10 Perfect Hard Rock & Metal Albums That Bands HATE
2. Let It Be - The Beatles
Towards the end of the Beatles' run, it looked like they were about to end their recording career on the greatest note possible. After Abbey Road put the cherry on top of their career, it felt like the Fab Four were now free to explore their own solo pursuits at will. The only problem was they had a contract that they needed to fill.
After abandoning the Get Back project after just a few months because of personal differences, most of the material from those sessions were folded into the album Let It Be as their final record, with every member of the band working on solo projects at the time. Though most of this sounds like a loose jam among friends, neither one of the principal songwriters have been all that satisfied with it.
As soon as it came out, John Lennon was already bad mouthing it, paying producer Phil Spector a backhanded compliment by saying he took the worst possible material and made it halfway decent.
In Paul McCartney's mind though, it was Phil that wrecked the record, sprinkling in his Wall of Sound dynamics and making some of the most down to Earth material in their catalog into some symphonic masterpiece. Though we got different remixes of this album through the years, we're left to wonder what would have happened if the Beatles decided to release this before Abbey Road.