Phil Spector on Mean Streets, the be-my-baby sound and Brian Wilson.

[Gilsams]

Spector + Lennon > Scorsese, DeNiro & Keitel

[CopelandMeister]

Fuck you, Phil Spector.

[jenslll777]

Phil Spector a wonderful producer in the 60 s. Be my baby are one of the best songs ever. But for me Spector never produced an album like Pet Sounds like B, Wilson did! Wilson always talks with respect when he talks about Spectors work.

[ralphcraddock]

he hates it but he loves it got it.

[restructuremix5]

Politics and greed...its music! You can hear it on the radio. What happened to the day when artists were starvign and did it because they loved it and had a message? I hope the Internet has changed all of this.

[mircea1910]

from 2:44 up to 3:08, the guy doesn't blink; that's 24 seconds of him not blinking even once

[annaannamusic]

GENIUS. And a horrible man.

[lsmoulton]

I would have thought Spector would have been "flattered" that Scorsese used "Be My Baby"

over the opening credits of his film ?

[CrazedAfroninja]

What an asshole

[carbine125]

He may have been a genius producer but he just seems like such an asshole.

[fjohnson747]

@carbine125 Agree. That's the distinct impression I get about Steve Jobs after reading his bio. Superlative achievers too often seem to have something missing in their personality that makes them less than admirable human beings.

[DimensionsofChange]

Did this guy have a stroke or something?

[alburtise]

@DimensionsofChange I recall from a biography that Mr. Specter takes serious medication for mental illness, which might explain the slur. His jealousy of Brian Wilson never ceases to amaze and sicken.

[savecolaclibrarynow]

Where is part two etc ...why not upload the complete show?????

[myboylollipop09]

Still, one of the greatest rock and roll records of all time! Be My Baby!!

[28mark]

As much as I love the work of Spector and Wilson, they both are perfect examples of lives with too much drugs and money. Listen to Phil talk...and then talk about Brian. The pot calling the kettle...funny but also sad.

[fjohnson747]

@28mark I suspect that Spector's speech affect here is more a result of the head trauma from his auto accident than from drug consumption. That's also why he wears the wacky wigs.

[paulod27]

You'll probably be called somebody's baby now in your new home Phil. Just make sure that you buy shower gel instead. Mean Streets could still have worked without 'Be my Baby', but admittedly it did help the film.

[JuxtaposeMystery]

good vibrations is an edit record

[rawrxpoop]

Be My Baby did not create Scorsese's and De Niro's career so shut the fuck up.

[AOXOMOXO]

Sure...Brian labored endlessly trying to figure out "Be My Baby"...take it as a complement, you whacked out Loon!

How many joints Brain smoked?

What fried your brain Phil?

Between the two of you ...who is

going to be remembered for the body of work?

[dumbangel21]

He is obviously jealous of Brian.

[vampyros1]

That 'Good Vibrations' is an "edit record" is a red herring; lest you think otherwise Phil Spector, you're not, nor have you ever been, fit to grovel at the musical feet of Brian Wilson. He's a bona fide genius, and you've cut a few decent records. There are precious few of the former, and many of the latter. Get over yourself, Brian eclipsed you (and nearly everyone) loooong ago.

[kts68]

Spector's "Wall of Sound" was different in its day but there is nothing inherently clever or technically brilliant about it. Looking back on it now, its just a mid-range explosion of sound with no subtlety at all.

Spector has dined out on the undeserved myth that it was, and sill is, something special. He's clearly deluded and crossed the line when he criticises Brian Wilson's work.

[ALostPilot]

@kts68 sorry, but bollocks. Are great singers just people producing high range pitched notes from their throats, great guitarists justs people producing patterned combinations of notes from plucked stringed instruments etc. Its imagination, the foundation fo all great art. If you dont see it then maybe its not there for you but the world did.

[iferraro]

Shut your mouth Phil, you god damned lunatic.

[unkmike43]

There's two things Phil should never shoot off: His mouth & a gun. I wish he was still doing records, not life.

[BobbyD167]

Who's this guy skeezy?

[enoughalready1000]

LOL at "they're all talented except Keitel"

[BobbyD167]

@enoughalready1000 They're all ITALIAN except Keitel.

[nannymeow1]

@enoughalready1000 they're all Italian except Keitel.

[ThePinkhamsterino]

@enoughalready1000 He said "they're all Italian except Keitel" not "talented"

[jmua04]

Phil is a legend but he is totally paranoid and jealous of Brian Wilson. You don't go on and on trying to discredit someone's work if you think so little of them.

[shimokita2]

Why in the world is he going on about hoping that Brian Wilson knows that it was an edit record?

[CaRuCCi86]

"Goodfellows" lol

[finalsolution14]

FREE PHIL SPECTOR!

[themower]

@finalsolution14

he looks pretty free to me, whats with that setting: grand piano in the back?

[jimfliptx]

@finalsolution14 Fuck that. He may have been a brilliant producer, but he is a worthless human being. Ask his family.

[OmnisPugnasCertus]

@jimfliptx you're useless,and your still free.

[paulod27]

Spector is a genius, but instead of picking up the recording artists, he may be picking up the soap instead.

[ZwankyTanky]

Phil is good but Brian is the best!

[jbdean55]

probably the worst john lennon impression i've ever heard. lol

[Kalle72]

@jbdean55 LOL!

[destructivedandy]

@jbdean55 Who knew John Lennon came from the bronx huh? Haha! That's the kind of noise Phil will be making in the showers now I'm sure ;)

[Griffinication]

my mistake M3town3. But it illustrates the point even better. That song is nice to listen to but it's hardly anything special. And as far as the production race...Spector is great but can't match Brian.

[mangoshakess]

man this guy is so off. and yeah wilson took spector's wall and refined it. Took less instruments and made a better sound.

[mkqp]

All films are edit films, you strange man.

[jeroen1]

i thought Brian Wilson was crazy but this one is really crazy!! hahahaha....

[Griffinication]

Not taking away from Phil's talent, but he is 100% wrong in condemning ANY of Brian's work. Little Deuce Coupe may not be lyrically mature, but it's certainly lyrically superior to "To Know Him Is To Love HIm", and that took three people to write; one of them being Phil. BTW, Brian surpassed the wall of sound technique in the 60's Phil...and let's not call people crazy if you don't want the finger pointed at you. Brian's not in prison for murder.

[Okiemom50]

@Griffinication

Ditto.

[M3town3]

@Griffinication To Know Him Is To Love Him was the first song Phil ever wrote. By himself... and it went to number one. Now just that prooves you how much talent he had. could Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys do that?

[GrindDesigns]

@Griffinication Brian never reached the maturity of Spector's work. Spector made adult records with adult emotions, Wilson made bubble gum records that imitated Spector's songs.

[kcjerry1]

@GrindDesigns you clearly havnt heard Pet Sounds

[Roberthenryii]

best movie director and best music producer. He talks weird