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Rating: The Worst Beatles Album! I say it without any resentment! "Yellow Submarine" is the most lackluster record by the Liverpool band. When I listened to this album in its entirety for the first time, I felt an overwhelming and immense boredom and depression within me. Every song came relentlessly, making me feel bad; every time I made the sign of the cross. Leaving aside the fact that this album serves as a soundtrack for the animated film of the same name, I find it a completely useless work. Thirteen tracks, each more desolate than the last.
A Side A of 6 bland and powerless songs, practically lifeless. You can tell the band didn't feel like playing! I turn on the stereo and immediately the well-known "Yellow Submarine" starts, a song that already appeared on "Revolver" in 1966. A song already heard and not original to the album is "All You Need Is Love" from "Magical Mystery Tour," equally well-known. The remaining tracks on side A are a continuous torture for the brain.
Side B doesn't look any better! All instrumental songs, lysergic, psychedelic, classical, slightly unsettling. Pleasant but not even too much! Useless! They act as soundtracks in the film: this is their only artistic importance! "Yellow Submarine" is a mediocre album that really gets on your nerves. Anyone who wants to get an idea of it should listen, but don't expect the best from the Liverpudlian Beetles.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Yellow Submarine (02:43)
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Till we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
And our friends are all aboard
Many more of them live next door
And the band begins to play
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
(Full speed ahead Mr. Boatswain, full speed ahead
Full speed ahead it is, Sgt.
Cut the cable, drop the cable
Aye, Sir, aye
Captain, captain)
As we live a life of ease
Every one of us has all we need
Sky of blue and sea of green
In our yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
02 Only a Northern Song (03:28)
If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not
He just wrote it like that
When you're listening late at night
You may think the bands are not quite right
But they are
They just play it like that
It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern Song
It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern Song
If you think the harmony
Is a lttle dark and out of key
You're correct
There's nobody there
And I told you there's no one there
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By BeatBoy
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