In beautiful gatefold sleeve with great LP sized booklet of photos and interviews, and with a 7" which contains interviews and information about the recording of the album.

But a deeply flawed release with a couple of redeeming qualities I had missed the first time around. Two years before that, the Anthology sets and Love were remastered, also for streaming and download.I would never know some of it was recorded on a rooftop on what looks like a bleak and windy day by a group who hadn't played as a band in public in too long and out in the elements no less. I would rather have left the latter snippets alone (especially Maggie, an old skiffle-y song about a LIverpool prostitute), but generally, having Don't Let Me Down included is the real bonus here, and its presence more than justifies the re-release/rejig of the album.

The LiBN version gives me nothing except a mix that shows me what the song would have been like with just Lennon and his guitar, and frankly I find it the least appealing of all versions of the song out there. So after more than thirty years of it getting under his skin Paul finally decides it’s time to de-Spectorize Let It Be. It was supposed to be closer to the “warts and all” plan The Beatles had for the album when they recorded it in January 1969, but the producers took all of the “warts and all” out by mashing up different takes of songs, pulling solos from completely different takes, and using all kinds of other 2000s studio trickery light years away from the live in the studio vibe these songs were shooting for when they were first recorded. We already had a never-Spectorized version on Past Masters 2, we had an exquisite alternate version on Anthology 2, and now this odd mix that is just Lennon and guitar.He is also determined that they should break away from their insular recording career and appear before the public again. Having said that, here I go, ignoring my own advice; the Let It Be sessions (which are just that), in whatever released form. 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". It’s almost like they were taunting us – “here’s a twenty minute glimpse into everything we have on tape, betcha wish you could hear more than a couple of seconds of some of this stuff”. I mean really, it’s pathetic that with all the material they had at their disposal, the producers were so stingy as to only provide 20 minutes of incoherent, jumbled, chopped up beyond any of hope of being enjoyable content from the hours of tapes they went through.

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.It's the only one that makes sense to my ears and within the context of the kind of quality studio recordings The Beatles made. But you’re right, why has he been replicating the elements that make it unlistenable for all the years since?