So it's going to be called "Let It Be Naked" ?????

[Mike Hunte]

Luke has a compressed brain.

[lukpac]

Luke, it's hard to believe ANYONE, these days, hasn't heard these songs, sourced from bootlegs, or unmarked fan produced CDR's, but that's ok.

Quite honestly, I haven't. Unless it was a brief sampling at some record show years ago or something.

Besides, it doesn't seem as if what's coming out is meant to be a replication of what has come out on bootleg.

[mikenycLI]

Another pre-release review, courtesy of ICE.....



Here is another candid review from Chris
Carter, a buddy who does a wonderful
Beatles FM radio show every Sunday here
in the L.A. area. Chris constantly gets
access to previews of everything-Beatle...
and knows his stuff. Enjoy........

OK let’s GET BACK to some Beatle
info…. I got to get a sneak preview of the
NEW upcoming Beatle long player “LET
IT BE…. NAKED” last evening at Capitol
Records….here is a short review of what I
heard:

The NEW production and re-mix gave the
album a more cohesive, tighter sound
than what we have been listening to for
over 30 years. The bass on this “naked”
version has a more “Abbey Road” (the
album) like bottom sound throughout,
and Paul’s backing vocals on John’s
songs seem a bit louder in the mix (I
wonder why?!?) …Most noticeably
different was the addition of Billy
Preston’s keyboards on “I’ve Got A
Feeling” and some pretty cool echo swirls
on the end of “Across The Universe”.

The most obvious changes were on
Paul’s two classic ballad’s ”Let It Be” and
the main reason for re-doing the album
for Macca, his “The Long & Winding
Road”. The later has been stripped down
to its bare bones as Paul originally
intended (Beatles only)…including John
Lennon’s almost childlike bass
playing…(no overdubs here!) while the
title track contains the film version with a
totally different lead solo from Beatle
George.

My only complaint was that most of the
songs seemed to end (or fade out) much
too quickly. I could tell that Paul wanted to
GET AWAY from the “live’n’loose vibe of
the original, thus removing all of the in
between song banter we have come to
expect from those sessions…I guess
Doris doesn’t always get her oats after
all! .Oh yeah…missing in action are
“Maggie Mae” and “Dig It”…what a shame
eh?….an added to “Naked” is a slightly
faster rooftop version of “Don’t Let Me
Down” which fails to deliver like the
original B-side studio version, but is nice
to have anyway.. …

Overall “Let It Be …Naked” is an
improvement over the Phil Spector mix as
well as BOTH of Glyn John’s “Get Back”
mixes… bad year to be Phil Spector
eh?…

[Xenu]

Anybody wanna start a "when's it gonna leak?" pool?

Amazon.com now has it priced at $13, which is *far* more reasonable.

[Rspaight]

I saw what purported to be Disc One on alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.beatles yesterday, but (1) it was in (I think) m4p format, which I could have dealt with, but (2) I really didn't feel like messing with it. So it may already be out there...

EDIT: Never mind, just went back and there were a bunch of posts saying it was a fake from old boots...

I'd buy it for $13.

Ryan

[mikenycLI]

Anybody wanna start a "when's it gonna leak?" pool?

Amazon.com now has it priced at $13, which is *far* more reasonable.

Here's the advert copy, from the Beatles.com website....

Note, the phrase, "AS NATURE INTENDED"...a title of a famous Vigotone Beatle bootleg from the "Get Back" sessions !!!!

Also...Macca says, "It's all exactly as it was in the room. You're right there now". " UGH !!!

Someone at EMI, has a great sense of humor !



AT LAST AS NATURE INTENDED

THE BEATLES' LET IT BE...NAKED

At last revealed - The Beatles album that has taken more than 30 years to finish, Let It Be...Naked, just the bare sound of the band inside The Beatles.

Let It Be...Naked is the no frills, back-to-basics album that The Beatles first set out to make back in 1969 - but which was never released as they intended, the band back to the bone.

Now, through the smart digital technology of Abbey Road studios, the never-heard band's take of the original sessions will be finally released worldwide by EMI Records in November.

Naked is Let It Be brought right up to now for the '1 Generation', de-mixed and re-mixed, un-dubbed of orchestration, choirs and effects and stripped-back to the raw to reveal The Beatles simply as what they were very best at being - just a great band.

"If we'd have had today's technology back then, it would sound like this because this is the noise we made in the studio", said Paul McCartney "It's all exactly as it was in the room. You're right there now".

"When I first heard it, it was really uplifting. It took you back again to the times when we were this band, the Beatle band", said Ringo Starr.

When The Beatles first set out to make the album in 1969, they intended to record an album that would be a return to live performance of just the bare necessities of the band, no studio effects or overdubbing of voices or instruments would be allowed. However, caught in the turmoil of the break-up of the band, the album was re-produced by Phil Spector and never released as The Beatles had originally meant it to sound. Until now.

Let It Be...Naked's track listing differs from the 1970 release; background dialogue, 'Dig It' and 'Maggie Mae' have been taken off the album and 'Don't Let Me Down' has been added to the running order, which now is as follows: Get Back, Dig A Pony, For You Blue, The Long And Winding Road, Two Of Us, I've Got A Feeling, One After 909, Don't Let Me Down, I Me Mine, Across The Universe, Let It Be.

