Let It Be... Naked

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Gonna get the new-fangled Beatles album at lunchtime.

 

Heard very differing reviews of it, but I think the overall opinion is, if you treat it as a supplement to the original album, as opposed to a replacement or a bid to change history, then it's actually quite an interesting listen.

 

I shall let you all know what I think this afternoon.

 

("Oh good," I hear you mumble, whilst rolling your eyes up!)

 

 

[GazzaBTFC]

It is quite good but beware, they have played around with the tracks lifting and cutting and pasting other performances to make one. The tracks you hear are not all just taken from the one take.

 

But it is quite good...Honest

 

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Well, the originals of songs like Strawberry Fields Forever and A Day In The Life were cut and pasted from various takes too, but to be honest, I think a better album would've just been to release the entire Rooftop Concert as a live recording, just as it was.

 

I'll treat this 'new' album the same way as I did with Free As A Bird and the anthologies... good material, but not to be confused with the real thing!!

 

 

[CANV EFM]

ill be lifting a copy

[Rob_the_Saint]

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 30 years after they broke up, The Beatles have gone to basics with the release of a stripped down version of their classic "Let It Be" album.

 

"It`s all exactly as it was in the room. You`re right there now," Paul McCartney said of the album "Let It Be ... Naked" which has been acclaimed by music critics.

 

After Abbey Road Studios put their 21st century digital technology to work on the original 1969 album, McCartney said of the no-frills result: "This is the noise we made in the studio."

 

Ringo Starr, the only other surviving member of the world`s most famous pop group, was equally re-assured by the new-look album, which was released on Monday

 

"When I first heard it, it was really uplifting," the drummer said. "It took you back again to the times when we were this band, the Beatle band."

 

A statement from management company Apple Corps said the group had originally set out to make the 1969 album with no studio effects and no over-dubbing of voices and instruments.

 

But the album was caught up in the turmoil of the band`s break-up. It was re-produced by Phil Spector and never released as the Beatles had originally intended.

 

The track listing for the new album differs from the original with "Dig It" and Maggie Mae" taken out and replaced by "Don`t Let Me Down."

 

Diehard Beatle fans with an inexhaustible appetite for nostalgic trivia will also be treated to a 20-minute bonus disc of the Beatles at work in rehearsal and in the studios.

 

Sounds good, might have a dabble myelf, but I'll wait for the Zealster review first. <img src="/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

[CANV EFM]

i want to see if thay have done anything with 'across the universe'

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Completely stripped down, CANV.

 

Will return shortly with the Zeal Review!!

 

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Currently on track 4 - The Long And Winding Road.

 

This is the only track so far that really sounds any different - like Across The Universe, this is completely stripped down bare.

 

Get Back, Dig A Pony (without Lennon's ad-lib's and Ringo's sneezing) and For You Blue all sound pretty much untampered with.

 

 

[Laz]

Perhaps you could play some of the tracks during your first live show, before whatever our next home game is.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

My debut First Team match falls on the second anniversary of George Harrison's passing, so it would only be appropriate!

 

 

[GazzaBTFC]

My point was is that they have treated this album not as a historical "event" as the hype would allow you to believe but as a whole new album with solo's and vocals of various takes being lifted into the song to polish 'em up. They have basically treated the album as a whole new project.

 

I know that certain songs were cut and pasted even 30 to 40 years ago but it seems a shame (or not depending on your point of view) that they have done it with this and not left those preformances for the band to be judged as they stood...a damn decent little band from Liverpool that blazed a trail for music.

 

They just blow me away and if anyone wants proof of what this band could do, listen to I Feel Fine...Where did the insperation for that riff come from? Melodic and driving...top band, top music, top songs

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

The Beatles - Let It Be... Naked - a review by Colin Zeal!!

 

The front of this week's NME asks, "The Beatles: have they just made the greatest garage rock album of all time?"

 

Having listened to this, the answer has got to be "yes"!

 

The Long & Winding Road, I Me Mine and Let It Be all seem to regain a lost beauty that was hidden under Phil Spector's 'wall of sound', and the new running order, along with the disposals of Dig It and Maggie Mae give the album a more complete quality.

 

Get Back, Dig A Pony and One After 909, after the first listen, sound like they've undergone only subtle changes, whilst I've Got A Feeling (my favourite track on the original Let It Be album) is the only one which seems to suffer from its re-mastering.

 

Let It Be, never my favourite Beatles standard, sounds better than it's ever sounded before, Don't Let Me Down (the original b-side of Get Back) has rightfully been added to the collection, but best of all is Across The Universe. Stripped down to just John's vocals and guitar and presumably George on tamboura, it is by far the best track on the album.

 

I don't really agree with Macca trying to change history and this project was not one I approved of, but it has to be said that he's made a very good job of it, and the album is well worth buying, and after the first listen, I reckon it sounds better than the original.

 

 

[Laz]

I'll be getting a copy tonight.

I assume Safeway have it?

 

Is "my guitar gently weeps" on it, or was that Abbey Road?

 

I heard "I've got a feeling" the other day on the news, and thought it sounded great.

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

While My Guitar Gently Weeps is on the White Album, Laz.

 

I'm pretty sure Safeways will have it.

 

 

[Laz]

I think we've discussed the White Album before and I don't think we should go there again!

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Who are the Beatles?

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Ah, that old chestnut!

 

Next you'll be asking whether we have a website!!

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Do we?

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Not that I'm aware of!! <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Maybe we should set one up!

 

We could get that geezer webbo to look after it as his name suggects he may be a whizz with the old net!