Let It Be
by The Beatles

From swhaze TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/19/2014 22:03 | #117130 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

The fact that LET IT BE is considered a fiasco, says rather a lot about what standards we're accustomed to by the Beatles. (Edited)

If I take Dig It and Maggie Mae out -as they're not songs but little fragments put there to give presumably the atmosphere of a jam in the studio- I get a 8.5 album.
Other plausible explanation of those tracks is that they isolate Let It Be wich is the best song on the album and dwarfs any other you could put next to it.
Anyway the best songs are from Macca here (Let it be, Long & winding road, Get back) and the best from John is Across the universe wich is from 1968. Harrison doesn't contribute much. Everytime I heard the get back sessions -and the white album home demos too- I get the impression that George was the one that really was done wih being in the band and was saving his work for his solo career.

The sessions went awful but The Beatles invented yet another classic of the Rock era: doing a roof concert and getting kicked out by the police.
Lennon gave the tapes to Phil Spector to see if he could make some sense of those unfinished songs. He cut here and add some strings and choirs there. The result is Let It Be.
The cover art is quite appropiate for the circumstances: the four divided and isolated.

(Edited)

"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition."
Great words to end the last album of one of the most important artists in the history of music.

The Beatles final album, although recorded before, Abbey road. The let it be tapes were given to Phil Spector by John Lennon, and Spector as Lennon sort of said, did the best he could with it. It gets a panning, and I can understand why, it's not up to their usual quality. But it is the Beatles, and any album with across the universe, get back, and the majestic title track cannot be easily dismissed. But why Paul complained about the strings on, the long and winding road is a mystery as it brought poignancy to the track, and anyway, McCartney did the same bloody thing to the song on his, give my regards to broad street album /soundtrack. George Harrison's, I me mine, is great, but his, for you blue, is boring. Lennon-McCartney's, one after 909, is mediocre, a song they wrote in the fifties. Two of us, dig a pony,and, I've got a feeling, are good album tracks, but, dig it, is pointless, and, Maggie Mae, awful. Don't let me down, one of the best songs from the sessions is left off, presumably, because it had been already released on the b-side to the, get back, single. Let it be, is not as bad as some people claim, and not as good as other's say. It's just about in between.

I put the headphones on the other night and listened to this. I disagree that the production is bad. I have the original pressing and it sounded amazing. Very crisp instruments and vocals. (For instance, compare the production on this to the massively muddy sound of led Zeppelin's physical graffiti.)
The first three tracks on side one are epic! Side 2 is weaker but has the Long and Winding Road and Get Back which are worth the price of admission. I put this album among their top five or six. Just hearing them jam and stick together bits and pieces (a la side 2 of Abbey Road) is a treat anyone who appreciates the greatest band of all time should dig.