I can't believe it. Me. The biggest Beatle fan this side of Liverpool, and I totally missed the release of Let It Be... Naked. After reading an article about the album in The Observer, I really can't wait to get my hands on it.
Let It Be (the original) is not my favorite Beatle album. Most of it sounds like filler crap, and the rest was buried under Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound". But after seeing the movie and hearing Paul McCartney's beautiful piano work on "The Long and Winding Road", I always wanted to have that version.
I realize that there are many who won't appreciate the album. Non-Beatle fans say "it's too short"; non-McCartney fans think he's just finally getting his way because Lennon and Harrison are dead; and others just don't want the original touched. But I'm not one of them. I've been waiting to hear this one song done properly for years. It still might not be right, but with a stripped-down "Let It Be" and "Across the Universe" thrown into the mix, it's Must-Hear-CD (for me at least).
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1 - James Russell
It was a nice idea, but unfortunately liberating the songs from uncle Phil's tarting up isn't enough to dispel the impression that the Fabs (Paul excepted) were making a less than whole-hearted effort with the album. It has its moments, but not enough of them.
That article you linked to notes that the album "sounds like a coherent work rather than a patched-up postscript". Which is true, insofar as it does sound like a coherent work. Problem is, it still sounds like a postscript too...