The Beatles: Yellow Submarine

1. Yellow Submarine 2. Only A Northern Song 3. All Together Now 4. Hey Bulldog 5. It's All Too Much 6. All You Need Is Love 7. Pepperland 8. Sea Of Time 9. Sea Of Holes 10. Sea Of Monsters 11. March Of The Meanies 12. Pepperland Laid Waist 13. Yellow Submarine In Pepperland 14. Yellow Submarine Documentary

The most dashed-off of the Beatles' records, Yellow Submarine doesn't have much to it: the goofy title track and "All You Need Is Love" are reprised from earlier discs, George Martin's trifle of a score to the animated Submarine feature takes up the second half, and that leaves just four relatively insubstantial new tracks. The Beatles' throwaways are anyone else's classics, though: "Hey Bulldog", the last song Lennon and McCartney wrote in full collaboration, has the instinctive urgency of their best work, Paul's singalong "All Together Now" is awfully cute, and more than one band has dedicated its career to trying to replicate what George's guitars are doing on his dazed, pulsing "It's All Too Much". --Douglas Wolk

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