Modern Spector / wall of sound pastiches

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I'm looking for newer (mid 80s up until now) recreations of the Spector sound or parts thereof and would be interested in hearing your suggestions for tracks to check out. I can see that there's already been a thread discussing songs simply copping the Be my Baby beat, but I'm also interested in songs that are inspired by other elements, i. e castanets, abyss-like echo, a zillion overdubs and such. The songs do not have to be totally spectorized, just enough to detect a certain influence... It's often fascinating to hear how various musicians go about channeling their love of the wall of sound into their own work.

Here are some examples I've found so far:

Johnny Boy - You are the Generation who Bought more Shoes and You Get what You Deserve & College
Morrisey - Everyday Feels like Sunday
Jesus & Mary Chain - Just like Honey and other songs off Psychocandy
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize???
The Legends - Your Song
Brendan Benson - Pledge of Allegiance
Splitsville - the Popular
Saturday Looks Good to Me - No Good with Secrets & Can't Never Sleep
Mercury Rev - In a Funny Way
Adventures in Stereo - Long Live You & Ghosts
Manic Street Preachers - So Why so Sad
Ken Stringfellow - When You Find Someone (at times very Righteous Brothers ballad-like...)
The Heavy Blinkers - He Heard his Song
Spiritualized - Oh Baby & Do It All Over Again & Stop Your Crying
Magnetic Fields - Candy & When You Were my Baby
The Raveonettes - Ode to LA
Richard Hawley - Run for Me & his cover of Some Candy Talking
Eugene Kelly - Lady (cover of the Dennis Wilson song that is also know as 'Flowers Grow in the Spring)
The Concretes - Say Something New & Chico
Vanity Project - So. Cal
McAlmont & Butler - Yes

Do you have others that could go on this list?

― martin rj (bokeno), Saturday, 11 November 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Mirah - Cold Cold Water

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 11 November 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Radiohead, "Let Down"

― LC (Damian), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Garbage-Can't Cry These Tears Anymore

Pipettes to thread?

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

if you want to go back a few more years, Bruce Springsteen's Darkness at the Edge of Town with it's huge room and pianos and percussion and giant toms has a weird 70s rock depressed version of Wall of Sound action going on.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Magnetic Fields--Meaningless

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

More Springsteen: "Born To Run" "Hungry Heart"

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Cold Cold Water OTM. I might have to dig that back out...

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

Aislers Set

― David Bachyrycz (David Bachyrycz), Sunday, 12 November 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

Andrew WK
Redd Kross-"My Secret Life"

― Arthurgh! A Music War (Arthur), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

The Tubes - "Don't Touch Me There"

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Lot's of stuff from The Microphones/Mirah sounds either like Spector or Eric's Trip. Cold Cold Water, Million Miles, The Moon and so on.

Since your starting mid80s we could cheat by a year or two and say Tracy Ullman's 'They Don't Know' though most of that song was recorded in the late 70s.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

There's a mega-Spector tribute by Embrace, a b-side called Run Away, that cops the Be My Baby beat sort of and has the sound too.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

i think andrew wk's party hard era + piano ballads and some of go team!'s exhuberance are early-spectoresque without sounding like be my baby

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

nick, is that on the embrace b-sides comp ?

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

is there stuff that rips off seventies spector like leonard cohen's "death of a lady's man", lennon solo records or the ramones' "end off the century"?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

or are those lennon records sixties? anyway, you know what i mean

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

nick, is that on the embrace b-sides comp ?

No, it's a more recent one, on the 7" of Target. You can get a download from here - http://www.7digital.com/stores/default.aspx?shop=233

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

is there stuff that rips off seventies spector like leonard cohen's "death of a lady's man", lennon solo records or the ramones' "end off the century"?

I'm sure a few Wojewoda albums have some groundins in that area. Whale Music and Smile in particular, but they go all over the place so their easy answers.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

velocette - bitterscene

― (jg) ((jg)), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyone. Thank you for your suggestions! By all means, keep 'em coming... :-)

is there stuff that rips off seventies spector like leonard cohen's "death of a lady's man", lennon solo records or the ramones' "end off the century"?

Fritz: Check out 'Chico' by the Concretes and Richard Hawley's 'Run for Me'. They both have that slow, throbbing 70s Spector beat.

― martin rj (bokeno), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

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