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Love is a soundtrack remix album of music recorded by the Beatles, released in November 2006. It features music compiled and remixed as a mashup for the Cirque du Soleil show Love. The album was produced by George Martin and his son Giles Martin, who said, "What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period."[1]
Speaking to Mojo editor Jim Irvin in December 2006, Giles Martin said that he first created a demo combining "Within You Without You" with "Tomorrow Never Knows", which he then nervously presented to McCartney and Starr for their approval. In Martin's recollection, "they loved it", with McCartney saying: "This is what we should be doing, more of this."[5]
In discussing the project, Giles Martin commented that elements were used from recordings in the Beatles catalogue, "the original four tracks, eight tracks and two tracks and used this palette of sounds and music to create a soundbed".[1] Because he was concerned that they might not get the green light to proceed with Love, he began by making digital back-ups of the original multi-track recordings, just to get started on the project. He also said that he and his father mixed more music than was eventually released, including "She's Leaving Home" and a version of "Girl" that he was particularly fond of, with the latter eventually being released in 2011 as a bonus track on the album on iTunes.[6]
McCartney and Starr both responded very positively to the completed album. McCartney said that it "puts The Beatles back together again, because suddenly there's John and George with me and Ringo". Starr commended the Martins for their work, adding that Love was "really powerful for me and I even heard things I'd forgotten we'd recorded".[7][8]
Love has also been described as a sound collage.[13][14][15][16][17] According to Neil Spencer of The Observer, the album's 26 tracks "are set in an ambient flow of sound collages",[14] while according to David Cavanagh, Love comprises mashups and megamixes that play "plurally, in collage form", resulting in album that "[flies] in the face of tradition by placing The Beatles in a 21st century sampladelic culture."[17]
Love was first played publicly on Virgin Radio's The Geoff Show. Geoff Lloyd, the show's host, chose to play the entire work uninterrupted, to allow younger fans to experience an album premiere.[46]
The album was released as a standard compact disc version, a two-disc CD and DVD-Audio package, a two-disc vinyl package, and as a digital download. 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).
Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly wrote in 2007: "LOVE really does feel fresh in a way that other latter-day Beatles products like Let It Be... Naked and even the Anthology collections haven't, quite. Freed from the need to adhere to chronology or chart success like the 10-million-selling 1's collection of a few years back, this instantly replaces that uninspired hits set as the album you'd give a kid who needs to discover the Beatles for the first time. It also manages to be the album you'd give the jaded boomer who's hearing these songs for the ten thousandth time."[49]
The result is an unprecedented approach to the music. Using the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, Sir George and Giles created a unique soundscape. The release of the album, which is also featured in the Cirque du Soleil/Beatles collaborative production of the same name at The Mirage in Las Vegas, was greatly anticipated.
The mixes on Red & Blue are made using newer technology, but utilizing only the original instrumental and vocal tracks recorded in the studio and released on the albums and singles. There are many elements that may not make the songs sound as dynamic, but they are representative of the original tracks as intended by the band.
The elder producer admits that, particularly around the time of Sgt. Pepper, he found himself in a more experimental mood which matched the ambitions of the Beatles perfectly. "They were continually coming to me saying 'What can we do here, George? What other instruments can we use?' I would show them how to do backwards sounds or how we could edit things and make them different and change the speed of the tape to give us a different sound on the bass drum. They wallowed in this, they thought it was great. The backwards sound, the first time I used it was on 'Rain', and when John heard it, he didn't believe it was his voice and they loved it so much they wanted to do everything backwards."
Love is a soundtrack remix album of music recorded by the Beatles, released in November 2006. It features music compiled and remixed as a mashup for the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. The album was produced by George Martin and his son Giles Martin, who said, "What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical lifespan in a very condensed period."The album was also George Martin's final album as a producer before his death in 2016.Tracklist
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For the most part the songs are the same, but they are spliced together in some horriblemanner, creating some sort of artificial medley. This album should at the very least makeBeatles fans uncomfortable. Hopefully, this is the last cash-in on the Beatles legacy. Ithought George Martin was infallble up til this point. Love is to my vision of George Martinas Biff seeing the lady in his father's hotel room in the play Death of a Salesman. Realityshatters the illusion. This album might have been somewhat better if they hadn't usedsome inferior verions of classics. The scratchy acoustic version of Strawberry Fields soundslike it was recorded in the 20s.This album has no redeemable qualities. If you love Beatles music, buy Beatles albums.Steer clear of this pathetic cash-in.Grade: F social review comments Review Permalink
Posted Saturday, January 6, 2007 Review this album Report (Review #106331)
Without going through every song (as they are so well known), I will just pick out thehighlight and lowlights.HighlightsAs another reviewer mentioned, the segueing ofMr Kite into the guitar riff from "I Want You" is probably the best moment on the CD andstill gives me shivers even though I've heard it probably 20 times. The laying of the "Withinyou, without you" vocal over the drum and bass pattern from "Tomorrow Never Knows" isanother moment of genius. "Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing" is good although abit short, otherwise it would have made a good single. It's the only song on the CD which isa bit "Stars on 45". "I am the Walrus" sounds fantastic, and "Revolution" leaps out of thespeakers and you can understand why people took the original single back complainingabout the distortion.LowlightsI'm not sure about the ambulance siren over "Julia" -is this intended as a reference to the death of John's mother? Also, two of the older tracks("I want to hold your hand" and "Help") are presented pretty much as is, except for a bit ofediting and crowd noise on the former, and I don't really see the point of that.Overall,any Beatles fan should get this, if only for the fantastic-sounding 5.1 DVD.One minorgripe - the bit which is credited as "Cry Baby Cry (transition)" is actually McCartney's shortand uncredited "Can you take me back" which follows "Cry Baby Cry" on "The Beatles". social review comments Review Permalink
Posted Tuesday, January 9, 2007 Review this album Report (Review #106741)
I bought this when it came out before Christmas 2006. It was nice to see that the physicalCD copies of this sold very well. I have only heard this all the way through maybe 5 timessince I bought it. The success of Love was responsible for other remix albums like the BobMarley one that came out not long after. While this is impressive, I agree with PaulMcCartney that they didn't go "far enough." "I Am The Walrus", "Help", "Revolution", "Back InThe USSR", "A Day In The Life", "Sgt. Pepper's...(Reprise)" and "All You Need Is Love" arebasically the same as the single/album versions. Kind of pointless, really."I Want To Hold Your Hand" is just the studio version with the screaming audience from theEd Sullivan Show added. "Because" is just the vocals with bird sounds. At the end you hearthe last note of "A Day In The Life" which segues into "Get Back". This starts with the drumsolo from "The End" as well as some of the guitar solos from that song. The majority of thesong is the studio version of "Get Back" with crowd noises. "Glass Onion" is cut-up, you canhear the brass from "Penny Lane". "Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing" is the mostinteresting track here; a nice mix of all three songs."Gnik Nus" is the vocals from "Sun King" backwards with a tamboura from anothersong. "Something" is mostly the album version but with the beginning of "Blue Jay Way"and vocals from "Nowhere Man" added at the end. "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite" isbasically the album version with the guitar riff from "I Want You..." and the vocalsfrom "Helter Skelter" added. "Strawberry Field Forever" starts with a count-in; this soundslike a different take than the single version. You hear horns from "Sgt. Pepper's...", the pianosolo from "In My Life" and the brass from "Penny Lane". Then the end to "Hello Goodbye""Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows" is a great mix of both songs. "Octopus'Garden" is the vocals from that song with the music from "Good Night" at first. Then youhear sound effects from "Yellow Submarine" and it goes into the music from "Octopus". Themusic from "Sun King" at the end. "Lucy In The Sky..." sounds like a different take than thealbum version. Music from "Hey Bulldog" is mixed in. "Come Together" is basically thealbum version with a bit of "Dear Prudence" and the end of "Cry Baby Cry" added. "HeyJude" starts off with the single version then has an a capella part with drums and a coolbass part from somewhere else. Nice to listen to once in awhile. 2 stars. social review comments Review Permalink
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