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I much prefer it. A great trade off. I just picked up the latest remastered LIB cd and I dont think it is near as good as LIB Naked. The vocals shine on Naked, they really do, trust me. Okay on remastered LIB.Plus you get a better song order on Naked and you lose two lousy songs to make room for Dont Let Me Down. Plus, his effects actually date the recording, where with Naked, it sounds like it was recorded yesterday. It was truly a revelation to hear Naked again.
Great mixing job on Naked. They really come through crisp and clear.
Removing Spector's special effects really opens up the true LIB. All the vocals have never sounded better.
Naked is cleaner sounding, drums and bass come through better and with solid punch. The only thing I miss is the guitar solo on the song Let It Be, and the better drum rythm on the last verse.
Get Naked, you won't regret it. There is a little hiss I pick up on the remastered LIB, compared to Naked, which is absolutely clean, with great separation between instruments.
It is really that clean, and punchy.
With these three additions, the album might have approached 5 stars - as it is now, it can barely achieve four stars. This was one of the reasons that the CD "Let It Be Naked" was released in 2003. Specter went through countless hours of recordings to create want would the album "Let it Be". 3: The most important reason of course is that song is among the very best from these sessions. However, there are also absolutely great songs. Generally several of the tracks are not of the well-known high standards of the Beatles.
The idea behind thge "Let It Be" project was to create a sort of documentary on how the group worked in the studio. 2: The album's playing time is quite short, so even for this reason alone, it would have been a good idea to include it. How could it be that Lennon's "Don't Let Me Down" was not chosen for the album. "Across the Universe", which actually comes from a charity album from 1968, is one of the highlights of the album. 1: The number clearly comes from these sessions - see the Apple rooftop concert. "Maggie Mae" and "Dig a Pony" are probably primarily included to give an impression of moods during these sessions - but the tracks more or less come out as unnecessary filler.
Harrison's "I Me Mine" was actually the very last song the group worked with - a relatively short number that Spector got clipped together so playing time reached two and a half minutes. I'm not crazy about the song, but I clearly prefer Spector's version. The album has subsequently gone down in history as the group's least interesting, a fact which at first may seem surprising ; after all it does contain three number one single hits ( "Get Back", "Let it Be" and "The Long and Winding Road"). "Two of Us" is a true Lennon-McCartney collaboration. Actually I feel, considering that the album was already more or less a mixed bag, that the single "Ballad of John and Yoko" and perhaps even the B-side "Old Brown Shoe" should have been included. The story that "Let if Be" from 1970 was the last album the Beatles released, but in fact primarily recorded before "Abbey Road" from 1969, is well known to connoisseurs of the group. "I've Got a Feeling" is also a good number. Personally, I disagree with those views.
Actually, my only major complaint is that one of the strongest tracks from those sessions was not even included on the album. Spector deserves great praise for his work with this number, which here is presented infinitely stronger than the original version with off-key female voices on the chorus. Or what about "One After 909" - an old song from the early Beatles days. Various circumstances meant that the album was partially shelved, and only finalized after "Abbey Road", now with Phil Spector as the man to do this.
Unfortunately I feel that McCartney's vocals at times sound sound rather strained, giving the song a somewhat uneven appearance. Really nice guitar riff, a nice tune - particularly exciting to hear McCartney and Lennon each their melody towards the end. "Let if Be" is simply McCartney at his best - another classic. An easy-going optimistic number that definitely too is among the best on the album. The closing song "Get Back" had already been released long before, and it is of course another highlight of the record - again, a damn shame that its -b-side "Don't Let Me Down" was chosen, as well.
"Dig a Pony" - has fine features, but I've always felt that that guitar theme was something heavy rump.
I must say that I think Spector was right in his assessment of the number; it is a "Disney-number" - with or without strings.
Harrison's "For You Blue" is very sweet but does sound like a serious bid for an album track.
McCartney has expressed dissatisfaction with the Spector's treatment of "The Long and Winding Road".
During this proces, he did quite a lot of overdubbing.Spector has subsequently been criticized by many for having over-produced the album, and some believe that some numbers, more or less have been ruined in this proces.
An excellent number.
Even very fine keyboard playing by Billy Preston can not change that the number is basically not very interesting.
For me, there are at least three good reasons for this should have been done.
The problem with the album is that there are too many numbers that would normally have ended out as outtakes; possibly as b-sides.
Years later the practice would evolve into what we now call UNPLUGGED. Starting from a Beatles vague whisper in the head leading to to its conclusion, a finished work of art.
Their's was an amazing era, made ever more relevant now by a vacuumin today's music for quality that drives entire societies forward. It's reality TV, regressed to it's earliest and perhaps its best form.
After watching the Elvis '68 comeback dvd, one has to wonder if Paul's idea for thefilm Let it Be sprung from watching Elvis as ge launches himself back into music relevance.Similarities abound. Paul's orginal ideabeing to show how the Beatles create music.
The Elvis show was made for TV but unique then was its concept to bring a live stage show intimately close to a small audience while using the most basic ofinstruments available.
"Let it be" bears the same effect but it was recreated for the big green.
FAST shipping and a MUST for Beatle fans. Bought Yellow Sub, Let it Be, and Abbey road in Stereo ( only way they come ) and the Mono Set.
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