This new "Beatles" album is nothing of the sort.It is new, in that it is the soundtrack for the (shiver) Cirque de Soleil's (shiver) Vegas show based around the music of the Beatles.
Fine, sort of.
Why must the biggest acts always end up there, living or dead?
Anyway, if anyone has the right to fuck around with the Beatles, it's George Martin.
And fuck around he has, with the aid of his son. In the context of a show such as CDS, it might work great...but to listen to as a stand alone, that's something else.
Songs such as Strawberry Fields get the treatment, which works to a certain extent when it is contained within the same song, but as the song progresses, other songs are layer in...to disastrous effect.
On the plus side, the newly cleaned up version sound wonderful, and one can just imagine what the digital releases of the original songs will be like.
(That is if they leave them alone. Certain "mistakes" were quietly removed from the CD releases, and I can only assume that this Lucasizing will continue.)
I don't care what the surviving Beatles say, Lennon if alive would smite them, one and all.
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