8032 - MARIANNE FAITHFULL - GIVE MY LOVE TO LONDON (2014)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL
''GIVE MY LOVE TO LONDON''
SEPTEMBER 29 2014
38:53

1 Give My Love To London 03:53
Written ByMarianne Faithfull, Steve Earle
Bass, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Guitar – Adrian Utley, Steve Earle
Guitar, Bells – Mick Jones
Percussion, Harmonium – Rob Ellis
Violin, Viola – Warren Ellis
2 Sparrows Will Sing 03:49
Written By Roger Waters
Backing Vocals – Andy Hughes, Ben Christophers
Bass – Ed Harcourt
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Dimitri Tikovoï
Piano, Synthesizer, Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Rob Ellis
3 True Lies 02:26
Written By Dimitri Tikovoi, Edward Harcourt, Marianne Faithfull
Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Organ – Dimitri Tikovoï
Drums – Jim Sclavunos
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
4 Love More Or Less 03:24
Written By Marianne Faithfull, Tom McRae
Guitar – Adrian Utley, Tom McRae
Piano, Organ – Ed Harcourt
Synthesizer – Ben Christophers
5 Late Victorian Holocaust 04:21
Written-By – Nick Cave
Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Bass – Dimitri Tikovoï
Cello – Ian Burdge
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Pixiephone – Ben Christophers
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner, Warren Ellis
6 The Price Of Love 02:15
Written By Donald Everly, Phil Everly
Backing Vocals – Anna Calvi
Bass, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Harmonica – Son Of Dave
Piano – Ed Harcourt
7 Falling Back 03:45
Written By Anna Calvi, Marianne Faithfull
Backing Vocals – Anna Calvi
Bass – Dimitri Tikovoï
Cello – Ian Burdge
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Tambourine – Flood
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner
8 Deep Water 03:06
Written By Faithfull, Cave
Arranged [String] – Dimitri Tikovoï
Flute [Alto] – Warren Ellis
Harmonium, Pixiephone – Ben Christophers
Piano – Ed Harcourt
9 Mother Wolf 04:02
Written By Marianne Faithfull, Patrick Leonard
Drums, Percussion – Dimitri Tikovoï
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Percussion – Rob Ellis
Piano, Organ, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
Viola – Warren Ellis
10 Going Home 04:05
Written By Leonard Cohen, Patrick Leonard
Backing Vocals – Brian Eno, Rob Ellis
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Piano, Backing Vocals – Ed Harcourt
11 I Get Along Without You Very Well 03:43
Written By Hoagy Carmichael
Arranged [String] – Rob Ellis
Cello – Ian Burdge
Guitar – Adrian Utley
Harp – Ben Christophers
Piano, Bass – Ed Harcourt
Viola – Emma Owens
Violin – Gillon Cameron, Natalia Bonner
REVIEW
by Thom Jurek (AllMusic)
Though there is no musical resemblance, the title track of Marianne Faithfull's Give My Love to London looks back at her brilliant reading of Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's "Pirate Jenny" on her 20th Century Blues album from 1997, and even mentions her by name. Co-written with Steve Earle, who frames her lyrics in an acoustic, Celtic, country stomp, it's a conqueror's last laugh: she's survived the best attempts at securing her demise. (Bouts with cancer and a fall that broke her sacrum in four places among them.) Faithfull's previous four albums in the 21st century have all been strong, but this one tops them. Her writing collaborators here include Nick Cave, Anna Calvi, Ed Harcourt, Patrick Leonard, and Tom McRae. Her bandmates are an all-star unit too, and include Harcourt, Adrian Utley, Dimitri Tikovoi, Rob and Warren Ellis, and strings. Cave co-wrote one song with her (the tender "Deep Water") and one for her: the glorious "Late Victorian Holocaust," the album's hinge piece, a frank, poignant, ballad-cum-theatrical chamber work of junkie camaraderie that draws on their separate experiences of drug addiction and establishes a shared intimate language. Roger Waters, who contributed "Incarceration of a Flower Child" to her 1999 album Vagabond Ways, gives her "Sparrows Will Sing," a swirling, angry anthemic rocker. "Falling Back," co-written with Calvi, is among the most directly autobiographical love songs in Faithfull's catalog. "Mother Wolf" competes with "Late Victorian Holocaust" for the finest track on the set. Co-written with Leonard, its pulse-pounding piano, squalling electric guitars, rumbling tom-toms, viola, and layered backing vocals underscore the snarling militancy in Faithfull's words, delivered with feral intensity in a simple verse/chorus/repeat structure: "We are the free people/We do not kill for pleasure/We are like a starry night/We gaze at the world/Through a thousand eyes…."). The reading of Leonard Cohen's "Going Home" recalls the half-spoken/half-sung delivery (with Brian Eno on backing vocals no less) and places the singer in the place of the subject's muse, observing him without pity or condemnation. Hoagy Carmichael's "I Get Along Without You Very Well" is reinterpreted through the Weimar Republic's cabaret musical vocabulary, too: She's backed by chamber strings, piano, a harp played like a bouzouki, and bass. Faithfull's not only comfortable in this setting (20th Century Blues/Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins, etc), she's an authority in interpreting it. The intimate yet dramatic sadness in this reading completes a series of bridge constructions from the eras in Faithfull's musical past to her present. Thus, Give My Love to London is as complete a portrait of the artist -- at least from the late '70s on -- as we've ever had. In total, it reveals no abatement in her creative renaissance.

