Beatles – Yellow Submarine (180g Vinyl LP)

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The soundtrack to the Beatles’ animated film of the same name, Yellow Submarine presents four new Beatles tracks recorded between 1967 and early 1968. In addition, George Martin’s score for the film rounds out the effort. While not considered a “proper” album, Yellow Submarine contains many memorable moments—George Harrison’s psychedelic “Only a Northern Song,” peppered with organ and candid sentiments, and “It’s All Too Much,” carried on the shoulders of a mesmerizing Mellotron, gigantic percussion, and titanic guitar feedback.Part of Capitol/Apple’s quintessential Beatles catalog masters series on LP, Yellow Submarine has been remastered by a dedicated team of engineers that includes Guy Massey, Steve Rooke, and Sam Okell with Paul Hicks and Sean Magee. Proper care and a painstaking series of steps were taken to ensure that music lovers would hear the Fab Four in all their glory with unprecedented clarity and transparency.

With EMI’s legendary Abbey Road Studios providing the backdrop, the four-year restoration process combined veteran expertise, state-of-the-art equipment, vintage studio gear, and rigorous testing to net what is without doubt the highest fidelity possible and authentic, jaw-dropping sound guaranteed to rival the original LPs. There is no longer any need to pay hundreds of dollars for Japanese pressings.

The last phase of the vinyl mastering process began with the arrival of the first batches of test pressings made from master lacquers that had been sent to the two pressing plant factories. Stringent quality tests identified any noise or click appearing on more than one test pressing in the same place. If this happened, it was clear that the undesired sounds had been introduced either during the cutting or the pressing stage and so the test records were rejected. In the quest to achieve the highest quality possible, the Abbey Road team worked closely with the pressing factories and the manufacturers of the lacquer and cutting styli.

For this project, there was no such thing as too many cooks in the kitchen. Yes, it took a village to get it right.

The Beatles Yellow Submarine Track Listing:

1.  Yellow Submarine
2.  Only A Northern Song
3.  All Together Now
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 Waste
13. Yellow Submarine In Pepperland