true tycoons of teen: the neptunes vs phil spector?

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who's better?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Neptunes are Dad-Hop though :)

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I just bought "Justified" (gonna post more about that later) and the Neptunes tracks are fab, but c'mon Phil Spector... !

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 10 January 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I just bought "Justified"

Et tu, Brute?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 January 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Neptunes aren't teen at all, as all of their work with Teen Pop acts comprises of the performers trying to escape from the genre (Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears.) I do think that if they ever get a box set it'll be superior to Back To Mono

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I never really got Spector. Easy to admire but hard to love - difficult to listen with an open mind after I'd read Ronnie Spector's biog.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 10 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Daniel is expressing what I couldn't cos I'd been down the pub and it was late at night - the Neptunes, great though they are, are like most super-producers in that they get called in to smooth an artist through a transition stage or a difficult record (actually Spector set the tone for this 'boutique producer' thing with his coming out of retirement to (over)do Let It Be, I'd guess).

I don't know how regularly they hit the mark in their pursuit of teen appeal, either. I think their most satisfying productions often come when they get the opportunity to shape artists - Kelis and Clipse, say.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm more interested in a comparison a poster intitiated weeks ago, I forget who, Neptunes vs. Jim O'Rourke. What do y'all think? They're both post modernists who combine high and low forms.

― theodore fogelsanger, Friday, 10 January 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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