Why disdain for "Let It Be... Naked?"

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Strat-Mangler, Jul 11, 2014.

  1. muffmasterh

    muffmasterh Forum Resident

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    i'd like a reworking but thats not going to happen but how about re-releasing - and maybe remixing - Glyn Johns two attempts with the original artwork
     
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  2. majorlance

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  3. Bingo Bongo

    Bingo Bongo Music gives me Eargasms

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    Never play it, unless it comes on Random play!

    It's just not authentic. Like it or not, the Spector version is the real thing.
     
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  4. I have just played it again today and i have to say i really like it. Glad its in my collection. I even like the cover
     
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  5. hlennarz

    hlennarz Forum Resident

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    *cough* Across The Universe WWF version *cough*
     
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  6. Lyedecker

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    I've heard bootleg "stripped" versions that are superior. I bought Let It Be..Naked when it came out, and I've not listened to it once since the original listen. I either go for the original Let It Be album or the Glyn Johns mix. Also, that cover art is just dreary and uninspired, although that sort of sums up the sessions, visually. Spector's production is the only thing that really saved the recordings. The man is a genius for being able to do as much as he did with a bunch of garbage.
     
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  7. Chuckee

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    Good Night, Linda is on Let It Be.
     
  8. YpsiGypsy

    YpsiGypsy Forum Resident

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    I got the CD a few years after it was released and I'm glad McCartney had it done, sounds good to me.
    Good band sound and it has Don't Let Me Down on it.
    I didn't know that they also released it on LP until recently so I had to get a copy. A real nice NM copy from Discogs that looks brand new.
     
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  9. dirwuf

    dirwuf Misplaced Chicagoan

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    The only thing that keeps it from being my go-to source for these songs is the abrupt fades.
     
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  10. Greenalishi

    Greenalishi Birds Aren’t Real

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    The Long And Winding Road is just amazing in the Naked version. Just a different song. Always hated that song. Now i know why. Great song without all those strings.
     
  11. YpsiGypsy

    YpsiGypsy Forum Resident

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    My exact reaction when I first heard it.
    I was sick of these McCartney tunes by then, Lady Madonna, Hey Jude, Let It Be, The Long And Winding Road.
    I was thinking so they don't do Rock 'N Roll anymore.
    But on Let It Be Naked it sounded good.
     
  12. I actually disagree. It pushes the song into treacly territory. I hate the harp, I hate th backing vocals added (choir) and think that Spector’s arrangement ruined the impact of a song that should have been presented simply as the emotion is direct and honest.

    The Naked versi NR and some other questionable mastering choices aside is magnificent and the presentation makes it more personal. I think that even George Martin adding tasteful orchestratin might have ruined it unles it was very subtle and the s No cries out for subtle because of its heart on the sleeve directness.
     
  13. In fact, while I like the s Male studio versi N of Don’t alet Me a Down, the more ramshackle versing n on the album works for me. It’s a little less slick sounding.
     
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  14. YpsiGypsy

    YpsiGypsy Forum Resident

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    I was in denial so bad that I didn't get what dream Lennon was saying was over on his Plastic Ono Band album.
     
  15. beccabear67

    beccabear67 Musical omnivore.

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    I wanted to help but to search for the Naked version requires me to turn off the thing that keeps all the porn from flooding in and I don't want to. I used to have the same problem if looking for music by '70s Dutch group Pussycat. Sorry I can't help though. :(
     
  16. beccabear67

    beccabear67 Musical omnivore.

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    I prefer the bootleg Glyn Johns reconstituted version with the stairwell cover photo and 'Get Back' as the title, but when the Naked CD came out I definitely liked it over the Phil Spector official release version. I wish they could do this with some other albums where you know there is great music and performances but buried under production and overdubs. They kind of did that at Snapper for The Pretty Things' 'Emotions' album, and of course Marley & The Wailers' 'Catch A Fire' you can have the English overdubs edition or the original rawer Jamaican version (or even the KSAN radio broadcast which has about half the albums' tracks live in studio which sounds best of all to me).
     
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  17. Gary7704

    Gary7704 Chasing that sound….

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    LIBN is most likely the example of why the project was shelved to begin with. I'm not a Spector fan but he made it marketable.
     
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  18. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    i know it makes me a heathen, but i never even heard it ... i didn't hate the original anyhow ... i guess i need to get around to giving it a listen
     
  19. Shak Cohen

    Shak Cohen Forum Resident

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    To my ears, the noise gating/reduction in this album was applied at the mixing more than the mastering stage. Basically all DAWs (digital audio workstations - which I'm pretty sure what LIBN was mixed on) have noise gate plugins that are just a scroll/click away. I actually had an assignment for college a few months back which involved mixing a live recording which had a certain amount of background hum/hiss on it. Basically I had to demonstrate use of noise gating, as well as use high/low/band pass filters on the instruments and then do a 2-track mix. The result was quite similar sonically to what LIBN sounds like.
     
  20. Shak Cohen

    Shak Cohen Forum Resident

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    Best advice is to pick up a $2 used CD off eBay/Amazon. Perhaps also someone has uploaded it to YouTube?
     
  21. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    at the end of the day i got abused for enjoying the pepper 5.1, so nothing would surprise me ... Remember Beatle kids, All you need is love ... as long as it is the original mono version, otherwise you should be pillaged!!!! :eek::oops:o_O:agree:
     
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  22. NYMets41

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    I enjoy Naked, the original and the boot versions.

    Naked is different. I like that after all these years.
     
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  23. The Beave

    The Beave My Wife Is My Life! And don’t I forget it!

    I've been pillaged here a few times, especially for my Love for the RE 1 pressing of Abbey road!!
    HA!! I GOT TO BRING UP THE RE 1 Again!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Beave
    Listening to the Beatles Mono Box, CD version on my new OPPO 205, Wow, all sorts of nuances coming out of the speakers.
    I'm glad they did this set without no I see reduction or brick walling compression.
    A reference set still! :righton:
     
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  24. The Beave

    The Beave My Wife Is My Life! And don’t I forget it!

    It's pity the common 90's bootlegs of that were all bad, as far as using noise reduction and such.
    I do still have a rare CD German issue of the acetate but it sounds lifeless.
    Bummer.
    Beave
     
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  25. Michael P

    Michael P Forum Resident

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    I have LIBN and did not notice the difference. FWIW I was looking for "Get Back" with the coda. Only played it once or twice.

    I suppose that putting 2 previously released tracks on Naked as they were originally mixed would not make as much sense. At least Get Back did not have that fake intro or the applause and Paul's comment about passing the audition. What I really wanted was LIB as if George Martin produced it. That would include the 3 tracks that were on singles plus the rest of the album unspectorized.
     
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