Artist: Marianne Faithfull: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock: Pop-Rock Discography: Before The Poison Year: 2004 Tracks: 10 Kissin' Time Year: 2002 Tracks: 11 Vagabonds Ways Year: 1999 Tracks: 10 20th Century Blues Year: 1996 Tracks: 15 The Very Best Of Year: 1990 Tracks: 16 Greatest Hits Year: 1987 Tracks: 16 Few stars of the '60s experience reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a telling career by Rolling Stones handler Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big strike in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut unmarried, the Jagger/Richards writing "As Tears Go By" (which prefaced the Stones' possess translation by a full class). Considerably more successful in her native land than the States, she had a series of hits in the mid-'60s that place her highschool, fragile voice against ticklish orchestral pop arrangements: "Summertime Night," "This Little Bird," and Jackie De Shannon's "Come and Stay with Me." Not a songster at the start of her career, she owes more of her fame as a '60s double to her extraordinary dish and her long-running love story with Mick Jagger, although she offered a taste of things to come with her compelling 1969 single "Sis Morphine," which she co-wrote (and which the Stones released themselves on Sticky Fingers later on). In the '70s, Faithfull split up with Jagger, developed a serious drug habit, and recorded seldom, with by and large dreary results. This occurred until recent 1979, when she pulled off an astonishing comeback with Broken English. Displaying a croaking, thinning voice that had lowered a full musical octave since the mid-'60s, Faithfull had as well begun to write much of her possess material, and addressed sex and desperation with wrenching realism. After allowing herself to be framed as a coy chanteuse by songwriters and arrangers passim most of her career, Faithfull had set up her own voice, and short 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 temperamental, merely in the main quite interesting; Strange Weather, a Hal Willner-produced 1987 appeal of standards and contemporary compositions that spanned several decades for its sources, was her superlative wallow of the decennary. In 1994, she published her self-titled autobiography; the biography As Tears Go By by Mark Hodkinson is an documentary and thorough report of her life and multiplication. Faithfull returned to transcription in 2002 with Kissin' Time, an eclecticist ingathering 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., devising its entrance into the U.S. market in early 2005. This record album continued in the vein of its herald, with songwriting and production contributions from PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Brion, and Albarn, but with far more consistent results. |
Friday, 5 September 2008
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