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Beatles forums => Polls => Topic started by: on August 04, 2005, 01:31:03 AM
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Either the anthology or naked one for me. Naked one.
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The wildlife version for me,although all of them are great.
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there is a cool demo of this tune too.......
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None of the above
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Okay I know the spector version is the one on Let it be and the Naked version is on Let it be....Naked. So whats the wildlife version and the anthology version? I know in the beatles Anthology DVD they use an Across the universe version during the scene where they are showing footage of their trip in india. If thats the anthology version than thats my favorite one. I heard that version long before the Let it be version and the Naked version. But I'd like to be sure which version that is before I vote.
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The Wildlife Version
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I really like the girls backup version--that's the Wildlife version, right? John said Paul was trying to sabotage the song, but I think the girls are really cool. Nice vocal lines, which I bet Paul arranged.
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"PLAYBOY: "Across the Universe."
LENNON: The Beatles didn't make a good record of "Across the Universe." I think subconsciously we -- I thought Paul subconsciously tried to destroy my great songs. We would play experimental games with my great pieces, like "Strawberry Fields," which I always felt was badly recorded. It worked, but it wasn't what it could have been. I allowed it, though. We would spend hours doing little, detailed cleaning up on Paul's songs, but when it came to mine -- especially a great song like "Strawberry Fields" or "Across the Universe" -- somehow an atmosphere of looseness and experimentation would come up.
PLAYBOY: Sabotage?
LENNON: Subconscious sabotage. I was too hurt. . . . Paul will deny it, because he has a bland face and will say this doesn't exist. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about where I was always seeing what was going on and began to think, Well, maybe I'm paranoid. But it is not paranoid. It is the absolute truth. The same thing happened to "Across the Universe." The song was never done properly. The words stand, luckily."
From THE LENNON PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (1980)
He also thought that is was too uptempo .. he liked the Let It Be version.
It's the so called Wildlife version ... was on a charity album...
The album was titled No One's Gonna Change Our World and was released by Starline Records On December 12, 1969. The track listing is as follows:
Side A:
1. Across the Universe - The Beatles
2. What the World Needs Now is Love - Cilla Black
3. Cuddy Old Koala - Rolf Harris
4. Wings - The Hollies
5a. Ning Nang Nong - Spike Milligan
5b. The Python - Spike Milligan
Side B:
1. Marley Purt Drive - The Bee Gees
2. I'm a Tiger - Lulu
3. Bend It - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
4. In the Country - Cliff Richard & The Shadows
5. When I See an Elephant Fly - Bruce Forsyth
6. Land of My Fathers - Harry Secombe
The back cover reads:
A personal message from H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh:
A meeting of the World Wildlife Fund was convened at Buckingham Palace on the 21st December, 1967. It was in the nature of a 'Talk In' with the view to stimulating new ideas. Among those present were several people form the entertainment world, on whose behalf Spike Milligan suggested making a long-playing record on which the Aritsts, Composers, Publishers, and Recording Companies would waive all fees. This record is the result of that idea. Royalties for its sale will go towards funds dealing with rare animals in danger of extinction. This in itself makes this a unique record. I can do no more than wish it great success.
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What's the version on Beatles "Rarities"--that's the one I heard.
As for the album No Ones Gonna Change Our World. OWWW! Does the world really need Rolf Harris doing "Cuddly Ole Koala"? The rest doesn't look much better.
Poor John, to think one of his greatest songs almost got lost with this schlock--and Big-Eared Charlie's personal message, to boot. No wonder he sent back his MBE.
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I like the naked version the best.
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I think John's right, there never was a good version of this song. Let It Be version is still my favourite though.
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I voted for the Spector version because the one on the original Let It Be album is a masterpiece. I have heard the Wildlife version as well, which is great & the others, but nothing beats the one on LIB.
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there is a cool demo of this tune too.......
Where is it?
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I voted The Wildlife Version. Nice sound effects.
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I agree with you on that GreenApple, but the one on Let it Be is the best.
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Naked.
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Naked.
That album is a disgrace ??)
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Naked.
I agree, i love that version.
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That album is a disgrace ??)
i take it you are against Love as well then ::)
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i take it you are against Love as well then ::)
I'm not against it at all in principle. I'll reserve judgement until I've heard it.
