Faith Current on Front Row & Backstage

"They add up to an aural pastiche that, while a dangerous inch away from “cluttered,” give a fitting yet subtle nod to a Phil Spector side (or, at the very least, a Tokens-produced Laurie Records/Chiffons track)." Thank you for putting "cluttered" and Phil Spector in the same sentence, even though I think you separated them by a "dangerous inch." I was just taking last night with a colleague about structural space in Beatles songs as one of their features, and compared Spector's Wall of Sound to a hoarder house in which there's not room for the listener to "walk around." Which brought the conversation inevitably to Let It Be -- it's hard to think of a more mismatched pairing than Spector and (esp) the '69 Fabs. No wonder Paul was pissed off. Anyway, that's a digression into my land, but I just thought it was synchronistic that clutter and Spector popped up here as well. And thanks for a fun article. I'd forgotten about that song entirely (and every time I read the title, I kept adding "it's Christmas" to it in my head until I got that sorted...)