10 Best Rock Albums That Everyone Forgets About

So little has been said about the Beatles' Yellow Submarine album that it seems like the band themselves don't even care about it. Even when going through the Anthology series in the '90s, Ringo Starr has said that he never really considered something like this to be an album proper, instead acting as a soundtrack to the animated film. On its own though, this has some of the most adventurous Beatles music of their later years.

Written in between the Sgt. Pepper and White Album eras, most of the first side of this record is just table scraps from what the Fabs were working on with a few singles thrown in for good measure. While songs like All Together Now fit the children's theme of the record, George Harrison really stepped up to the plate on this one, with Only a Northern Song being a scathing indictment of their business ventures and It's All Too Much being the most off-the-wall psychedelia they ever made. John Lennon also offered up an amazing tune in Hey Bulldog, whose manic hard rock managed to capture the freewheeling energy of the Fab Four while they were in the studio.

Even though the back half amounts to nothing more than George Martin's orchestral score, it's still a welcome listen to go along with the nautical film. Despite being the Beatles at half capacity, it's really a testament to their talent when even the odds and ends of their catalog sound this good.