Pitchforkmedia.com 8.5 out of 10

Listening to Love I'm reminded first of a few artists that took from the Beatles without their permission, and how illicit beginnings gave their samples an extra hit of fun. There's the entire Danger Mouse/Jay-Z mashup The Grey Album, of course, but I'm thinking of smaller details. When Ringo Starr's solo from "The End" appears early here I go immediately to Jason Forrest's "Ten Amazing Years", not Abbey Road. The swirl of strings from "Good Night" stitched here to Ringo's "Octopus's Garden" brings to mind Ekkehard Ehlers' drawn-out loop of the same phrase that comprises the entirety of one side of "Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes". Having all the mixes band-sanctioned loses a little something. Paul McCartney is said to have heard Love and remarked that he wished it went a bit further out. And it's hard not to agree, especially for people used to hearing mash-ups and guerilla sonic deconstruction via laptop. How badly do you want Yamatsuka Eye to do a Rebore Vol. 0 on this material?

this entire paragraph is just a love letter to the reviewer's own self-important feeling of hipster cool.

I am listening to Because with headphones on.....

Amazing, the vocals just wrap around each other. you almost feel the warmth.

i'm not doin the dvd thing.. but the quality of the regular version does justice for me.

i would also like to comment on how good george martin mixed all this up, it was done in a classy way, and if he would have further ventured out like mr. mccartney wanted him to do (although im sure i would have dug it), it wouldn't have gone over too well with long time fans, and critics... all you would hear is how they butchered beatles classics up.. here you still here the essence of each track, with a spin on it.. makes you feel as if even the samples that are in and out of each track sound give you a full song feeling.. i'm impressed

Sdldawn said:

nooooo! The difference is like a mono portable radio to a hifi stereo.... like vhs to hidef....

it's a dramatic change, it actually scares you when George Harrison starts singing Guitar weeps, it sounds completely like he's in front of you.

the drums kicking in on strawberry fields.... it sounds powerful like a storm, it not out of the left speaker, it the left side of your room and sounds like it's beyond the walls.

I wish 5.1 was more widespread. It really makes stereo suck.

cd = 16 bit (range of volume) 44.1 khz digital approximation of sound, 2 channels, and it sounds very good (your stereo can spread it across a surround system and subwoofer by guessing)... till now...

dvd-a = 24 bit 126 khz REALITY! and has 5 separate distinct PLANNED channels plus the mastered and mixed subwoofer frequencies to give it that real punch.

Sdldawn said:

this entire paragraph is just a love letter to the reviewer's own self-important feeling of hipster cool. it has nothing to do with the album and is probably all lies.

i hate reviews like that.

KidOmega said:

aw, c'mon I was just thinking about Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes when I was listening to Yellow Subarine today

Dang i think Michael Jackson is gona go buy himself a new car! lol.


But seriosuly dead people need 2 stop realsing music. Your dead! stop it! I don't get all the hype over it all the re-realses ever 3 years that use the newest tech. to update it. it's becoming a bit much imo. But still, good for Michael. lol.

i wish they would release that she's leaving/girl mix


wanna hear that

Sdldawn said:

was there new beatle songs rumored to be released? like they did with the Anthology series with Real Love?