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| Artist: Beatles
Label: EMI Music Canada
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 19.99
Buy New: CDN$ 15.94
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2745
Format: Best Of
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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Shipping: International shipping available
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 A dull potpourri of those who once were The Beatles. June 25, 2007
Jan Dierckx (Belgium, Turnhout)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A dull potpourri of those who once were The Beatles.
All the songs are previous released material except 'Gnik Nus' which is only a reverse version of the 'Sun King'
It begins promising with a nice madrigal rendering of 'Because', but soon most of the other songs are mixed with too much psychedelic noise so that for instance the steady beat of 'Get Back' gets lost completely in noises that are totally irrelevant. I prayed the Lord that at least the beautiful 'Eleanor Rigby' would be the original recording and thanks Heaven it was. Only a few other songs (there are 20 songs) like 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' are also the original recording.
You get the feeling that this CD is a mere potpourri of Beatles songs. The only positive thing is that the remix is very well done in so far that you have the feeling to stand between The Beatles while they are singing.
So far for the quality of this recording. The philosophy of the producers (George Martin and Giles Martin.) seems to be that The Beatles are a symbol for the psychedelic late 60's and early 70's and they seem to ignore the fact that The Beatles had their greatest successes in the mid 60's like for instance the above mentioned 'I Want To Hold Your Hand.' I call that a one-sided vision.
 Wow - I cannot believe the sound quality of this work! January 17, 2007
C. A. Vermeer (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have never heard them sound crisper, cleaner, on CD. Amazing. I am, always have been, a Beatles fanatic. I find this work absolutely beautiful - I love the new takes, I am especially taken with Because a capella and the new version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I cried it is so beautiful, it is so special to hear a 'new'(to our ears at least) George Harrison vocal, five years after he left us. So special. You absolutely must add this to your collection, if you appreciate how perfect these songs really are. Who else could do this, with so much class, but George Martin?
Not too shabby! January 6, 2007
Beetle (Ontario, Canada)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Okay, so i looked at all the reviews here before I bought this cd. I'm a big beatles fan and wasnt sure about how the songs were compiled and whatnot, but the raving reviews convienced me! And I must be honest, when i first started listening I didn't like it at all! Being attatched to the original versions, this cd was a huge change. But after listening to it for a while it has grown on me and I quite like it! sooo give this cd a chance!
Hope my review helped some of you
 Why Must They Do This? January 4, 2007
J. Mclarty (Ontario Canada)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Some music just should not be messed with, and Beatles music is one of them. The only bearable parts are those songs which have very little editing or splicing(actually a fair bit for a "remix" cd). Some songs are just completely butchered, such as within you without you. Perhaps some music without meaning and/or purpose such as pop rap ect can constantly be remixed, but most Beatles songs are crafted works of art, not to be cut up or spliced together. A warning to all true Beatle fans who appreciate meaning and context behind music, this CD will merely aggravate and annoy you as classic songs are defiled.
Beatles' extravaganza is a magical mystery tour.... December 10, 2006
jazzmusikeditor (U.K.)
14 out of 15 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
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