Recorded: January 1969-April 1970
Released: 17 November 2003
Tracklisting:
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
Recorded: January 1969-April 1970
Released: 17 November 2003
Tracklisting:
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
Turn me on when I get lonely
— She’s A Woman
People tell me that she’s only
Fooling, I know she isn’t
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I think that Let It Be... Naked has the best ending combination of separate songs (Don't Let Me Down, I Me Mine, Across The Universe, and Let It Be). The only other Beatles' album with a comparable four-song span of perfection (well, all of their songs are perfect...) is on 1, with I Feel Fine, Eight Days A Week, Ticket To Ride, and Help!
As far as I'm concerned, this should be the standard version of the album. At the very least, these versions of the tracks should be the standard.
You can't listen to this and say Phil Spector didn't screw up royal.
I'd include Maggie May, the fragment Dig It and the full Can You Dig It? as bonus tracks.
Let It Be.. Naked is by far the best album, better than Phil Spector's Let It Be, he did it well, but the remaining beatles just made it better, plus its remixed, I would of added Dig It and Maggie Mae, I love those tracks
I think "Let It Be...Naked" is an excellent album, but I do prefer the original "Let It Be" - just as I believe John Lennon would have, were he still alive.
Actually, John has called Let it Be the "shitiest piece of shit" he's ever heard. Though he admits he felt Phil Spector did the best he could with what he was given. I don't know what John would have preferred, or for what reason, but I consider this the definitive version of Let it Be.
I deleted Spector's LIB after listening to LIBN. I think of LIBN as the official version.
Of course Lennon hated Let It Be (though I had not heard of the "shittiest piece of shit" comment). He checked out of The Beatles after The White Album. The Ballad of John and Yoko brought him back for a bit, back enough to at least go through the motions on Abbey Road ("Because" notwithstanding).
After The WHite Album, his solo stuff was better than what he contributed to The Beatles.
Songs like Don't Let Me Down, Across The Universe, Come Together, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Dig A Pony and Because
(and the other 3 songs from Abbey Road's B side),all from John indicate he hadn't quite left the Beatles.
Cold Turkey was rejected by Paul for inclusion on Abbey Road and Instant Karma came out months after Abbey Road was released.
John worked very hard on contributing to the Abbey Road album.
I don't believe Paul would have, could have rejected anything John wanted on an album. You must have George confused with John, lol!
No I don't have George confused with John.
According to Peter Brown's book, The Love You Make (2002), Cold Turkey was rejected by McCartney as the next Beatle single.
Anyway, do you think Paul would have allowed John's song about heroin withdrawal to be placed on a Beatle album?
In my opinion Cold Turkey should have been a Beatle song. The lyrics weren't so explicit or graphic unless the word hell counts as being too explicit when John sings, "get me out of this hell." This song could have been a classic rock ballad for The Beatles like Revolution, Yer Blues, and Helter Skelter.
OK, here are my preferred versions for each Let It Be track.
Get Back - Original A-Side "Hi-heel shoes & Low Neck Sweater" version
Dig A Pony - Naked
For You Blue - Naked (I'll never understand why Spector cut the acoustic guitar completely out after the intro on the original Let It Be version - bizzarre).
The Long And Winding Road - Anthology 3 (same take as LIB & single but without all the added syruppy crap - The Naked version is very nice, too, though).
Two Of Us - Naked (same as the original but way better sounding - crisper)
I've Got A Feeling - LIB (the original is simply more spirited and energetic than the Naked version. I don't get why they felt they needed a different take here.)
One After 909 - Naked (very nice remix)
Don't Let Me Down - original B-side (the vocal interplay at the end is better here between J&P)
I Me Mine - LIB (I like it better with the horns - definitely the best of the "Spectorized" tracks)
Across The Universe - Naked (though I really love the Athology 2 version as well)
Let It Be - Naked (George's solo is best here - plus the mix is very nice)
Agree with Elsewhere on everything, except One After 909. I prefer the energy and sloppiness of the Anthology version from 1963.
Why didn't "Naked" retain "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" and John's ad-libs about pygmies and pot-smoking FBI agents? I liked that stuff!
(Nice to be living in the CD-R age when anybody can assemble their own ideal version of LIB/GB)
Because they were trying to make Let It Be... Naked sound like a real album so they cut out the talking and didn't include Dig It and Maggie Mae which were just jams and were considered "too weak" for inclusion.