The Beatles - Love
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Free Music Review: To the critics
Hit: 5 Stars
-- "Love is the same thing that DJs do all the time! The same as amateur Beatles mixes! Just repackaging the songs yet again!"
Not at all. This was multiyear project that includes elements from 130 Beatles tracks, remastered and remixed to create an entirely new organism that, as it so happens, sounds fantastic.
-- "Once again, they're cashing in on the Beatles catalog!"
Um ... what cashing in is this? Sorry, I must have missed the glut of Beatles re-re-issues. The original albums were digitally released in the late 1980s during the early years of CDs, and this release shows that, if anything, the band is waaaay overdue for remastering with today's technology. Unlike, say, Lucas with the Star Wars movies, Apple has been relatively restrained given the popularity of the band. All the posters obsessed with the profit aspect rather than noticing the artistry at work here are saying a lot more about themselves than about the creators of this CD.
-- "It's perverting Beatles music!"
How is that possible, exactly? As producer George Martin said, "no Beatles songs were harmed in the making of this CD." So calm down. The originals are still there.
-- "The Beatles songs are perfect just the way they are and any tampering is a terrible idea!"
Any artist will tell you, there's no such thing as perfect. Just because you, as a fan, love the previous versions that are wrapped up in your own nostalgia, doesn't make them "perfect." In his 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon said that there's not a single Beatles song that he doesn't wish were different some how, some way. That all he hears are the "mistakes." So who's to say that "fifth Beatle" George Martin, now free of having to deal with the egos of four musicians and having better sound technology, won't make some songs better?
Free Music Review: I'm a purist, but.....this is brilliant!
Hit: 5 Stars
George and Giles Martin deserve tons of credit. Using today's technology, they did the unthinkable, making these 40 odd year old recordings into a fresh, new sounding package. Need I
As I said, I'm a purist. I believe it's a mortal sin to mess with the Beatles material. However, this project has the blessing of Paul, Ringo, Yoko & Olivia. It's also George Martin, so who am I to argue? The sound of so many of these songs and pieces is so much fuller, and in some cases brighter.
Half the fun of listening to this is picking out which parts of which songs the bits and pieces are from. We hear the drum intro from Why Don't We Do It In The Road? We hear a simple intro from Don't Pass Me By. Blackbird merging into Yesterday. Did you ever think you would hear Within You, Without you being sung to the music of Tomorrow Never Knows? Lady Madonna now has a guitar solo; the riff from Hey Bulldog! Mr. Kite is all of the sudden I Want You (She's So Heavy). In George Martin's final project, he scores a string ensemble (a la Yesterday) to the beautiful, simple acoustic version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I could go on and on.
It makes one wonder what The Beatles could do in today's digital studios. It also keeps the Beatles with "new" music being released, to a generation of new fans.
Some Beatles fans may not like this as much as I do, but I find it hard to believe any would not like it. Non-fans will be introduced to sounds they've never heard. Many will be prompted to listen to the original versions of these great classic songs.
One final note. The listener should not compare this to the original version of the songs. That is not the purpose of this project, and you will get much more out of it by focusing on what it is. Brilliant!
Free Music Review: The Beatles "Love" CD is an Absolute Must
Hit: 5 Stars
Any self respecting Beatles fan must, at all costs buy this amazing new cd.
George Martin, who was often considered the 5th Beatles, and his son have taken all of the Beatles music, all of the master tapes, outtakes, sound effects and transformed it all into an incredible listening experience.
Brilliantly splicing songs into one another and with improved sound quality that will absolutely knock your socks off, this is without a doubt the best album of the year, in my humble opinion. Even the stand alone songs that are not mixed into one another have an unbelievable jolt of life that beckons for all of the Beatles albums to be remastered in this way.
This sounds like a brand new Beatles album in every sense of the word. I am totally blown away by this piece of work. The music just jumps right out of the speakers and grabs you by the chest! It's vibrant and thumping and full of life.
On first listen I did not look at the track listing, eagerly awaiting what was coming next, and trying to quickly guess where all the parts came from to fit so perfectly. A thrill ride to say the least.
I thank George Harrison for coming up with the original idea for setting the Beatles music to a show that is now a huge hit in Las Vegas. And I thank Olivia Harrison, Yoko Ono, Paul and Ringo for giving their approval and blessing to what George Martin has put together when he was asked to do this.
And my deepest thanks and congratulations to George Martin, who continues to show true brilliance, second to none, when it comes to The Beatles music.
I love this album.
A SOLID 5 out of 5 stars!
As I said, this incredible piece of work shows why the entire Beatles catalog needs to be remastered by Sir George and his son before it's too late.
Free Music Review: AMAZING
Hit: 5 Stars
George Martin is a genius. Many purist hate this album because George and his son Niles cut and pasted (edited) many songs together e.g. Drive My Car has the guitar solo from Taxman.
The sound is incredible. George & Niles used any recorded Beatles whether on the released version of a song or whether on an alternate take in the vaults e.g Martin used an alternate bass line for Hey Jude. The only song where something new was added was While My Guitar Gently Weeps. This was the original demo that George introduced to them with just him singing and playing acoustic guitar. It is very beautiful and personal but George Martin felt somehting was missing so he asked Olivia Harrison (wife) if he could add strings. She agreed but had the final say. She loved it.
Some of the standouts are:
Because: Just the voices.
Eleanor Rigby: Re edited and makes it more beautiful.
I Want To Hold Your Hand: They way the intro is set up makes you feel them in the room.
Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows: WOW. Spliced and must hear it to believe it!
and every other song which has too many details to discribe.
This is as good an album as any of their others!
Now the topper.....I got to see the Love show in Las Vegas and it was on the same level of excitment as seeing Paul McCartney live for the first time. Really. Each seat has two speakers in the arms, behind your head, and in the back of the seat in front of you. INCREDIBLE! It was a very moving show having grown up with The Beatles. I went with my wife and adult children who also learned to appreciate The Beatles with them paving the way for new and different things. This was a very emotional experience hearing this album with a visual. It was so good I went back 6 months later.
Free Music Review: Makes you fall in LOVE with the Beatles all over again
Hit: 5 Stars
I LOVE the Beatles. I probably have their whole catalog on vinyl. I was very hesitant about buying this album. I was thinking that this was just another love song compliation. I was so wrong. This is a very nice compliation that focuses on improved sound quality. George Martin and his son Giles began work on LOVE after getting permission from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and Olivia Harrison (the latter two representing John Lennon and George Harrison, respectively).
I really think that the Martin's did a masterful job with the mix. The songs seems to flow together seamlessly. I can tell that this project was a labor of LOVE. McCartney and Starr, the two surviving members of The Beatles, responded very positively to the album. McCartney noted that "This album puts The Beatles back together again, because suddenly there's John and George with me and Ringo". Starr commended the Martin's for the album and said that the album is "really powerful for me and I even heard things I'd forgotten we'd recorded.
If the two surviving members appreciate this album; that says a lot. It is was so nice to hear my favorite Beatle, John Lennon's vocals so clearly defined.
At the 50th annual Grammy awards on 10 February 2008, the album won Grammys in two categories--Best Compilation Soundtrack Album and Best Surround Sound Album.
The album was released in three versions--a standard Compact Disc version, a two-disc CD and DVD-Audio package, and a two-disc vinyl package. The DVD-Audio disc contains a 5.1-channel surround sound mix (96 kHz 24-bit MLP), downmixable to two-channel. For backwards compatibility it also contains separate audio-only DVD-Video content with two-channel stereo (48 kHz 16-bit PCM) and 5.1-channel surround (448 kbit/s Dolby Digital and 754 kbit/s DTS).