No I don't have a link to download it but this is really good. After hearing this I would love to hear the entire Beatles catalog remastered

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"If the concept of "The Beatles, remixed" saddens you, know that original Beatles producer George Martin was at the helm for this project, which serves as the soundtrack to the Vegas-based Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. The 26 mashed-up tracks here were augmented with additional instrumentation and vocals performed by The Beatles themselves, culled from hours of original demo and master tapes, with pieces of 130 songs ultimately represented in some form."

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"George Martin and his son Giles began work on Love after getting permission from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Olivia Harrison (the latter two representing John Lennon and George Harrison, respectively). They "worked from the original master tapes from the Abbey Road studios to produce a medley of Beatles music by remixing favorite songs, such as Harrison's 'Within You Without You' being played to the drum-track of 'Tomorrow Never Knows.'"[2] Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two surviving Beatles, have responded very positively to the album, with McCartney noting that "This album puts The Beatles back together again, because suddenly there's John and George with me and Ringo"; and Starr commending George and Giles Martin for the album and admitting that the album is "really powerful for me and I even heard things I'd forgotten we'd recorded.""

1. Because
2. Get Back
3. Glass Onion
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition)
5. I Am The Walrus
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing
8. Gnik Nus
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition)
10. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
11. Help!
12. Blackbird/Yesterday
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
15. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus's Garden
17. Lady Madonna
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
20. Revolution
21. Back In The U.S.S.R.
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. A Day In The Life
24. Hey Jude
25. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
26. All You Need Is Love

12/8/2006 12:31:39 AM

I was really really skeptical about this record. The Beatles are one of the only things I hold sacred so the whole concept freaked me out. I bought it the day it was released and enjoyed it thoroughly. The mastering does sound incredible! It's a little cheesey in places, but there are some really cool things mixed together. It's not something I'll think of immediately when I want to listen to the Beatles, but it was cool to hear things mixed up a little, but not in a skank remix way. Also, it is the most stoner friendly thing I've heard in a while.

12/8/2006 11:32:02 AM

I think The Beatles should do a song with Tupac.

12/8/2006 11:35:02 AM

i thought the concept was pretty good, but overall im not that impressed. i listened to it a couple times, but i probably won't listen to it more then a time or two again.

12/8/2006 1:37:23 PM

i saw the show in vegas last month and let me tell you that it adds a ton to the experience. if you are a beatle fan you simply must go see it.

12/8/2006 1:42:52 PM

yeah, ive heard thats pretty incredible.

12/8/2006 1:43:58 PM

Congratulations on buying into yet another unimpressive, zero value added holiday season Beatles compilation CD.

A winnar is yuo.

12/8/2006 4:56:55 PM

really not a fair assessment of this disc. It's not like this is just another repackaging of the old hits. George Martin and his kid did a really nice job of mixing and mashing these songs into something new. It def. works better if you are familiar with the staging of the cirque show, however, it stands on it's own very well. Listening to it in 5.1 is fantastic.

12/8/2006 6:02:36 PM

Is it better than the Anthologies?

Anthology 2 was amazing, what with all the studio recordings and outtakes and alternate instrumentations and whatnot. I liked the original Sgt. Pepper much more than the one on the album.

12/8/2006 6:26:37 PM

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"Congratulations on buying into yet another unimpressive, zero value added holiday season Beatles compilation CD. A winnar is yuo."

I didn't buy it actually, but, have you actually listened to it?

Like xplosivo said, this is more than a compilation. Medleys and mashups aside, I think this is worth it just for the remastered songs. Also, "While My Guitar Gentle Weeps" with the orchestral score George Martin wrote for it is really awesome.

12/8/2006 6:43:10 PM

Yeah, I listened to it in one sitting this afternoon.

To be honest, I had low expectations, but I tried to go into it with an open mind. There is not a single track on this that I would rather listen to than any of the albums that the songs are originally from. I don't like them out of their natural context. I don't like the cheesy production. I don't like the transitions between the songs. It was safe, it was boring, and it was, all in all, an exercise simply further commercializing The Beatles, as if that were even possible.

I love The Beatles, but I hate Love.

If they'd had balls, they would have given this to The Neptunes or Timbaland or somebody who would take risks and actually make something interesting of it. They could have given different tracks to different artists to remix and go ahead and do away with the idea that there's any sort of continuity to be found among the tracks. I would kill for some fucking M83 Beatles remixes.

Alas!

12/8/2006 7:54:44 PM

Fair enough

12/8/2006 7:59:36 PM

My parents got this for me for my Christmas stocking. Know how I know this? They opened it and burned it for themselves and have been listening to it in the car. Then they're gonna rewrap it and put it in my stocking.

12/8/2006 9:35:28 PM

Well, according to the Beatles, this album is all I need.

12/8/2006 9:47:28 PM

^^ i'm alerting the authorities

12/9/2006 5:20:48 PM

^I discovered that they didn't burn it anyway. They bought the two disc one and kept the DVD disc for themselves. They still deserve crappy parents award.

12/9/2006 10:11:23 PM

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"There is not a single track on this that I would rather listen to than any of the albums that the songs are originally from."

i agree, but i don't think thats the purpose of this album. its meant to flow from song to song...not a collection of individual song, but rather one big one. listening to a track by itself defeats the purpose of the album.

12/11/2006 8:37:55 AM

Yeah, Spookyjon has totally missed the point. This is a soundtrack for a show. Nobody is going to choose to listen to this over the originals, the same as the anthologies, the re-done Yellow Submarine compilation, and Let it Be...Naked, it's just a different perspective. That's why I really wasn't into the idea at first, then after reading that this was George Harrison's concept I thought I'd give it a shot. It's not better or as good as anything else. Also the point was to not use fake beats or add anything unoriginal to the music. It's a soundtrack for a Cirque du Soleil show, not a trendy hipster remix album. If they ever let the Neptunes ot Timbaland get near those tracks it would be fucking terrible. Who wants to hear Timbaland making those same tired ass comments over and over again! I agree there is some cheese, but I wasn't looking to make this my favorite album.

12/11/2006 9:48:16 AM

its really about context. There are parts of the show where the music (and how they put it together) makes a lot of sense to the visuals, however, listening to it outside of that context can change how a song "sounds".

As a side note on the show, the girls that take your tickets are dressed in these powder blue meter maid outfits and frankly are about the hottest things on the planet. Just sayin'

12/11/2006 10:03:26 AM

it is amazing. everyone should own it, and listen to it at least once a day. i think the world would be a much, MUCH better place, within, like, a week, tops.

12/11/2006 5:40:39 PM

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"Yeah, Spookyjon has totally missed the point. This is a soundtrack for a show. Nobody is going to choose to listen to this over the originals, the same as the anthologies, the re-done Yellow Submarine compilation, and Let it Be...Naked, it's just a different perspective."

But I'm not seeing the show. I'm listening to, and ostensibly buying, an album. And, as an album, it's worthless.

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"its meant to flow from song to song...not a collection of individual song, but rather one big one. listening to a track by itself defeats the purpose of the album."

Their actual albums are like that, too, but they do a better job because they were made that way.

12/11/2006 6:56:57 PM