6339 - MARIANNE FAITHFULL - Horses And High Heels (2011)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL
''HORSES AND HIGH HEELS''
2011
51:24

1 /The Stations
Greg Dulli / Mark Lanegan/4:24
2 /Why Did We Have to Part
Marianne Faithfull / Laurent Voulzy/3:44
3 /That's How Every Empire Falls
R.B. Morris/5:52
4 /No Reason
Jackie Lomax /2:52
5 /Prussian Blue
David Courts / Marianne Faithfull/5:03
6 /Love Song
Lesley Dunvan/4:37
7 /Gee Baby
Mary Alma Baker / J.J. Johnson / Sylvia Robinson / T. Texas Tyler/2:50
8 /Goin' Back
Gerry Goffin / Carole King/3:42
9 /Past, Present and Future
Arthur Butler / Jerry Leiber / George "Shadow" Morton/2:47
10 /Horses and High Heels
Marianne Faithfull / Doug Pettibone/3:52
11 /Back in Baby's Arms
Allen Toussaint/4:20
12 /Eternity
Marianne Faithfull / Doug Pettibone/4:03
13 /The Old House
Leo Abrahams / Franck McGuinness/4:04

Bob Andrews /Fender Rhodes, Organ, Piano
Mark Bingham /Arranger, Bass, String Arrangements
Jack Craft /Cello
Anthony Cuccia /Congas, Drums (Bass), Glockenspiel, Handclapping, Shaker, Tambourine
Marianne Faithfull /Vocals
Jonathan Frelich /Guitar (Acoustic)
Helen Gillet /Cello
Jon Gross /Tuba
Sam Kraft /Violin
Wayne Kramer /Guitar (Electric)
Harmony Mintern /Harp
Jenni Muldaur /Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Carlo Nuccio /Drums
Matt Perrine /Tuba
Doug Pettibone /Banjo, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Pedal Steel, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
George Porter, Jr. /Bass
John Porter /Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
Mac Rebennack /Fender Rhodes, Piano
Lou Reed /Guitar, Soloist
Matt Rhod /Violin
Matt Rhody /Violin
Janna Sazlaw /Flute
James P. Walsh /Arranger, Conductor, String Arrangements
Dr. Michael White /Clarinet
Karol Winton /Banjo, Bass, Guitar (12 String), Guitar (Electric), Lap Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals, Vocals (Background)

REVIEW
by Jon O'Brien

Produced by long-term collaborator Hal Willner, Marianne Faithfull's 19th studio album, Horses and High Heels, sees the '60s icon revisit eight classic songs from her heyday on her second consecutive covers-heavy album, following 2009's Easy Come Easy Go. Its 13 tracks include reworkings of the Shangri-Las' "Past, Present and Future," Lesley Duncan's "Love Song," and Dusty Springfield's "Goin' Back," alongside several new compositions ("Why Did We Have to Part," "The Old House") and guest appearances from Lou Reed, Dr. John and MC5's Wayne Kramer.

