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| Product Details |
ISBN/ASIN: B000JK8OYU
Release Date: 2006-11-21
Sales Rank: 659
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Media: Audio CD
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Product Group: Music
Disc: 1
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 |
| Album Description |
| Japanese pressing of the standard version of the album. Apple. 2006. |
| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 4.0/5 | | I had no idea what I was buying - the best CD of my life...: Rating: 5/5 |
Today I bought the best CD I am likely to ever own, and if I don't ever buy another CD, I'll die knowing that I already own the best there is or could ever be. Sounds dramatic, right? I would never have thought that I'd be so emotionally invested in any album, much less a Beatles album. I mean, I like the Beatles, but was never what I'd call a Beatle Maniac. I was 10 years old when they were on Ed Sullivan and I liked them from the beginning, but they were never my "favorite" band. That changed today.
I don't own a lot of CDs. I don't have an iPod or other MP3 player. I listen to the car radio now, as I did in the 70's - surfing stations and stopping to listen to favorite familiar tunes. The few CD's I do own include a couple of Beatle's albums (Abbey Road and One), but even those I don't listen to "end-to-end" without skipping over some songs to get to my favorites. Like most people who don't live under a rock, I have heard at least portions of almost every Beatles song at some point or other in my life. Some I love, some not so much...
I only purchased this CD today because I was on a road trip in an area where I could only get country and blue grass music, so I stopped at a Walmart and, being in a Beatles kind of mood, I picked up a couple of CD's that seemed to include most of their songs that I liked or was familiar with. I had never read a word about this compilation, didn't know who George Martin was, and didn't know that this was written for a stage show. In short, I had no expectations. I popped the CD in, and I didn't know what to think. "Because" is one of my favorites from Abbey Road, and I thought "Did I pick up some "tribute band" CD? But no, it was clearly the Beatles, and I thought "What the hell did they do to this song?" But I kept listening, more and more intrigued as each song unfolded and transitioned into the next. I recognized the differences and at the same time realized that almost all the changes were still the Beatles - but presented in a new and very engaging way. I heard lyrics that I could never understand before. Eventually, I just stopped trying to figure out what was "different" in each song, and simply decided to let this precious music just flow over me. I gently wept with George Harrison's guitar; I was transported back to happy memories in the 60's and 70's. I was impatient when I had to pause to refuel the car. One reviewer said it felt like a wonderful hallucination, and I totally get what he means. When the CD ended with "All you Need is Love", plus some quirky studio remarks from John Lennon, I realized that I had not skipped any tracks, and that I had been totally and beautifully engrossed by every single minute of this wonderful album. It was as if I had awakened from a beautiful dream. I was smiling, I had tears on my face, I was so HAPPY that by total chance, I happened to buy the best CD I will ever own. Like other reviewers have said (much better than I can) - I want to listen to this music on my last day on this earth. I simply don't have the words. | | Makes you fall in LOVE with the Beatles all over again: Rating: 5/5 |
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). | | Brilliantly remastered and remixed.: Rating: 5/5 |
| It sounds like the boys from Liverpool recorded these songs for this show in a modern studio. If you have seen the show but you do not own this album--get it. If you have this album but have not seen LOVE at the Mirage--go see it! I could watch the show over and over again (I've seen it twice since Jan 2007). Every time I want to recall it, I play this EP from beginning to end. | | Number 2: Rating: 3/5 |
I held off buying this disc for a very long time (oh, 4 years?) because I feared it would be just another Beatles compilation (like The Beatles 1) assembled to assuage the hunger of a world without any songwriters left. Now that Yoko and Paul have decided that backcatalog plundering is acceptable we've been subjected to a few too many "fly on the wall" releases -- and you know what flies are attracted to.
Then I heard that Love was remixed by George Martin (and his son Giles) from the original Beatles multitracks, taking individual instruments out of context and creating new songs from the unrelated components. I wish I could remember where I read that, because it is not strictly speaking true.
There is one track, track 14 -- significantly the demo proof-of-concept track used to sell this compilation to the label -- where John's vocal and George's veena from "Within You Without You" are laid over the drum track from "Tomorrow Never Knows" -- and it works marvelously. Unfortunately this is the only (ONLY!) track on the 26-selection album where anything new and interesting emerges. The rest of the tracks are just old Beatle tunes, newly mixed but essentially full-length and unchanged. Oh there are new transitions (the songs span over six years of output) and the occasional anachronistic background element thrown in and on some of the original rave-ups (like the ending to "Strawberry Fields Forever") Giles has overlaid other non-tune non-time excerpts to make a denser collage, but nowhere else is the Beatles music re-thought, re-imagined or mashed up like I'd hoped.
You'd think with modern digital tools like ProTools and access to the entire library of Beatles multitracks (both released and un-) Giles and his dad would have been inspired to create something new and startling and diabolical to shake up the moribund Beatles catalog.
But no, we get a second Beatles "best of" collection. | | WOW!!!: Rating: 5/5 |
| This CD is awesome, and even more so if you've seen the Cirque du Soleil show "Love" in Vegas. As an original "Beatlemaniac", this CD was worth every penny, and I'll go see the show again next time I'm in Vegas. Yes, it's THAT GOOD. | |
