Love
Capitol - Capitol
The Beatles
Release date: 2006-11-21
Audio CD
AM Pop, British Invasion, British Psychedelia, Early Pop/Rock, England, Merseybeat, Pop, Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock Music, Psychedelic, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rock/Pop
1. Because
2. Get Back
3. Glass Onion
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition)
5. I Am The Walrus
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing
8. Gnik Nus
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition)
10. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
11. Help!
12. Blackbird/Yesterday
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
15. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus's Garden
17. Lady Madonna
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
20. Revolution
21. Back In The U.S.S.R.
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. A Day In The Life
24. Hey Jude
25. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
26. All You Need Is Love
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Date undefinedCD was in great shape, shipping was fast. Was happy with what I paid for the CD. Will do it again. Thanks.
Love
Date undefinedI'll be honest: I've always moderately liked The Beatles, but never really got into them. Hearing this album changed that. I can now call myself a Beatles fan. First of all, the way the songs are mixed together into a musical collage of sorts creates a fresh approach to these classics that easily hooks you. Second, the clarity of the original remastered recordings is astounding. I've never heard any Beatles song (or any other song from the 60s, for that matter) sound so clear. The album almost sounds like it could have been recorded recently. Both of these have made Love such an amazing compilation that by "Eleanor Rigby / Julia", I knew this album would quickly become one of my favorites.
Simply put, Love will take you for a ride, whether you are already a Beatles fan or not. I can't recommend this album strongly enough.
Love
Date undefinedOK, you are talking to a pretty jaded Beatles fan here. It seems that every 5 to 6 years, Capitol Records (and EMI) just have to push some new Beatles "product" on the unsuspecting public. Let's take a minute here and think at all of the compilations the just re-hash their original material. Past Masters, 1, Rock And Roll Music, Love Songs, Reel Music... (I know I am throwing in some old vinyl LP's here but you get the message)So when this came out you can imagine my lack of enthusiasm. Yeah OK, it's a soundtrack to a show. Big deal. Yeah so some of the songs have been remixed...mega yawn. Just another let's fleece the Beatles fan out of more money to prop up our business model this year album. A friend of mine told me to give it a listen...if I was half the Beatles (and music) fan he knows I am that I would enjoy it thoroughly. So I did. I put it in my CD player...and heard the birds chirping...and the vocal tracks of "Because"...then the swell started. Low, rising, getting louder until you hear the first crashing chord of "A Hard Day's Night", and then starts this amazing CD. I turned it off after the first two songs, waiting for the weekend where I could hear the entire CD on my way down to the beach so it would not be interrupted.
What you have here is a CD remixed by the Beatles original producer, George Martin and his son. What they have done is taken parts of Beatles songs and mixed them with other Beatles songs, making what is refered to as a "mash-up". So in one track, you will actually hear "Drive My Car" infused with the guitar solo from "Taxman". My personal favorite mash-up is the vocals of "Within You Without You" mashed up with the instrumentation of "Tomorrow Never Knows". The results are simply amazing.
Not every song gets this treatment though...for instance, the original demo for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is used with an orchetral score filling in the second and third verse. Absolutely beautiful. "Hey Jude" also deserves a mention because it's been shortened from the absolutely ponderous 7 minute version down, while at one point taking out everything except the vocals, then adding the bass in before everything comes in again. Makes me wonder why they didn't do that on the original version. Would have made it much more listenable and enjoyable in my opinion. Even if you know every song by heart, there is something a little different in each mix you can pick out from the original.
The only track to me that really doesn't sound good is "Octopus's Garden", it just tries too hard to fit in with the rest of the well-mixed songs and it just doesn't. Well, considering how great the rest of this CD is I can forgive its inclusion.
I know some people see this akin to painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa (which to me is a pretty elitist attitude). And this does have the opportunity to become a disaster, but with the Martins at the helm, this instead is an enjoyable career spanning CD. The words tastefully done I think are appropriate here. If you are a Beatles fan (new or old) I really cannot reccommend this CD enough. Everybody who has heard this just loves it. I just never get tired of listening to this CD, simple as that. Buy it!
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