Let It Be...Naked [VINYL]

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I am talking mostly about the songs where Spector hadn’t futzed around with the arrangements much in the first place – “Two of Us”, “One After 909”, “For You Blue”, three songs I really love that are a lot of fun that have shiny new mixes on this release. As much as it bums me out to give a Beatles album a rating of 6, in spite of the presence of some truly amazing songs I can’t in good conscience go any higher for this one. At the end of the day, the version on Anthology 3 is actually more naked than the one on Let It Be…Naked. I've never liked the sound of LIB - to me it 'sounded and felt' more amateurish' than it was 'raw' imo.

The tracklisting on this version of Let It Be differs slightly from the original--there's no "Maggie Mae" or "Dig It", while "Don't Let Me Down" has been added. And truth be told, Spector’s arraignment (I meant arrangement, Freudian slip there, but he did have some arraignments too after all) added a lot to the song, in my view it sounds too spare without the horns and everything. Our old friend soniclovenoize has a version you can check out here that is way better than what the producers came up with for Let It Be…Naked.

So for a few songs at least, I think the sound of the new mixes more than justifies the cost of the album. It actually sounds lifeless, overly polished and fake if you compare it with UK original 1st pressing. but they didn't fit comfortably with the concept of a straight album", according to album remixer Allan Rouse.

But that isn’t the half of it – there were hours and hours and hours of audio tape left over when the album was recorded, with all kind of run throughs of songs that, while rough and hardly polished, might have been interesting to hear. You’ve gotta decide what “naked” version of “Across the Universe” you are going to use, I’m partial to the one on Anthology 2, but there are several possibilities. Probably mostly a lame attempt to give us a version of the song that didn’t already exist, but it really isn’t all that interesting. dopo la versione diciamo "normale",pubblicata nel 1970,ecco la versione "nuda e cruda" che è stupenda. You know, I totally get why people don’t like “The Long and Winding Road”, I’ll admit I can be a sucker for schmaltz sometimes.The word “sterile” is one Ive often used to describe it and it completely takes away from the live atmosphere…certainly far more than the original album ever did. So hopefully at some point in your life you’ve heard “The Ecstasy of Gold” from Ennio Morricone’s unsurpassed soundtrack to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, which is without question the greatest piece of movie soundtrack music ever composed. When I first saw the Let It Be film, I was stunned at how beautiful a song Long and Winding Road actually is with just The Beatles and Preston.