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10 March 2017
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EchoNov said
Perhaps the Beatles didn’t have enough songs to fill an album. Both Yellow Submarine and All You Need Is Love are re-used. Only A Northern Song was a leftover from Sgt. Pepper ’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Unlike previous films, Yellow Submarine was made with the intent of mainly using previously released songs with 4 new songs. These 4 new songs were actually songs deemed unsuitable for a major Beatles release, hence why Only A Northern Song is in the film despite being a Sgt. Pepper outtake and why they didn't have enough songs to fill an album.
They could've made a full album had they included the 7 previously released songs featured in the film or if Capitol did what they did with Magical Mystery Tour .
As for Yellow Submarine and All You Need Is Love being re-used, YS is re-used because it's the title track and AYNIL hadn't been on a UK album (MMT was released as a double EP in the UK), which is probably why it was released here.
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I don't mind the original Yellow Submarine album as I like the George Martin score but as a Beatles album it is a little bit of a cop out.
As I mentioned above I think they could have done a really weird but fun album using the four new/unreleased songs plus dialogue from the film, parts of George Martin's score, and maybe even a remix of the Yellow Submarine song just to make it different from the version on Revolver .
Otherwise a version like the American Magical Myster Tour could have been done as well which contains Lady Madonna , The Inner Light , Hey Jude and Revolution .
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Yellow submarine is the 3rd (And final) psychedelic studio album, Sgt Pepper being the 1st, and Magical Mystery Tour being 2nd. thw White Album is a separate era, the india era.
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Myself, I consider Revolver their first psychedelic album.
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Ron Nasty said
Myself, I consider Revolver their first psychedelic album.
Yes and No. Revolver may have had those crazy songs, like Tomorrow Never Knows , Love You To , Tax Man, but it lacked that psychedelic color for me.
But yes, it is partially psychedelic.
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Easy.
The problem with Yellow Submarine is, not only isn't it a proper Beatles album, it isn't even a proper soundtrack album to the animated film. So it just should have been a full soundtrack album with all the songs and the score, similar to the 1999 Yellow Submarine Songtrack , and it would serve as a film-related compilation just like so many movies have their own soundtrack albums, but it wouldn't be a canonical Beatles album, in the sense that there would be no songs that are nowhere else available in the "official" Beatles canon.
Only A Northern Song and It's All Too Much would be on Magical Mystery Tour , OANS as the second track between MMT and Fool on the Hill and IATM as the grand after-finale after the finale of All You Need Is Love . I've tried this 13-songs tracklist before and it sounds beautiful.
Hey Bulldog would be a single. There were only two single releases in 1968 with Lady Madonna / The Inner Light and later Hey Jude / Revolution . So I'd release Hey Bulldog sometimes in early summer. It could be a Double A with Across The Universe , but even better would be to leave Across The Universe Wildlife for the charity compilation (and Past Masters ) and have Sour Milk Sea as the B-Side of Hey Bulldog .
And in autumn, some time after the Hey Jude / Revolution single and leading up to the White Album there would be one more single: Not Guilty / All Together Now !
The White Album stays untouched.
Everybody's happy. 
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Monkberry Moon Delight said
Easy.The problem with Yellow Submarine is, not only isn't it a proper Beatles album, it isn't even a proper soundtrack album to the animated film. So it just should have been a full soundtrack album with all the songs and the score, similar to the 1999 Yellow Submarine Songtrack , and it would serve as a film-related compilation just like so many movies have their own soundtrack albums, but it wouldn't be a canonical Beatles album, in the sense that there would be no songs that are nowhere else available in the "official" Beatles canon.
Only A Northern Song and It's All Too Much would be on Magical Mystery Tour , OANS as the second track between MMT and Fool on the Hill and IATM as the grand after-finale after the finale of All You Need Is Love . I've tried this 13-songs tracklist before and it sounds beautiful.
Hey Bulldog would be a single. There were only two single releases in 1968 with Lady Madonna / The Inner Light and later Hey Jude / Revolution . So I'd release Hey Bulldog sometimes in early summer. It could be a Double A with Across The Universe , but even better would be to leave Across The Universe Wildlife for the charity compilation (and Past Masters ) and have Sour Milk Sea as the B-Side of Hey Bulldog .
And in autumn, some time after the Hey Jude / Revolution single and leading up to the White Album there would be one more single: Not Guilty / All Together Now !
The White Album stays untouched.
Everybody's happy.
That all sounds perfect!
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I'm still hoping an EP of the originals comes out for Record Store Day or something, particularly if they use those mono mixes from Mono Masters
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Monkberry Moon Delight said
Easy.The problem with Yellow Submarine is, not only isn't it a proper Beatles album, it isn't even a proper soundtrack album to the animated film. So it just should have been a full soundtrack album with all the songs and the score, similar to the 1999 Yellow Submarine Songtrack , and it would serve as a film-related compilation just like so many movies have their own soundtrack albums, but it wouldn't be a canonical Beatles album, in the sense that there would be no songs that are nowhere else available in the "official" Beatles canon.
How isn't it a proper soundtrack album? It contains 6/11 (7/11 on the US tape releases) of the Beatles songs featured entirely (or almost entirely) in the film and 7/8 of the instrumental pieces (albeit they're all re-recorded), which leads to a score of 13/19. Not to mention, the songs are in a similar order to how they appear in the film.
