# What is the best song off of "Let It Be"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520 "2010-10-08T17:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/21 "2010-10-09T01:18:21Z")
I still have my Let It Be bootleg called _“Get Back To Toronto”_ (from IPF Records in “High Quality Stereo”). You can’t imagine how excited I was when I saw it at Underground Records that day. It’s been awhile since I’ve listened to it. Apparently it’s a copy of an acetate that John brought to Canada in 1969. Side 1: Peace Message-Get Back Teddy Boy On Our Way Back Home All I Want Is You Side 2: I Got A Feeling Let It Be Don’t Let Me Down Sweet And Lovely Girl Get Back When You Walk/Christmas Message ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/22 "2010-10-09T03:18:39Z")
_“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and myself, and I hope we passed the audition…”_ Went with _Get Back_, as well. Have good words also for _Two of Us_ and _I Got a Feeling_ (always good to see the two of them teaming up), _One After 909_ (old school!) and _Across the Universe_. > [@NAF1138](#): > > 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. Part of the dislike for the finished album may have to do with the reported mess that was getting it assembled: there were several versions until this one was hammered together so as to be able to release it along with the film. By then both film and album had been so long in post-prod that a whole another (more polished) album had been released in the meantime. Like \*\*Voyager \*\*mentioned, some tracks that ended up in the album version were not the best takes. Heck, even in the \*documentary \* there are some more interesting-sounding takes (IMO: _Let It Be_ itself with the _“there will be no sorrow”_ alternate last-verse lyric). The project started off with a notion of a “rockumentary” of the making-of an album (or series of singles) that would see them “Get Back” from White Album-era explorations to being an actual rock band, with the big payoff a comeback live-concert performance. But it staggered through the middle of some badly dysfunctional times personally, artistically and financially, both among the four _and_ at Apple, and a lot of the goals were abandoned or only met in the loosest or most ironic sense (e.g. the “rooftop concert”); the end-result footage and recordings wound up being harder than expected to turn into acceptable finished product. Yet once that was done with and they no longer had to work in front of a film crew all day, they were able to get together with their usual studio team and actually make that post-_White_ back-to-“real band” album, the later-recorded _Abbey Road_ (including some tracks we hear during the film) which they released promptly, causing a further delay of the pending project. By the time that _Let It Be_ as we know it got around to being finished, everyone involved had effectively gone their different ways except for corporate identity, and Phil Spector was brought in to put it out of its misery. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/23 "2010-10-09T03:22:16Z")
‘Let It Be’. I do love this album, I rank it above all their pre-_Rubber Soul_ albums. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/24 "2010-10-09T05:30:01Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > > [@Voyager](#): > > > > 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. You’re right on all counts (though technically, I didn’t make a similar caveat for “Love Me Do” in the very first poll, so if you’re hoping to vote for it on **Past Masters 1** , you’re out of luck ;)) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/25 "2010-10-09T07:36:32Z")
Let it be “Let it Be.” ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/26 "2010-10-09T15:48:27Z")
_Across the Universe_ was my choice, but I seriously considered _Let it Be_. I really like _I, Me, Mine_ as well. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/27 "2010-10-10T05:13:13Z")
If this was the poll for the vastly superior “Let It Be… Naked,” the title track would easily win it for me. The take of “Let It Be” Paul chose for “Naked” features my favorite George Harrison solo of all time, and overall that take is just a thousand times better than the original album track. Whoever allowed Phil Spector in that studio (John, I think?) made probably the biggest mistake of the Beatles’ career. That being said, for this poll, I voted for “Get Back.” 'Cuz it’s still great, and Spector didn’t shit all over it. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/28 "2010-10-10T05:19:55Z")
Because no one has chosen _For You Blue_ it has become my charity ear worm. _Because you’re sweet and lovely girl, I love you Because you’re sweet and lovely girl, I do…_ Eh, I’ve had worse ones. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/29 "2010-10-18T19:35:44Z")
Better naked. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/30 "2010-10-18T19:54:17Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Better naked. Isn’t everything? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/31 "2010-10-18T20:06:27Z")
Huh, I’d forgotten the overall shittiness of this album. For the Beatles, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520/32 "2010-10-19T08:49:02Z")
I was tempted to overlook “Across the universe” in favor of “Let it be” simply because various covers of Across have oversaturated my playlist such that I want to skip ahead whenever I hear it, but really, Across is still classic and more playable, or else I wouldn’t have overplayed it in the first place. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-let-it-be/556520.md?page=1)