BIOGRAPHY
by Richie Unterberger

Few stars of the '60s have reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut single, the Jagger/Richards composition "As Tears Go By" (which prefaced the Stones' own version by a full year). Considerably more successful in her native land than the States, she had a series of hits in the mid-'60s that set her high, fragile voice against delicate orchestral pop arrangements: "Summer Night," "This Little Bird," and Jackie DeShannon's "Come and Stay with Me." Not a songwriter at the outset of her career, she owes more of her fame as a '60s icon to her extraordinary beauty and her long-running romance with Mick Jagger, although she offered a taste of things to come with her compelling 1969 single "Sister Morphine," which she co-wrote (and which the Stones later released themselves on Sticky Fingers).

In the '70s, Faithfull split up with Jagger, developed a serious drug habit, and recorded rarely, with generally dismal results. This occurred until late 1979, when she pulled off an astonishing comeback with Broken English. Displaying a croaking, cutting voice that had lowered a good octave since the mid-'60s, Faithfull had also begun to write much of her own material, and addressed sex and despair with wrenching realism. After allowing herself to be framed as a demure chanteuse by songwriters and arrangers throughout most of her career, Faithfull had found her own voice, and suddenly sounded more relevant and contemporary than most of the stars she had rubbed shoulders with in the '60s. Faithfull's recordings in the '80s and '90s were sporadic and erratic, but generally quite interesting; Strange Weather, a Hal Willner-produced 1987 collection of standards and contemporary compositions that spanned several decades for its sources, was her greatest triumph of the decade. In 1994, she published her self-titled autobiography; the biography As Tears Go By by Mark Hodkinson is an objective and thorough account of her life and times.

Faithfull returned to recording in 2002 with Kissin' Time, an eclectic collection of songwriting collaborations with Beck, Damon Albarn, Billy Corgan, Jon Brion, and Jarvis Cocker, among others. In 2004, Before the Poison was released in the U.K., making its entrance into the U.S. market in early 2005. This album continued in the vein of its predecessor, with songwriting and production contributions from PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Brion, and Albarn, but with far more consistent results. Faithfull and Willner released Easy Come Easy Go in 2008, an all new collection of typically eclectic covers from the likes of Morrissey, the Decemberists, Billie Holiday, Black Rebel Motorcycle, and Dolly Parton. Faithfull and Willner re-teamed for 2011's Horses and High Heels, a collection of covers and originals recorded at the famed Piety Street studio in New Orleans. The album features the talents of local musicians including renowned guitarist John Porter, as well as cameos by Dr. John, Lou Reed, and Wayne Kramer.

6338 - MARIANNE FAITHFULL - Easy Come Easy Go: 18 Songs For Music Lovers, Disc Two (2008)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL
''EASY COME EASY GO: 18 SONGS FOR MUSIC LOVERS, DISC TWO''
2008
84:57

DISC ONE
1 - Down From Dover/4:39
2 - Hold On Hold On/2:55
3 - Solitude/5:23
5 - Easy Come Easy Go/3:11
6 - Children Of Stone/8:02
8 - In Germany Before The War/4:04
9 - O O Baby/8:14
10 - Sing Me Back Home/5:00

DISC TWO
1 - Salvation/6:02
2 - Black Coffee/5:36
3 - The Phoenix/2:12
4 - Dear God Please Help Me/4:24
4 - The Crane Wife 3/3:55
5 - Kimbie/4:35
6 - Many A Mile/5:08
7 - How Many Worlds/3:35
7 - Somewhere/4:10
8 - Flandyke Shore/3:06

BIOGRAPHY
by Richie Unterberger

Few stars of the '60s have reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut single, the Jagger/Richards composition "As Tears Go By" (which prefaced the Stones' own version by a full year). Considerably more successful in her native land than the States, she had a series of hits in the mid-'60s that set her high, fragile voice against delicate orchestral pop arrangements: "Summer Night," "This Little Bird," and Jackie DeShannon's "Come and Stay with Me." Not a songwriter at the outset of her career, she owes more of her fame as a '60s icon to her extraordinary beauty and her long-running romance with Mick Jagger, although she offered a taste of things to come with her compelling 1969 single "Sister Morphine," which she co-wrote (and which the Stones later released themselves on Sticky Fingers).

