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| 1. Get Back |
| 2. Two Of Us |
| 3. Dig A Pony |
| 4. I Me Mine |
| 5. Across The Universe |
| 6. Dig It |
| 7. I'Ve Got A Feeling |
| 8. The Long And Winding Road |
| 9. One After 909 |
| 10. For You Blue |
| 11. Maggie Mae |
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Having successfully polarised opinion between those who thought they were a deeply sinister claque of Balkan neo-fascists, and those who had concluded that Laibach were an amusing but rather silly situationist prank, Laibach trumped all expectation and belief with Let It Be: a cover version of the entire Beatles album of the same name, with the exception of the title track. The sleeve was also a pastiche of the original: Laibach's four core members glowering into the middle distance with the grim determination of Eastern Front foot soldiers determined to see out the Russian winter and storm Moscow when the snows melt; inside is a grisly black-and-white representation of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. There may well have been some sort of point to it all--Laibach always gave the impression that there was, even if it was likely to be lost on anyone outside the group--but it hardly matters. Let It Be is one of the most hilarious albums ever made. "Get Back" is rendered in Laibach's trademark style, reworked as a gruff, Germanic marching song--anyone who can suppress laughter when the singer barks "Get back, Jojo" as if calling troops to attention is either dead or, in fact, German. "Two Of Us", "Dig A Pony" and "For You Blue" are similarly riotous fun, and "The Long And Winding Road" is barely recognisable, a ghostly, atonal and oddly beautiful lament, back-dropped by ominously chanting crowds. The crowning achievement, however, is a startlingly gorgeous "Across The Universe", delivered absolutely straight-faced by an angelic female chorus. That Laibach are as mad as trombones is beyond doubt. But they are never boring. --Andrew Mueller
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Laibach and Let it Be...,
By Howard Change (Fishbourne) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Let It Be (Audio CD)
Is this a joke? Who cares! Laibach have deconstructed each track - apart from Let it Be which doesn't feature - and created something which fuses a multitude of styles. It's funny, inspiring, moving and always interesting. Worth buying. I've had this album on vinyl since 1988 and I'm just getting into it. I used to think it was rubbish, but then I hadn't heard past the first track on side 1. Then I listended to the whole thing and I can't get it off the turntable! Imagine a German Beta Band. That's Laibach as far as I can tell. I will be looking for other stuff by them.
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Taking The Beatles to higer places!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Let It Be (Audio CD)
It is not a new trend - releasing a cover track or an entire cover album. I first heard Laibach in an obscure radio show, that no longer exists. It was their cover to Two of Us. Fortunately, I was close to a tape recorder and instantly hit the record button.I immediately rushed and bought the album. Laibach's Two of Us, is a great demonstration of Laibach's craetivity and control of many music styles and musical interpretation. It is combined of classical and operaic fundementals, martial rhythms, heavy metal, and overpowerful excesive singing. You can laugh and enjoy the humour, or tremble with the power of songs. The Beatle are a milestone - Laibach are a gemstone. A great introduction to Laibach!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Alpine Gods shower manna from above,
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This review is from: Let It Be (Audio CD)
Anyone listening to the muddle of the album Let it Be sung by the Beatles will know the death bell was swaying over the Fab Four. The legacy is their social dismemberment.The Beatles changed the UK from a grey cardboard hierarchical caste system. Raucous northern swaggering leather clad lads liberated ladies from their underwear and showed everyone the guitar was a cultural weapon. In the USA however their sanitised rock killed the grit. By the time Let it Be appeared Paul Macartney had written "Helter Skelter" and Lennon had given the world "Piggies". Both interpreted by Manson as his particular calling card. Laibach's reinterpretation is an immense soundscape of achievement, the triumph of the imaginarium. Out goes fake white boy blues. In comes camp, bluster, menace, violence and tenderness. Get Back a brusque border patrol bark, commands a startled gap year backpacker to return to where he once belonged. It bring out the violent force of the music and is a piece of the sublime. old skool synths, guitars and drums evoke central european discipline, contained, restricted whilst soaring with eagles. Dig A Pony is high camp melodrama, the score for a Mika Tan porn flic, you can penetrate any place you go. I,me, mine a hymn for acquisition as the vocals scrape the bottom of oceans with mouth wide open, scooping up the bottom feeders in lust and greed, don't be frightened of living it. Meanwhile Across the Universe never sounded so soulful sweet soused with a vibe of menace. The eventual avenue for Volk. Choral harmonies, incandescent organs, searing guitars, choirs of angls and the baritone of Beelzebub. This is the march of the surreal into Central Europe out to penetrate the West. Now if the last Beatles album had sounded like this instead of rich white boys splattering the blues, their legacy would truly have been legendary. Just imagine them sitting on top of BBC tower barking out Get Back and Dig a Pony, the 60's would have segued into the 70's without a glitch. Social Revolution would have turned into the Weird Revolution without all of the dross filling the airwaves inbetween 1970 and 1977. I couldn't imagine a world without Laibach it would just be that little bit more dull and grey without these Eastern stalwarts painting rainbows and sprinkling rain on dry arid lands. They are harmonic diviners.
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