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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Broken English
2. Witches' Song
3. Guilt
4. Ballad of Lucy Jordan, The
5. Working Class Hero
6. Why D'ya Do It
7. Sister Morphine
8. Sweetheart
9. Intrigue
10. For Beauty's Sake
11. So Sad
12. Truth Bitter Truth
13. Blue Millionaire, The - (12" version)
14. Falling From Grace
15. Running For Our Lives
DISC 2:
1. Ballad of the Soldier's Wife
2. Trouble in Mind (The Return)
3. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
4. Yesterdays
5. Strange Weather
6. Gloomy Sunday - (previously unreleased)
7. Hello Stranger
8. As Tears Go By
9. Perfect Stranger, A - (previously unreleased)
10. Conversation on a Barstool - (previously unreleased)
11. Waste of Time, A - (previously unreleased)
12. Isolation - (previously unreleased)
13. Blazing Away
14. When I Find My Life
15. Times Square
16. Ghost Dance
17. Sleep
18. Love in the Afternoon
19. Bored by Dreams
20. She
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Marianne Faithfull (vocals); Ben Brierley (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Mac Rebennack (guitar, piano, electric piano); Fernando Saunders (guitar, bass, background vocals); Mikey Chung (guitar, keyboards); Barry Reynolds (guitar, background vocals); Chris Spedding, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Robert Quine, Keith Richards, Ron Wood (guitar); Shankar (violin); Garth Hudson (accordion, keyboards); William Schimmel (accordon); Mark Isham (saxophone, trumpet, electronics); Kevin Savanger (keyboards); Lew Soloff (trumpet, flugelhorn); Wally Badarou (keyboards, background vocals); Don Was (bass); Terry Stannard, Anton Fig, Charlie Drayton, J.T. Lewis, Dougie Bowne (drums); Rafael De Jesus, Don Alias (percussion).
Producers: Mark Miller Mundy, Barry Reynolds, Hal Willner, Mark Isham, Angelo Badalamenti.
Compilation producers: Bill Levenson, Jerry Rappaport.
Engineers include: Bob Potter, Don Wershba, Joe Ferla.
Includes liner notes by Ann Powers.
Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves.
Who could have predicted in the '60s that Marianne Faithfull, at the time Mick Jagger's beautiful and scandalous actress girlfriend, would one day emerge as our greatest interpretive singer? The evidence can be heard on this extensive two-disc retrospective. It covers the period from Faithfull's 1979 comeback BROKEN ENGLISH--which reintroduced a confidently gritty singer thoroughly rooted in folk and rock--to A SECRET AFTERNOON, a spooky 1995 collaboration with film composer Angelo Badalamenti.
It was 1987's Hal Willner-produced STRANGE WEATHER that finally showcased Faithfull's versatility as a singer, featuring originals by Tom Waits and Doc Pomus, Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays" plus an older and wiser reprise of her '60s hit "As Tears Go By." The second disc of this set is rife with previously unreleased material from the Willner years, including an updated version of the Billie Holiday suicide dirge "Gloomy Sunday." Faithfull's subsequent involvement with the songs of Kurt Weill (SEVEN DEADLY SINS) also invites an inevitable (and favorable) comparison with another 2Oth century singer of "experience," Lotte Lenya.
Industry Reviews
...Marianne Faithfull's dark, raspy voice was the bridge between cabaret queen Edith Piaf and modern pop, and this anthology reminds us of its expressive power...
CMJ (12/21/1998)
...a cabaret fetish past perfection; she's bitterness' sweetheart...
Spin (12/01/1998)
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