In the '70s, Faithfull split up with Jagger, developed a serious drug habit, and recorded rarely, with generally dismal results. This occurred until late 1979, when she pulled off an astonishing comeback with Broken English. Displaying a croaking, cutting voice that had lowered a good octave since the mid-'60s, Faithfull had also begun to write much of her own material, and addressed sex and despair with wrenching realism. After allowing herself to be framed as a demure chanteuse by songwriters and arrangers throughout most of her career, Faithfull had found her own voice, and suddenly sounded more relevant and contemporary than most of the stars she had rubbed shoulders with in the '60s. Faithfull's recordings in the '80s and '90s were sporadic and erratic, but generally quite interesting; Strange Weather, a Hal Willner-produced 1987 collection of standards and contemporary compositions that spanned several decades for its sources, was her greatest triumph of the decade. In 1994, she published her self-titled autobiography; the biography As Tears Go By by Mark Hodkinson is an objective and thorough account of her life and times.

Faithfull returned to recording in 2002 with Kissin' Time, an eclectic collection of songwriting collaborations with Beck, Damon Albarn, Billy Corgan, Jon Brion, and Jarvis Cocker, among others. In 2004, Before the Poison was released in the U.K., making its entrance into the U.S. market in early 2005. This album continued in the vein of its predecessor, with songwriting and production contributions from PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Brion, and Albarn, but with far more consistent results. Faithfull and Willner released Easy Come Easy Go in 2008, an all new collection of typically eclectic covers from the likes of Morrissey, the Decemberists, Billie Holiday, Black Rebel Motorcycle, and Dolly Parton. Faithfull and Willner re-teamed for 2011's Horses and High Heels, a collection of covers and originals recorded at the famed Piety Street studio in New Orleans. The album features the talents of local musicians including renowned guitarist John Porter, as well as cameos by Dr. John, Lou Reed, and Wayne Kramer.

6337 - MARIANNE FAITHFULL - Easy Come Easy Go: 18 Songs For Music Lovers, Disc One (2008)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL
''EASY COME EASY GO: 18 SONGS FOR MUSIC LOVERS, DISC ONE''
2008
84:57

DISC ONE
1 - Down From Dover/4:39
2 - Hold On Hold On/2:55
3 - Solitude/5:23
5 - Easy Come Easy Go/3:11
6 - Children Of Stone/8:02
8 - In Germany Before The War/4:04
9 - O O Baby/8:14
10 - Sing Me Back Home/5:00

DISC TWO
1 - Salvation/6:02
2 - Black Coffee/5:36
3 - The Phoenix/2:12
4 - Dear God Please Help Me/4:24
4 - The Crane Wife 3/3:55
5 - Kimbie/4:35
6 - Many A Mile/5:08
7 - How Many Worlds/3:35
7 - Somewhere/4:10
8 - Flandyke Shore/3:06

BIOGRAPHY
by Richie Unterberger

Few stars of the '60s have reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut single, the Jagger/Richards composition "As Tears Go By" (which prefaced the Stones' own version by a full year). Considerably more successful in her native land than the States, she had a series of hits in the mid-'60s that set her high, fragile voice against delicate orchestral pop arrangements: "Summer Night," "This Little Bird," and Jackie DeShannon's "Come and Stay with Me." Not a songwriter at the outset of her career, she owes more of her fame as a '60s icon to her extraordinary beauty and her long-running romance with Mick Jagger, although she offered a taste of things to come with her compelling 1969 single "Sister Morphine," which she co-wrote (and which the Stones later released themselves on Sticky Fingers).

