We must have gotten two different versions of the CD...mine is a HUGE
improvement over the previous release and boots...not only that, but
bringing the sound up to date proves how timeless the music is, (there is a
difference, you know, between the quality of the sound of a record and the
quality of the music and songs contained therein), and will undoubtedly turn
yet another generation onto how good pop music can be.
Now if they only had the technoligy to improve the MATERIAL on a lot of
today's great SOUNDING records...

bob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Padellaro" <kingradio@pumpingstation.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: Let it be. busted.


> 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.
>