★★★★★
Pop queen or punk symbol, she comes direct from the land of dreams ("You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory," "She Talks to Rainbows").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Sight of this disc will prompt one of two responses, depending
upon an individual's age and musical tastes: either "Ronnie Who?"
or "Ronnie Spector...on Kill Rock Stars?!?!" For the uninitiated,
Ms. Spector damn near singlehandedly defined the sound of sixties
girl groups, and she stays very faithful to that sound on She Talks
to Rainbows (other than the obvious lack of Phil Spector
participation)...
- www.splendidezine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Ronnie Spector, she of Ronettes/"Be My Baby" fame, is here again lookin' for a new "baby", baby. If all that sounds like another Hollywood summer remake, it's not too far off. Ronnie's done the 1971 reunion with all four broken-up Beatles, the 1976 Billy Joel/Bruce Springsteen treatment, something with Eddie Money, and even a Joey Ramone-guesting 1999 EP on Kill Rock Stars. It never gets even half as good as the great old days, depending of course on your feelings re: Eddie Money...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Ronnie Spector, she of Ronettes/"Be My Baby" fame, is here again lookin' for a new "baby", baby. If all that sounds like another Hollywood summer remake, it's not too far off. Ronnie's done the 1971 reunion with all four broken-up Beatles, the 1976 Billy Joel/Bruce Springsteen treatment, something with Eddie Money, and even a Joey Ramone-guesting 1999 EP on Kill Rock Stars. It never gets even half as good as the great old days, depending of course on your feelings re: Eddie Money...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Imagine that you're the president of a record label; not a branch of some
corporate conglomerate, but the type of label you'd dream of starting if you
chose to dream of such things. You're in your office one morning getting
your daily dose of Pitchfork off the net when Ronnie Spector walks in.
Right off the bat, her Phil Spector days come to mind. "Hey, Ron. Nice
Phil Spector days ya got there," you'd say, gesturing her to take a seat.
But wait...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Ronnie Spector's legend precedes her. She is the rock and roll diva that with her sister Estelle and her cousin Nedra became the Ronettes and the voice behind Phil Spector's famed "Wall of Sound." The former Veronica Bennett then married Spector and he proceeded to destroy her life and her career with his jealousy and irrational behavior...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Ronnie Spector sang "Be My Baby" as the ultimate bad Catholic dream girl, a barely legal Spanish Harlem incident with a voice that's been blowing woofers since 1963. She is St. Veronica, blessed among women, inspiring bad girls from Patti Smith to Madonna to spend years chasing her echo, not to mention nice Catholic boys like Scorsese, Springsteen and Johnny Thunders. The Voice is back with her first record in more than a decade, a five-song High Mass co-produced by Joey Ramone...
- www.rollingstone.com
2008-08-07
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