The Beatles: Love
February 1, 2007
Here’s something that all my friends in real life know about me but don’t reveal too much on the web:
I love The Beatles. Yes, those four guys (and two of them are dead)
with the weird hairdos who sing in harmonies and “She Loves You” and
smoke weed and basically what grumpy old men in their 70s listen to.
Finished laughing already? No? Okay!
Ok, so I just bought their new album LOVE,
expecting a tired, random “The Beatles, Remixed” package. I knew it was
a mashup album, but I still wasn’t expecting too much of it. I knew
George Martin and his son Giles produced the 26-track album , but even
though George Martin was the original producer of most of the Beatles’
songs, I still thought I wouldn’t be impressed. So why did I buy it in
the first place? I’m a big fan (as I stated already), and since this is
being touted as “the first Beatles album since 1970″, I just had to
listen to it. So how was LOVE?
Let me just tell you this: “The Beatles, Remixed” it was not. It was something else. totally indescribable.
Unlike my previous reviews, I won’t give you a song-by-song review
of the album because the album is just one whole medley and each track
being a jumble of sounds from other songs, and breaking down each track
and talking about the strengths and weaknesses of each would be an
exercise in futility.
So I’ll just say what I like and don’t like about LOVE.
