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| From | "Frank Padellaro" <kingradio@pumpingstation.com> |
| Subject | Let it be. busted. |
| Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:18:00 -0600 |
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I've just got my hands on Nekkid and let me tell you, I am really bummed out. Let me start by saying that I was really looking forward to this release, and I, like most others I know, was under the impression that Phil wrecked a great record, blah blah blah.
Well, I prefer his overproduced version to this, that's for sure. To begin with, the mix just sounds messed up. The drums sound doubly compressed, and the cymbals are all hashy and really offensive sounding to me. The best thing about the mixes is how present and wonderful Billy Preston sounds. But otherwise I have nothing good to say about them. The drums are louder and more clear, but the warm mushy drums of the old version are far more pleasing to the ear than the perfectly rendered current drum mix, which lets you hear just how dead and awful that drum kit was for those sessions. The vocals have a really crummy sounding reverb, which is a marked difference from the pleasant reverb of the original versions.
Lastly, I was absolutely horrified when listening to "Two of Us" to hear one of the McCartney lines clearly pitch corrected with auto-tune. This was such a foreign sound in a Beatles song, and it chilled me right to my core. It sounded like some modern rock radio song for a split second. With my ears tuned in, I heard several other moments of auto-tune clearly on other parts of the record as well.
One of my favorite things about the Beatles is how well McCartney and Lennon, though not always perfectly in tune, always manage to sound together. Now they've ruined that.
This album is an abortion and I hate it!
Anyone who is really interested in hearing the original recordings as intended should grab one of the many various boots that are available of Glynn Johns' original mixes. They are much richer and pleasing to my ear, and will give you the same nice feeling of hearing Paul sing The Long and Winding Road without a ton of Spectarian crap piled on top of it.
What a Bummer,
Frank.
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