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As much as people of my 'generation' think it's so hip and out there, I'm am not a huge fan, I always argue how they didn't do the voices, just the music, not a lot of participation...To me it's the Beatles meet School House Rock.

But there are 3 good things that came out from it:
1) the Beatle 'music videos', I do like what they did with Nowhere Man and Only a Northern Song.
2) We received the Lennon gem: Hey Bulldog
3) George Martin's score is fabulous, in particularly the suite for Pepperland...I listen to that song all the time, getting up for work, driving, whatever; has such a good feel. Am I missing any other George Martin gems from his catalog besides the YS OST?

What are your top 3?

Hey Bulldog is one of my all time favorite Beatles tracks.  The Ringo/Paul rhythm section is incredible.  And Only A Northern Song is probably right up there as my fave George track-although I like the version on the Anthology cd, without the sound effects.

As for anything else good to come out of it, I'm at a loss.

I like all the soundtrack songs, especially "Hey Bulldog" and "It's All Too Much".  And the footage for "Eleanor Rigby" is an excellent visual interpretation of the song, I think.

http://www.nme.com/news/the-beatles/46805

OH YEAH!   Forgot that was coming out, I think it'll be cool, I'd love to see some of the sequences in 3D...maybe under the influence of something.

That Robert Zemeckis never lets me down

Three good things that came from Yellow Submarine?

1.

Old Fred - Where ARE your friends, anyway?
Ringo - Just playin'.
Old Fred -Just playin' what?
Ringo - Just playin' around.

2.

Ringo - I've got a hole in me pocket.

3.

Ringo - Woe...is...me. Liverpool can be a pretty lonely place on a Saturday night...and it's only Thursday morning. I'd jump into the River Mersey, but it looks like rain. Nothing ever happens to me...

I love the whole thing. Watched it as a kid before I was seriously into the Beatles (although I think everyone is kind of into the Beatles from birth...) and loved it; that didn't diminish at all as I found out they were more soundtrack and inspiration than anything else. But what's wrong with Schoolhouse Rock?!?

Schoolhouse Rock is fricking awesome. My favorite? Lolly Get Your Adverbs, and the adjective one; 'Got home from camping last spring'.

I have nothing against School House Rock, but this is the Fab Four we're talkin about here

I'm a HUGE Yellow Submarine fan. It's a classic. I saw it when I was little, and I've loved it ever since.  I collect Yellow Submarine memorabilia. I collect pretty much anything I can find and afford. Even some things I really can't afford.  ;D

 I watched it when i was a kid too, and it's still great. Although as in Beatles films, Ringo tends to get the best lines

3 good things from YS...

1. Blue Meanies
2. Blue Meanies
3. Blue Meanies

I remember when there was a wrestler in the WWF called the Blue Meanie

Oh, if only the WWF had such classic writing as the Blue Meanies did.
Speaking of which:

1. "Pepperland is a tickle of joy on the blue belly of the universe. It must be scratched."
2. "We meanies only take NO for an answer!"
3. "Today, Pepperland goes BLUEly!"

You beat me to that post!!! 

And I have to say I never knew the fabs didn't do the voices..  Is that REALLY true?

One final thought.

I never thought the movie was that trippy or clever.   I preferred the midnight showings of Betty Boop and Felix the cat at the local theater.  Now THAT was trippy.

Absolutely true, the Submarine DVD has interviews with the original voice actors. By all accounts they picked the fellow to do George from a pub. Paul does a good impression of the fake liverpool accents in the Anthology film.

Admittedly I have never seen it but I know I should.

I'm sorry.  I've put this off way too long.  :'(

I hate that people my age like it because they think it's "trippy,"  there are far more trippier films out there

The person who did Paul's voice is in hospital: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1300216/Former-Corrie-star-Geoffrey-Hughes-hospital-cancer-returns.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

So I suppose you could say... the Paul impersonator is dead?  >:D >:D >:D

NICE!  :p

1. Only a Northern Song
2. Hey Bulldog
3. The comic book adaptation
4. The toy submarine (in the original box)
5. Yellow Submarine Songtrack

The $300 nostalgia trip:

(http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/532/yellowsu1.jpg) (http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg8/yellpost.jpg) 

from http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg8/yellowsu.htm

The Beatles Yellow Submarine (movie comic), published by Gold Key / Western Publishing, 1968. Issued with a 12-1/2" x 20" Yellow Submarine pull-out poster (shown below). This is the second rarest Beatles comic value-wise, and very scarce in NM/Mint condition. Two NM+ copies turned up last year and promptly sold for $300.00 each.