Let It Be...Naked will be issued together with a bonus fly-on-the-wall disc that features extracts from tapes of The Beatles at the time of first making the Let It Be album and movie in the Sixties.

The 20-minute bonus disc is a unique insight into The Beatles at work in rehearsal and in the studios in January 1969.

Let It Be...Naked will also come with a booklet that features historic photography of the recording sessions and extracts of band dialogue from the original booklet that first accompanied early copies of the 1970 album.

Released worldwide from November 17th, Let It Be...Naked is the sound of The Beatles as nature intended; raw and rocking.

"The music always surpassed any bullshit we were going through; once the count-in happened we turned back into those brothers and musicians."
RINGO STARR

"It's just us playing, in our best voices, it's very honest".
GEORGE HARRISON

"For all our success The Beatles were always a great little band. When we sat down to play, we played good".
PAUL McCARTNEY

"In spite of all things, The Beatles could really play music together"
JOHN LENNON

Check back soon for the full Let It Be...Naked website. Click here to receive all beatles.com news first via email

[lukpac]

Also...Macca says, "It's all exactly as it was in the room. You're right there now". " UGH !!!

Why do you make it sound like that's a bad thing?

Someone at EMI, has a great sense of humor !

About?

[mikenycLI]

Also...Macca says, "It's all exactly as it was in the room. You're right there now". " UGH !!!

Why do you make it sound like that's a bad thing?

He sounds like an A&R man...like he has to "sell" the Beatles !

Someone at EMI, has a great sense of humor !

About?

It is the title of a famous Vigotone bootleg, from the "Get Back" album sessions.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. It makes me wonder if the DID, in fact, use bootlegs, where the masters they had, we not that good quality. That would be some JOKE !

Here's the tracklisting of it. The comments following the tracklisting, are by the reviewer, not me...

1 Get Back version one (rehearsal) 4:08
2 Get Back version two 3:20
3 Don't Let Me Down version one 3:19
4 I've Got A Feeling version one 5:28
5 The One After 909 3:37
6 Dig A Pony version one 4:35
7 I've Got A Feeling version two 3:55
8 Don't Let Me Down version two 3:18
9 Get Back version three 3:17

Producer Glyn John's First Master Tape Compilation Of "Get Back" Mixed March 10-13 And May 7&9, 1969 At Olympic Sound Studios, London

10 Rocker 22 Jan 69 0:46
11 Save The Last Dance For Me 22 Jan 69 1:38
12 Don't Let Me Down 22 Jan 69 (version three) 4:09
13 Dig A Pony 24 Jan 69 (version two) 3:48
14 I've Got A Feeling 24 Jan 69 (version two) 3:01
15 For You Blue 25 Jan 69 2:42
16 Teddy Boy 24 Jan 69 3:44
17 Two Of Us 24 Jan 69 3:32
18 Maggie Mae 24 Jan 69 0:42
19 Dig It 26 Jan 69 4:27
20 Let It be 31 Jan 69 and 30 April 69 (lead guitar overdub) 3:59
21 The Long And Winding Road 31 Jan 69 3:42
22 Get Back (reprise) 28 Jan 69 (reprise) 0:47

Tracks No. 1 - 9 Complete 30-1-69 Apple roof top gig
Tracks No. 10 - 22 Glyn Johns first master tapes of the "GET BACK" album. Except with "One After 909" & "Get Back" are not included
Sound quality for both sections 9.0 - 9.75/10

"GET BACK" & "ONE AFTER 909" had to be edited from the GET BACK L.P. tapes, due to the time available on a single C.D. (although I feel they could have at east squeezed one of the two tracks on)

Which is unfortunate as this version of the Glyn Johns GET BACK L.P. is the absolute best I have ever heard... & I have heard many version over the years both on L.P. and CD. I hope Vigotone do a release with just the full GET BACK L.P. (Maybe they have already... if so, can somebody tell me...)

[lukpac]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. It makes me wonder if the DID, in fact, use bootlegs, where the masters they had, we not that good quality. That would be some JOKE !

Apple has the 8-track masters for everything recorded at the sessions. I'm sure they've got the masters Glyn Johns assembled as well (which have come out on bootleg). There'd be no reason for them to pull from bootleg, period.

Mike, it's fine to be skeptical, but don't you think you're going over the deep end on this? Could it not be possible that if this CD isn't great, it's at least somewhat enjoyable?

[MK]

from http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/internatio ... 300-01.htm

DISC 2 BONUS DISC

Sun King
Don't Let Me Down
One After 909
Because I Know You Love Me So
Don't Pass Me By
Taking A Trip To Carolina
John's Piano Piece
Child Of Nature
Back In The USSR
Every Little Thing
Don't Let Me Down
All Things Must Pass
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Paul's Piano Piece
Get Back
Two Of Us
Maggie Mae
Fancy My Chances With You
Can You Dig It?
Get Back

A lot of material for 22-minutes. Oh wait, that's right, they can just hack it up into little snippets and fuck us over.

