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Boxed Set Brings Together Spector’s First Six Albums
In the early 1960s, Phil Spector was the king of teenage music, releasing his “little symphonies for the kids” and seeing them go to the top of the charts.
Many of those “little symphonies” are now rock ‘n’ roll classics — “He’s A Rebel,” “Be My Baby,” “Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts?” and “(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry,” to name just a few.
While rightfully thought of as singles, those songs also were packed into albums, discs that are being reissued for the first time on CD in “Phil Spector Presents The Philles Album Collection,” a seven-disc set coming Monday that presents the first six original albums from Spector’s label issued from 1962 to 1964.
Read more at JournalStar.com.
Unchained Melodies – The New York Observer Review
The Philles Album Collection doesn’t compete with Back to Mono; it complements the earlier set. And it’s the first time in my lifetime that I’ve seen Spector’s hits—decked-out and frenzied as Christmas trees—presented along with their sibling album cuts. Six of the seven discs you’ll find here reproduce LPs released on my dad’s own label. The seventh contains rare instrumental tracks. Hearing them come together is like watching the Wall of Sound’s carpenters at work.
Read more at The New York Observer’s Very Short List.
The Philles Album Collection – MOJO Magazine Review
The November 2011 edition of MOJO has given “Phil Spector Presents The Philles Album Collection” three stars! The magazine writes, “The good stuff remains wholly extraordinary. The recordongs made at Gold Star in association with arranger Jack Nitzsche, engineer Larry Levine and the infamous Wrecking Crew (a mix of jazz, film soundtrack and New Orleans musicians skilled enough to cut stuff live in one take) … sound as brilliantly and bombastically out-there now as they no doubt did back then.”
The Philles Album Collection Gets Four Stars!
In a new review, Audiophile Audition has given “Phil Spector Presents The Philles Album Collection” four stars, noting “its seven discs reproduce the greatest hits that Spector produced,” and it includes an entertaining disc of flipsides. Pre-order your copy today!