The Beatles - Let It Be... Naked
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Music CD Cover Artist: The Beatles Brand: Beatles Edition: Music CD Published: 2003 CD Release Date: 2003-11-18 Music Label: Capitol Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Let It Be... Naked Album
Free Music Review: Warts & All
Hit: 4 Stars
I am an American Beatles purist. So, to me, the REAL Beatles records will always be MEET THE BEATLES, BEATLES '65, HARD DAYS NIGHT, HELP, REVOLVER, RUBBER SOUL, SGT. PEPPER, MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, WHITE ALBUM, ABBEY ROAD and LET IT BE. Everything else, including YELLOW SUBMARINE and the several collections of singles Capital slapped together are good--sometimes even great--records, but not the cream of the Beatles crop.That said, I have waited years for LET IT BE...NAKED, even having heard much of it in rough form on a whole series of bootlegs. It's #1 on Amazon this week, and will do about as well on the increasingly meaningless Billboard charts, I'm sure. It's been 33-1/3 years since the band imploded and they still rule the marketplace, but will FM radio play the record?
Doubt it. I've always thought much of LET IT BE--"Get Back," for example--is a unique belnd of Country and Hard Rock, and there is no outlet for that sound in 2003. That's too bad, because it's a great record.
It's ironic that it took McCartney and more than three decades to finally release the record Lennon always claimed he wanted released, "warts and all." That means there is little evidence of the studio sheen the Beatles mastered on PEPPER or ABBEY ROAD, and quite a bit of the rough edge they had in their Hamburg and Cavern days; just what McCartney, at least, had hoped they would rediscover when they were recording the original LET IT BE tapes.
McCartney was smart enough to include "Don't Let Me Down," a great Lennon tune not on the original, and one of the most underrated of all Beatles tunes. While it may not have been thematically correct, I would have liked to have seen "Lady Madonna" and one or two of the other singles relegated to the HEY JUDE LP show up here. The Beatles put out so many great songs between 1964 and 1970 that some real classics have fallen under the Pop world's radar.
So, in the end, I think this is a fine record. Not a classic Beatles LP, but far better than 99 percent of the tripe currently being called Pop, and a real insight into both McCartney and Lennon's efforts in the Beatles last couple years together (by the way, while LET IT BE was the final true Beatles record released, it was NOT the final Beatles LP recorded. ABBEY ROAD was their final studio effort; it took so long to get Phil Spector to finish his work on LET IT BE, recorded prior to ABBEY ROAD, that LET IT BE was released after ABBEY ROAD and, in fact, after the band dissolved.)
So buy LET IT BE...NAKED. It is what the best Rock and Roll/Pop band of all time sounded like on their lesser days, warts and all: Better Than Anybody Else.