{"id":3997,"date":"2011-10-30T19:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T02:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2011-10-30T19:17:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T02:17:39","slug":"various-artists-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/various-artists-4\/","title":{"rendered":"VARIOUS ARTISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>V<\/strong>ARIOUS ARTISTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Phil Spector Presents the Philles Album Collection<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Phil Spector Records\/Legacy]<\/p>\n

Phil Spector was never about albums. Monaural 7-inch 45s ruled his world, and with them he elevated the pop single to an art form. Give Spector three minutes and he\u2014with the help of his handpicked, world-class songwriters, engineers, vocalists and musicians\u2014could tell a story for the ages. Nonetheless, Spector did release albums on his own Philles label, and Phil Spector Presents the Philles Album Collection<\/em> aims to showcase those more extended visions for reconsideration. The first six albums released by Philles between 1962 and \u201964\u2014three by the Crystals, one by Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, one by the Ronettes and a collection of hits featuring all of the above and more\u2014were in record-store racks for the taking, although few wanted them at the time. Their loss. While it\u2019s apparent Spector didn\u2019t always utilize his full \u201cWall of Sound\u201d arsenal on tracks he knew he would never release as a single, several tucked-away gems can be found on each album. But the real reason for Phil-o-philes to get excited about this new box set\u2014available for the first time on CD\u2014is its seventh disc, \u201cPhil\u2019s Flipsides.\u201d Spector delighted in crafting oddly titled B-sides for his singles (many named after friends and cohorts). \u2013J. Tamarkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VARIOUS ARTISTS Phil Spector Presents the Philles Album Collection [Phil Spector Records\/Legacy] Phil Spector was never about albums. Monaural 7-inch 45s ruled his world, and with them he elevated the pop single to an art form. Give Spector three minutes and he\u2014with the help of his handpicked, world-class songwriters, engineers, vocalists and musicians\u2014could tell a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2656,2680,2678,2615,2679,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}