In the '70s, Faithfull split up with Jagger, developed a serious drug habit, and recorded rarely, with generally dismal results. This occurred until late 1979, when she pulled off an astonishing comeback with Broken English. Displaying a croaking, cutting voice that had lowered a good octave since the mid-'60s, Faithfull had also begun to write much of her own material, and addressed sex and despair with wrenching realism. After allowing herself to be framed as a demure chanteuse by songwriters and arrangers throughout most of her career, Faithfull had found her own voice, and suddenly sounded more relevant and contemporary than most of the stars she had rubbed shoulders with in the '60s. Faithfull's recordings in the '80s and '90s were sporadic and erratic, but generally quite interesting; Strange Weather, a Hal Willner-produced 1987 collection of standards and contemporary compositions that spanned several decades for its sources, was her greatest triumph of the decade. In 1994, she published her self-titled autobiography; the biography As Tears Go By by Mark Hodkinson is an objective and thorough account of her life and times.

Faithfull returned to recording in 2002 with Kissin' Time, an eclectic collection of songwriting collaborations with Beck, Damon Albarn, Billy Corgan, Jon Brion, and Jarvis Cocker, among others. In 2004, Before the Poison was released in the U.K., making its entrance into the U.S. market in early 2005. This album continued in the vein of its predecessor, with songwriting and production contributions from PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Brion, and Albarn, but with far more consistent results. Faithfull and Willner released Easy Come Easy Go in 2008, an all new collection of typically eclectic covers from the likes of Morrissey, the Decemberists, Billie Holiday, Black Rebel Motorcycle, and Dolly Parton. Faithfull and Willner re-teamed for 2011's Horses and High Heels, a collection of covers and originals recorded at the famed Piety Street studio in New Orleans. The album features the talents of local musicians including renowned guitarist John Porter, as well as cameos by Dr. John, Lou Reed, and Wayne Kramer.

6336 - MARIANNE FAITHFULL - Come My Way (1965)(2007)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL
''COME MY WAY''
2007
1965
47:21

1 /Come My Way/2:05
2 /Jabberwoc
Traditional/2:34
3 /Portland Town
Traditional/3:00
4 /House of the Rising Sun
Terry Holmes / Nicholas Diablo Ray / Traditional / Josh White/2:28
5 /Spanish Is a Loving Tongue
Traditional/2:43
6 /Fare Thee Well
Traditional/2:52
7 /Lonesome Travellers
Lee Hays/2:03
8 /Down in the Salley Garden
Traditional/2:05
9 /Mary Ann
Traditional/1:45
10 /Full Fathom Five
Traditional/1:26
11 /Four Strong Winds
Traditional/2:59
12 /Black Girl
Traditional/2:29
13 /Once I Had a Sweetheart
Traditional/2:08
14 /Bells of Freedom
Traditional/2:03
15 /Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan/3:08
16 /Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)/3:28
17 /That's Right Baby/2:49
18 /Sister Morphine
Marianne Faithfull / Mick Jagger / Keith Richards/5:30

REVIEW
by Richie Unterberger
 

When Marianne Faithfull released her first two albums for the U.K. market in the spring of 1965, she took the unusual step of issuing them simultaneously. One, simply titled Marianne Faithfull, was the pop-oriented collection that listeners of her hit singles would have expected. The other, Come My Way, by contrast was comprised solely of folk tunes, most of them traditional, the acoustic settings arranged by guitarist Jon Mark. Faithfull at this very early stage in her career still had the tremulous soprano common to many woman folk singers of the era. While her singing here is pleasant and competent, it's rather average when stacked against the emotional commitment and personality the best interpreters of such tunes brought to the material at the time. Indeed, Faithfull herself would do the same kind of repertoire, with considerably greater vocal imagination and more forceful musical backing, on her underrated third U.K. album, 1966's North Country Maid. Still, it's an OK record, Faithfull putting her pipes to reverent use on folk revival staples like "Portland Town," "House of the Rising Sun," "Once I Had a Sweetheart," and "Black Girl," taking on a contemporary writer with Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds." Her reading of "Lonesome Traveller" stands out for the propulsive backing, with hasty 12-string guitar strums and what sound like bongos. The CD reissue, available briefly in Britain in the early '90s and then in Japan in the early 2000s, adds four bonus tracks: the 1964 B-side "Blowin' in the Wind"; "Et Maintenant," from a 1965 EP; the poppy and bluesy 1966 B-side "That's Right Baby"; and her classic 1969 single "Sister Morphine," which predated the Rolling Stones' version by a couple of years.

