The Beatles - Love (CD + Audio DVD)
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Free Music Review: How about something for REAL fans, like a DVD-A or SACD of Abbey Road for instance?
Hit: 1 Stars
When will EMI get off their duff and give us surround mixes of the later albums (the ones that were done in at least 4-track)? Or maybe go back to the original tapes and press some nice vinyl. This album is an insult.Free Music Review: Beatles Love On DVD-Audio
Hit: 5 Stars
This review pertains to the DVD-Audio soundtrack, although it might also be useful to readers to point out that above all, this album is a wonderfully entertaining piece of work particularly and especially to those who are very familiar with the music of the Beatles. The mixing is very creative and imaginative, inspired no doubt by similar qualities of the original compositions. What is even more noteworthy is the fabulous clarity of voices and instruments in comparison to the CD format. I was able to hear sounds never before revealed making it a delight from beginning to end. The highs are transparent, crisp but not overdone, while the lows seemingly transcend the audible range and wind up somewhere between your subflooring and celiac plexus as they ideally should! Just a very pleasant journey through "Beatle Land," and done so with a nod towards those who appreciate brilliant sound quality. Free Music Review: Thumbs Up
Hit: 4 Stars
Just as I have no quarrel with a Mona Lisa sporting a moustache (provided the original still hangs in the Louvre), I am quite happy to hear Beatles music in a new and stimulating context. At first, it is odd hearing these recordings, imprinted on my mind over decades of listening, sounding the same only different, but the Anthology series and Live At The BBC set have already reminded us that the Beatles actually have a repertoire of songs in some recorded performances, and that they shouldn't be frozen in aspic. The strangeness diminishes with every subsequent play, though, leaving only pleasure at every new twist.
I loved hearing these songs mashed up in such glorious sound quality and like everyone else, can't wait to hear the entire back catalogue restored and remixed in DVD-A. If anything, George and Giles Martin have been too reverential in their approach, limiting most of their radical ideas to the intros and outros. Here Comes The Sun, for example, begins with a fabulous and appropriate Indian intro, and ends with an equally inspired transitional section from The Inner Light, but lapses in between into the familiar, gorgeous arrangement we know of old.
More successful for me was the merging of Drive My Car, The Word and What You're Doing, a mash-up which continued throughout the whole new piece. I also particularly liked the composite of Strawberry Fields Forever which begins with the earliest demo and includes a history of the different stages of the song's development, culminating in the indulgent kitchen-sink production at the end. More of that, please.
The transitional piece labeled Cry Baby Cry was an eye-opener to me as the piece turns out to be the "Can you take me back..." section which I had always thought to be the introduction to Revolution No. 9 when I heard it on the White Album. I think a minor trick may have been missed on Revolution, which follows, as the standard B-side version has been remixed rather than the video mix they subsequently made for Top Of The Pops which had added "shoobie doobies" and hasn't seen commercial release. Revolution and Back In The USSR have both been edited for reasons of space on the CD, but can be heard in full on the longer DVD-A. Although a DVD-A player is needed for full resolution, a good standard DVD player will still outperform a CD player for resolution and dynamic range when played through a sound system and so this digipack edition is recommended over the standard CD release.
All You Need Is Love closes the selection and is the most pampered of Beatles tracks as it has already benefited from sound upgrades on both the Yellow Submarine Songtrack and on One.
Thumbs up from me.
Free Music Review: A Whole New Beatles Experience
Hit: 5 Stars
The Beatles will forever be legendary in the history of rock and roll music, their songs are unforgetable and their impact nothing less than amazing. Yet some how every now and again a new release from the Beatles comes to us that makes us look at the Fab Four in a whole new light.
This time the Beatles come to us in the form of a brand new Cirque De Soleil show called 'Love'. Being in Vegas over the summer and completly missing that show really ticked me off. So when I was given this album for the holidays I crave a chance to go back to see the show. 'Love' is 26 tracks that span the whole history of the Beatles music. You really have to listen to the well put together flow. Listen for the blends of songs with a couple tracks as well as one of their songs played backwards and a bunch of other surprises that await you on this Magical Journey. Definitely take advantage of the two disc set with the audio dvd it is definitely a added treat and as a whole one amazing gift for the Beatles fan in your life. This piece once again shapes this band into a whole new animal eventhough they are no longer together this album was definitely made with their true style in mind.
Free Music Review: "Love" is all you need
Hit: 5 Stars
This is truly an awesome DVD-Audio/CD disc. The sonic quality of the DVD_Audio is superb, and anytime you can get a sonically improved version of Beatles tunes is worthwhile. Much has been said about how some of the tunes are remixed to include snippets of other Beatles tunes - I thought these remixes were masterful, and reveals how interchangeable some of the Beatles music is. They literally had their music down to a science. Even though I am young to have gone through the peak of the Beatles at the perfect teenage age (I am 50), I'm grateful to be able to appreciate such expert musicianship. There will never be a group whose vocalists come together as seamlessly as the Beatles, in perfect harmony. Their melodic compositions and lyrics are superb as well. I was fortunate to see the "Love" show in Vegas and if you have that chance, do so - it is an unforgettable evening of entertainment.
If I have any gripes about "Love," it's that not all of my favorite Beatles tunes are included,though the disc has 26 cuts. More of the songs are from the Sgt. Pepper/White Album/Yellow Submarine era. I missed "If I Fell" and "Penny Lane." These are small gripes, since it is impossible to put all their hits on one disc, and the "Love" show on which the DVD is based can only last so long in one evening.
If you are a Beatles fan or just a fan of well-crafted and re-imagined music, you must get this disc. The price is right too.
Thanks,
Analyst7