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Post by morton on Jan 17, 2021 16:25:59 GMT
I normally wouldn’t have started a thread like this, but it gave me the excuse to post this and that seems like all the respect that Spector deserves. Incredible musical genius, but what a piece of shit person.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 17, 2021 16:54:23 GMT
I normally wouldn’t have started a thread like this, but it gave me the excuse to post this and that seems like all the respect that Spector deserves. Incredible musical genius, but what a piece of shit person. Well I'd say this about him............. movie wise and music wise: * He kind of ruined The Ramones at a crucial point in their career - I mean I love the Ramones but they'd have been better off without Phil and were never the same after. * Pacino's performance (and Mirren is also great) is positively eerie and "ghost like" in many scenes in that film......... I may be stealing that term from ibbi who may have said it about Al back in 1932 on IMDB but I was struck by its lucidity and keen insight since that is exceedingly rare for that Redcoat (kidding, kidding). Pacino in Phil Spector taps into something he could use in his Lear.......if he ever does it I mean. One of his best of the 2010s and he was great a bunch in the 2010s........ * Not a big Tom Cruise fan but Cruise's desire to play Spector all through his life was a great idea that never came off and was a huge missed opportunity. * Imagine how " He Hit Me And It Felt Like A Kiss" would go over nowadays.  .......and imagine when pacinoyes came on here and told you it's a masterpiece in conception and execution........  |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jan 17, 2021 20:52:00 GMT
I normally wouldn’t have started a thread like this, but it gave me the excuse to post this and that seems like all the respect that Spector deserves. Incredible musical genius, but what a piece of shit person. * Pacino's performance is positively eerie and "ghost like" in many scenes in that film Phil Spectre-like? |
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Post by ibbi on Jan 17, 2021 21:58:08 GMT
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Post by countjohn on Jan 19, 2021 4:02:33 GMT
Been a few days, but he might have been the greatest producer of all time. His sound just dominated whatever recording he worked on, even more than the song itself. The "auteur" description a lot of people gave him really fit. That wasn't necessarily always a positive such as when he was working with songwriters as great as The Beatles, but you have to respect it. Even then I like what he did with a lot of Let it Be, and as good as the songs were All Things Must Pass would not have been what it was without him producing.
His earlier girl group stuff isn't my thing as much but Be My Baby is still probably the greatest pop song of all time and his Christmas album might be my favorite pop album too and certainly the best Christmas album.
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.......and imagine when pacinoyes came on here and told you it's a masterpiece in conception and execution........ 