BIOGRAPHY
by Richie Unterberger

Few stars of the '60s have reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut single, the Jagger/Richards composition "As Tears Go By" (which prefaced the Stones' own version by a full year). Considerably more successful in her native land than the States, she had a series of hits in the mid-'60s that set her high, fragile voice against delicate orchestral pop arrangements: "Summer Night," "This Little Bird," and Jackie DeShannon's "Come and Stay with Me." Not a songwriter at the outset of her career, she owes more of her fame as a '60s icon to her extraordinary beauty and her long-running romance with Mick Jagger, although she offered a taste of things to come with her compelling 1969 single "Sister Morphine," which she co-wrote (and which the Stones later released themselves on Sticky Fingers).

In the '70s, Faithfull split up with Jagger, developed a serious drug habit, and recorded rarely, with generally dismal results. This occurred until late 1979, when she pulled off an astonishing comeback with Broken English. Displaying a croaking, cutting voice that had lowered a good octave since the mid-'60s, Faithfull had also begun to write much of her own material, and addressed sex and despair with wrenching realism. After allowing herself to be framed as a demure chanteuse by songwriters and arrangers throughout most of her career, Faithfull had found her own voice, and suddenly sounded more relevant and contemporary than most of the stars she had rubbed shoulders with in the '60s. Faithfull's recordings in the '80s and '90s were sporadic and erratic, but generally quite interesting; Strange Weather, a Hal Willner-produced 1987 collection of standards and contemporary compositions that spanned several decades for its sources, was her greatest triumph of the decade. In 1994, she published her self-titled autobiography; the biography As Tears Go By by Mark Hodkinson is an objective and thorough account of her life and times.

Faithfull returned to recording in 2002 with Kissin' Time, an eclectic collection of songwriting collaborations with Beck, Damon Albarn, Billy Corgan, Jon Brion, and Jarvis Cocker, among others. In 2004, Before the Poison was released in the U.K., making its entrance into the U.S. market in early 2005. This album continued in the vein of its predecessor, with songwriting and production contributions from PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Brion, and Albarn, but with far more consistent results. Faithfull and Willner released Easy Come Easy Go in 2008, an all new collection of typically eclectic covers from the likes of Morrissey, the Decemberists, Billie Holiday, Black Rebel Motorcycle, and Dolly Parton. Faithfull and Willner re-teamed for 2011's Horses and High Heels, a collection of covers and originals recorded at the famed Piety Street studio in New Orleans. The album features the talents of local musicians including renowned guitarist John Porter, as well as cameos by Dr. John, Lou Reed, and Wayne Kramer.

2519 - MARIANNE FAITHFULL - ''A Perfect Stranger'': The Island Anthology, Disc Two (1998)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL
''A PERFECT STRANGER: THE ISLAND ANTHOLOGY, DISC TWO''
OCTOBER 27 1998
153:14

DISC ONE
1/Broken English/4:36
2/Witches' Song/4:44
3/Guilt/5:10
4/The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan/4:10
5/Working Class Hero/4:42
6/Why D'ya Do It/6:43
7/Sister Morphine/6:07
8/Sweetheart/3:17
9/Intrigue/4:32
10/For Beauty's Sake/3:32
11/So Sad/4:31
12/Truth Bitter Truth/7:22
13/The Blue Millionaire/8:23
14/Falling From Grace/3:54
15/Running For Our Lives/4:44

DISC TWO
1/Ballad Of The Soldier's Wife/4:25
2/Trouble In Mind (The Return)/4:23
3/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams/3:07
4/Yesterdays/5:20
5/Strange Weather/4:15
6/Gloomy Sunday/3:14
7/Hello Stranger/2:31
8/As Tears Go By/3:47
9/A Perfect Stranger/4:49
10/Conversation On A Barstool/4:18
11/A Waste Of Time/5:04
12/Isolation/3:13
13/Blazing Away/4:13
14/When I Find My Life (Live)/3:01
15/Times Square (Live)/4:37
16/Ghost Dance/3:45
17/Sleep/3:36
18/Love In The Afternoon/3:31
19/Bored By Dreams/3:09
20/She/3:23

