Yourself" heard in the film are not included on the album.
The title track, "Yellow Submarine" contains the line "a life of ease" from John Lennon that had been missing in prior stereo mixes of the song. The replies from Lennon to the main lyric are gradually panned and faded from the right side of the stereo field to the left. The sound effects in this version are also more pronounced.
"Hey Bulldog" was entirely recorded on only one four-track tape. The piano and drum performances were recorded together onto one track and were inseparable for a new mix. They remain on the left audio channel while the vocals and the snare overdubs performed by Ringo Starr are centred.
The automatic double tracking that possibly erroneously continued into the first verse on the 1966 stereo version of "Eleanor Rigby" was corrected in the 1999 remix. Additionally, the string octet is separated in a similar fashion to the Anthology 2 instrumental. The vocals by Paul McCartney are centred and slightly out of synch to the orchestration on this mix.
The prior stereo version of "Love You To" contains a shorter fade than the initial mono recording. This shortening is retained in the Songtrack version.
Acoustic guitars and percussion are situated at the left channel for the new mix of "All Together Now". McCartney and Lennon's vocals are centred while the chorus is split across the left and right. The background vocals heard on the second verse are more audible and the guitar is clearer.
The Songtrack version of "Only a Northern Song" marked the appearance of the song for the first time in true stereo. The original 1969 stereo album featured a synthesized Duophonic variant of the original mono version. A stereo mix of this song also appeared on the Anthology 2 compilation album, but was made up of alternate takes featuring different overdubs and lyrics.
Additional promotion: A number of unique promotions were launched to accompany the rerelease of Yellow Submarine in 1999. These include a commemorative postage stamp series, action figures of the main characters and wide variety of assorted Yellow Submarine merchandise, such as mousepads.
The CD/DVD package contains the album, as well as a DVD of the film with a remixed and remastered soundtrack, the original 1968 mono film soundtrack, and an isolated track of George Martin's complete score.
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Post by ursamajor on Jan 23, 2011 10:58:51 GMT -5
I just voted Only A Northern Song, I know some people may like this but I consider it one of the worst songs the Beatles put out, I don't like whiny , whinging Beatles and then bad singing to go along with it by George.
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Post by vectisfabber on Jan 23, 2011 10:59:40 GMT -5
It was always going to be one of the George songs - reflection leads me to It's Only A Northern Song. While I quite like the song, I don't much care for the dissonances.
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Post by brothermichael on Jan 23, 2011 11:23:11 GMT -5
This vote was between "When I'm 64" and "Think for Yourself." Went for the latter because I've just never thought it was anything special, especially when it's surrounded by the rest of Rubber Soul. There's the gimmick of the fuzz sound, but an ordinary song IMO.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jan 23, 2011 11:28:40 GMT -5
I voted for ALL TOGETHER NOW to go first. Bye Bye (and I quite like George's OANS).
Hey Rocko - does this mean the SURVIVOR game is back regularly? I sure hope so!
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Post by John S. Damm on Jan 23, 2011 11:49:08 GMT -5
When I'm 64
Thanks Rocko for starting a new Survivor! A great tradition started by JoeKarlosi and carried on by the man Jimmy McCulloch once called the biggest Wings' fan in Australia! Didn't he Rocko? ;D
Yeah, I voted first for everyone's favorite granny tune which I would not have done if this was a Survivor on SPLHCB. This is YSS and I don't think this song is so essential to that project. I think the George songs worked pretty well in the context of the film.
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Post by coachbk on Jan 23, 2011 13:45:43 GMT -5
Easy first choice of "All Together Now". It gets tougher from here.
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Post by winstonoboogie on Jan 23, 2011 13:58:32 GMT -5
I also voted for OANS. I agree with vectis re: the dissonance.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jan 23, 2011 14:22:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I voted first for everyone's favorite granny tune which I would not have done if this was a Survivor on SPLHCB. This is YSS and I don't think this song is so essential to that project. That's an interesting way of approaching this. I might have voted differently if I'd thought about it that way.
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Post by joeyself on Jan 23, 2011 14:46:04 GMT -5
These rarely get easier: "Love You To" mars an otherwise near-perfect REVOLVER, and does much the same for this lineup.
JcS
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Post by brothermichael on Jan 23, 2011 15:01:57 GMT -5
These rarely get easier: "Love You To" mars an otherwise near-perfect REVOLVER, and does much the same for this lineup. JcS "Love You To" -- one of the highlights of my Revolver -- especially in mono.
