Beatles LOVE: Where The 3 Extra Minutes Are

Ever since the release of the Beatles/Cirque du Soleil LOVE CD I’ve immersed myself in Beatlesmania, as my girlfriend can attest. I’m reading everything I can get my hands on, learning about the infamous edits and anomalies that exist in their music and allowing the CD unprecedented continuous play in both my car and house. Unfortunately the DVD has not received the same treatment — I don’t have 5.1 in my car I’m sad to say.

Thus I began to wonder where the 3 extra minutes were.

If you’re unsure of what I speak, recall that Capitol released two editions of LOVE on November 21st — a 78-minute CD and an 81-minute DVD. Therefore, with a little time on my hands I decided to do a quick time-comparison between the two.

Where are those little extra minutes hiding? You’ll find them in tracks 20 and 21 – “Revolution” and “Back in the U.S.S.R.” respectively. Those with a keen eye will discover that both “extended” track times equal their original “White Album” (in the case of “Back in the U.S.S.R.”) and/or “single” (in the case of “Revolution”) durations and, therefore, feature a more complete mix of the song in question.

Such as?

Using “Revolution” as an example, the DVD version features all three verses of the classic song, whereas the CD mix omits the third and final verse (“you say you’ll change the Constitution…”) You’ll find similarities with “Back in the U.S.S.R.” as well.

So, there you have it.
Goo Goo G’Joob!

Below are the results of my time-comparison between the DVD and CD versions of LOVE. Please ignore the difference in seconds in some of the tracks, as these are errors in track start/stop times from the DVD and are minor.

Track # CD Time DVD Start DVD Fin DVD Time
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
2:44
2:05
1:20
3:05
4:28
1:22
1:54
0:55
3:29
3:22
2:18
2:31
4:31
3:07
4:10
3:18
2:56
4:18
4:45
2:14
1:53
3:46
5:08
3:58
1:22
3:38
0:00:00
2:43:00
4:48:00
6:09:00
9:15:00
13:43:00
15:05:00
17:00:00
17:54:00
21:24:00
24:46:00
27:04:00
29:36:00
34:07:00
37:15:00
41:25:00
44:43:00
47:40:00
51:57:00
56:42:00
60:06:00
62:41:00
66:27:00
71:34:00
75:33:00
76:55:00
2:43:00
4:48:00
6:09:00
9:15:00
13:43:00
15:05:00
17:00:00
17:54:00
21:24:00
24:46:00
27:04:00
29:36:00
34:07:00
37:15:00
41:25:00
44:43:00
47:40:00
51:57:00
56:42:00
60:06:00
62:41:00
66:27:00
71:34:00
75:33:00
76:55:00
80:34:00
2:43
2:05
1:21
3:06
4:28
1:22
1:55
0:54
3:30
3:22
2:18
2:32
4:31
3:08
4:10
3:18
2:57
4:17
4:45
3:24
2:35
3:46
5:07
3:59
1:22
3:39