Love | 
| Artist: The Beatles
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  561 reviews
Sales Rank: 264
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 79808
UPC: 094637980828
EAN: 0094637980828
ASIN: B000JK8OYU
Release Date: November 21, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 |
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From Amazon.co.uk
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
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Album Description
Japanese pressing of the standard version of the album. Apple. 2006.
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Beatles' extravaganza is a magical mystery tour... November 21, 2006
jazzmusikeditor (U.K.)
266 out of 272 found this review helpful
Of all the possible posthumous incarnations for the Beatles, here's one of the most unlikely - as soundtrack to a Las Vegas circus.
It isn't any old circus, admittedly, but Canada's arty, super-acrobatic Cirque du Soleil, whose current Las Vegas show, "Love", is modelled on the story of the Beatles and characters from their songs: "Eleanor Rigby", "Sergeant Pepper" et al.
More importantly, "Love-the-show" - the result of George Harrison's friendship with Cirque founder Guy Laliberte - involved producer George Martin disinterring the group's master tapes from the Abbey Road vault for he and his son Giles to remix and remodel.
The results blast "Love" audiences from a state-of-the-art surround-sound system that includes speakers in individuual seats.
And the first thing "Love-the-album" does, at least in its DVD surround-sound format, is to blow you away with sheer sonic wizardry. Set to a noisy dawn chorus, complete with fluttering wings, the three-part vocal harmonies of 'Because' arrive with the clarity of an ice blue sky. The chugging introduction to 'Get Back' hurtles out of the mix like a train. The pumping fairground organs of 'Mr Kite' reek of steam and sawdust. Hearing many of the familiar tracks is like viewing an old masterpiece after cleaning: the light is brighter, the shadows deeper. Here, the trebles tingle while the bass end booms.
Some of this is painstaking technical restoration. After the Beatles swapped touring for the studio, they and Martin became experts at squeezing a quart of sound into a pint pot, extending the limits of four- and eight-track recordings by 'bouncing down' tracks.
Today's technology has let the Martins reverse the process, giving instruments and voices more autonomy. Ever notice the pizzicato violins on the middle 8 of 'Something'? You will now.
The ambitions of "Love" go beyond renovation, however. Its 26 tracks are set in an ambient flow of sound collages distilled from hours of Beatles tapes and containing fragments and echoes of 130 songs in all. Frequently the effect is ghostly, as the stalking strings of 'Glass Onion' and a snatch of 'Nowhere Man' drift like ectoplasm down a corridor. 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' - one of the few numbers from the moptop days - surfaces from a scratchy haze of screaming.
The most ambitious songs emerge most improved. There is not, after all, much to be done with the rock'n'roll retro of 'Lady Madonna', whereas 'Strawberry Fields' and 'I am the Walrus' sound more than ever like avant-garde masterpieces. Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' (the slower version from Anthology 3) is given a sumptuous string setting by Sir George.
Throughout, the McCartney/Starr rhythm section has never sounded so heavy, or the group's vocal harmonies so sharp and affecting.
"Love" vindicates the Beatles' status as master musicians and conceptualists. Not only for the spirit of optimism they embodied but artistically, they remain the act to beat. On this evidence, no one else comes close.
My favourite track is 'Here Comes the Sun/The Inner Light'.
Neil Spencer
 Not **bold** enough!!! November 24, 2006
Ryan Coy
208 out of 287 found this review helpful
When I first heard about this release, I didn't even think about buying it. After reading all the positive reviews here on Amazon, I was pursuaded to buy this album.
I was expecting some grandiose remixes, some completely mind blowing material, with songs completely rearranged.
Although I didn't grow up in the 60's listening to this band, I grew up with their music...their songs were taught to us in elementary school, and I've never stopped listening. So I fashion myself a Beatles fan, maybe not a Beatlemaniac. But I know the source material well enough.
After listening to this "new" album, I came to the conclusion that this was not nearly bold enough. The hype surrounding this has been completely overblown. I understand what it is...A Cirque Du Soleil soundtrack. So why not package it that way? It is packaged as "The BEatles like you've never heard them!"
The potential was there for this album...but it seems as though the Martin's didn't want to step on any toes whilst making this album. If you're going to tamper with this holy grail of pop music, you can't do it half-hearted at 50%. A few overdubs sprinkled here, some rearranging there, an alternate take mixed in...that just doesn't cut it.
All of these songs are pretty much intact, as they were...With new interwoven intro's and outro's...the meat of the songs are mostly the same. Alot of things they tried simply didn't work. The string arrangement at the beginning of "Octopus's Garden" doesn't fit musically at all. Just an awful job. When the song finally kicks in, it is excellent.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is the obvious highlight of this album. The intro sounds a bit forced, and you notice the cut-and paste job, but I guess it works. The rest of the song is brilliant.
The sound of the album is the only redeeming factor. The vocals are vibrant, crisp...and makes you wish they'd digitally remaster their whole catalog of music. "I am the Walrus" sounds absolutely stunning.
This cd isn't the worst CD I've ever bought, but it left me wanting more. More creativity, and more boldness. They could have gone in a million different directions with the source material.
I'm not sure who this cd was made for...The hardcore fan or the new listener? The two camps who oppose or support tampering this music?
To me, they didn't do enough. Does that please the purists?
