The Long and Winding Road' is indubitably improved by the removal of Spector's wall of schmaltz, but it's still teeth-clenchingly mawkish". I've never liked the sound of LIB - to me it 'sounded and felt' more amateurish' than it was 'raw' imo. Also included in the package is an extra disc of "Fly On The Wall" outtakes from the January 1969 sessions.

But while the album wasn’t the waste of time I remembered it being, all the same it is a deeply, deeply flawed release. Naked "stripped the original album of both John's sense of humour and Phil Spector's wacky, and at least slightly tongue-in-cheek, grandiosity". The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. But for some weird reason the producers decided the world needed another version, so we got yet another version with a solo from George Harrison patched in from someplace else.It's the only version of the album I find not wondering when it will be over and also feeling sad when it is over. But some genius at EMI knew they could charge a few bucks more with a second disc, and so it became a two disc release. Plus it includes one of the best tracks from that session “Don’t Let Me Down” which was omitted from the original release, subsequent reissues and new remix. I’m not quite as negative on it as you are but we agree on it being one of my least liked Beatle releases or “reworks”. Hell, the album was only 35 minutes total, there was a good 45 minutes of space left on the compact disc, the paltry 20 minutes of “Fly on the Wall” gibberish would have fit easily.

It's the other versions of it that too often to me sound too drab, old-fasjioned, and too intentionally or self-servingly off the cuff, in a way that is more undermining than it is supporting, imo. You do get some nice remixes of a couple of songs off the original album – these make the album worth owning. Sure, it’s his song, and he can do what he wants with it, but it’s a little cheesy that he made such a big deal about Spector’s version when his own versions are so bad. Above all, the removal of the "wall of sound " production techniques lifts a murky cloud off the whole album. But then again, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a classic movie anyway, best western I’ve ever seen.

Includes a 12" x 12" 19-page booklet and an additional 7" disc with 20 song-fragments: "Fly On The Wall": "A Unique Insight Into The Beatles At Work In Rehearsel And In The Studio During January 1969". This new version was mixed and produced by Paul Hicks (son of Hollies' Tony Hicks), Guy Massey and Allan Rouse. The other thing that was frustrating about LIBN … and the LOVE soundtrack … was that they DID sound great.

You’ve gotta decide what “naked” version of “Across the Universe” you are going to use, I’m partial to the one on Anthology 2, but there are several possibilities. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.

Our old friend soniclovenoize has a version you can check out here that is way better than what the producers came up with for Let It Be…Naked. The Long and Winding Road" – the final take recorded on 31 January 1969, instead of the album take from 26 January. And doesn’t bringing in a different solo completely violate the “live in the studio” ethos of the original Get Back project that LiBN was supposed to kind of be restoring? 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.