Thursday, April 12, 2018

How to listen to The Beatles Let It Be

My first exposure to the Beatles was the 1987-88 CDs, along with a cassette of all the music directly from the film, which my Dad made for me off of a rented VHS tape (and which sounded pretty good).  So each time new LIB recordings come to me, I revise my opinions on what SHOULD or COULD have been.  That includes several bootlegs I bought in the 90s and 2000s, Anthology 3, the "Naked" album, etc.  So here's what I think SHOULD have been released; it would have put the "rehearsals" on side 1/disk 1, and then the finished products and rooftop concert on side 2/disk 2.  Probably would have seemed weird in 1970, but maybe a double album would have been interesting...

SIDE 1 (or disk 1, depending on timing):
"Get Back" (45 vers)
"Two of Us" (fast version)
Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle and Roll / Blue Suede Shoes (Anthology 3)
"Across the Universe" (snippet, from the film)
"I Me Mine" (1970 LP vers)
"Dig It" (longer than the 1970 LP vers)
"The Long and Winding Road"  (LIBN vers, alternate with no overdubs)
"Maggie Mae" (1970 LP vers)
"Let It Be" (1970 LP vers)


PART 2
"The Long and Winding Road" (1970 LP vers)
"For You Blue" (LIBN vers)
"Two of Us" (1970 LP vers)
"I've Got a Feeling" (1970 LP vers)
"Don't Let Me Down" (45 vers)
"Across the Universe" (1970 LP vers)
"Dig a Pony" (LIBN vers)
"One After 909" (1970 LP vers)
"Get Back" (lurching version from the end of the film w/"passed the audition" and "ha ha ha"'s)