Zero Zero Zero: The Best of Sam Phillips

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A wrap-up of Sam Phillips's decade-long stint with Virgin Records that began in 1988 with the sublime Indescribable Wow, Zero Zero Zero offers marvels aplenty for anyone unfamiliar with the California singer/songwriter's sterling work. Moreover, there are enough nifty extras tossed in to make it a worthwhile purchase for widely scattered Phillips fanatics. Phillips and producer T-Bone Burnett (Phillips's husband) teamed on all the Virgin releases, lovingly sculpting magical variations on Magical Mystery Tour-style psychedelia. Phillips's helium-high vocals and intriguingly cryptic lyrics, however, are the essential elements in these dizzying pop concoctions. Zero distills new songs, remixes, alternate takes, and album favorites into an intoxicating label sign-off. In the end, one can't help pondering, What next? --Steven Stolder

Entertainment Weekly
At her best, Phillips is the Elvis Costello of female singer-songwriters: lyrically literate, harmonically adventurous, ornery, and original.

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Average customer rating:

I really am new to Sam Phillips; for me a good intro
This Could Have Been a Better Collection....
Doesn't do her justice.
A Singer/Songwriter Ahead of Her Time
Clever by more than a half

Zero Zero Zero: The Best of Sam Phillips
Sam Phillips
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I8UC
Release Date: 1999-03-23

Tracks:

Disappearing Act
I Need Love
Holding On To The Earth (New Version)
Singposts
Where The Colors Don't Go (Alternate Mix)
Animals On Wheels
Black Sky
Flame (Remix)
Ribot Tripping Over Gravity
Hole In Time
You Lost My Mind
Cruel Inventions
Fighting With Fire (Remix)
Lying (Alternate Mix)
Strawberry Road

Amazon.com

A wrap-up of Sam Phillips's decade-long stint with Virgin Records that began in 1988 with the sublime Indescribable Wow, Zero Zero Zero offers marvels aplenty for anyone unfamiliar with the California singer/songwriter's sterling work. Moreover, there are enough nifty extras tossed in to make it a worthwhile purchase for widely scattered Phillips fanatics. Phillips and producer T-Bone Burnett (Phillips's husband) teamed on all the Virgin releases, lovingly sculpting magical variations on Magical Mystery Tour-style psychedelia. Phillips's helium-high vocals and intriguingly cryptic lyrics, however, are the essential elements in these dizzying pop concoctions. Zero distills new songs, remixes, alternate takes, and album favorites into an intoxicating label sign-off. In the end, one can't help pondering, What next? --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

I really am new to Sam Phillips; for me a good intro.......2005-01-25

The only other Sam Phillips album I've heard previous was "A Boot & A Shoe". I bought "Zero Zero Zero" to get an idea of whether I'd like to buy more of the earlier Sam. It has happened so often that I've heard one album by an artist, only to buy more and find that I'd somehow picked the one anomolous album. (For instance Jules Shear--"Between Us" is altogether different from anything else he's done--I loved it, and read reviews from fans of his other work who hated it--something for everyone, I guess).

On the strength of "Zero Zero Zero", I will buy more Sam Phillips albums. I liked it well enough to want to hear more, even though it wasn't a cohesive album, like "A Boot and A Shoe" (which was excellent, by the way).

Particularly strong tracks--"I Need Love", "Black Sky", & "You Lost My Mind"

This Could Have Been a Better Collection...........2003-08-12

I bought this CD merely to complete my Sam Phillips collection - even though I already had most of these songs on other CDs of hers. I was initially excited that a 'collection' was made, but then I read the songs listed and felt disappointed. Making a Sam Phillips 'Collection' is an impossible task - how can you pick and choose just a few songs to represent Sam Phillips?!? If anything, they should have released a box set of all her recordings!! While there are good songs on this release, there are many gems missing from what a fan would consider her best collections: like "Go Down", "Standing Still", "I Don't Want to Fall in Love", "I Don't Know How to Say Goodbye to You", "Same Rain", "Baby I Can't Please You", "Same Changes", "Entertain-men", "Help Yourself", I guess I could go on and on. I was surprised to see "Black Sky" on here - which was one of my all-time favorite songs, but didn't think it would be appropriate for a collection disc. The new cuts on here are ok, but nothing spectacular. I still think Virgin Records could have done Sam Phillips more justice by releasing a box set of all her recordings. Now, that would have been a great collection!!

Doesn't do her justice........2003-03-17

This "Best of" collection doesn't do it's job.
Fans will bemoan essential missing tracks, which, if you are bluntly honest about these sort of things, is unavoidable.
Those wishing to sample this unique artist will be poorly served, as this is nowhere near as ear-grabbing as "Martinis & Bikinis". That record, or the "Indescribable Wow" may be a better jumping-on point.
Nice to hear a few tunes I was not familiar with, but I think the album I'll return to most, of hers. will be "Martinis"

A Singer/Songwriter Ahead of Her Time.......2002-06-04

"Zero Zero Zero" is an extraordinary retrospective by an extremely gifted singer/songwriter who has always been ahead of her time.

Phillips' powerful and pointed lyrics paint a world that is superficial, harsh, and illogical.. In "I Need Love" she sings, "I need love, not some sentimental prison; I need God, not the political church; I need fire to melt the frozen sea inside me..." In "Signposts" she longs for a world where "beauty and the truth I could breathe like air." In "Animals on Wheels", a song that pretty much sums up much of human history, she cries, " The famous...don't have to be talented or do good work or be smart....."

It's NOT bitter irony, then, that fame has eluded this multi-talented musician!

Clever by more than a half.......2001-03-27

There's something here indescribable, which is just about right, since SP's first release was The Indescribable Wow. Sam Phillips is part savant, part naif, and part waif - seductive by thirds. Zero, Zero, Zero is a compilation of songs mostly from other releases. A good bit is from Martinis & Bikinis (1994), her closest brush with stardom. Missing is her John Lennon cover of "Gimme Some Truth", but the gorgeous "Flame (Remix)" insinuates itself into your soul with the subtle insistence of its inspiration, Beatles production values from the Rubber Soul period. T Bone Burnett is the producer and his licks come from various places, American folk as much as pop - witness the Brother, Where Art Thou! soundtrack. My favorite here is "Animals on Wheels", a piece SP sampled in her cameo in the Wim Wenders film The End of Violence.

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