I mean, what is this album supposed to be exactly – a version of the original album just without the Spectorization? And you have a point about Lennon’s vocal on “Across the Universe”, it does stand out a lot more, I just miss the other instruments.

But a deeply flawed release with a couple of redeeming qualities I had missed the first time around. The other incarnations of it 'sometimes' lean more towards a tongue-in-cheek joke at times, or too self-conscious. Instead we get a mostly forgettable "fly on the wall" bonus disc, containing some rehearsal material and bits of conversation. But then again, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is a classic movie anyway, best western I’ve ever seen.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". dopo la versione diciamo "normale",pubblicata nel 1970,ecco la versione "nuda e cruda" che è stupenda. Because the producers didn’t just give us a de-Spectorized version of “Across the Universe”, it’s de-Paul-George-and-Ringoized version too, for who knows what reason. Fly On The Wall" (7" Disc) consists of snippets of conversations and song-fragments as they were recording the album. And then there is the travesty of the “Fly on the Wall” bonus disc, which could have fit neatly onto the first disc and didn’t need to be a bonus disc in the first place.

At some point it would be great if it was remastered without noise reduction but we have just had the 50th box set so I see this release as quietly fading into the night. But the producers made some truly baffling decisions at odds with the intent to present the original album in a purer form. I’m just revisiting the “Naked” vinyl after watching the amazing 3 part documentary and I now look at this album in a whole new way whether it’s the original Phil Spector mix, Giles Martin remix or Paul’s “naked” version. But while the album wasn’t the waste of time I remembered it being, all the same it is a deeply, deeply flawed release.

Now, through the smart digital technology of Abbey Road studios, the never-heard band's take of the original sessions will finally be released on Capitol Records. But if you have any interest at all in hearing Get Back as it was originally intended when the Beatles started recording it in January 1969 (before they got sick of it, and of each other), Let it Be…Naked is definitely not the album for you. So “I Me Mine” is kind of a disappointment – and completely superfluous, we’d already got a de-Spectorized version on Anthology 3, where it was actually more de-Spectorized than it was on LiBN.