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2004 – Marianne Faithfull - Before the PoisonOften, attempts by more senior artists to make an album with a younger generation tend to fall a bit flat; Marianne Faithfull's Before the Poison is a shining exception. The success is due in no small part to PJ Harvey writing and producing half of the songs, with Nick Cave, Damon Albarn and composer Jon Brion making up the rest. Faithfull is by no means a great singer in the traditional sense but her voice has a distinct charm that takes on the personality within a song. For example, you can hear PJ Harvey in the lo-fi opener 'The Mystery of Love' yet she doesn't sing a note; the same goes for Nick Cave and Damon Albarn.For the most part, the PJ Harvey collaborations are gritty lo-fi guitar numbers and Nick Cave's are dark piano ballads-it's difficult to pick highlights as the quality is unwavering but the catchy chorus and rolling guitar hooks of 'My Friends Have' and 'No Child of Mine' are instantly memorable. The last two tracks differ greatly from the rest, both sounding like nothing else on the album.
Nick Cave's 'Desperanto' is a bizarre hybrid of guitar-based gangster funk, screaming rockabilly sax and a rabble shouting Jim Morrison lyrics, all topped off with a melody akin to Madonna's 'Vogue'-it does sound as odd as the description but is a truly incredible piece of music. No less contemporary is 'City of Quartz', a kind of Rogers and Hammerstein number voiced on a collection of clock chimes-again, incredible stuff.
With absolutely no filler, Before the Poison is a truly great album that is quirky, cutting edge and ridiculously easy to listen to.-David TruemanTrack List:1.Before the Poison2.Crazy Love3.Desperanto4.In the Factory5.Last Song6.My Friends Have7.No Child of Mine8.City of Quartz9.Mystery of Love10.There is a GhostLink: @192kbs. Marianne Faithfull - The Seven Deadly Sins (Kurt Weill)In 1933 Kurt Weill asked Bertolt Brecht to work with him on the The Seven Deadly Sins. Thestory of Anna, who is sent on a journey through seven US cities to get money for a house by dancing. Her family imagine a house in Louisiana, that should be ready when Anna returns after seven years. Anna’s personality is torn by the demands of making a living and by her human needs (the “deadly sins” ). The first Anna, a singer, is rational and will stop at nothing to reach her goals.
The second Anna, the dancer, gives in to her needs and threatens the family’s dream. In spite the conflict she succeeds by controlling desires.Weill’s score emphasized Anna’s frailty and psychological conflicts.Weill composed his music in seven movements corresponding to the seven cities Anna’s journey and the “deadly sins”.Weill considered the Seven Deadly Sins to be his best production to date but it found little success in any of its early performances.It was not until Lotte Lenya’s recording in 1956 that it became popular. Weill’s music had been significantly adjusted for Lenya, and transposed to a fourth below its original pitch. This version has been performed by jazz and cabaret singers many times.With her unique interpretation, Marianne has Taken the original version but sings Anna’s part transposed down a full octave.This album combines Marianne Faithfull´s recordings of 'The Seven Deadly Sins' live on June 5th, 1997 at Konzerthaus, Vienna with her live recordings of some other Kurt Weill songs like 'Alabama Song' and 'Pirate Jenny' on February 9th, 1998 at Grosser Sendesaal, Radiokulturhaus Vienna. Both recordings were done with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra coducted by Dennis Russell Davies.Track Listings @192kps1.
Alabama Song11. Ballad Of Sexual Dependency12. Bilbao Song13.
Pirate Jenny. 1987 - Marianne Faithfull - Strange WeatherDescription fom Amazon UKThe smoke and whiskey-voiced Marianne Faithfull has createda work of perfection with STRANGE WEATHER. Be wary, though;this is not the perky, angelic '60s Marianne, who winsomelyfrolicked along Carnaby Street with her boyfriend Mick Jagger. Nor is this the brash, punk Marianne who made a well-deserved mid-'80s comeback with the shocking obscenities and raw confessionals of BROKEN ENGLISH. This Marianne Faithfull is a world-weary, ravaged woman who has dark, knowing tales to tell, and whose whimsy has been replaced by woe.Hers is a voice that has lived, suffered, and survived; and only avoice of such immeasurable experience could tell the sad stories and desperate dramas that abound on STRANGE WEATHER. Her interpretions of standards are singular-from Leadbelly'sblues ('I Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No More') to the Jerome Kern songbook ('Yesterdays'). Tom Waits' title track is the album's moody centrepiece, while obscure gems from Bob Dylan and Dr.
