Comments on: Sea Of Time

By: Jim Ferrell

Jim Ferrell — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 06:45:19 +0000

I am very glad to see Man-ley’s post. I salute you and your responses.

But my experience is more in line with Samlata’s. I own the LP version of Yellow Submarine and I’m sure I’ve listened to Side 2 in its entirety multiple times. But it made zero impression on me. I would love to have there be some example of a great Beatles-independent opus from George Martin, and maybe there is–that Mahavishnu Orchestra album, or those America albums, or that Seatrain album–but this is not it.

I think George Martin was a great producer/collaborator, but he was able to amplify the Beatles’ recordings in a specific way.

By: Man-ley

Man-ley — Thu, 25 May 2017 05:08:19 +0000

I certainly did. Strangely it became part of the whole Beatles deal for me. I was 13. I knew the Fab Four weren’t involved, but somehow it just made sense. Great instrumentation, and there were some lovely tunes in there, but you really had to listen to everything to find them. Mostly you could hear it was programmatic – describing something. But I couldn’t remember the details of the film until dvd came out decades later. Sounds just like ordinary film music too.
I had a little Yellow Submarine book. A paperback of about 100 pages. I wonder what happen to that?! Maybe that helped with the overall Beatle feel. Remember, he was involved in Beatle orchestration, so kinda being the ‘fifth’ older Beatle gave it a strength any other MD wouldn’t have had.

By: Samlata

Samlata — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:30:43 +0000

I don’t know a single person that ever listened to the entire Side 2 of the Yellow Submarine LP