– There is an unpretentiousness to it, and compared to what was passing itself off as weird in rockland with prog music at the time this just sounded weirder to me, and it seemed to come from an odder dimension.

The Smiths’ musikalske hærfører og guitar-es Johnny Marr om ovenstående Phil Spector-symfoni fra 1961 med The Crystals, en erklæret top-10-favorit i hans singleplade-samling.