What is the best song off of "Let It Be"?

Previous polls (still active): Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles For Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, **Sgt. Pepper’s**, Magical Mystery Tour/Yellow Submarine, The White Album (Discs One and Two), and **Abbey Road**.

Please note: If you want to vote for “Across the Universe”, “Get Back” or “Let It Be”, you must do so in this poll. Those songs will not be options in the “Past Masters 2” poll.

That said, there can be only one–which would you choose?

“Get Back” is the real standout, though I also like “Across the Universe,” “Two of Us,” and “Let it Be.”

Two of Us. (Great movie too, by the way.)

“Two of Us” by a country mile. My least favorite Beatles album.

I voted “Across the Universe,” but with “I’ve Got a Feeling” in the running, it was a tough choice.

I voted for Across the Universe, which is a gorgeous, vulnerable song.

Across the Universe - the phrasing of the verse lines works, but I could never explain to you why. I love that.

Ethereal stuff.

I’d love to vote for one of the more obscure tracks, but I’ve got to choose between two obvious ones–the hit singles. “Get Back” would be my choice if not for the fact that the version on this album peters out prematurely instead of continuing with Ringo’s monster drum fill into the coda. Scientists know this disease as Getbackus interruptus. So “Let It Be” it is.

The problem with this one is that the best versions of the songs on Let it Be aren’t on Let it Be. The single version of Get Back is much better than the version here. I have a bootleg version of the complete Dig It which is lots of fun, but I can’t vote for the tiny version on the album. This version of “The Long and Winding Road” is my least favorite Beatles song, in some part because I was working in a lab the summer of 1973 and had to listen to a radio tuned to an AM station that played it every five minutes. The version on Naked, which I also have had for decades on a bootleg, is not good but is at least tolerable.

If I were on Phil Spector’s jury I would have voted for death - not for the murder, which was bad enough, but for this travesty.

If you prefer the single, still vote for it here–you are voting for the song, not this particular version of the song.

I was strongly tempted by “Two of Us,” briefly considered “Across the Universe,” but settled on “Get Back.”

I went with Get Back, but it was harder than I thought it would be. I love Dig a Pony (I think I am the only one) and Across the Universe, and Two of us, and Let it Be.

For an album that so many people dislike it has a lot of great songs.

I know I’m going to be the only person who votes for “One After 909.” What can I say? It’s a catchy little number with a good beat. Sometimes the oldest song is the best one.

Well, you can celebrate anything you want. :slight_smile:

I love it too, NAF1138.

That one was definitely on my short list. Fantastic guitar riff.

“Dig a Pony” it is, by a nose.

I like Let It Be, but I like The Long And Winding Road better. Olivia Newton-John does a great cover of it on her album Come On Over

You mean I should have voted for Revolution on the White Album side 2 for the single?
The Get Backs are much more similar, though.

I’m pretty sure the single version of “Revolution” will be included on the Past Masters poll, since it’s different enough from the album version. But I don’t mean to speak for the OP.

ETA: Also, he made no such caveat in the White Album poll, which is more reason to assume.

Yeah, Revolution and Revolution 1 are different songs with the same lyrics. They even have different names. That’s not the same as what we have going on here.