benzo24

I completely agree with you, Grasshopper!

I'm ruined!

For those interested in the story that Blood Money tells and on which Waits was loosely inspired, I recommend the film Woyzeck by Werner Herzog with a great Klaus Kinski... there is an even older version of the film, which I have seen and is even superior to Herzog's, but unfortunately, I don't remember either the director or the title? Can someone help me remember?

...the latest masterpiece

I'm late to this review, and I must say that while your reviews are usually an example of an objective vision of music, elegant and evocative, this one is quite the opposite. This is truly in poor taste!

In my opinion, this review should not be taken into consideration, as it is too Anti-McCartney, referring to him as "the aforementioned bassist and vocalist of the group"... however, I would like to also remember him as the author of the majority of the Beatles' songs along with Lennon.

More than thirty years later, all music lovers recognize that Let It Be was the lowest point (in terms of quality) for the Beatles, not only because of Spector's suffocating orchestrations (the same Spector responsible for the assassination of Death Of The Ladies' Man by Cohen) but also because it added nothing to what the Beatles had already done. (I recall that until Abbey Road, the album of their last studio recordings but released before Let It Be, they had consistently surprised their audience with increasingly incredible and innovative records!) In fact, almost all the songs on this album had already been released as singles or B-sides and were widely known by everyone (and all of this well before the release of their final album, which is Abbey Road!). The Let It Be album was supposed to be released as a support for the film of the same name, which in the original idea aimed to return, essentially, to primordial rock'n'roll, the music that sparked this magnificent Beatles magic... but there is no rock'n'roll that features the cloying, redundant orchestrations like those of Spector! The Beatles were already divided, and this can be seen as a justification for how such beautiful songs were violated by a commercially wild operation like it was (I mean the fact of presenting the public with an LP containing incomplete tracks). Therefore, in my opinion, let this Let It Be ... Naked come forth, giving the proper value to what it should have essentially been the last.