My Top 2000 Songs #1010: I've Got A Feeling

Alright, I've given up the exercise of simply adding more songs to the Top 1000. We're now calling it a Top 2000. Satisfied? 

And while I got most of the Beatles out of the way in the first 1000--honestly, how many Beatles songs do we need?--I'm dipping once again into Let It Be--my least favorite of the latter-period Beatles records, yet still full of great music (particularly as I've recreated it). "I've Got A Feeling," heard in its raw, live rooftop performance version on the original LIB (a similarly raw studio run-through finally saw light of day on the third Anthology collection), isn't what I'd call a groundbreaking Beatles song. After the artistic peaks of Sgt. Pepper/Magical Mystery, the eclectic quirkiness of the White Album, and the interwoven sonic wizardry of Abbey Road, it's the Beatles just playing a basic rock & roll song. 

Yet after those amazing records, there's something kinda cool about the Beatles just playing some rock & roll. Ultimately, I think it's the traded Paul & John lead vocals that nail it for me. While Abbey Road may have been recorded later in time, Let It Be has always been the break-up album, and the sadness of history's greatest rock band dissolving permeates the record. So hearing those two sharing vocal turns--basically mashing up two separate songs, yet sounding like true collaborators in a way they hadn't since the early days--has a sort of hopeful, last-gasp magic to it.

Sir Paul McCartney live 2022 (with ghost John... hmmm....):
Let It Be secret weapon Billy Preston:
Lucinda Williams:
Norah Jones:
Pearl Jam:

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