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Are YOU ready for this psychedelic experience? Have you rolled up & smoked that fatty with the best weed you can find? Are you coming on to those shrooms? Have you begun to PEAK on that blotter yet? If so then it’s time to merge with LOVE! Hell, you don’t even NEED drugs to get off on this fantastic compilation of psychedelisonic renderings from the greatest Rock ‘n Roll band our planet has ever produced.

It’s hard to describe the overall effect this recording has upon listeners who’ve heard almost every Beatles’ song, over the past four decades, dozens if not hundreds of times. To hear such familiar songs, carefully remixed with love, filled with renewed energy, is a profound revelation, a true religious experience! Acid flashbacks included!

You can thank the Beatles’ original producer, George Martin, and his son Giles for this absolutely amazing work. Imagine being George Martin, with your hands on every original Beatles’ track, and a commission to remix it any which way you like. A Beatles’ fan’s wet dream come true.

Ah, but things have changed in the studio since the daze of the early Beatles. Enter Giles Martin, another genius into the mix. With the latest technology, unlimited tracks, digital processing and a huge budget, both Martins were able to elevate the Beatles’ music to something unprecedented, a magnificent achievement!

I don’t know why, but throughout my first experience of this recording, tears were just pouring out of my eyes. No, it wasn’t the smoke, although that may have indirectly contributed to it. I was totally in AWE of this creation. It works on so many levels, I’m still trying to sort out what features affected me so strongly.

First off, I was totally floored by the quality of the recording. I have never heard the Beatles so clearly. Obviously, returning to the original tracks (as opposed to premixed masters) and adding digital processing allowed a major breakthrough in quality. This is why you should hear this on the best equipment you can find. You will be blown away.

Next, the remix of tracks is far beyond what you’d expect from other remixes since it’s all original Beatles music. So nothing seems out of place. In fact, many of the new track mixes sound like something the Beatles would’ve done themselves, given the time and technology. Only a hard-line Beatles purist would find anything to complain about here.

Some of the tunes have had tracks removed, like the opening song, ‘Because’, which is now done a capella, to beautiful effect. Others have tracks from different Beatles songs overlaid, providing a nice psychedelic effect to some of the more straight cuts.

A number of tunes were merged into medleys, and a few were completely combined into mind-bending counterpoints. Still other tunes seem virtually unchanged, but somehow enhanced by the digital processing and track selection/emphasis.

The only new recording was strings for ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’, turning the Harrison’s hard rocking, angst into a much more gentle, sweet yet sad song.

The selection of tracks alone would’ve made this a hit Beatles compilation, but there’s an obvious preference for psychedelic recordings with the likes of ‘I am the Walrus’, ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’, ‘Within Without You’, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ all vying for psychedelic supremacy. A stoned tripper’s delight!

Of course all this music does not stand alone! This compilation was conceived for the new Las Vegas revue, The Beatles: LOVE, a $100 million production which has garnered rave reviews and is THE HOT ticket in Vegas.

Clearly, a LOT of love went into this production. Apple Corps, along with Cirque Du Soleil, produced the stage show. Paul, Ringo, Yoko & Olivia reviewed the project’s progress and offered advice and support to both the music and the stage show. No doubt they will all profit handsomely from LOVE.

Listening to the music only increases the desire to see the show, which appears in images in the CD book. Clearly they have emphasized the psychedelic nature of the Beatles music and lives. If you can see the show before ever hearing the CD, do it! It will be even more mind-blowing.

For all those old-timers like me, who miss the days when we breathlessly anticipated the latest release from our favorite group, once again we can hold our breath as we pop onto our turntable… er, I mean, into our CD or DVD deck, the Beatles’ latest hit recording!

Before you pop this CD or DVD into your deck for the first time, you should make sure it’s in the absolute best system you can find. If nothing suitable is around, then use your best pair of headphones. Ideally you’ll have the audio DVD with 5.1 surround sound or a system that can simulate 5.1 for the CD version. Next, you should crank your system UP!

This is possibly the ultimate stoner, tripper CD. If you’ve managed to stay off drugs since the Beatles’ break-up, it may be time to GET BACK to where you ONCE BELONGED! For those who are still straight, to enjoy this CD, All You Need is Love!

The Beatles: LOVE is the PERFECT gift! You'll want to order a bunch of copies for Christmas. Don't be surprised if YOU get more than one under your tree!

