The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"

All right, so we've gone all the way back to 1986 with Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer". But what about before then? Was the world a dark, dreary place with no music set to animation?

Of course not.

MTV, in its original form, was instrumental (no pun intended) in bringing a great many animation-filled music videos to the TV-watching public. However, examples of animated music videos existed long before the cable network did. One such example is the title track from legendary band The Beatles's 1968 film, "Yellow Submarine". The clip is well-known for its trippy, psychadelic style, and the soundtrack for the film became an integral part of the Beatles' discography.

One of the hallmarks of the hippie-driven psychadelic era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Yellow Submarine clip is one of the great pioneers of animated musical synergy. Groovy, man, groovy.



Artist: The Beatles
Song: Yellow Submarine
Animation: Yellow Submarine (feature film)