REVIEW
by Michael Gallucci
Because more than half of the 35 songs on this two-disc retrospective of Marianne Faithfull's 1979-95 output come from her three great albums -- Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, and Strange Weather -- or are previously unreleased outtakes or B-sides from them, A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology makes a fine primer to Faithfull's often challenging, always mesmerizing (or would that be always challenging, often mesmerizing?) music. "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife," her solid contribution to 1985's Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, is also included, giving Faithfull's hauntingly tragic voice the resonance and attention it demands. Weill and Faithfull seem made for each other, as the bulk of the second disc (comprised of songs from her 1990 live album and the underachieving A Secret Life, as well as the career-capping Strange Weather) makes clear. But there's also a strain to some of these tracks, as if Faithfull's aesthetic wandering eventually will bring her to that elusive cabaret of her dreams. On her best recordings, it indeed sounds like she's home.

BIOGRAPHY
by Richie Unterberger
Few stars of the '60s have reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut single, the Jagger/Richards composition "As Tears Go By" (which prefaced the Stones' own version by a full year). Considerably more successful in her native land than the States, she had a series of hits in the mid-'60s that set her high, fragile voice against delicate orchestral pop arrangements: "Summer Night," "This Little Bird," and Jackie DeShannon's "Come and Stay with Me." Not a songwriter at the outset of her career, she owes more of her fame as a '60s icon to her extraordinary beauty and her long-running romance with Mick Jagger, although she offered a taste of things to come with her compelling 1969 single "Sister Morphine," which she co-wrote (and which the Stones later released themselves on Sticky Fingers).
In the '70s, Faithfull split up with Jagger, developed a serious drug habit, and recorded rarely, with generally dismal results. This occurred until late 1979, when she pulled off an astonishing comeback with Broken English. Displaying a croaking, cutting voice that had lowered a good octave since the mid-'60s, Faithfull had also begun to write much of her own material, and addressed sex and despair with wrenching realism. After allowing herself to be framed as a demure chanteuse by songwriters and arrangers throughout most of her career, Faithfull had found her own voice, and suddenly sounded more relevant and contemporary than most of the stars she had rubbed shoulders with in the '60s. Faithfull's recordings in the '80s and '90s were sporadic and erratic, but generally quite interesting; Strange Weather, a Hal Willner-produced 1987 collection of standards and contemporary compositions that spanned several decades for its sources, was her greatest triumph of the decade. In 1994, she published her self-titled autobiography; the biography As Tears Go By by Mark Hodkinson is an objective and thorough account of her life and times.
Faithfull returned to recording in 2002 with Kissin' Time, an eclectic collection of songwriting collaborations with Beck, Damon Albarn, Billy Corgan, Jon Brion, and Jarvis Cocker, among others. In 2004, Before the Poison was released in the U.K., making its entrance into the U.S. market in early 2005. This album continued in the vein of its predecessor, with songwriting and production contributions from PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Brion, and Albarn, but with far more consistent results. Faithfull and Willner released Easy Come Easy Go in 2008, an all new collection of typically eclectic covers from the likes of Morrissey, the Decemberists, Billie Holiday, Black Rebel Motorcycle, and Dolly Parton. Faithfull and Willner re-teamed for 2011's Horses and High Heels, a collection of covers and originals recorded at the famed Piety Street studio in New Orleans. The album features the talents of local musicians including renowned guitarist John Porter, as well as cameos by Dr. John, Lou Reed, and Wayne Kramer.

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2518 - MARIANNE FAITHFULL - ''A Perfect Stranger'': The Island Anthology, Disc One (1998)

MARIANNE FAITHFULL
''A PERFECT STRANGER: THE ISLAND ANTHOLOGY, DISC ONE''
OCTOBER 27 1998
153:14

DISC ONE
1/Broken English/4:36
2/Witches' Song/4:44
3/Guilt/5:10
4/The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan/4:10
5/Working Class Hero/4:42
6/Why D'ya Do It/6:43
7/Sister Morphine/6:07
8/Sweetheart/3:17
9/Intrigue/4:32
10/For Beauty's Sake/3:32
11/So Sad/4:31
12/Truth Bitter Truth/7:22
13/The Blue Millionaire/8:23
14/Falling From Grace/3:54
15/Running For Our Lives/4:44

