Gee, they manage with all their electronic effects and high technology to to exactly what Harry Nilsson did 40 years ago. That was a one-off novelty; now we have an entire album of it. :rolleyes:
I just picked this up today, and listened to it on the way home.
It’s VERY good. I’m kind of a Beatles purist, and was very wary of a ‘Showtune’ remix. But this is different. George Martin produced it, and everyone involved with the Beatles (Paul, Ringo, George Harrison’s wife, Yoko) thinks it’s great.
If you buy it, make sure you get the deluxe edition withe DVD. It’s the only way to hear the Beatles remixed in 5.1 audio, and it’s supposed to be spectacular. I’ll listen to it tonight and see what the surround mix is like.
I tried to listen to it online, but the feed was too choppy. But now I have the CD in hand, and I’m getting ready to give it my full attention.
A Beatles album with Beatles playing the instruments and singing the songs. Not really the old songs, not really new songs. What an idea. Well, if it turns anyone on to the real thing, I say it’s all good.
Just got my copy, and decided to plop down in the living room (which has the DVD player that doesn’t skip), and put in the DVD, got myself a Diet Coke, grabbed my blankie and sat down in the recliner to watch The Beatles play all those wonderful tunes!!!
So the DVD starts with Because, but all I am seeing is the song title on a yellow screen with the Love logo down at the bottom. It’s the same for all of the tunes on this DVD. I thought I was supposed to be seeing footage, else what is the point of it being a DVD?
I go to Disc Menu and set up the audio and back to the main screen, but still nothing!
You’re not missing anything, Quasi. It’s an Audio DVD. The big deal about the Audio DVD is that it delivers higher quality music (5.1. surround sound). If you have a bitching surround sound stereo system, you’re gonna love that DVD. If not, then just enjoy the regular CD.
I had a problem with the recent John Fogerty live DVD, because it wasn’t showing me the concert (I had not set up the audio properly) , and I thought this may have been the case with this one.
Well I just checked the audio and it is set for 5.1 Dolby SS (it won’t play anything in the DTS format), but there’s no video except for that yellow screen with the Love logo and the song title.
Yep, but how good is it? (that’s semi-rhetorical btw) I was blown away from the beginning by Because. Adding in, what, a one second delay between the lines really changed the whole song. Also, I don’t know if you’ve gotten to the “na na na na na na na” part of Hey Jude, but when they cut to basically just the "na na"s and the drums, it’s unbelievable. Great job by the Martins.
To me, the 5.1 surround is the whole reason for owning this. I’m amazed by the clarity of the original masters - they sound like they could have been recorded yesterday on modern equipment.
Splitting the mix up from its original mono or stereo causes a lot of detail and nuance that was lost in the originals to be revealed. It’s awesome.
It’s a shame that EMI hasn’t remastered all the Beatles’ music in digital hi-rez. They had better do it before the master tapes degrade too much. The Beatles catalog is a world treasure, and should be treated as such. Hopefully, Love will sell like hotcakes, and cause some executives to notice that high quality remasterings of the Beatles albums would sell very well.
We got the deluxe set yesterday, and just finished listening to it in full, a few minutes ago.
I didn’t know what to expect, never having heard a mash-up. Actually, it was pretty fascinating to hear how musical figures and multitrack elemets from one song lined up perfectly under another. Some of them worked in real time, others were subject to digital time and pitch adjustment, but they still worked without sounding unnatural. There was some masterful editing going on here.
I don’t really see it as a new Beatles album. I have no idea what the visuals are that go with this presentation, but if you listen to it as the audio portion of an A/V spectacle without the video, it’s interesting. The remixes are nice. The depth and quality of sound is astonishing. The 5.1 sound ought to be pretty nice, too. If I ever meet anyone who has a surround system, I’ll have to ask to hear the audio DVD on it.
Hell, apparently not. It’s not playing it. It gives me the audio choice for DTS, but when I click on it, it just shows the yellow screen and plays no music.
Regarding Quasimodem’s misunderstanding: I had a friend who bought a two disc recording and only one disc worked in her CD player so she went back to the store where she bought it, and indignantly told them only one CD worked in her player and she wanted a new set.
Imagine her embarrassment when the salesperson said, “the other disc is a DVD.”
So, did any of y’all turn up the volume at the end of “A Day In The Life” to see if you could hear the hum of the air conditioners as they boosted the volume during that last chord?
I did, and I didn’t hear anything!
And yes, let’s please do a track by track analysis of the cd. I have lots of comments, but mostly I was very pleased with what I heard.
How many more times can The Beatles’ work be tweaked?
Think they’ll work with Anthology next?
I remember when Elvis died, the Colonel authorized the release of an album with just Elvis’ voice. That is, no music. Just his voice isolated.
