Tampering with the Beatles is as safe as juggling porcupines.

Unless you’re one of them.

Critiquing an album which, for all extensive purposes, was released 33 years ago and has become an adored staple of pop culture, also bears the same safety hazards.

-“Let It Be … Naked,” is a revamped version of the Fab Four’s final release, “Let It Be.” More than three decades after Phil Spector seized the role of producer from Sir George Martin, Paul McCartney spearheaded an effort to re-release “Let It Be” without Spector’s additional production and studio trickery. The result is 11 tracks of pure Liverpudlian rock ‘n’ roll.

Though the original 1970 release is a masterpiece in its own right, “Naked” creates new elements by stripping away layers of strings and horns, and leaving the bare framework of each track.

The current version features the original track listing, minus the song “Dig It.” “Naked” also rearranges the track order of the songs “I Me Mine,” “Two Of Us” and the nine others.

When compared to its predecessor, “Naked” sufficiently pleases the most critical Beatles purist. Whereas the original showcased how the group mastered the studio and used it to mask the hysteria behind the scenes, this release provides a bare glimpse into the hectic environment that the band was enduring in its final year.

By removing the excess production, the individual instrumentation, which had been covered up all these years, rightfully surfaces. The vocals are as raw as any early Beatles recording.

However, many of the songs were written with the original arrangements in mind, and the cuts leave occasional gaps in songs.

The new tapes provide an aura of the Beatles’ early pub-rock days, proving that “Naked” Beatles are still as sexy as ever.