DISC TWO
1/Ballad Of The Soldier's Wife/4:25
2/Trouble In Mind (The Return)/4:23
3/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams/3:07
4/Yesterdays/5:20
5/Strange Weather/4:15
6/Gloomy Sunday/3:14
7/Hello Stranger/2:31
8/As Tears Go By/3:47
9/A Perfect Stranger/4:49
10/Conversation On A Barstool/4:18
11/A Waste Of Time/5:04
12/Isolation/3:13
13/Blazing Away/4:13
14/When I Find My Life (Live)/3:01
15/Times Square (Live)/4:37
16/Ghost Dance/3:45
17/Sleep/3:36
18/Love In The Afternoon/3:31
19/Bored By Dreams/3:09
20/She/3:23

REVIEW
by Michael Gallucci
Because more than half of the 35 songs on this two-disc retrospective of Marianne Faithfull's 1979-95 output come from her three great albums -- Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, and Strange Weather -- or are previously unreleased outtakes or B-sides from them, A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology makes a fine primer to Faithfull's often challenging, always mesmerizing (or would that be always challenging, often mesmerizing?) music. "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife," her solid contribution to 1985's Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, is also included, giving Faithfull's hauntingly tragic voice the resonance and attention it demands. Weill and Faithfull seem made for each other, as the bulk of the second disc (comprised of songs from her 1990 live album and the underachieving A Secret Life, as well as the career-capping Strange Weather) makes clear. But there's also a strain to some of these tracks, as if Faithfull's aesthetic wandering eventually will bring her to that elusive cabaret of her dreams. On her best recordings, it indeed sounds like she's home.

BIOGRAPHY
by Richie Unterberger
Few stars of the '60s have reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut single, the Jagger/Richards composition "As Tears Go By" (which prefaced the Stones' own version by a full year). Considerably more successful in her native land than the States, she had a series of hits in the mid-'60s that set her high, fragile voice against delicate orchestral pop arrangements: "Summer Night," "This Little Bird," and Jackie DeShannon's "Come and Stay with Me." Not a songwriter at the outset of her career, she owes more of her fame as a '60s icon to her extraordinary beauty and her long-running romance with Mick Jagger, although she offered a taste of things to come with her compelling 1969 single "Sister Morphine," which she co-wrote (and which the Stones later released themselves on Sticky Fingers).
In the '70s, Faithfull split up with Jagger, developed a serious drug habit, and recorded rarely, with generally dismal results. This occurred until late 1979, when she pulled off an astonishing comeback with Broken English. Displaying a croaking, cutting voice that had lowered a good octave since the mid-'60s, Faithfull had also begun to write much of her own material, and addressed sex and despair with wrenching realism. After allowing herself to be framed as a demure chanteuse by songwriters and arrangers throughout most of her career, Faithfull had found her own voice, and suddenly sounded more relevant and contemporary than most of the stars she had rubbed shoulders with in the '60s. Faithfull's recordings in the '80s and '90s were sporadic and erratic, but generally quite interesting; Strange Weather, a Hal Willner-produced 1987 collection of standards and contemporary compositions that spanned several decades for its sources, was her greatest triumph of the decade. In 1994, she published her self-titled autobiography; the biography As Tears Go By by Mark Hodkinson is an objective and thorough account of her life and times.
Faithfull returned to recording in 2002 with Kissin' Time, an eclectic collection of songwriting collaborations with Beck, Damon Albarn, Billy Corgan, Jon Brion, and Jarvis Cocker, among others. In 2004, Before the Poison was released in the U.K., making its entrance into the U.S. market in early 2005. This album continued in the vein of its predecessor, with songwriting and production contributions from PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Brion, and Albarn, but with far more consistent results. Faithfull and Willner released Easy Come Easy Go in 2008, an all new collection of typically eclectic covers from the likes of Morrissey, the Decemberists, Billie Holiday, Black Rebel Motorcycle, and Dolly Parton. Faithfull and Willner re-teamed for 2011's Horses and High Heels, a collection of covers and originals recorded at the famed Piety Street studio in New Orleans. The album features the talents of local musicians including renowned guitarist John Porter, as well as cameos by Dr. John, Lou Reed, and Wayne Kramer.

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