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smartpatrol 
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Posted: May 06 2013 at 14:25 |
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Despite it being quite a miserable album for the Beatles to make, I find the songs on Let it Be to be some of their greatest. However, I think Phil Spector's original mix is almost appalling, especially the strings sections he added. Let it Be... Naked, the 2003 remix, is way better! It's much more representative of what the Beatles wanted out of those sessions; a album that, after all the overdub heavy and intricate songs and albums they made in 66-68, was a breath of fresh air; a live rock album.
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Posted: May 06 2013 at 14:35 |
Agree with all of that.
My favorite Beatle album, esp the Naked version.
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Posted: May 06 2013 at 14:39 |
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I'll take the original version.
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Posted: May 06 2013 at 15:09 |
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I like being naked.
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Posted: May 07 2013 at 07:21 |
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I have to go for the original mainly because of the bits McCartney cut out of the Naked version e.g. Dig It.
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Posted: May 07 2013 at 09:43 |
Hi, The original. Specially when the whole film told you about the Beatles and why they were no longer getting along, and the heavyness and dedication to studio time and making it "Beatles" had taken its toll. So, to take all that and remix it, would be almost like doing exactly what they were fighting against ... and there really is no need for it. The only version that will be worth seeing and getting, is the one that is still hidden and has all the great little bits that appeared all over the bootlegs ... most of that is still hidden and nowadays, no one will know about it, or have any idea what it is that I, or any others, are referring to. I wish I had kept all those albums! They told a story ... that is lost in the shuffle and what you are left with is so ..... much makeup and images ... that you lose sight of the people themselves and what became of them, and why there were problems! But we like stories and lies ... so history must be right and the details not!
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Posted: May 07 2013 at 09:46 |
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I slightly prefer the Naked version over the original version, however, I actually quite like both versions and Let It Be is a great album, IMO.
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Posted: May 07 2013 at 09:55 |
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Original version, maybe because it's the one I grew up with, and not nesseccarily better. It's just when I listen to "Across The Universe" and don't hear the trippy choirs & such, it feels unfinished to me. Not so much naked as, say, missing a limb.
Edited by Prog Sothoth - May 07 2013 at 09:56
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Posted: May 07 2013 at 17:16 |
 Man With Hat wrote:
I like being naked.
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Me too  But in this case I'll vote for the original. I actually can't imagine The Long And Winding Road without the orchestra.
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smartpatrol
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Posted: May 07 2013 at 17:25 |
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Are you kidding? It ruined the song!
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Posted: May 08 2013 at 02:02 |
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I'm serious man, it's beautiful.
I grew up listening to the song like this without knowing there's a naked version, and I never thought the orchestra is out of place. Maybe if I listened to both versions for the first time I would think differently, but for now it's flucking perfect!
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Posted: May 08 2013 at 03:47 |
sagichim wrote:
I'm serious man, it's beautiful.
I grew up listening to the song like this without knowing there's a naked version, and I never thought the orchestra is out of place. Maybe if I listened to both versions for the first time I would think differently, but for now it's flucking perfect!
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Same for me
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Posted: May 08 2013 at 15:22 |
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It depends. I honestly prefer the stripped down versions of "Across The Universe" and "The Long And Winding Road" that are found in the Anthology series. Not that the originals were terrible by any means; speaking of which, the title track from original Let It Be has some fantastic horn arrangements.
One thing that disappoints me about Naked is that Paul McCartney (assuming he was the one that headed the release) missed an opportunity to slip in the full, unedited, six minute version of "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" in there. I would have paid full price for Naked simply for that.
Edited by KingCrInuYasha - May 08 2013 at 15:22
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Posted: May 08 2013 at 17:21 |
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Yeah, although I think it would work better on the second disk, with Fly on the Wall.
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Posted: May 08 2013 at 18:09 |
The Doctor wrote:
I slightly prefer the Naked version over the original version, however, I actually quite like both versions and Let It Be is a great album, IMO. |
Switch the order around and you have my opinion. Just comes down to what I'm used to rather than drastic differences in enjoyment.
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Posted: May 09 2013 at 03:58 |
KingCrInuYasha wrote:
One thing that disappoints me about Naked is that Paul McCartney (assuming he was the one that headed the release) missed an opportunity to slip in the full, unedited, six minute version of "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" in there. I would have paid full price for Naked simply for that.
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That's already available on Anthology 3. It was never really connected with the Let It Be album and would have sounded out of place imo. What he really missed is the full version of "Dig It" which is knocking around on various Let It Be bootlegs.
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Let it Be: Original vs Naked