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limitlessundyinglove said

Well, I dunno.  It could be an alternate, longer version or something.  Wouldn’t be the first time that there’d be two different versions of a Beatles song.  

When have they ever done multiple versions of songs? (Other than Anthology and Phil Specters LIB mixes)

limitlessundyinglove said
@William Shears Campbell 

Well, there was the single version of Please Please Me , which has Ringo playing the tambourine while the album version has no tambourine (might be a different take too, don’t remember).  Then there was Help !, where the single version is a different vocal take.  Also, there’s the German language versions of I Want To Hold Your Hand and She Loves You .

 

Edit: Forgive me, I have made an egregious error.I meant Love Me Do , not Please Please Me .  

Well I guess it would be fine, as long as SCITTBW is till in the Abbey Road medley.

@limitlessundyinglove said
Yeah, I’d never want to take SCITTBW out of the medley.  It just works really well in it, smack dab in the middle.  However, I think it could work as a track on LIB as well.  And this is all theoretical anyway.I don’t think Apple will be releasing a new LIB related project anytime soon.  

Yeah A3 SCITTBW would work good on LIB .  On a different note, I would like to have had some of the unreleased songs from the Get Back album released, particularly the full cut of Dig It and the Save The Last Dance For Me cover.

Good setlist, although I think side 2 should’ve been the live stuff because that’s how they ended the January 1969 sessions as well as the movie, here’s my perfect album for Let It Be , called Get Back .

Sure the rooftop concert was on the penultimate day of the Get Back sessions, but think of it this way:

It’s June 1989, I am your teacher, Mr. Oxford (although you choose to call me by my first name of John although I tell you not to). Anyways, after boring my 25 blokes that I call students to death with Shakespeare, Scottish history, times tables, and frog autopsies, I decide that on the second to last of school to take myself and my fellow 3rd graders to the Tennage Mutant Amusement Park down in Glasgow for a well earned day of fun (although it’s secretly so this 36 year old man can find single women in their early 20’s who are interested in dating while he lets his students roam free and do whatever they want).

Your 9 year old self and your 9-10 year old classmates have lots of fun going on the rides like the Donatello’s magical rollercoaster, Shredder’s evil hall of mirrors, Leonardo’s ferris wheel of fun, Raphael’s playground of fun, Michelangelo’s totally tubular cowabunga water park, Splinter’s magic carpet log flume, Bepop and Rocksteady’s beat em up bumper boats, and April O’ Neil’s stalk people around the park transportartion rollercoaster that goes around the entire amusement park, you even got to stop at the Michelangelo’s cowabunga pizza parlor, where your teacher ordered you and your classmates 3 large cheese pizzas with an order of mozzarella sticks, fries, buffalo wings, haggis on a stick, and water and while you were eating lunch, you got to watch some episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and even got to see a sneak preview of the movie and got to watch the TMNT pizza parade. One of your friends even caught your teacher and his friend Steve, both drunk at the Casey Jones looks under April O’ Neil’s kilt amusement park brothel.

Anyways, it a great time and you even took a couple of pictures of it on one of those disposable cameras that you have to this day but for the last day, he had you watch his favorite childhood movie Yellow Submarine . As great as Yellow Submarine is, I wouldn’t correct you if you said that you ended 3rd grade by going to TMAP, even if I knew this information because it was so close to the end that you mind as well call it the end, just like the rooftop concert.

By the way, if you think the brothel reference is too vulgar for this forum, I’ll remove it, I just think it fits in there nicely.

I don’t think the album is bad at all, being #6 on my list. I think too many fans jump on the bandwagon of hating it without giving it a chance. There are a few things I would change though.

A) The production. Though I disagree with those who would strip away all of Spector’s lavish production, I think at times it does become too much. On The Long And Winding Road , I think it’s effective but could be toned down slightly in it’s grandeur, especially with that choir in the background. I think the Naked version sounds worse though.

B) The tracklisting.

Note: I would include the chatter between each song, with the ‘Phase One’ at the very start and the ‘I hope we passed the audition at the end’ before TLAWR. 

1. Let It Be – I always thought opening with an acoustic ballad Two Of Us is not how you open an album. The album version of Let It Be is a punchy way to start the album and it’s the title track so why not?

2. I Me Mine – Keeping up the pace, I Me Mine is one of George’s best and fits well as second.

3. Two Of Us – Song 3 or 4 is where you slow down the pace, and Two Of Us is my favourite acoustic Beatles song.

4. Don’t Let Me Down – I would use the rooftop version probably.

5. Across The Universe – I would probably get rid of Spector’s production here.

6. One After 909 – I’m not really keen on this one but I think it fleshes out the album’s rock side nicely. I would probably remove Billy’s keyboard on this as I think it makes the whole thing sound a bit naff. 

7. Old Brown Shoe – Fantastic song, great solo

8. Dig A Pony – A great rock track that doesn’t get enough mention. It’s a blast.

9. I’ve Got A Feeling – Another solid rocker.

10. Get Back – Another fantastic rocker. 

Here I would have the chatter and maybe the sounds of an orchestra tuning up to build in for the big finale: 

11. The Long And Winding Road – As I’ve said earlier, I would tone down the dramatic aspect of the orchestra and choir but still keep it there, as it’s a gorgeous song.

Bonus track – Maggie Mae  

 C) The album cover – I’ve never liked the cover. I’d much prefer a shot of them on the rooftop or something.

I don’t think I’d make any changes to Let It Be , other than making Two of Us the final track. I think the end “Goodbye” would be very suiting.

Other than that minor fix, it’d let it be.

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QuarryMan said
C) The album cover – I’ve never liked the cover. I’d much prefer a shot of them on the rooftop or something.  

I personally think the album cover is very fitting and matches the state of the band at the time although I must admit, it would be interesting if they did a rooftop shot as the album cover.

@QuarryMan said

Yes, I meant a group picture though, with their instruments and all.

Oh dear, you’re not a Paul Is Dead believer are you? I should have realized that by your username though, I thought I recognized it from somewhere.  

No I’m not a believer, I just enjoy reading about the conspiracy. It’s sometimes quite interesting/entertaining.