In early 1971, Marianne Faithfull -- whose personal life was not in the best shape and whose commercial prospects were idle as she had released just one single since early...
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Kissin' Time 8/15/2002, Yahoo! Music, Rob O'Connor
While she's always been seen as a bit of a gimmick--girlfriend of the stars, heroin addict for the trades--Marianne Faithfull has recorded consistently strong material...
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One of the most endearing things about Marianne Faithfull is how well and often she reinvents herself as an artist, all the while remaining true to her rebellious, defiantly...
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This best-of basically covers the years 1979 to 1994, though it reaches back to 1964 for Marianne Faithfull's first recording and first hit, "As Tears Go By," and includes...
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A Secret Life 3/21/1995, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
An ambitious project pairing Faithfull with producer/composer/arranger Angelo Badalamenti--he of Twin Peaks fame--this remains a surprisingly sophisticated (and relatively...
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For her first studio album comprised of mostly original material in over a decade, Faithfull enlisted noted composer Angelo Badalamenti (who collaborated with David Lynch...
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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...
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A couple of lackluster country albums notwithstanding, Marianne Faithfull spent the 70s drifting through the same world of twilight hearsay and shadow that engrossed Iggy...
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Faithfull moved to RCA Records and--in keeping with her appearance on the original Lost In The Stars--devoted an entire album to the songs of Kur t Weill. Excellent, if...
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As the liner notes to this intriguing release tell, Faithfull had a long-simmering interest in German cabaret, particularly the work of Kurt Weill. It came fully to life via...
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Following a pair of albums that delved into cabaret and one which paired her with Angelo Badalamenti (an affair that yielded mixed results), the Grande dame of rock & roll...
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Marianne Faithfull, who gained her notoriety in the '60s as much for her relationships with famous musicians like Mick Jagger as she did for her own music, descended into a...
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Faithfull's 1987 release recast her as a nicotine-stained chanteuse, approaching such standards as "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Penthouse Serenade" with a ravaged,...
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Not just an historical curio, this is all her earliest material, including "As Tears Go By." Still, one wishes that ABKCO, the company that has the rights to this...
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While missing a few fine album tracks, this is an excellent 16-song distillation of her '60s recordings. Includes all of her British and American hits -- "As Tears Go By,"...
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Fully established as a dramatic, innovative singer with astonishing appeal and energy thanks to her string of excellent '80s releases, Faithfull concluded her renaissance...
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Still a very powerful, moving album, this is the disc that notified the world that Faithfull's talents were by no means limited to her interpretations of Rolling Stones...
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After a lengthy absence, Faithfull resurfaced on this 1979 album, which took the edgy and brittle sound of punk rock and gave it a shot of studio-smooth dance rock....
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Marianne Faithfull's first new album in a decade revealed the weathered voice she later would put to good, if harrowing, use in a series of albums for Island Records...
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Faithfull pegged her comeback to a brutal survivalist persona, but by this fourth album of her second career, she had mellowed at least to the extent of constructing flowing...
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Each time Marianne Faithfull issues a recording, fans and pundits hold their breaths waiting for another outing as iconoclastic as Broken English. Before the Poison isn't it...
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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...
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One of the most endearing things about Marianne Faithfull is how well and often she reinvents herself as an artist, all the while remaining true to her rebellious, defiantly...
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