The Beatles album Love is released today worldwide! It is released on standard CD and deluxe CD+DVD versions.

Love marks the first Beatles DVD-Audio release. The 78-minutes album was created by Sir George Martin with his son Giles Martin, containing remixes of the Beatles classics. The songs are an integral part of the Apple and Cirque du Soleil joint-production of the same name.

As we are all know, the DVD has a longer running time than the CD, but what songs are exactly longer? The answer is "Revolution" and "Back In The U.S.S.R.". The running time of "Revolution" on the CD is 2:14, and on the DVD it is 3:23. For "Back In The U.S.S.R.", the running time on the CD is 1:53 and that on the DVD is 2:34. You may click on the following links to read the lyrics to the two extended songs.

The album begins with the harmonized orchestral opening of Because, "Get Back" seems to arrive from another planet, exploding onto a Cirque du Soleil scene it's easy to close your eyes and imagine, as if this is the soundtrack to a live Jean-Pierre Jeunet film.

"Get Back". starts with what should be the backward or slow-down version of the orchestra section or final chord from "A Day In The Life", then where should be the final chord becomes the opening guitar strum from "A Hard Day's Night". It was over faded into the drum solo from "The End" and the rooftop performance of "Get Back" [update 2006-11-16: it should be the single version instead) is coming in.

It was then crossfaded into the next song "Glass Onion". There is from "Hello hello" from "Hello, Goodbye" during the intro of "Glass Onion". The Love version is heavily remixed with a new arrangement.

The song again crossfaded with the heavily echoed "Ahhh" harmony from the next song "Eleanor Rigby". The song itself is similar to the original version. It was segued with excerpt of instrumental version of "Julia". Then police sirens came in and it goes to the next song.

And the next song is that "I Am The Walrus". When you think you love the 5.1 treatment for the strings section of "Eleanor Rigby", you need to think again, because the 5.1 treatment for those effects on "I Am The Walrus" are running around! There are some remix of brass section and "goo goo goo joob" line and the outro is extended and ends like the radio is detuning.

That ends the first section of the playback and it skipped "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and played the next mashed up medley.

"Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing" starts with "Drive My Car" and added some saxophone, probably from "Got To Get You Into My Life", during the verse. Then it fades into piano only with "What You're Doing" lyrics and then harmony section "It's so fine, it's sunshine" from "The Word" comes it. The song keeps on with the vocals from "The Word" and the music from "Drive My Car" (basically stripped down to piano). It stops after a verse with the drumming from "What You're Doing" and going back to mix of "Drive My Car" and "The Word". It fades into the next song.

"Gnik Nus" is simply "Sun King" played backward, and it is beautiful as the harmony is both haunting and sweet. And it crossfades into "Something".

"Something" is similar to the original version but the orchestra is remixed. It then goes into the intro of "Blue Jay Way", with slow-down words "He's a real nowhere man/Sitting in his nowhere land/Making all his nowhere plans" from "Nowhere Man".

And it was interrupted by the fanfares from "Being For The Benefits Of Mr. Kite!". There are some more FX sounds and some animal sounds (possibly from "Good Morning, Good Morning") over it. When the songs comes to its outro, white-noise guitar from "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" crossfades on it, and then words and guitar from "Helter Sketler" join it as well.

It ends the second section and the playback skipped "Help!" and "Blackbird/Yesterday".

The playback continues with the count-in from "Strawberry Fields Forever". If you have listened to the online preview, you probably would know it is seamless mix of different takes of the song (most noticeable are demo, take 1, take 7 and take 26) and of course, its outro edit piece of drums. During the outro, you can find sections of "Sgt. Pepper", piano solo from "In My Life", "Piggies" and then outro of "Hello, Goodbye".

Music gently rises up for the next piece, a mix of "Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows". The piece starts with "Tomorrow Never Knows" with heavily echoed (simulate the Leslie-speaker effect) vocal from John, and then George's vocal from "Within You Without You" overdubs the music of "Tomorrow Never Knows". When it reaches the line "And life flows on within you and without you", music from the other song fades out and only the sitar and vocal from "Within You Without You" remain. When vocal begins again with "Try to realize...", music from "Tomorrow Never Knows" flows back in. And the song ends with the seagull effects and ending verse from "Tomorrow Never Knows".

"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" starts off with a heavily remixed intro, with added drum beats (it sounds like electronic beats somehow). The arrangement though is kept to be very similar to the original version.

The LOVE CD and DVD track listing is:
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