Let It Be...Naked [VINYL]

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Naked" -LP was mixed and remastered from the original 1969 recorded master-tapes and comes without "Dig it" and "Maggie Mae," two titles of the 1970 "Let It Be" release but with "Don't Let Me Down" that is not on Phil Spector's reproduced remix from 1970.

And the incompetence of the character he played doomed him to be typecast forevermore playing the kind of inept characters in movies no one really likes that much. Although I’m not sure exactly what makes Clint Eastwood “good”, what’s so good about claiming reward money for bringing in criminals then shooting the rope when they are being hung so they can escape and then splitting the loot with them?

The producers spat in our faces with the “Fly on the Wall” disc, and if I ever get the chance I honestly plan to spit back. A second innovative approach was added when it was decided to film the rehearsals; allowing viewers to trace the development of each song from its first rough run through to the final polished version. And these mashups sit next to “Two of Us” and “One After 909”, which are the same takes as the original album, just newly remixed – the producers were wildly inconsistent in their philosophy of what they were supposed to be doing with the songs on this release. I Me Mine" – a remixed, slightly different recreation of Spector's edit (which had increased the track's length by copy/pasting the second chorus at the end) of the track recorded on 3 January 1970; orchestra removed, guitar overdubs and organ parts mixed in and out to make the repeated verse sound different.

Same with “Don’t Let Me Down”, which wasn’t on the original album, and I am not sure how its inclusion helps make the album more Naked than it was to begin with, but what the hell, it sounds great here. The de-Spectorized version is kind of lame anyway, even the far superior de-Spectorized version on Anthology 3 bores me.

Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. On "The Long and Winding Road", the Naked producers used the final take, recorded five days after the rough run-through Spector had selected for the original album.