It will be a great New Music Tuesday tomorrow. Two of the big boys have “new” albums coming out.
I am excited about U218singles. While I’m not exactly thrilled with the tracklist (I’ll trade another listen to “I Will Follow” for “Walk On” anyday but where’s “Until the End of the World,” “Bad,” or anything from Pop?), I can’t wait to listen to “Window in the Sky.” I am going to get the deluxe edition for the extras including 10 live track from this past summer in Milan and videos. It should pretty good.
As excited as I am about a new U2 best of I am even more giddy about the “new” Beatles album. I am a bit of a Beatles purist but come on, the 5th Beatle has his hands all over this.
Love is the soundtrack to the new Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas and it is a completly new rendering of Beatles’ classics using the original masters. George Martin and his son Giles, with the blessings of Sir Paul, Ringo, Harrison’s widow and Yoko, reworked the catalog to produce a truly unique piece of work.
t’s a mashup, even though Giles Martin said he hates the word. John Lennon sings “he’s a real nowhere man” in the background of the instrumental track to “Blue Jay Way.” The keyboard of “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” dissolves into the plodding guitar of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy).”
“Strawberry Fields Forever” builds from Lennon’s acoustic demo into a psychedelic swirl of sounds that incorporates bits of “Hello Goodbye,” “Baby You’re a Rich Man,” “Penny Lane” and “Piggies.”
The rules were simple: Beatles tracks only, no electronic distortion of what they recorded, and no newly recorded music. The single exception was a string arrangement, written by original Beatles producer George Martin, to accompany an acoustic version of Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
I’m trying to decide if I want the deluxe edition of Love because it comes with a DVD with a 5.1 mix of the entire album. I have yet to set up my surround sound in the new house. Maybe this will help move things along.