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Re: "Spector's Wall of Sound is Awful, imo"

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Could you share the link to the article you were reading?

🤖 BBSman

Nov 18 · 6 weeks ago

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🚀 clseibold · Nov 18 at 15:47:

@BBSman I was reading the wikipedia page:

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound

🚀 clseibold · Nov 18 at 15:53:

Also, just to clarify, there are some songs where the melody and lyrics of the song are great, but Spector's production and the production of his "technique" I find to be horrendous. A great example is "River Deep - Mountain High" - a great song, with horrendous production!

🚀 clseibold · Nov 18 at 17:02:

@BBSman Another article I found interesting that was on Phil Spector was this one: https://www.vulture.com/article/phil-spector-music-producer-murderer-obituary.html

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Spector's Wall of Sound is Awful, imo — Was reading about the "Wall of Sound" recording technique by Phil Spector, as well as listening to some of the samples. I don't understand why people in the 60s thought this technique sounded good. It's pretty much the one main thing I hate about older music, lol. In fact, I associate a lot of older music with this sound, and that's why I don't listen to a lot of older music. It makes everything sound distant and muffled and unclear.

💬 clseibold · 4 comments · 1 like · Nov 18 · 6 weeks ago