Love, the Beatles record- not the conceptual emotion, isn’t all that great.

They hyped this thing as a mashup record, but from what I can tell you could have done some of this stuff with the two track mixes, they didn’t utilize the multi-tracks all that much on the record and that’s disappointing. With a catalog of music like the Beatles have, you could create some absolutely amazing mashups of the songs. I mean, just look at what DJ Danger Mouse did with The Grey Album, The Flying White Dots did with Dear Prudence and I am the Walrus (I prefer this version to the original) on Staring at the Sky DJBC’s the Beastles and the Beachles‘ Sgt. Petsound’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

With all the amazing bootleg mashups available, this is way too tame. Check out what The Silence Xperiment did with Q-Unit or what Wax Audio did with Thunder Busters. These guys are raising the bar all the time and when a major comes out with something like Love, it’s way too middle of the road to be embraced by anyone who’s seriously into this stuff, but then again they’re after the middle of the road crowd. They’re clearly not out there to innovate. They’re not Girl Talk.

There are a ton of great mashups out there using the Beatles already, and those mashups indicate that some of the isolated vocals (Dear Prudence and I am the Walrus amongst others) and other instrument tracks are out there in the wild somewhere. Love disappoints.

Suggestions: check out Mashup Town/Mashup of the Week and Wax Audio. Wax Audio’s got some awesome AC/DC and Iron Maiden mashups and Mashuptown is where I find most of the new stuff that comes out. I’m no expert, but I enjoy the hell out of this stuff.

I think that’s enough links for one day, don’t you?