I do have the '87 LIB CD and did have the 2009 LP remaster and, in context, was happy with the sound of both, in context. Includes a 12" x 12" 20-page booklet and an additional 7" disc with 20 song-fragments: "Fly On The Wall": "A Unique Insight Into The Beatles At Work In Rehearsal And In The Studio During January 1969". There is consistent chatter about this LP online and there is definite interest from fans and collectors in a reissue. Two songs that had been included on the original album – the traditional Liverpool folk song " Maggie Mae" and the improvisational piece " Dig It" – were excised, as they "were fine for a soundtrack album .

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Long and Winding Road" – the final take recorded on 31 January 1969, instead of the album take from 26 January. But for some weird reason the producers decided the world needed another version, so we got yet another version with a solo from George Harrison patched in from someplace else. How strange to have become so used to the "Phis Spector" version thta everyone I know felt to be overorchestrated and saccharine from the time of its release that this "new" edit seems weird by comparison. I’m not quite as negative on it as you are but we agree on it being one of my least liked Beatle releases or “reworks”.These guys were really cooking and grooving in a way I hadn’t appreciated about these sessions previously. It was supposed to be closer to the “warts and all” plan The Beatles had for the album when they recorded it in January 1969, but the producers took all of the “warts and all” out by mashing up different takes of songs, pulling solos from completely different takes, and using all kinds of other 2000s studio trickery light years away from the live in the studio vibe these songs were shooting for when they were first recorded.

When the album came out, the first thing that hit me was that song sounded the least like the one I heard at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. I realize the crux of some or many of the reasons I prefer Naked to all other LIB's run counter to a number of what the band's intentions or plans at the time were. I'm sure it's fine if you're hearing this music for the first time and Across The Universe is good, but that's all for me.

I've never liked the sound of LIB - to me it 'sounded and felt' more amateurish' than it was 'raw' imo. To me it's the closest and only totally professional iteration or representation of the material from start to finish imo. I have a hard time believing that all their talk of LiBN having a dead, lifeless mix is anything more than mere pretentious snobbery – maybe they have nicer sound systems and better ears than me, so I guess I could be wrong, but I actually think the album sounds pretty great, I don’t care what they say. The record (this Naked) between TWA and AR should 'feel' and 'sound' and 'be' more like this Naked reincarnation, than the LIB that came out after AR, imo. After the seemingly numerous renumerations of GB-LIB, Naked is my favorite sounding and playing version of it.