I have a re-release of the toy of George and comes with the sub, I got it in the early 2000s.....left in the package...not nearly as cool as the original, I'm sure

Well, if it's an exact replica, it doesn't matter. Was it a licensed product or an apple product? Was Corgi the original?

Whenever I watch Yellow Submarine I think it's the funniest film of all time. It just cracks me up so much! I love their entrances.

And... 'There's only one way to go out!' '

'How?'

'SINGING!'


It has also given the world this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfFAmcv4EM

I remember Mike Myers saying in a Beatles documentary that was on ABC about 10 years back or say that he used to cry when they left Jeremy and Nowhere Man is being sung.

It's all too much - 2009 stereo remix/remastered - Incredible song and audio experience. One of my top 10 Beatles songs.

1. Hey Bulldog
2. Hey Bulldog
3. Hey Bulldog

The 09-09-2009 Beatles album releases were not remixes, but remasters.  The 1987 CDs were mastered with the equipment available at the time, but the technology  improved significantly by the late 2000's.  The engineers at Abbey Road first did a blind audition of several analog-to-digital transfer machines, selecting the one they thought sounded the best.   The original mono and stereo album master tapes were then transferred to digital at 24-bit 192 kHz.  They worked on the recordings in the lab, adding some EQ here and there and removing imperfections like microphone pops or static.  "Performance related imperfections", such as the squeaky chair at the end of A Day In The Life, were left alone.  Some limiting was also added, but to the stereo masters only.  I think they did a fantastic job.

There is a 24-bit 44.1 kHz release of the stereo albums available - it was released on a USB stick that had a green apple enclosure.

The "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" CD in the late 90's was a complete re-mix from the multitracks. A remix was necessary, so the DVD could have a 5.1 surround sound soundtrack.   I also like this re-mix a lot, but it was very controversial at the time, as many critics felt that the original sound of these Beatles recordings had been altered too significantly.

As this is a Beach Boys board and not a Beatles board, I will say something about the Beach Boys.  I think the engineers did a fantastic job with the stereo and 5.1 re-mixes of Pet Sounds; somehow, by some miracle,  they provided a great re-mix that sounded true to the original mono.

What's good about it, I guess, is that it made me a rock fan for life. The Yellow Submarine film was first broadcast on American TV in 1972, when I was 11 years old. I had a little Sears cassette recorder, and I taped the movie audio, holding the recorder up to the speaker of the TV.  I must have listened to the tape for hours and hours.  This is when I became a Beatles fan and a rock music fan.   

Back when the film was released on DVD in the late 90's, I played the film for my kids, who were age 6 and 3 at the time. They loved it and became lifelong Beatles fans as well (although not as much as dad).

C-H-E-E-S-E-A-N-D-O-N-I-O-N-S oh no...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePaHG6g7uFw

You mean Barry Wom?

Don't forget that Stig played drums with our own Garcons de la Plage on CATP and Holland!

Oh Yellow Submarine Sandwich!...I just got their LP a couple months ago...I love the liner notes/pics. Plus, the plug from "Bannana Records" for the California Boys.

My favorite song has gotta be Ouch! or Piggy in the Middle or Let's Be Natural

Actually I really like almost everything about it except for them not doing the voices.

Just realized that this has a different lead vocal than the album version!

You mean Rutle Corps? And the French Beach Boys?

I trust you expertise.. it sounds like the 09 release was a remix as well. Nevertheless the 09 release sounds fabulous on the right system. It's like a big soundscape world. Was the original YS released in stereo?   

The Yellow Submarine Soundtrack was in stereo, expect for Only A Northern Song. The movies sound mix was in Mono as with most Animated film's during the 60's

1. Hoagiefest
2. It's All Too Much
3. I know who Guy Lombardo is.

  :lol

+fucking1

3. Animated tributes on The Simpsons and Futurama
2. Hey Bulldog and It's All Too Much
1." Argentina?"

Also, according to Eric Idle, some of the original Yellow Submarine animators made the Cheese and Onions sequence and he said "They loved being payed to make fun of themselves."