 A GREAT RELEASE to that will please all generations of BEATLES FANS! November 21, 2006
Paulo Leite (Lisbon, Portugal)
206 out of 258 found this review helpful
In the Music Industry, few releases generate the controversy among fans as the release of a new Beatles album. There are those who welcome it and those who, for some justifiable reason, reject it. This is my take: The Beatles have an extensive catalogue of great songs (perhaps the greatest catalogue in Music History...) anyway, we all know that half of them are dead and we will never hear a new recording from them ever again. They are gone. Deffinately gone.
And yet, we fans never get tired of them. We always listem to their songs as if they were here. For us, they are not a band with half their members dead. They are very real and living. And deep inside I believe we never really think we'll never hear from them again.
LOVE is an album where several of the Fab Four's greatest songs were remixed, remade and adapted for a great show put on stage by Le Cirque du Soleil. Wisely, this soundtrack was made by George Martin himself... with Paul, George, Ringo and Yoko's blessing. I am sure that, like in everything regarding The Beatles' releases, all the people involved with this are hard working and serious people commited to give us nothing but the best treatment of the greatest material ever composed in pop music.
So, for me, this is a great thing and we'll never have anything better than this. People (like myself) may prefer the original songs... it's ok. But we must also understand that this new album is not meant to replace the older, original recordings. They are a just the soundtrack for a stage show... made by the best people we could think of... and made with the blessing of those could bless it. I was lucky evough to get a copy of this today... and after listening to it back to back... I was very very pleased to hear the great work they made.
All the songs sound beautiful with lots of new insights and several propositions that must work very well on the stage. This album gives a new view at these classic songs. For example... joining ELEANOR RIGBY (my favorite Beatles song) with a transitional use of JULIA is a very interesting proposition that the Beatles never thought of doing, obviously. Or the putting together of BLACKBIRD and YESTERDAY is another example of the experimentations made here.
The treatment of WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS is, I am sure, the thing that would end up happening with the song if the Beatles (in the end) did not go for the well know "heavier" approach we listen to on The White Album... and I'm glad George Martin did it here... because, since the Anthology, I'm sure we all thought of that.
This album is the closest thing we'll ever get to a new Beatles album... and it will certainly bring new fans into our club. I am very happy with it... and I am thankful that more than 35 years after these recordings were all made, people are still fiding in them new sources of inspiration. This album should NOT be mistaken for those hundreds of lousy cover/homage albums made by third rate people (The Beatles Salsa... or the Beatles go Reagge... etc)... or those bootleg albums whose sound quality leaves a lot to be desired.
Like the great Anthology series, the Capitol box sets, the "one" album, and the "Naked" album, Love is an obvious labour of passion, care, taste and love. It is a great celebration of the music we all love... from four musicians who are eternal.
Mildly Interesting Beatles Medley Redux November 21, 2006
erictheb (Boston)
187 out of 211 found this review helpful
Ok I guess I have to be the first one to crash this "Love"-fest of gushing reviews. First off, let me say that I am a huge Beatles fan and have the utmost respect for their revolutionary body of music, and for what they stood for: peace and love and community-- which is in short supply these days! That being said, let's take a look at the creation of this work. Cirque du Soleil, via the director's long-time friendship with George Harrison, got the rights from Apple to use Beatles music in their production of Love, and more power to them. I have not seen the show but I can imagine it is an incredible aural and visual sensory experience. This is a review of the music on the album only, in the context of a home listening experience. And besides the fact that it contains snippets and remixes and interspliced "mash-ups" of Beatles songs, it really is not a "revelation", "innovation", "reimagining", "reinvention", or as some people are calling it, a new Beatles work. It was created by the Martins for the show. In fact, the Beatles Medley from a few years back [note: not Stars On 45; there was a true Beatles Medley released] was not much different, with LOVE having the added embellishment of some mixing/segueing of different song parts and instrumental/vocal tracks into mash-ups by Sir George Martin and his son Giles. It's mildly interesting, with excellent sound quality, but honestly, DJs such as Go Home Productions do better Beatles mash-ups, if we are to use that as the criteria here. God bless the Martins, but the Beatles really should have thought outside the box on this one, if in fact it was to go forward at all.
This is not to negate the fact that it surely works incredibly well in its intended milieu- as the soundscape to the stage production. But as a purely listening experience, less so.
Not to mention the fact that I am getting tired of the frankly crass and tacky marketing ploys the Beatles have had lately, Let It Be.. Naked for one. It all started with the Anthology goldmine...
HOW ABOUT REMASTERING THE ORIGINAL ALBUMS, GUYS?? What's the big wait? Enough of the silly remixed stuff, mmmmmkayyy??
 beatles fans stay away November 21, 2006
M. Miller (pensacola, fl)
187 out of 220 found this review helpful
I was excited for this album a little skeptical but excited the las vegas show is a great idea. The music would be great in the show, not so much to listen too. Most of the songs could be made by a 10 year old slowing and speeding up the tracks on a computer and adding a guitar riff here and there. The song titles are not telling the truth for example blackbird/yesterday, i thought that could be cool, my kids love the black bird song, 6 seconds of the guitar from blackbird than yesterday starts. There is not 26 songs here some are just plain noise with a 10 second guitar riff. If you do not like the beatles alot or are heavily into acid and shrooms this might be a good buy for you.
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