The Beatles 'Love'

[mervap]

Beatles fans seem to be very divided about this CD...some don't think you should ever mess with the Beatles back catalogue, still others feel these re-imaginings are just what is needed to entice a new legion of fans into the fold. I was apprehensive when I heard about the project...just didn't want the Lads' music to be wrecked. I was pleasantly surprised when I heard the results...the tracks sound great and the mash-up is good. I particularly liked the mating of "Within You, Without You" with "Tomorrow Never Knows"...I'd never really cared much for the former and the addition of the drums and bass from "Tomorrow" adds some pep. 

[Kylenz]

I have a different take on this album to most fans. I'm a huge mashup fan. Guys like DJ Moule are the best in the business. Now, if you're going to do it to The Beatles, you'd better be good. As a mashup, as a pure sonic odyssey, I think Love fails miserably. The juxtapositions are too bland, unadventurous, cowardly, undaring. If you want to hear Beatle mashups done properly, do a Google for the following mp3s (all these files are freely available from the creators' websites):

DJ Moule - Asian Paperback
DJ Moule - Jude Is A Looser
DJ Moule - Time To Get Back

(DJ Moule specialises in remixing / mashing classic hit songs, check out his website for some great soul / Motown mashups with Rolling Stones, Queen, Hendrix etc)

also look at DJBC, who mixes The Beatles with The Beastie Boys, (sometimes to great effect, sometimes bad), and Go Home Productions, who do a wonderful chillout version of When I'm Sixty Four, which works amazingly well - puts Paul's vocal in a place you wouldn't expect yet it feels like it was born there. He also mixes Hello Goodbye with the Rocky Theme (Gonna Fly Now) to good effect.

I just don't think George and Giles Martin were the right personnel to make a pure mashup album, but of course its main function is to serve as a backdrop for Cirque du Soleil. In that sense, the Love album flows beautifully. It's quite a trip. Unfortunately it doesn't quite 'do enough' but occasionally you hear some interesting things. Like the extended singalong bit in Hey Jude is cool. One's enjoyment of this album depends on what you want to get from it.

[mervap]

Mr. K, I'll just bet you'd have an interesting take on Macca's "Twin Freaks"...I think it's pretty good, but I'm an old fart.

[Kylenz]

Yes! I had Twin Freaks imported on vinyl here, and I like the album (haven't listened to it much lately though). Coming Up (with Morse Moose) and Maybe I'm Amazed sound good with the remix treatment. Other tracks like Temporary Secretary and Darkroom were built for messing with!

[Stewy]

Hello everyone -

I've put together a sound-collage from classic Fabs' recordings to form a
huge, ever-changing audio dreamscape.

I hated that greedy irrelevance 'Love', where even Macca said Sir George M.
and his son (nepotism!) should have 'gone much further' in thier treatment
of those treasured master tapes.

Well - I've had a bash at it myself, for what it's worth.
You can find it at :
 http://theaudioemporium.blogspot.com/

under the title 'Magic In The Air'.

Have you visited any of my other mp3 webpages?

Here they are :
                          http://mrobscure.blogspot.com/

                          http://postpunkpowerpop.blogspot.com/

                          http://freefiction4u.blogspot.com/

                          http://guitarinstrumentals4u.blogspot.com/

                          http://rareandelusive.blogspot.com/

                          http://superseventiesounds.blogspot.com/

                          http://theworldupstairs.blogspot.com/

                          http://thetremolomen.blogspot.com/

                          http://78-81.blogspot.com/

                          http://peelysessions.blogspot.com/

                          http://costellovariety.blogspot.com/

Vast regards to everyone from

- Stewy

[Paperback Writer]

Thanks, Stewy, I enjoyed your aural landscape a lot!