Zero Zero Zero- The Best of Sam Phillips

Cruel Inventions Quietly, almost imperceptibly, Southern California thrush Sam Phillips has built up an exceptional body of work. Cruel Inventions is but the third in a gently swelling series of consistently creative, intriguingly off-center pop-rock recordings. As with all of her "Sam" recording...	Fan Dance For Sam Phillips, the days of star-making big-budget productions have passed. Having moved from Virgin, her major-label sponsor throughout the '90s, to Nonesuch, Phillips and longtime producer and husband T Bone Burnett have set aside the Beatle-esque pop that marked her uncovere...	A Boot and a Shoe On A Boot And A Shoe Sam Phillips fully realizes the sound she began exploring on her acclaimed Nonesuch debut, Fan Dance. The new music is simple while sophisticated, rich but economical, deriving much of its power from restraint and subtlety. Produced by T-Bone Burnett, the rec...	Omnipop (It's Only A Flesh Wound Lambchop) The dark, thudding opener "Entertainmen" is one of Phillips's most intriguing songs. Thereafter things get wonky as Phillips and her cohorts (Marc Ribot, husband T-Bone Burnett, Jerry Scheff, and others) let their experimental urges run free on songs that are a little too clever ...	Martinis & Bikinis With Martinis & Bikinis, Sam Phillips has revitalized the "Beatlesque" category with some substantial songwriting and a woman's voice, which turns the whole sound upside down. The Beatles hardly exhausted the possibilities of their late-'60s sound, and Phillips has the hooks and ...
Don't Do Anything	The Indescribable Wow Sam Phillips's first album of her post-contemporary Christian period is evocative, hooky big-beat folk-rock. With husband-to-be T-Bone Burnett contributing one of his most nuanced productions, The Indescribable Wow is full of varied settings for Phillips's love songs (the Shirell...	Our Little Corner of the World: Music From Gilmore Girls Full Title - Our Little Corner Of The World - Music From The Gilmore Girls. First soundtrack of music from the hit WB series. The show is packed with musical references and refreshing songs which Gilmore Girls audiences are seeking. Includes newly recorded, original songs, and...	All I Intended to Be Emmylou Harris has always had a way with woe. On All I Intended To Be, she seems more maudlin than ever as she sings her way through songs about loss, heartbreak, even the odd funeral. Of course, this is the kind of material Harris has always been comfortable with, but as her car...	Tooth of Crime You re my friend, but I m going to kill you. Don t fret. T Bone Burnett hasn t gone off the deep end. At least not in that way. He s merely explaining the tone of the putyou-on-your-heels opening track of his gripping new album, Tooth of Crime. At once seductive and unsettling fr...

Like A Fine Wine
Having just listened again to this album, I have to say that it has done nothing but improve to my ears over the years. Don't really think of it as a "best of" collection - it's just a very nice assortment of _some_ of her best songs, plus some very interesting remixes. (The remix of "Fighting With Fire" alone is worth the cost of a typical CD.) All-in-all, a very nice assortment of the work of the most underrated published songstress of our age.

I really am new to Sam Phillips; for me a good intro
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....
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.
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
"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!