Monday, December 25, 2006

Great Album, With Caveat

The most facinating thing under the Christmas tree this year was the CD "Love" by the Beatles. It's the soundtrack for the Cirque du Soliel stageshow. It's really amazing. Beatles producer George Martin and his son Giles put it together, using original masters. Every song is remixed -- revisited is more like it. Sometimes subtly different, sometimes radically -- like when several Beatles tunes are intertwined into a "mashup". I'm facinated and enthralled by it, but I find I can only listen in short bursts. After a couple of songs, I snatch the headphones off and have to catch my breath.

Purists -- ye be warned.

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