| Let It Be... Naked | 
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Sales Rank: 2484
Category: Music
Artist: The Beatles
Publisher: Capitol
Studio: Capitol
Brand: Beatles
Label: Capitol
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 724359571324
UPC: 724359571324
EAN: 0724359571324
ASIN: B0000DJZA5
Publication Date: 2003
Release Date: November 18, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 |
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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
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 Get Back, High Gas Prices June 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
America is spending 600 billion dollars a year on foreign oil. The war is costing us a quarter of that (125 billion) per year. Oh yeah, The Beatles, hmmmm...
The Beatles May 20, 2008
I throughly enjoy this music. It's much better without all the stuff Phil Specter added.
Let it be May 10, 2008
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.
Never heard Let It Be like this before April 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
 The music is 5 stars - the nakedness is not. April 14, 2008
I really can't help but wonder why this album was made. They say it is "as the Beatles intended," but did the Beatles really even know what they intended? The whole concept of this album was muddy and never fully realized (recording a live album of entirely new songs). And while it's interesting to hear a few of these remixes, this album is so similar to the original (while stripping away the impromptu songs like "Dig It" and the speaking in between, which gave the album its live and loose feel) that there really is no point in buying it if you own the original.
Nobody wanted to touch these recordings in 1969 once the Beatles washed their hands of it. The only man who did was Phil Spector, who - while fudging the original live "concept" of the album - really took a lot of sketchy performances and turned Let It Be into something worth listening to. It's worth pointing out that this "de-Spectorized" Let It Be...Naked has almost all of the same takes and edits that Spector used. A few alternate takes are found on ...Naked, and the strings and horns are all gone, but so what? I heard this already on Anthology 3. A majority of the songs on here sound untouched. And personally, I think the album version of "Let It Be" with its bombastic horns and ascerbic guitar solo is vastly superior to both the single version and the ...Naked version. "The Long and Winding Road" (which is really the biggest reason this album was re-done - thanks, Paul) is stripped down too, but again, I heard this on Anthology 3.
And I really do miss the talking in between songs. It made the album feel more fun, more impromptu, more like the listener is in the room with the Beatles. By eschewing these short interludes, ...Naked just sounds like another studio album, which actually takes us further away from what the Beatles supposedly "intended."
I think the original is superior. ...Naked really doesn't offer anything new. If you don't own Let It Be, you will probably like this album because, hey, the music is great no matter how you slice it. But if you've already got Let It Be, this album won't be much of a revelation for you.
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