Let It Be... Naked
 | By The Beatles Capitol, 2003, Audio CD Customer Rating: 629 reviews Recommend |
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Japanese exclusive reissue of 2003 album. This Toshiba/EMI pressing features an insert with Japanese text & lyrics in Japanese & English. Manufactured & pressed in Japan. This album has been direct metal mastered from a digitally remastered original tape to give the best possible sound quality. Includes a bonus seven inch single featuring a unique insight into the Beatles at work in rehearsal & in the studio during January 1969. Gatefold sleeve. 2003.
Re-recorded, remixed, overdubbed and repackaged — all before its 1970 American release, mind you — Let It Be has long been the most second-guessed album in the Beatles otherwise sterling catalog. This curious, three-decade-late, stripped-down rethink offers up yet another spin on what started as a back-to-the-roots album/documentary project called Get Back in January, 1969, but ended up as the band's de facto swan song 18 months later. Paul McCartney in particular has long been irked by producer Phil Spector's grandiose orchestra and choir overdubs to the title track and "The Long and Winding Road," and indeed the "bare" versions here have a distinct, plaintive charm lacking in Spector's typical pomp. All the various snippets of studio and live chatter that seasoned the original have been removed, leaving the recordings to be judged on their essentially live-in-the-studio merits. If the intent was to "de-Spectorize" the album, the inclusion of John Lennon's 1968 benefit track "Across the Universe" and George Harrison's "I Me Mine" (which marked the last-ever Beatles session in January, 1970) in their original versions seems equally odd, the legendary producer having appended them to the album's original track listing in the first place. The rambling "bonus disc" of conversation and song snippets culled from hundreds of hours of session and film tapes may fascinate diehard fans, but it also underscores the murky, often unfocused state of affairs the Fabs found themselves in during the last year of their remarkable career. — Jerry McCulley
- Get Back
- Dig A Pony
- For You Blue
- The Long And Winding Road
- Two Of Us
- I've Got A Feeling
- One After 909
- Don't Let Me Down
- I Me Mine
- Across The Universe
- Let It Be
Title: Let It Be... Naked
Sales Rank: 4838 in Music
Artist: The Beatles
Label: Capitol, 2003-11-18, Audio CD, 2 Discs
Package Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches, 0.18 pounds
- I Always Hated Let It Be... and then....
- I think the reason a lot of people are ticked off at this album is because they assumed "Naked" would mean an acoustic album, much like a "Beatles Unplugged."
This isn't what Paul and Mr. Martin were trying to do. They were doing their best to make Let It Be a respectable album, and they did an amazing job.
The tracks… More reviews
- The "King Lear" of Beatles records
- I bought the original "Let It Be--Naked" as a teenager in 1969: a vinyl LP bootlegged from the "Let It Be" sessions, in a plain white sleeve with the words "Kum Back" stamped in smudgy blue ink aslant the cover. No masses of sobbing violins, no plaintive French horns.
And what struck me with increasing happy force across the years and dozens of listens was… More reviews
- The Beatles
- I throughly enjoy this music. It's much better without all the stuff Phil Specter added.… More reviews
- Let it be
- I like this cd, and I like the old one to, but if I have to choose I'll pick the old over the new. just because I like all the strings and things wish the new don't have. but naked has a raw fill to it and thats good to. More reviews
- Never heard Let It Be like this before
- A must for Beatles fans. This was recommended by an audiophile during a discussion of high quality recordings. Cleanest Beatles CD I have ever heard. The more you turn it up the better it gets. Just no distortion at all. GREAT BUY! More reviews
