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Classic Album Review: The Beatles | Yellow Submarine Songtrack

Where did this idea come from? Nowhere, man.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Full marks for warmly remixed and remastered versions of these six classic tracks for the Fab Four’s animated flick.

No points for monkeying with the sequencing, deleting George Martin’s score and replacing it with nine tracks that were in the film but not on the original disc (such as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band). And a major foul call for the cheapo cover art and booklet — no liner notes, no pictures, no lyrics, just a bunch of shots from the flick jumbled together. Where did this idea come from? Nowhere, man.