Comments on: Let It Be

By: Davidmackin

Davidmackin — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:10:56 +0000

Beatles album if they didn’t split

Late 1970

All things must pass
Maybe I’m amazed
Isolation
It don’t come easy
Look at me
Backseat of my car
Apple scruffs
That would be something
I found out
Every night
Love
Man we was lonely
If not for you
Hold on

By: BM

BM — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:48:38 +0000

Being born in 1975, I was exposed to all of the Beatles music at about the same time (the early 80s) so I don’t have any prejudice against any album or song like some appear to have against LIB. If I were to make a top 20 playlist of my favorite Beatles songs, Dig a Pony, Get Back, One after 909, I’ve Got a Feeling, and Two of Us would definitely be included. And even though it wasn’t included in the original album but is on LIB…Naked, Don’t Let Me Down would be on my list too. And I like Let it Be and Long and Winding Road too, but just not enough to be top 20.

Most of the songs on this album are just great song along songs. IMO, they had to have been doing something right to get that many great songs on an album while the band is disintegrating.

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:26:08 +0000

There is nothing incomplete about Ram, it still sounds like a really well produced album even today. And McCartney was supposed to be “home made” and back to basics. I mean he did most of it in his living room on a 4 track. He wasn’t going for polished. He was going for rough.

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:22:08 +0000

Don’t Let Me Down was only “incredible” because Paul and to a lesser extent George put it together. On the Get Back tapes you can hear them putting together Don’t Let Me Down because John was too stoned to get anything together.

And Long and Winding Road and Let It Be are incredible beautiful heartfelt songs, the only problem with LWR is Spector’s ridiculous orchestrations and choir.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 18 May 2017 23:55:17 +0000

No, Antoni is not “right”. YOU may agree, but that only means his opinion is “right” for you.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Wed, 17 May 2017 20:37:46 +0000

Ringo said, “And Yoko jumped in, of course; she was there.” Does anyone know if there is recorded audio of this statement? Or was it a written statement on Anthology? (I haven’t seen the film and don’t have the albums.) Changing the punctuation and inflection would give it a whole new meaning. “And Yoko jumped in. _Of course_, she was there.”

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Wed, 17 May 2017 20:21:06 +0000

I have always thought that “McCartney” was Paul’s attempt to complete the vision of the Get Back sessions: simple and back to basics.

By: Sergio A. Genzon

Sergio A. Genzon — Tue, 16 May 2017 19:58:11 +0000

I think that if one leaves aside the background story behind LIB, the album, and listens to the collection of songs in it, it’s a pretty good album. Perhaps not their best, specially if we considered it was their last release, but even with Phil Spector production values, there’s great music in it. As to Spector’s production, In think he did the right thing with LIB and TLAWR with the arrengements, except for the female choir on the latter, which makes it sound cheesy. That song lends itself to that kind of treatment. Its version on LIB Naked sounds, well, a little naked, though the song LIB on LIBN sounds awsome. One can hear Billy Preston’s organ more upfront and clear. He certainly added so much in the songs he recorded with The Beatles.

By: Stephen B

Stephen B — Tue, 02 May 2017 17:12:21 +0000

I saw the LIB movie as an impressionable teen. It was amazing to me to see the Beatles sounding so great while looking so casual! I knew that the album was considered their worst by those who knew such things. In fact the album was out of print during the first part of the 70’s. I bought it in the late 70’s and I loved it for the same reason that I loved the movie. It struck me that, hell, if this is their worst, wow, these guys are truly an amazing band. I don’t mind the Spector enhancements. To the contrary, the violins in The Long the Winding Road are terrific. I confess, I can understand how Paul might have objected to the chorus at the end. But even that sounds magic to me, even now. I particularly like the snippets of John making cracks between songs (maybe a poke at Paul preceding the title track), the false start on Dig a Pony, and the two odd throwaways, Dig It and Maggie Mae. My only complaints: Don’t Let Me Down belongs on that album; John sounds awfully tired and hoarse in Dig a Pony – so it drags; One After Nine O Nine is filler, possibly my least favorite Beatles song. The album is flawed, but it is an integral part of the Beatles history. McCartney’s revision with “….Naked” was not an improvement in my opinion.

By: manteau

manteau — Sun, 01 May 2016 17:38:28 +0000

Let it be was my first Beatles single and LP. I can’t really listen to it any longer as I remember spending whole nights listening to this album! I’ve got the movie too now, plus “naked” and various bootlegs from the same sessions. Stand out songs are “two of us”, “across the universe”, One after 909 and “for you blue”. I can’t be rational when it comes to this album, too much of my teen age in it!

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:11:10 +0000

Right on, Beatlesguru !!!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 14 May 2015 04:39:17 +0000

Lennon always so negative calling the music junk, he’s the cookie monster in the trash can!!!

By: cold turkey 1987

cold turkey 1987 — Mon, 11 May 2015 15:25:36 +0000

While this album contains a certain dullness of sound there are none the less some hidden, if not totally underrated classsics such as I, me, mine and don’t let me down. If you count lib…naked that is.

By: johnlennonsrhythmguitar

johnlennonsrhythmguitar — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:25:25 +0000

No, Antoni’s right. Echoed my thoughts exactly. The one time in fifteen years Paul actually impresses me with songs like Two Of Us and I’ve Got A Feeling, and all everyone wants to talk about is the overrated Long & Winding Road and the even more overrated Let It Be. This isn’t even to mention that two 40 second “songs” we’re included for seemingly no reason other than to say they had more tracks, that John’s incredible Don’t Let Me Down was excluded, and no one even mentions Across the Universe, one of the best on the album. What a mess. This is why I prefer the older albums

By: Bongo

Bongo — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:47:11 +0000

I always wondered why the US did not release this in a box set like the UK & Canada did????

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:56:07 +0000

Despite the controversies surrounding this album I love it, having got it back in 1978 as a 12 year old.John Lennons Across The Universe is beautiful and one of his best. Let It Be is a great song and one of Paul McCartneys finest. As is The Long and Winding Road, though McCartney hated Phil Spectors production of it which is fair enough. Get Back is a great rock song and I love The Two Of Us, I Me Mine, Dig A Pony and the One After 909, which Lennon and McCartney wrote back in the early days in Liverpool.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:04:47 +0000

I’ve got a dvd of the movie. It’s great!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:42:32 +0000

Are you sure it’s not in the Spector mix? I thought I heard it in a few places, particularly towards the end. Lizzie and Gayleen are included on the Across The Universe article, but they don’t feature on this album.

By: 4-track mind

4-track mind — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:41:49 +0000

Hi Joe, setting aside the debate that Ringo actually played the svaramandal on an early take of “Across The Universe,” the instrument is not used on the final version, and therefore doesn’t appear on the Let It Be LP. Shouldn’t it be deleted from the album credits (otherwise Lizzie Bravo and Gayleen Pease deserve credit for backing vocals?). I only mention this because students in my class visit your site regularly and this tripped a few of them up. Keep up the good work!

By: Doug Pitts

Doug Pitts — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:51:15 +0000

I agree. If you’re in the audience, unless you’re sitting extremely close to the group, you would not hear voice on one side, guitar on the other. It would all be in the mix. Sounding more separated than a mono recording, but definitely nowhere near hard or even medium panned.