1 Overlooked Gem Song From Every Beatles Album
3. It’s All Too Much - Yellow Submarine
Yellow Submarine is the weakest release in The Beatles' catalogue, with over half the album given over to George Martin’s incidental music from the band’s animated movie. Those instrumental tracks work perfectly well in the context of the film but they’re nobody’s go-to choice of Beatles music.
As far as the band were concerned, the soundtrack was a contractual obligation rather than a passion project. Instead of writing new songs to order, they delivered offcuts they had hanging around to the record company. It’s notable that the music has a psychedelic sound the band had otherwise all but abandoned by this point.
Nonetheless, the album has one incredible stand out track, six-minute lysergic freak-out It’s All Too Much. Unusually George Martin wasn’t present for the recording of this track. Part of the reason the band’s records still hold up so well is Martin’s pristine production, but in his absence the band delivered a notably murky sound that suits the song’s trippy lyric down to the ground.
The song also features the most British acid rock lyric ever, “show me that I’m everywhere and get me home for tea.”