Love For Sale

I've now heard a good chunk of the Beatles "Love," the remix album by the son of the original Beatles producer, and it completely lives up to my expectations.

Which is to say, it's dreadful.

The concept is this: Giles Martin, son of George Martin, remixed, sliced, diced and mashed up a whole bunch of Beatles tunes for a Cirque de Soleil Las Vegas show. He assembled new medleys, slapped the guitar solo from one song into the break of another, swapped drum breaks and, no doubt, spent hundreds of hurs in the studio using all of the digital horsepower at his disposal.

The result, in my opinion, is like the old Stars on 45 records, where several current hits would be strung together using a cheesy disco beat.

I'm not a purist by any means, but this is no improvement.