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Post by stavros on Jan 23, 2011 17:03:50 GMT -5
"Only A Northern Song" is pretty awful so out it goes
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Post by John S. Damm on Jan 23, 2011 17:14:37 GMT -5
These rarely get easier: "Love You To" mars an otherwise near-perfect REVOLVER, and does much the same for this lineup. JcS "Love You To" -- one of the highlights of my Revolver -- especially in mono. I simply must dust off the Mono Box and play Revolver again! Stereo or mono, I like "Love You To" because the song's opening alone signals a brave new world of pop music.
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Post by coachbk on Jan 23, 2011 22:27:25 GMT -5
I really like the weirdness of "It's Only A Northern Song" and I think the lyrics are quite clever. An under appreciated piece of quality psychedelic music, in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2011 3:37:05 GMT -5
All Together Now
i'd forgotten what we are meant to do when playing Survivor and when i started seeing all the votes for Only a Northern Song i thought people were voting for their fav song from this list...
Incorrect ,you all say...All Together Now....incorrect.... ;D
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Post by RockoRoll on Jan 24, 2011 7:09:50 GMT -5
Love You To
I'm surprised to see *Only A Northern Song* get chosen so early, one of the best from the movie (IMO)...The orginal YS album suffers because there are only four new songs on there, moreover, at least half of them were outtakes from preceding works and *Only A Northern Song' was a Pepper outtake (one of the first songs recorded during the Pepper period)
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jan 24, 2011 8:04:18 GMT -5
These rarely get easier: "Love You To" mars an otherwise near-perfect REVOLVER, and does much the same for this lineup. JcS "Love You To" -- one of the highlights of my Revolver -- especially in mono. I like LOVE YOU TO as well, and think it fits perfectly on REVOLVER with its new and different sounds and direction for the band. (However, I have little tolerance for I WANT TO TELL YOU).
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Post by RockoRoll on Jan 24, 2011 9:37:09 GMT -5
Hey Rocko - does this mean the SURVIVOR game is back regularly? I sure hope so! Regularly? Not sure Joe, we'll see what happens, I was going to do this Survivor this time last year, until my parents for the first in their life got ill, with operations etc....My Dad's back, all his disc's have degenerated, then he got Parkinson, and now early stages of Dementia. He fell also whilst at his (old age) home, broke his hip....Then my mum commenced with pain in one of her knee's, and the drama, and visits back and forth from doctors and hospitals public & private? She got the knee replacement done in July 2010....So 2010 was not a very good year for me, I had very little time with message boards (compared to other years I'd spend night & day on them), and barely after tea might spend 20min or so on Facebook, whenever I got the chance...? Oh well its a cycle, you grow up your kids, then your kids become teenagers, so you take them out for their activities (soccer etc), and now the parents problems start, and they need caring (similar to us when we were babies?) So going back to your question, there will Survivor games, there won't be none, nor continously. I'II just take it as it comes, (esp with family, work, and the parents... ) Cheers Rocco
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Post by RockoRoll on Jan 24, 2011 10:00:26 GMT -5
Thanks Rocko for starting a new Survivor! A great tradition started by JoeKarlosi and carried on by the man Jimmy McCulloch once called the biggest Wings' fan in Australia! Didn't he Rocko? ;D Yep for sure JSD, if Jimmy was still around (and not left Wings), who knows what Paul's song/album catalogue would have been like.....IMO, had Jimmy lived, he would have been our next Eric Clapton, he was good, and left us in in his prime (25yrs?)...... Anyway thx JSD for your compliments, as they say , you are definitely a *Gentleman and a Scholar*........
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Post by scousette on Jan 24, 2011 12:48:07 GMT -5
When I'm 64
JSD made a very ggod point, and after going over the list of tracks, I agree.
