The Entroporium » beatles http://entroporium.com Internet home of Shawn Roberts and his weekly internet radio show Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:43:08 +0000 en hourly 1 Copyright © The Entroporium 2010 shawn@entroporium.com (The Entroporium) shawn@entroporium.com (The Entroporium) 1440 http://entroporium.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg The Entroporium http://entroporium.com 144 144 Podcast edition of The Entroporium, which airs live Thursdays 10pm Pacific on FCCFree Radio Podcast edition of the eclectic internet radio show heard Thursday nights on FCCFree Radio The Entroporium The Entroporium shawn@entroporium.com no no “It goes to 11″ – Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound http://entroporium.com/2010/11/phil-spector-wall-of-sound-this-one-goes-to-11/ http://entroporium.com/2010/11/phil-spector-wall-of-sound-this-one-goes-to-11/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:00:49 +0000 Shawn http://entroporium.com/?p=1020 “It goes to 11″ – Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound

This podcast originally aired on 11/11, Nigel Tufnel’s favorite day.  We can truly say that this day goes to 11 – a couple of times.

And there’s only one way to properly celebrate 11/11:  Get Loud.

In this episode, I pay tribute to the man who brought the LOUD to pop music: Phil Spector.  His Wall Of Sound was both smart marketing and a revolution in how records were made.  The songs were pretty good, too.  Then he started hanging with The Beatles and things just got weirder from there.  Really weird.

SET LIST (all produced or co-written by Spector unless otherwise noted)

The Ramones – Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?
The Ramones talk about working with Phil Spector
The Teddy Bears – To Know Him Is To Love im
Ben E. King – Spanish Harlem
The Crystals – He’s A Rebel
The Crystals – There’s No Other (Like My Baby)
The Crystals – He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)
Darlene Love – You’ll Never Get To Heaven
Darlene Love – (Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry
The Crystals – Then He Kissed Me
The Ronettes – Be My Baby
The Ronettes – I Can Hear Music
The Ronettes – Baby I Love You
The Treasures – Hold Me Tight
The Ronettes – Is This What I Get For Loving You
Veronica – So Young
Carole King – Just Once In My Life (Carole King’s demo)
The Righteous Brothers – Just Once In My Life
Ike & Tina Turner – River Deep, Mountain High
Hal Blaine talks about working with Phil Spector
The Standells – The Boy Next Door (prod by Sonny Bono)
Buffalo Springfield – Expecting To Fly (prod by Jack Nitzsche)
Tony Summers – Make Time Stand Still (prod by Mark Wirtz)
John Lennon – Instant Karma!
John Lennon – Old Dirt Road
George Harrison – Isn’t It A Pity
Leonard Cohen – True Love Leaves No Traces
Starsailor – Silence Is Easy
]]> http://entroporium.com/2010/11/phil-spector-wall-of-sound-this-one-goes-to-11/feed/ 0 1:54:44 In this episode, I pay tribute to the man who brought the LOUD to pop music: Phil Spector.  His Wall Of Sound was both smart marketing and a revolution in how records were made.  The songs were pretty good, too.  Then he started hanging with The Bea[...] In this episode, I pay tribute to the man who brought the LOUD to pop music: Phil Spector.  His Wall Of Sound was both smart marketing and a revolution in how records were made.  The songs were pretty good, too.  Then he started hanging with The Beatles and things just got weirder from there.  Really weird. Podcast The Entroporium no no Preparing for the brawls over The Beatles Rock Band http://entroporium.com/2009/04/preparing-for-the-brawls-over-the-beatles-rock-band/ http://entroporium.com/2009/04/preparing-for-the-brawls-over-the-beatles-rock-band/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:35:25 +0000 Shawn http://entroporium.com/?p=399 Virtually unremarked upon in the hullabaloo last week over the imminent reissue of The Beatles catalog is its tie-up with Rock Band.  Obviously for marketing reasons its no coincidence that The Beatles Rock Band will arrive on the same day: September 9, 2009.  (Prepare for “Number nine, Number nine, Number nine” to feature strongly in the build-up.)

A number of commentators have remarked that these CDs may represent the last great CD release, a tombstone for a dying format.  Based on Aerosmith’s phenomenal success with Guitar Hero, which made the band more money than any of their albums, the CDs are not the real reason we’ll be seeing this push.  In that case, why not just put out The Beatles Rock Band out this year and then create another major marketing push for the CDs (or DVDs or downloads or what have you) in 2010?

My hunch is that The Beatles currently available CDs – rushed on to the market with barely a remix in the late ‘80s – were too lo-fi as they stood to be released on to machines providing high-fidelity experience like Xbox 360’s or PlayStation 3’s.  All of my friends who play Rock Band-like games have their consoles hooked to their stereos, not just their tiny TV speakers.  And when played after the loud, bright, often surround mixes demanded by these environments, The Beatles recordings will sound at best mid-rangy and at their worst completely colorless.  Through 1966, all the vocals were on one channel, the instruments on the other, which means that all the new Stereo and Surround mixes to come will be 2009 inventions.

So as the sonic quality comes up to par, expect not just a Beatles marketing blitz, but perhaps a whole re-evaluation of their work and ability as musicians – not to mention, a huge online war between the purists who think the 2009 stereo remastering paints a mustache on Mona Lisa and others who feel like “we’re hearing The Beatles for the very first time.”  (Another rank unfairness against their brethren like the Rolling Stones and The Who, both of whom put out fantastic-sounding remasterings chock full of extras earlier this decade to little fanfare.)

Another prediction: expect new respect for Ringo’s contributions.

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