Phil Spector - HecklerSpray

Top 10 Badly Produced Records, Like, Ever!

September 20th, 2012 By hecklerspray staff

Great songs can be spoiled by awful production and bad songs are made unbearable with awful sound. There’s millions of them out there, all making your ears’ life a misery and doing their best to make you wish you were deaf.

Some of the greatest, most forward-thinking producers have been responsible for awful sounding records. The picture to the right should give you a clue about one such chap!

And so, the folks behind the ASUS Sonic Master campaign asked us to have a think about some dreadful sounding records, which saw one hecklerspray writer being thrown into the street with a copy of ‘Pet Sounds’ and the imprint of a size 10 in his posterior.

Al Pacino To Play Phil Spector In Gun-Based Film?

October 14th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

Phil Spector is a great example of a person that should be divorced from the music he made. Basically, he’s a hideous prick… but some of the productions he gave us are magnificent. Of course, he’s not the only nasty shit that had a hand in great records, but he is a proper bastard.

As such, demented people like Mr Wall of Sound are much more interesting and thereby more likely to have films made of them. Can you imagine a biopic of Taylor Swift? It’d be 3 hours of someone saying “…which was nice”, apart from the brief Kanye appearance which, “turned out okay in the end.”

So who would play Phil Spector in a film? Would you need a separate team just to control his gigantic wigs? Well, Al Pacino is reported to be staring as the controversial music producer who is currently serving life in prison for murder.

What Should Chris Brown Do Next? Discussed

November 5th, 2009 By Josh Burt

Chris Brown, the R&B singer, is unsure of how he is perceived by his fans. We know this, because that's what he said in an interview.

Do they still love him for his music? Or have his tender sex songs lost a little bit of their appeal since he decided to practice Kung Fu on his ex-girlfriend Rihanna?s beautiful face? Yeah, it's a concern, isn't it Chris?

Unfortunately, sensual declarations of love to a backing track do tend to sound a bit watery, once you know that beneath the gargantuan teeth, and the promises of a better future, beats the thumping heart of a maniac just seconds away from a red mist. Sneeze at the wrong moment, and he might come at you with a brick. Still, all is not lost for Chris Brown. Using some templates from other famous people who have been unmasked for dodgy wrong-doings, here are a few paths that he could choose to tread…

Q: What’s Bald And Shoots Women In The Face? A: Phil Spector

June 11th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Phil Spector, you’ve let us down. Worse, you’ve let yourself down. For years we’ve been calling you the guy with the crazy hair.

But look at this new mugshot, Phil Spector. You’re bald. The top of your head is completely bald. So what can we call you now? The guy with the mad boggly eyes and the conviction for shooting a woman in the face at close range with a handgun? Hardly rolls off the tongue.

Fine, we’ll go with that. But you’d better not be faking your murderous resentment of females too, Phil Spector, or we’ll be sorely peeved.

Turns Out Phil Spector Really Is A Murderer, Then

April 14th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Phil Spector should be updating his CV today – underneath ‘producer’ and ‘creepy oddball’ he needs to add ‘murderer’.

That’s because – although scientists had forecast that it wouldn’t end until long after humans became slaves to their evil robot overlords – the Phil Spector murder trial has finally reached its dramatic conclusion. And apparently he did it – Phil Spector has been convicted of second-degree murder.

Phil Spector now faces a mandatory life sentence, reflecting the tragedy of the situation. Not that he shot Lana Clarkson, you understand, but that he didn’t shoot the person responsible for all his batty old lesbian wigs.

Phil Spector Murder Trial Redux: Injured Juror, Hold Your Horses

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

We’ve missed Phil Spector. Like many people we see him as the lesbian-haired wobbly old uncle who nobody trusts around women that we never had.

And that’s why we should all be greeting the retrial of Phil Spector over the alleged murder of Lana Clarkson like the celebration it is. For the next few months we get to go over all of Phil Spector’s greatest hits – the funny hair, the driver who he apparently confessed the murder to, the endless scientific discussions about bullet trajectory, the funny hair. The funny hair. And that all starts right now.

Well, OK, not right now. The second crack at the Phil Spector murder trial was set to begin yesterday, but it couldn’t because a juror fell over in the car park and broke his foot, forcing a postponement. Remember that if Phil Spector is found guilty of murder he’ll be given life in jail. So probably about a fortnight at this rate.

Phil Spector’s Trial-Hotel To Sue Phil Spector At Trial

March 24th, 2009 By Shawn Lindseth

When Phil Spector needed a place to stay that wasn’t a prison, a jail, or a cot next to the furnace in a friend of a friend’s unfinished basement, The Westin Bonaventure kindly took him in, giving him something called ‘heavenly beds’ and possibly a continental breakfast.

But Spector (enter dark looming clouds) didn’t like bagels with cream cheese, small personal-size boxes of raisin bran or apples with tiny, brown, centimeter-deep puncture wounds on them. No, the continental breakfast definitely would not do. So maybe he ordered room service every single day instead.

Well whatever he did it looks like he was paying for extra of something – the hotel is currently suing him for $110,000 they claim he owes them. Will the hotel ever see this money? Probably not – but Spector’d no doubt be happy to throw in some unneeded “Wall of Sound” if that would help at all.

You know, the kind he used to toss around so freely circa 1970.