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Post by JCV on Jan 24, 2011 13:06:17 GMT -5
I went with "All Together Now." JCV
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Post by JCV on Jan 24, 2011 13:08:19 GMT -5
Hey Rocko - does this mean the SURVIVOR game is back regularly? I sure hope so! Regularly? Not sure Joe, we'll see what happens, I was going to do this Survivor this time last year, until my parents for the first in their life got ill, with operations etc....My Dad's back, all his disc's have degenerated, then he got Parkinson, and now early stages of Dementia. He fell also whilst at his (old age) home, broke his hip....Then my mum commenced with pain in one of her knee's, and the drama, and visits back and forth from doctors and hospitals public & private? She got the knee replacement done in July 2010....So 2010 was not a very good year for me, I had very little time with message boards (compared to other years I'd spend night & day on them), and barely after tea might spend 20min or so on Facebook, whenever I got the chance...? Oh well its a cycle, you grow up your kids, then your kids become teenagers, so you take them out for their activities (soccer etc), and now the parents problems start, and they need caring (similar to us when we were babies?) So going back to your question, there will Survivor games, there won't be none, nor continously. I'II just take it as it comes, (esp with family, work, and the parents... ) Cheers Rocco Sorry to hear about all your family's health issues, Rocko. Hopefully the new year will be better for you and your family. JCV
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Post by winstonoboogie on Jan 24, 2011 20:44:24 GMT -5
Regularly? Not sure Joe, we'll see what happens, I was going to do this Survivor this time last year, until my parents for the first in their life got ill, with operations etc....My Dad's back, all his disc's have degenerated, then he got Parkinson, and now early stages of Dementia. He fell also whilst at his (old age) home, broke his hip....Then my mum commenced with pain in one of her knee's, and the drama, and visits back and forth from doctors and hospitals public & private? She got the knee replacement done in July 2010....So 2010 was not a very good year for me, I had very little time with message boards (compared to other years I'd spend night & day on them), and barely after tea might spend 20min or so on Facebook, whenever I got the chance...? Oh well its a cycle, you grow up your kids, then your kids become teenagers, so you take them out for their activities (soccer etc), and now the parents problems start, and they need caring (similar to us when we were babies?) So going back to your question, there will Survivor games, there won't be none, nor continously. I'II just take it as it comes, (esp with family, work, and the parents... ) Cheers Rocco Sorry to hear about all your family's health issues, Rocko. Hopefully the new year will be better for you and your family. JCV JCV beat me to it so...what she said! ;D
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Post by Snookeroo on Jan 24, 2011 23:18:48 GMT -5
Not easy, but I went with "Think For Yourself".
NOTE TO ROCKO - love that sig photo. I think John may be the only one in the pic that is not stoned. :-)
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Post by vectisfabber on Jan 25, 2011 4:58:17 GMT -5
All the best with the family, Rocko - some stuff there that's not easy to deal with.
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Post by wooltonian on Jan 25, 2011 5:15:08 GMT -5
So I plonk 'Yellow Submarine - songtrack' on my CD player and which is the the track I'm most likely to skip -- same as on 'Revolver'... Yellow Submarine. It's a great song, but has become stale with age. All the features that used to charm and delight now just mildly irritate. The song doesn't rock and the singalonga chorus is now just plain tedious to my ears. I can stand back from all this personal nit-picking and still see it's a great song, but it's a 'skip track' and so it gets my vote. Post script...I really like the track listing on this CD. The 1999 re-mix is supposed to be great too (shame they didn't repeat the process for the 2009 re-masters). This thread reminds me that I should really go out and buy this CD!
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Post by RockoRoll on Jan 25, 2011 8:52:39 GMT -5
Regularly? Not sure Joe, we'll see what happens, I was going to do this Survivor this time last year, until my parents for the first in their life got ill, with operations etc....My Dad's back, all his disc's have degenerated, then he got Parkinson, and now early stages of Dementia. He fell also whilst at his (old age) home, broke his hip....Then my mum commenced with pain in one of her knee's, and the drama, and visits back and forth from doctors and hospitals public & private? She got the knee replacement done in July 2010....So 2010 was not a very good year for me, I had very little time with message boards (compared to other years I'd spend night & day on them), and barely after tea might spend 20min or so on Facebook, whenever I got the chance...? Oh well its a cycle, you grow up your kids, then your kids become teenagers, so you take them out for their activities (soccer etc), and now the parents problems start, and they need caring (similar to us when we were babies?) So going back to your question, there will Survivor games, there won't be none, nor continously. I'II just take it as it comes, (esp with family, work, and the parents... ) Cheers Rocco Sorry to hear about all your family's health issues, Rocko. Hopefully the new year will be better for you and your family. JCV Thx JCV, lets hope their health issues do calm down this year.....
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Post by RockoRoll on Jan 25, 2011 8:54:15 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about all your family's health issues, Rocko. Hopefully the new year will be better for you and your family. JCV JCV beat me to it so...what she said! ;D Thanking you also Winston (what I said for JCV..lol)
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Post by RockoRoll on Jan 25, 2011 8:57:40 GMT -5
NOTE TO ROCKO - love that sig photo. I think John may be the only one in the pic that is not stoned. :-) Thx Snookeroo, I got that image from Pattie Boyd's photo section on Facebook (I'm her friend, JSD is jealous...lol)
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Post by John S. Damm on Jan 25, 2011 9:03:50 GMT -5
NOTE TO ROCKO - love that sig photo. I think John may be the only one in the pic that is not stoned. :-) Thx Snookeroo, I got that image from Pattie Boyd's photo section on Facebook (I'm her friend, JSD is jealous...lol) I am the only person blocked from Pattie's Facebook Page. I apparently took her invitation to the public to be her friend much different than what she intended. I thought that meant that she was reaching out just to me. I was wrong. So sue me(actually Pattie did, the restraining order papers just came)!
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