The Beatles - Love
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Artist: The BeatlesBrand: Beatles
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Capitol
Product features:
- BEATLES THE LOVE
- Because
- Get Back
- Glass Onion
- Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition)
- I Am The Walrus
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
- Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing
- Gnik Nus
- Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition)
- Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
- Help!
- Blackbird/Yesterday
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
- Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
- Octopus's Garden
- Lady Madonna
- Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition)
- Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
- Revolution
- Back In The U.S.S.R.
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- A Day In The Life
- Hey Jude
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
- All You Need Is Love
Free Music Notes for Love
Free Music Review: The Beatles' Kaleidoscopic Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
For a band where all 4 members played their last collective note decades ago, the Beatles' "Love" is a pure masterpiece. It belongs right up there with Sgt. Pepper as a work of exploratory genius. While no track is held as sacred in the mix, every note is a diamond. Love is a beautiful hallucination that you will remember and cherish.
The Beatles were known for experimenting with sound. Some of the modern day effects processors such as the "flanger" used today were invented specifically for a Beatles record. Whether it was a string section or a sitar player flown in from halfway around the world, the Beatles had every thing they asked for to make great music. It was George Martin who brought it all together and made it work.
Years after their break up, their recorded work began to be weighed down with nostalgia, marketers stripping their legacy for spare parts, gutting their vital work for greatest hits CD's and sneaker commercials.
George Martin was reduced to spend his remaining years rehashing the same stories over and over for countless books and dvds like a forgotten museum curator or a bored librarian.
Love changes all of that.
George and Giles Martin break into the Beatles museum, perform a musical séance and resurrect a rock band to change the music world one last time. They open the cage doors wide and let the songs run wild, thawing every note that's been frozen in our minds. The Martins turn our old Beatles upside down and set them (and us) free in the process.
Nothing is where it "should" be; shooting us through the rabbit hole before we have a chance to change our minds.
Welcome to the Beatles' Fun House.
Just when there's a lull, mischievous Beatles leap from behind corners to scream "Help". Relax too much, and John Lennon jumps out screaming to start Revolution. Unpredictable, reckless, dangerous- how's that for a Beatles record?
Martin keeps you off balance the way a great record should. You're not falling asleep to this record. One minute later, the floor will drop. There's no sentimental fluff here.
Don't skip tracks. Listen to it in one setting. Don't bother previewing snippets. It's a waste of time. Telling you what happens in all 26 songs is like spoiling the cliffhanger of a movie. Every song has a purpose to the CD. There is perfect pacing.
Have you heard rare Beatles tracks before? Memorized all the Mark Lewisohn studio diaries that tracked every recording they made? Then little new material will surprise you. But you will hear the Beatles in a way you never have.
To call it a "mash up" is to cheapen it. Mash ups usually include more than one band and from different genres.
It's not a remix. It's a reconstruction from the person who helped build it in the first place.
The sound quality is ridiculously good. Every note sounds new. This is a living and breathing CD. It's not a greatest hits; but you will be sorry when it's over.
We are meeting the Beatles in a new way. George Harrison sounds beautiful in a way I might not have known. John Lennon's voice is a revelation. Paul McCartney's bass is perfect. Ringo Starr's drums sound incredible.
Every sound you hear is a high point flashing by in seconds.
Some highlights:
John Lennon shares parts of Tomorrow Never Knows with George Harrison's Within You Without You.
The Martins mix the hard edge of I Want You with Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite.
George Martin may have lost some of his hearing but that didn't stop him from writing a nice string section for George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Gnik Nus (sun king played backward) is a gorgeous acapella vocal that segues perfectly into Something. You can play the Beatles backward, forward or all at once and it will still be beautiful.
Stare at your watch and you'll miss it. In fact, you'll want to listen to it many times to capture all the treasures on this CD.
Some of the best parts of the CD are the drop dead gorgeous intros. But you have to hear the ending of the previous song to appreciate it. So if you skip tracks you'll never hear them. Hidden in the ending of Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows, the intro to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is slowed down to a dramatic ambient crawl, the kick drum echoes like a heartbeat before the song is sped up to normal like a music box and the Beatles come to life again.
Here Comes the Sun is rethought to begin with vocal harmonies at the beginning over a raga beat, and as the guitar begins playing the melody we remember, a sitar plays on the right channel to heartbreakingly beautiful effect.
When you hear the drums stop in the middle of Hey Jude and just hear their voices, you will be blown away. As Hey Jude fades, the horns keep playing. It is right at home as Sgt. Pepper reprise begins. You have 2 endings at the same time. One for an incredible song (Hey Jude) and one for a landmark album (Sgt Pepper).
The album ends with John and the Beatles in a playful mood, saying good night.
This isn't some producer who the Beatles never met hacking away at their legacy. George Martin looked John Lennon in the eye when he recorded almost every song as a Beatle. He wrote the string arrangement for Paul McCartney's Eleanor Rigby. Without George Martin, Sgt Pepper's orchestral arrangements might just be a wish. He is considered the "fifth Beatle" for a reason. This wasn't made in some back room against the wishes of the Beatles.
George Harrison had become good friends with Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté and wanted this project to happen. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and George Harrison's wife Olivia all heard mixes and gave feedback, suggestions and encouragement.
To be fair, without C D S, this CD would not have happened. The good news is it is great on its own merit. You don't need the show to appreciate it.
Credit should also be given to Giles Martin, who obviously helped the project a great deal. He was also trained by the one person who the Beatles trusted with their music: his father.
This may be the last Beatles project George Martin works on.
As the master tapes are put back in their boxes and the vault door closes, George Martin can rest knowing he made something very special with "Love", if only for one last time. Thank you, George Martin.
Highly Recommended. -EveningOcean CD "The Attraction" Evening Ocean com
THE ATTRACTION
Love Poster
Japanese pressing of the standard version of the album. Apple. 2006.It begins with a twittering of birdsong lifted from "Across the Universe." And once the triple-tracked a capella harmonies of "Because" enter, followed by snatches from "A Hard Day's Night" and "The End," leading into a fired-up "Get Back," it becomes obvious that this is far more than just another Beatles compilation. This is Love, conceived by the Fabs' former producer George Martin and son Giles as a stageshow soundtrack to Cirque de Soleil's Las Vegas spectacular of the same name, but appears to have taken on a life of its own. Whereas the Beatles' last release, 1, delivered the (over?) familiar hits in a nice, simple package, Love is a mélange of the familiar and obscure, all literally mixed together in one 78-minute audio collage which succeeds in reminding the listener just why the Beatles truly are, as Lennon put it, "toppermost of the poppermost." There's no new Beatles material per se, but the songs are all approached differently--some are cut together in a flawlessly mixed medley (check out "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You/Helter Skelter"), some reassemble different backing tracks and vocal performances to create new spins on old classics; but all the songs are revitalized considerably. Even in its weakest moments (which probably work better in the context of the show itself), Love is still a formidable prospect, and one has to admire Martin's willingness to go out on a limb with such a project. While purists may complain that the cut 'n' paste nature of the project is simply tampering with perfection, at the very least it'll make them reach for the originals and enjoy them all over again. For newcomers and everyone else, it makes a fine listen, both in its sonic clarity (the actual tracks are the best they've sounded on CD) and audacious nature. --Thom Allott
More from the Fab Four
 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 2 |  Revolver |  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
 Anthology 1 |  Anthology 2 |  Anthology 3 |
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