Wall of Sound

Wall of Sound is a technique used by music producers to create a dense, layered, and reverberant sound. It was developed by record producer Phil Spector during the 1960's.

It is awesome.

Whenever me and anybody else try to get together to record something, I always end up coming back to this "wall of sound" idea. I've always been a fan of music that just seems to fill the room. Intricate solos, meaningful lyrics, I always feel like that stuff is secondary to making music that you can almost get lost in. That's probably why I like really full, layered, almost repetitive songs with clear melodies being played by multiple instruments at once. Effects like distortion, reverb, and delay can also add a lot of texture and kind of meld everything together (or they can totally destroy it if they are used poorly). If everything is constructed right, there is no sound I would rather hear.

All that being said, I think the song "Take A Picture" by Filter pulls it off really well. From my experience, people either really like the song, or they hate it. But if you want to hear a legitimate wall of sound, check it out.

I thought about that song because I just watched "The Girl Next Door." Incidentally, I would do absolutely anything for Elisha Cuthbert. She is the most perfect human being ever created.

Even if she is Canadian.