Challenge Revisited
Join me as I countdown Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time for the second time.
#489 Phil Spector and Various Artists, 'Back to Mono (1958-1969)' (1991)
This listen was a three-and-a-half-hour marathon of impeccably produced songs weaving a thick part of the tapestry of 20th Century music. A 4-disc collection of every single that Phil Spector produced. Artists the likes of The Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love, The Righteous Brothers, Ben E. King, Ike & Tina Turner, Nat King Cole, and his own band, The Teddy Bears.
#494 The Ronettes, 'Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes' (1964)
This, the only studio album the Ronettes ever released, is as much Phil Spector’s record as it is theirs. It’s a production triumph. Instruments upon instruments upon instruments creating the massive Wall Of Sound, the production technique that Spector pioneered.