[MK]

Luke's right, so is Mike to a certain extent.

Luke's right about the album part. I put together a version modeled on the released track listing, though it's not exactly the same since I used officially released material, and I threw in the demo of All Things Must Pass from the Anthology 3, which is actually a damn good performance. This album is totally better than the official Let It Be. The original Get Back acetates weren't great, IMO. Weaker performances, the mixes were less dynamic, and there was actually more half-assed parts than Let It Be left in.

On the other hand, if this set is priced as a premium two disc set, its a rip-off. I don't mind no bonus tracks on the Lp disc, that's been done before and I respect an artist's wishes to keep it unblemished by bonus tracks. I don't entirely agree with that mentalilty, but I'll respect it.

But, a bonus disc of 22 measley minutes is not worth the extra cash, especially if it turns out to be severely edited, and especially when there is an hour maybe even two hours worth of good material. From what I've heard on boots, I definitely say at least an hour.

[mikenycLI]

MK,

They qualified for SoundScan, and that's all that REALLY matters to them, here. It's not a crime, but I guess they don't want to be embarassed, and make sure, it's LOTS of big numbers for the Suits. They don't care about putting together a good product...just a cheap, cost effective release, for some quick money.

I loved "Teddy Boy", even though it was a rambling kind of song, that had no point. It's charm for me, was in it's rawness, and seemingly, spontaneous, work in progress feel. It worked with everything else, that was there.

I would have like to have seen a, genuinely expanded version of the album, and a unique, more thoughtful packaging of it.

For example, how about the originally released version with another CD of one of the acetates that Glyn Johns put together...or maybe one more disc, of the other solo songs in progress, The Complete Rooftop Concert, and the Rock and Roll medleys, which they did for cameras.

You could say, that NOTHING would satisfy the fans, but that's letting them off the hook, too quickly.

It's a sloppy release, but as we are Sheep, who pony up to the cashier with our money EVERYTIME a ridiculous release like this is sluffed off to us, this is what we deserve. Crap.

If we want the real music, we know where to go for it, and it sure ain't Best Buy, or Tower, or HMV, or Virgin, or amazon.com !

[Xenu]

I thought to qualify for soundscan, it had to be +70 minutes or something? Ahh, I dunno...

It's currently priced as a single disc on several sites. Can I get a "thank god" chorus?

[mikenycLI]

I thought to qualify for soundscan, it had to be +70 minutes or something? Ahh, I dunno...

It's currently priced as a single disc on several sites. Can I get a "thank god" chorus?

It's my understanding, that a two disc CD set is counted, as two separate sales, even though it's only one CD title or release.

By the way, allegedly, according to Toshiba EMI Japan, this is the tracklist for the second cd...

2003/11/14　Album
『レット・イット・ビー... ネイキッド / LET IT BE... NAKED』
THE BEATLES
TOCP-67300-01 ￥2,800（Tax in）


DISC 1
01. ゲット・バック /
　GET BACK
02. ディグ・ア・ポニー /
　DIG A PONY
03. フォー・ユー・ブルー /
　FOR YOU BLUE
04. ザ・ロング・アンド・ワインディング・ロード /
　THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
05. トゥ・オブ・アス /
　TWO OF US
06. アイヴ・ガッタ・フィーリング /
　I'VE GOT A FEELING
07. ワン・アフター・909 /
　ONE AFTER 909
08. ドント・レット・ミー・ダウン /
　DON'T LET ME DOWN
09. アイ・ミー・マイン /
　I ME MINE
10. アクロス・ザ・ユニバース /
　ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
11. レット・イット・ビー /
　LET IT BE

DISC 2：BONUS DISC
01. サン・キング /
　Sun King
～ドント・レット・ミー・ダウン /
　Don't Let Me Down
～ワン・アフター909 /
　One After 909
～ビコーズ・アイ・ノウ・ユー・ラヴ・ミー・ソー /
　Because I Know You Love Me So
～ドント・パス・ミー・バイ /
　Don't Pass Me By
～テイキング・ア・トリップ・トゥ・カロリナ /
　Taking A Trip To Carolina
～ジョンズ・ピアノ・ピース /
　John's Piano Piece
～チャイルド・オブ・ネイチャー /
　Child Of Nature
～バック・イン・ザ・USSR /
　Back In The USSR
～エヴリー・リトル・シング /
　Every Little Thing
～ドント・レット・ミー・ダウン /
　Don't Let Me Down
～オール・シングス・マスト・パス /
　All Things Must Pass
～シー・ケイム・イン・スルー・ザ・バスルーム・ウィンドウ /
　She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
～ポールズ・ピアノ・ピース /
　Paul's Piano Piece
～ゲット・バック /
　Get Back
～トゥ・オブ・アス /
　Two Of Us
～マギー・メイ /
　Maggie Mae
～ファンシー・マイ・チャンセス・ウィズ・ユー /
　Fancy My Chances With You
～キャン・ユーディグ・イット？ /
　Can You Dig It?
～ゲット・バック /
　Get Back

http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/internatio ... 300-01.htm

[Xenu]

And the way I heard it is for it two count as two discs, it has to be +70 minutes.

Who knows?