John shine through the cloudy atmosphere. Marianne even reinvents herself with a staggering, bruised rendition of her '60s hit 'As Tears Go By'. And when she breaks into the well-worn 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams', she does so with the dark assurance of someone name-dropping a former address.The album transports the listener to another place and time: a foggy street, stormy and dark, where just a sliver of sunshine is able to break through the clouds. A temperamental place, where STRANGE WEATHER brings out the most primal of emotions.Track Listings1. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams2. Ain' Goin' Down To The Well No Mo'3. Sign Of Judgement5.
Strange Weather6. Love Life And Money7. I'll Keep It With Mine8. Hello Stranger9.
Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)10. As Tears Go By11. Stranger On Earth.
1985 - Marianne Faithfull - Rich Kid BluesRich Kid Blues (originally recorded in 1971 then shelved; also repackaged as True - The Collection)Review By Miguel Cane 'Writer, Journalist, Film Critic'This record has been maligned by Marianne herself, since it was recorded during a time of pain and horror in her life.And it shows.This is a record that reveals that missing link between her girly pop years, her North Country Maid years and what was to come in the form of 'Broken English'.The voice is weak and raspy and she was probably too high to care when she recorded it. Or too hungry and despairing. Whatever it might have been, it also gives this CD a sense of vulnerability and loss that has not been achieved before, and there is a glimmer of hope.You can feel it. And that's what counts.Track Listings1. Rich Kid Blues2. Long Black Veil3.
It's All Over Now Baby Blue5. Southern Butterfly6.
Chords Of Fame7. Visions Of Johanna8. It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry9. Beware Of Darkness10. Corinne Corinna11. Mud Slide Slim12. Crazy Lady BluesLink: @320kps.
Gsa abstract example. 1995 - Marianne Faithfull - A Secret LifeIsland, CD 314-524 096-2A Secret Life pairs Faithfull with Angelo Badalamenti in a bold, orchestral sound which somehow stays true to her decadent visions. Badalamenti provides the moody waves on which Faithfull's lyrics bleakly surf.The sound is unusual for on most songs there's a 19-piece string section, oboes, guitar, synthesizer and percussion. The tempos are deliberate and unrushed, as the familiar tales of betrayal and adultery play out. The raw voice that thrills her fans is restrained, held back. The album plays out as a completely realised vision that seamlessly segues from one story to the next.The album is bracketed by spoken segments of passages by Dante and Shakespeare. Marianne Faithfull is a woman with uncompromising ideas, so completely captured on this CD.Track Listings1. Love In The Afternoon4.
Flaming September5. Bored By Dreams7. The Wedding9. The Stars Line Up10. Epilogue@ 320kps.
There is no shortage of Marianne Faithfull collections, but the compact, digitally remastered, 11-track 20th Century Masters set comes close to being the best document of her post-comeback period, which began with 1979's Broken English. That addictively eccentric album is well-represented here with the title track, Shel Silverstein's 'The Ballad of Lucy Jordan,' and John Lennon's 'Working Class Hero' making up the three leadoff tracks. Faithfull's '80s versions of 'Sister Morphine' (which she co-wrote with the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) and 'As Tears Go By' are also here, along with her exotic cover of Patti Smith's 'Ghost Dance' and the anti-ballad 'So Sad.' Faithfull's witchy voice is a spellbinding instrument that makes every song an expressionistic experience. The whiskey-soaked 'Trouble in Mind' and the Tom Waits-penned 'Strange Weather,' both from Faithfull's jazz-dabbling period, are perfect vehicles for her moribund-melody delivery. For a best-of collection, there is an almost thematic coherence as the singer lowers the gloom-and-angst shroud like few other vocalists can. Songs like the aptly titled 'Sleep' are so sparse and devoid of momentum they seem to exist in a psychic netherworld that only the singer herself can fully comprehend.
The one wild card is the dance-funk of the 12' version of 'The Blue Millionaire' (which Faithfull co-wrote and originally released in shorter form on 1983's A Child's Adventure). Complete with brass bursts, croon harmonies, and the sardonically ironic line 'There is no such thing as the wrong man,' Faithfull still manages to get the voodoo in there. This is a seductive collection from a true original. Long before Stevie Nicks twirled her shawl, there was Nico and Marianne Faithfull.:: TRACKLIST::1.
Broken English (04:36)2. The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan (04:10)3. Working Class Hero (04:41)4. Sister Morphine (06:03)5. So Sad (04:32)6.
The Blue Millionaire (08:27)7. Trouble In Mind (04:22)8. Strange Weather (04:15)9. As Tears Go By (03:46)10. Ghost Dance (03:44)11.
Sleep (03:43).