10 Greatest Phil Spector Songs (Part 4)

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9) River Deep, Mountain High- Ike & Tina Turner

Here's how high the wall of sound could be built before tumbling. It's the song that Phil Spector considers to be his masterpiece, which says more about Phil Spector than it does about "River Deep, Mountain High". It was released in 1966 and was a failure in the U.S. and a failure that Phil took deeply to heart and rocked his world. The song that he had such high hopes for was rejected by the American public, only reaching number 88 on the billboard charts, and soon afterwards Phil shut down his record label and his long decline was begun. (It did go to #3 in Britain though). It's a monstrous and violent song, throttling the listener and scorching the Earth. It's a 5 foot 4 Phil Spector and the vicious Godlike vision that endued his little body. And it's revenge upon the planet; Tina you know not what you do. Behind the dark shades there was genius; and a violence and venom there too. Mis-estimated, unnoticed, an ego was wounded; and relentless and cruel is the heart that's had something to prove. The venom of genius; it runs deep when it's unseen or mis-estimated. And when it rears up it holds love like it's just a rag doll in its big giant hands that it's ripping in two.




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