Let It Be...Naked goes against everything they were attempting to do at the time. It just sounds so overproduced, when all they had to do was stick Don't Let Me Down on, and take the damn strings off of Long And Winding Road.
A massive disappointment.
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I don't agree, Paul, John and the others gave the tapes to Phil Spector and bassically said 'do what you want with them', John admits this in an interview, so in that way it wasn't intended to be released as anything specific. I don't think Naked was a major sin against the Beatles, certain tracks, and the drums on all of them are much improved.
Now maybe you see why i think it doesn't got 'against everything they were attempting to do at the time'. :) I do think,however, the album was way to short, and i get through it extremley quickly if i don't really notice it's on. The version of Let it be on there is stunning, and i like For you blue as well.
For 'love', i'm not completley against the idea, i'm like you, i want to give it a listen first, but i think they should have put the major, and the best tracks from Love on the end of LIBN, or added another disc of alternative versions of songs, like they have done with Love. That way, LOVE would not seem as pointless, and i wouldn't have to waste extra money to get a new cd, if you get what i mean.
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For 'love', i'm not completley against the idea, i'm like you, i want to give it a listen first, but i think they should have put the major, and the best tracks from Love on the end of LIBN, or added another disc of alternative versions of songs, like they have done with Love. That way, LOVE would not seem as pointless, and i wouldn't have to waste extra money to get a new cd, if you get what i mean.
What people have to remember is that Love is basically an 'anything goes' project. It's not meant to be any kind of 'best of' album.
And poinless? I'm not sure. It's a soundtrack (showtrack?), not even Apple's original idea as far as I know. Therfore without Cirque it would never have happened. Cirque normally puts it's soundtracks out under it's own name - presumably having commisioned the music. Obviously Apple saw the potential in this one!
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But now i think this is going to be a 'classic' album in it's own right. But does it really belong in the beatles catolouge?
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I prefer the Naked version, i wasn't into all that spector orchestration.
the Naked version seems much clearer and i love the acoustic guitar played
by John!
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I can't make an opinion, cause to be honest, I never knew there were so many different versions, I have heard naked and anthology, but I thought those were the only ones.
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all they had to do was stick Don't Let Me Down on, and take the damn strings off of Long And Winding Road.
Yes, and include one of Glyn Johns' mixes of the album on the second disc.
[flogs dead horse]
As to the original question, I like version of "Across the Universe" on Anthology 2 best. It's like a lazy, humid summer evening on the banks of the Ganges... 8)
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I like all versions of this song, but my favorite is the Let It Be version. Phil Spector did a nice job on this one.
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I'm not against it at all in principle. I'll reserve judgement until I've heard it.
Let It Be...Naked goes against everything they were attempting to do at the time. It just sounds so overproduced, when all they had to do was stick Don't Let Me Down on, and take the damn strings off of Long And Winding Road.
A massive disappointment.
yeah I had the real Let It Be Naked years before this travesty came out. My main copy of Let It Be has long been a burn I made of the original album with just Across the Universe and Long and Winding Road replaced with the Anthology versions. besides those two songs, I've always thought that Spector did a GREAT job with the album. the live tracks on the rooftop sound really good. and his edit of I Me Mine was necessary and well done. and in fact, I personally like the overdubs on this track, though I'm probably in the minority.
the naked album sucks because it lacks all the "Doris gets her oats" and "Hope we passed the audition" stuff that the original had. It's also very overproduced, as you've noted. Play the real version of One After 909 and then play the naked version. play them back to back. there's no need for diddling up the tracks like that.
I'm telling ya, if Spector just left those two songs alone, just those two....everything else was fine, we'd be praising him to this day as the guy who saved the Let It Be album as the Beatles were breaking up. instead he's the guy who f***ed up the overdubs and p*ssed off Paul.....and possibly killed a girl.
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LIB version is almost right, but there's just a tad too much orchestra with choir (too "American" somehow?). But the slower speed makes John's voice work like Strawberry Fields.
I wonder if Apple will reissue the entire Lennon-sung catalogue at slower-normal-faster speed settings (maybe we can play with the EQ and FX--have John do "Hard Day's Night" in "Tomorrow Never Knows" FX?
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Spector version was great.
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Naked and past master vol. 2 version.
it's touching.
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One of my favourite ever Beatles songs. I voted for the Spector version as that is the one I grew up with and to me is still the best version. As cover versions go, Fiona Apple's version is amazing (unlike the video which accompanies it).