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Weasels Ripped My Flesh

By the time Weasels Ripped My Flesh came out in 1970, the first edition of the Mothers of Invention had already been gone for a year. So this album, as well as 1969's Burnt Weeny Sandwich were mainly leftover recordings that existed before the Mothers' breakup.

Weasels Ripped My Flesh is often regarded as either a masterpiece, or one of the worst albums Frank Zappa ever did. Well, I like this album.

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Back in the U.S. Live 2002

This collection of 35 tunes on 2 cds encapsulates McCartney's musical genius. Tributes to John and George also round out this live compendium of concert recordings. If you love Paul, or just a Beatle fan, you can't miss this one.

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Brainwashed (Special Edition with Bonus DVD)

George Harrison's last album is a fitting tribute to his musical genius. This special edition includes a bonus DVD on "The Making of Brainwashed", a Collector's poster, an official George Harrison guitar pick, all packaged in special collector's box. A great holiday gift for that eternal Beatle fan!

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Shaman

Using the same successful formula of his hit recording "Supernatural", Carlos Santana has invited some of the more unique and compelling artists like Seal, Macy Gray, even Placido Domingo to perform with his band. The result is a mixed bag of musical stylings that should appeal to a wide range of listeners.

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Forty Licks

Capitalizing on their immense catalog of hits, and the recent sucess of a similar Beatles compilation (see they're STILL copying the Beatles!), this two CD set again puts the Stones at the top of the charts!

Gleaning their most popular cuts from the early 60s to the 90s (mostly 60s-70s), this collection won't disappoint anyone, new or old fans alike. And with a bonus of four new tracks, cut just for this release, the Stones have yet another hit on their hands...

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Steeleye Span: Parcel of Rogues (1973)

Along with Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span was one of the biggest names of British folk rock. Comparisons to Fairport are pretty common. For example, their vocalist, Maddy Prior often gets compared with Sandy Denny. The band even featured ex-Fairport bassist Ashley Hutchings for their first three albums. But unlike Fairport, Steeleye Span never touched on the West Coast style folk-rock the way Fairport did on their first three albums.

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Le Orme: Ad Gloriam (1969)

Before Le Orme became one of the biggest prog rock bands to come out of Italy (aside from PFM), they were a psychedelic band. They released a handful of singles since 1967 before releasing their first full length LP, Ad Gloriam in 1969. If you're familiar with their prog rock albums like Uomo di Pezza (1972), Felona e Sorona (1973), and Contrappunti (1974), listening to this early effort would be a bit of a shock. It's about as drastically different as comparing From Genesis to Revelation to Trespass (I'm referring, of course, to Genesis).

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Fairport Convention: Liege & Lief (1969)

Fairport Convention is one of the biggest names of British folk rock to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Without them, you wouldn't have Steeleye Span, and Richard Thompson wouldn't embark on his own solo career and the same thing for Sandy Denny.

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Ozric Tentacles: Tantric Obstacles (1985)

1985 couldn't be a worst year when it comes to excellent, quality music. If all you've been hearing was Top 40 in those days, chances are you'd be hearing the likes of "Broken Wings" (Mr. Mister), "Would I Lie To You" (Eurythmics), "Material Girl" (Madonna), and tons of similar generic synthesized pop music. It doesn't give you much hope when all you heard was cheesy digital synthesizers, cheesy drum machines, lyrics that emphasized teenage romance, and funny hairstyles geared for MTV.

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Tangerine Dream: Zeit (1972)

When you hear the name of Tangerine Dream, you might just write them off as generic New Age. That might hold true to most of their 1980s and 1990s works, but what they did in the early 1970s was totally different and WAY more interesting. To say this album is creepy is putting it very mildly. Only in Germany in the early 1970s can a band like Tangerine Dream pull something like this off.

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Ozric Tentacles: Erpland

If you've wondered what a modern hippie band might be like, look no further than Britain's Ozric Tentacles. They were and still are a regular on the British free festival circuit.

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Jethro Tull: Songs From the Wood (1977)

Aqualung and Thick as a Brick might be Tull's best known and most popular albums, but there's another one of theirs worth trying, and that's 1977's Songs From the Wood. Released one year after the disasterous Too Old to Rock 'n Roll: Too Young to Die, this album is a vast improvement over that one.

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Gong: You

Before there were bands like Ozric Tentacles, there was Gong. Gong consisted of a bunch of French and English hippies who recorded a handful of albums in the 1970s about the mythical Planet Gong with all its characters like the Octave Doctors, and Pot Head Pixies, with forms of transportation like Flying Teapots.

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