If boiled down to a simple synopsis, the Beatles' LOVE sounds radical: assisted by his father, the legendary Beatles producer George, Giles Martin has assembled a remix album where familiar Fab Four tunes aren't just refurbished, they're given the mash-up treatment, meaning different versions of different songs are pasted together to create a new track.
Ever since the turn of the century, mash-ups were in vogue in the underground, as such cut-n-paste jobs as Freelance Hellraiser's "Stroke of Genius" -- which paired up the Strokes' "Last Night" with Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" -- circulated on the net, but no major group issued their own mash-up mastermix until LOVE in November 2006.
Put in those terms, it seems like LOVE is a grand experiment, a piece of art for art's sake, but that's hardly the case.
Its genesis lies with the Beatles agreeing to collaborate with performance dance troupe Cirque du Soleil on a project that evolved into the Las Vegas stage show LOVE, an extravaganza that cost well over 100 million dollars and was designed to generate revenue far exceeding that.
During pre-production, all involved realized that the original Beatles tapes needed to be remastered in order to sound impressive by modern standards when pumped through the huge new theater -- the theater made just with this dance revue in mind -- and since they needed to be tweaked, they might as well use the opportunity to do something different with the familiar music, too: to remix and re-imagine it, to make LOVE be something unique to both the Beatles and Cirque du Soleil.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BecauseJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 02:44 | 6 MB | 12 MB |
| 2 | Get BackJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 02:05 | 4 MB | 13 MB |
| 3 | Glass OnionJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 01:20 | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| 4 | Eleanor Rigby/JuliaJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 03:05 | 7 MB | 16 MB |
| 5 | I Am the WalrusJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 29 MB |
| 6 | Drive My Car/The Word/What You're DoingJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 01:54 | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| 7 | Gnik NusJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 00:55 | 2 MB | 5 MB |
| 8 | Something/Blue Jay WayGeorge Harrison | The Beatles | Play | 03:29 | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| 9 | Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter SkelterJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 03:22 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 10 | Help!John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 02:18 | 5 MB | 16 MB |
| 11 | Blackbird/YesterdayJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 02:32 | 5 MB | 13 MB |
| 12 | Strawberry Fields ForeverJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 04:32 | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| 13 | Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never KnowsGeorge Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 03:07 | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| 14 | Lucy in the Sky with DiamondsJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 04:10 | 9 MB | 26 MB |
| 15 | Octopus's GardenRingo Starr | The Beatles | Play | 03:18 | 7 MB | 20 MB |
| 16 | Lady MadonnaJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 02:56 | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| 17 | Here Comes the Sun/The Inner LightGeorge Harrison | The Beatles | Play | 04:18 | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| 18 | Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby CryJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 04:45 | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| 19 | RevolutionJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 03:23 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 20 | Back in the U.S.S.R.John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 02:34 | 5 MB | 17 MB |
| 21 | While My Guitar Gently WeepsGeorge Harrison | The Beatles | Play | 03:46 | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| 22 | A Day in the LifeJohn Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 05:08 | 11 MB | 29 MB |
| 23 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | Play | 01:22 | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| 24 | The Fool On The Hill | The Beatles | Play | 03:29 | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| 25 | Girl | The Beatles | Play | 02:42 | 6 MB | 16 MB |
| 77 mins | 178 MB | |||||
| 77 mins | 479 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Barrie | Technical Assistance |
| 2 | The Beatles | Primary Artist |
| 3 | Chris Bolster | Assistant |
| 4 | Geoff Emerick | Original Engineering |
| 5 | Olga Fitzroy | Assistant |
| 6 | Vic Fraser | Copyist |
| 7 | George Harrison | Composer, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 8 | Paul Hicks | Digital Editing, Remixing |
| 9 | Glyn Johns | Original Engineering |
| 10 | John Lennon | Composer, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 11 | Drew Lorimer | Artwork, Logo, Package Design |
| 12 | George Martin | Audio Production, Liner Notes, Producer, String Arrangements, String Engineer |
| 13 | Giles Martin | Audio Production, Liner Notes, Pro-Tools, Producer, Sequencing, String Arrangements, String Engineer |
| 14 | Paul McCartney | Composer, Inspiration, Member of Attributed Artist, Musician |
| 15 | Sam O'Kell | Assistant |
| 16 | Steve Rooke | Stereo Master |
| 17 | Alan Rouse | Coordination |
| 18 | Norman Smith | Original Engineering |
| 19 | Ringo Starr | Composer, Inspiration, Member of Attributed Artist, Musician |
| 20 | Mirek Stiles | Assistant |
| 21 | Nick Wollage | Engineer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |