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  • Release Date: 11/21/2006
  • Sales Rank: 1,730
  • Label: CAPITOL
  • UPC: 094637980828

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Beatlemaniacs -- heck, pretty much anyone with even a passing fondness for the Fab Four -- have spent more than three decades wondering what it would be like to coax just one more album out of the legendary band. And while that has seemed like a daunting, if not impossible, task -- in large part due to the hand of fate -- it's finally come to pass on this remarkably intriguing disc. Intriguing enough on paper, the spectacular-sounding Love takes more than two dozen Beatles classics, and snippets of dozens more, and weaves them into a seamless sound collage that maintains the spirit of the original recordings while adding a striking new depth. Longtime Beatles producer George Martin (and his son Giles) revisited the original master tapes of these songs at the behest of Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte (a close ally of the late George Harrison), who crafted a Las Vegas show around the music. There's little of the surface glitz one might expect from a Sin City product, but plenty of astonishing, fun-house like vistas, created by elements like the newly unconcealed string section in the midst of "Something" to the suddenly emphatic guitar thump that introduces "Get Back." Many of the cuts here are marked by heretofore unimagined muscle -- notably "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite" and (surprisingly enough) "I Want to Hold Your Hand," wherein the harmonies cut more like honed diamonds through glass than like knives through butter. The manner in which the Martins situate the full-length songs in a veritable sea of sound may well be Love's most fascinating aspect, however. Bits and pieces of songs, sometimes immediately recognizable, sometimes just out of reach, pop up all over the place -- an eerie fragment of "Glass Onion" here, a few bars of "Nowhere Man" there. That elevates Love far above mere "best of" status and imbues it with the sort of artistic density that demands and rewards repeated listens. David Sprague, Barnes & Noble



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Buy a real Beatles Album, Not This One...by DarthAzard13

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November 12, 2009: I admit it; I got fooled by not reading the packaging carefully enough on this one. I thought it was a Beatles album, but it turned out to be the Cir de Sole renditions of Beatles material instead. If that is what you are looking for, bully for you. If you want the Beatles hits in a recognizable format, then don't buy this album. I was very disappointed with it.

I Also Recommend: Beatles One, Abbey Road [Remastered].

Should be a TENby Anonymous

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June 19, 2008: I had always avoided this CD but my daughter brought it home one day from school and I decided to listen to it and I am sure glad I did. It is simply amazing what the Martins did. I listened to this CD during my entire 10 day vacation and am still listening. Very nice and I HIGHLY recommend this CD to anyone. To The Last Iconoclast - For someone who so despises The Beatles my question to you is why do you keep buying the CD's? And to the couple whose dog ran out of the room I suggest you teach your dog better manners.


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