"Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name - Nobody came…" - Lennon/McCartney (Recreated by Jette Kelly & Holmes Ives - 2005)
That's not to say those people didn't want to come - maybe they had to wash their cat that day...
Some consider the Beatles (collectively) to be slightly more sacred than the Virgin Mother herself, while others declare them nothing more than an overblown media campaign fueled by preteen drug addiction and devil worship. One thing is for certain, the people who stand together in reverence of the fantastic four, tend to have extremely loud voices - slightly more so than the previously mentioned naysayers. The Beatles impact on Rock and Roll music is so intensely profound that it continues to support (genealogical or otherwise) music careers the world over. Not to mention the wearing of long, girly, hairstyles for men.
(*Rolling Stone review: June 2005)
The album IS a 14 song "trek" through a dubbed-out and gooey electro reflection of what once was - Young composers scramble to personally understand, and possibly reiterate, musical content that once held the world in its grasp. Lucid apparitions of ideas communicated through well-known melodies are what tie the entire project together. The lyrical content and harmonies of Eros' elucidation of "Blackbird" and "Let It Be" are paired with glitchy progressive electronica, while Mystiquintet takes a slightly more experimental route on "Eleanor Rigby" and "Because". Joseph Jaime's recreation of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" echoes with familiarity, as does Signs' "Strawberry Fields" and Chokocheeky's "Hey Jude". Other selections include Skylab2000 "Two of Us" and Selway "Something" & "Across the Universe."
Overall, Beatles purists will undoubtedly seek to deface and vilify this line of new works. But in the end, isn't it up to the people to decide whether or not an album is worthy of recognition?
