Our esteemed Canadian correspondent gives his take on the forthcoming "Let It Be ... Naked".
You can email him at tjo55@yahoo.com.
Rutles Dirk and Nasty would have been proud of the
bare-faced boondoggle and fancy footwork of
Apple/EMI's announcement of the reissue of Let it Be
as Let it Be...Naked."
I'll even bet that the pr weasels consulted Eric Idle
before naming the new Beatles CD, because regular r&r
and pr weasels don't usually get it so funny.
And the dropping of Dig It and Maggie Mae from the
original track listing could leave room for the
inclusion of a Fabs version of Get Up and Go (back
home).
But seriously ladies and germs, the lofty language
used in the EMI press release for the Nov. 18 offering
is laughable.
I mean, just the statement that fans will hear
something they never heard before-the "as nature
intended" Get Back album has been around in various
forms and mixes for about 30 years-is bogus, unless
they count a new remixing as being never heard before.
And the inclusion of the "fly on the wall" second disc
is surely a direct response to the bootleggers of the
Nagara tapes which have also been in circulation for
about 30 years.
Sure it will be nice to finally hear a clean copy of
the original Get Back album song lineup-minus Teddy
Boy and Save the Last Dance-but EMI/Apple also opens
themselves-and the Beatles-to comparisons of which
version was better.
After all, not everyone is a Phil Spector hater and
the original Let it Be album has been around so long,
people are used to it, and there might be a backlash
from many of the rank and file fans.
Of course the true believers will relish anything, but
it just seems to me that there is too much hype
surrounding what is essentially the release of an
album comprised of songs from sessions that even John
Lennon described as "shitty" about 35 years ago.
But having said all this, I'll still probably buy it,
because I just can't help myself.
Twist and rut.
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