Hey Bulldog would be a single. There were only two single releases in 1968 with Lady Madonna / The Inner Light and later Hey Jude / Revolution . So I'd release Hey Bulldog sometimes in early summer. It could be a Double A with Across The Universe , but even better would be to leave Across The Universe Wildlife for the charity compilation (and Past Masters ) and have Sour Milk Sea as the B-Side of Hey Bulldog .
Better yet, have Lady Madonna and Hey Bulldog as a double A-side, those two fit perfectly together. Then, turn the Hey Jude album into this:
Hey Jude :
Side A:
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
Side B:
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Sure but the tracklist could be tweaked a little bit. heres how i would do it.
A side:
Its All Too Much
Side B:
Not Gulity
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I was thinking about this the other day.
The previous film albums - A Hard Day's Night , Help !, and the LP version of Magical Mystery Tour - all had the movie songs on Side One, and non-movie songs on Side Two. In hindsight, Side Two of Yellow Submarine would have been the perfect home for the unused White Album tracks. Not Guilty and Mary Jane being the most obvious but also Child Of Nature , Sour Milk Sea, if George was allowed so many, and possibly add Junk and Across The Universe to bring it up to six.
I like George Martin's score but if it hadn't been there, it wouldn't have been missed.
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See now, I would miss GM's contributions! I think that George's full YS score is interesting and well worth hearing in full, as opposed to the mere 18 minutes included on Side Two, which is why I still think the ideal YS album would be a double-vinyl release that included the complete score, plus all the songs heard in the film (and on the YS Songtrack album) interspersed throughout, in the same running order as heard in the film.
Something else to think about: George Martin very magnanimously refused to give himself co-composer credit on any Beatles song, even though there are surely at least two or three that he contributed to compositionally. So, including his compositions on a Beatles album that went gold, and hit #2 on the charts, resulted in him earning some deserved songwriting royalties for himself, after six years of faithful service to the band. I wouldn't want to have that taken away from him (or his estate.)
I don't like the idea of including "Not Guilty
", "Mary Jane" etc. on the release, because they have nothing at all to do with "Yellow Submarine
", the movie. Their proper place is on the expanded deluxe White Album
, which is where they are. 
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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I don't disagree with you about the score, but that's in hindsight. One can't miss something that was never there.
And the fact that the White Album tracks have nothing to do with the film is kind of my point. Neither did the songs on the second sides of Help ! and A Hard Day's Night .
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Mr. Moonlight said
I don't disagree with you about the score, but that's in hindsight. One can't miss something that was never there.
But "Sea Of Holes " and "Sea Of Monsters " etc. are there; and you're proposing a release without them.
And the fact that the White Album tracks have nothing to do with the film is kind of my point. Neither did the songs on the second sides of Help ! and A Hard Day's Night .
That's a good point.
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vonbontee said
But "Sea Of Holes " and "Sea Of Monsters " etc. are there; and you're proposing a release without them.
If you mean they're in the movie, then yeah. But I'm suggesting that if there never was an album with those tracks, then nobody would be saying they should have been included. The Capitol soundtracks of Help ! and Hard Day's Night which included instrumentals are widely seen as rip-offs (although I did buy them as imports for interest's sake).
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Mr. Moonlight said
vonbontee said
But "Sea Of Holes " and "Sea Of Monsters " etc. are there; and you're proposing a release without them.
If you mean they're in the movie, then yeah.
No, I meant they're there on the YS soundtrack album.
But I'm suggesting that if there never was an album with those tracks, then nobody would be saying they should have been included.
And I'm disputing that - some people would say they should've been included! Even if only myself and nine other people, that's more than "nobody". The DVD of the movie offers the option of viewing with all the dialogue and sound fx silenced, with only the Beatles songs and Martin's score left audible. And heard in isolation, I still think GM's score is very captivating and stands on its own. It incorporates unusual effects that previously appeared in certain Beatles works, like the combination of strings and electric guitar, or strings and sitar, plus even some bits of backwards music. And hearing these in alteration with the Beatles numbers results in a (to me) rewarding listening experience, a blurring of the lines between cinematic music and late-Beatles songs, which are pretty wide-screen cinematic in themselves.
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Okay, you got me. I shouldn't have used the absolute "nobody." 
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My turn for an opinion.
All You Need Is Love is over-released. I can't stand how much I hear it on popular radio. Geez, listen to other stuff. Same with Yellow Submarine . Eventually gets boring. That is why Octopus's Garden is better.
I got to say, Pepperland is a great song, but never listened to the other instrumentals enough. IMO, Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour were the start of a trilogy of Beatles psychedelia, and you should listen to all three albums back to back.
The whole album seems like a bunch of throwaway tracks from 1967, thus MMT seems more canon than Yellow Submarine . In fact, better songs and higher up on my ranking.
Beatles released almost 2 albums a year, except 1966, 1968 and 1970. There were 12.
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LucyInTheSkyWithHackneyDiamonds said
My turn for an opinion.Beatles released almost 2 albums a year, except 1966, 1968 and 1970. There were 12.
...keeping in mind that 1968 did produce two albums worth of songs in one sleeve, of course
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I honestly don't know what songs could be put in the place of All You Need Is Love ?
I understand some production studio wanted Ringo's YS as an animated movie, and for a moment You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) was on the record. Now I want to see a 1971 sequel with Octopus's Garden .
In the end, I doubt anything could outdo it. (cough*) Carnival Of Light
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