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1. JD says:

   May 7, 2010 at 10:48 am

   The pompous moron who calls himself Bono is the last person who should be remaking Beatles songs. Bono has always compared his inept, politically motivated band, U2 to the Beatles. That alone should have disqualified him as a candidate on this album. If U2 were going to be the next Beatles they missed their window back in the Eighties! The Beatles did it in 7 Years; U2 has had 28 years to do it! Compare the two bands total Number 1 singles. U2, 4 UK and 2 US Billboard Hot 100. Yet the Beatles have released a 79 minute album called Beatles 1. The Beatles 1 album contains 27 Number One Hits from a band that released their first studio album in 1963, Please Please Me, and their last studio album in 1970, Let it be. The Beatles had 7 years total time releasing original studio recorded music!

   If they really wanted to give us a treat on this soundtrack they should have included the U2 DVD/CD Rattle and Hum rendition of Helter-Skelter were Bono stated “This song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles, now were steeling it back”. Bono “singing” Helter-Skelter sounds incredibly unprofessional, he can’t seem to get the timing or the lyrics right. Check it out if you get a chance it is ridiculous!

   In my opinion remaking a Beatles song is a sin!

   Do yourself a favor and buy an actual Beatles album and not this nonsense!
   
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. A. Goschka says:

   May 7, 2010 at 1:33 pm

   True Beatles fans (like me), who know their catalog like the back of their hand will absolutely abhor this CD. The film itself was not in the least designed for meaningful content that does justice to The Beatles or their music, but to use the medium of film to manipulate the best music of all time to make millions of dollars, which it has certainly done.
   
   Furthermore, the covers were absolutely horrid! I watched the film with a group of people, and the music was so embarrassing to me that I honestly blushed through the entire thing. In addition to being completely lacking in quality or imagination, they were taken completely out of context. By transfixing The Beatles’ music with certain images and events, it attempts to define the songs and/or demonstrate a clear-cut interpretation of them, which is wholly unwarranted. For example, Strawberry Fields Forever is about growing up and developing an identity, not the frustration of some artist who just happens to be working with strawberries. Note: When Bono sang “I am the Walrus,” part of me died inside.
   
   In short, this CD is supreme blasphemy to The Beatles, their music, and their fans, and is only designed to greedily take advantage of the best music of all time for the purpose of making a ton of money. One can see from reading the other reviews that those who are ignorant of The Beatles are the ones who like it. Get real. You need to listen to this CD like you need to experience death by audio stimulation (or lack thereof).

   P.S. To appreciate this film you must be ignorant about The Beatles and their music. To those who profess to be fans, that’s impossible.
   Rating: 1 / 5
3. Ozzy is God! says:

   May 7, 2010 at 3:28 pm

   Imagine Yoko Ono singing all these songs because it sounds about the same. Do yourself a favor go buy the originals because all these cover band shoud be ashamed of themselves for butchering The Beatles.
   Rating: 1 / 5
4. Papio Pete says:

   May 7, 2010 at 4:07 pm

   Well intended with some good moments, but mind numbing when taken as a whole. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was with this project in general. Don’t waste your time getting the whole CD….listen to some samples, download a few hilites and be done with it.
   Rating: 1 / 5
5. Zizzy says:

   May 7, 2010 at 6:17 pm

   This is like a ‘Beatles-Lite’ album. The soundtrack in the movie completely butchered some incredible songs. I was horribly disappointed being a huge Beatles fan and a fan of Julie Taymor.
   Rating: 1 / 5