content: For a long time, I savored the idea of picking this album up and giving it a good, long listen. I thought, oh maybe this will be fun and even a bit mindblowing, getting to hear the Beatles catalog really given a thorough reworking from the great George Martin, the man most familiar with its inner workings...Sadly, not.This is a profoundly unadventurous record, with only one or two real moments of inspiration. Compared to earlier Beatles mash-ups such as John Oswald's long-suppressed sampling remixes or the Beatles/Jay-Z "Gray Album," this record is simply boring and effete, a simplistic pastiche draped around a few good parlour tricks, but nothing to get worked up about. The mix of "Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows" is a bit brilliant, but almost everything else is rather tame and ultimately dull. Oh, well. Maybe a few decades from now, after the copyright runs out, we can really get wild with this music.