Marianne Faithfull

There's a good two disc compilation of hers that covers Broken English and after up to the mid-nineties or so -- Perfect Stranger is the name. But this doesn't touch on her sixties or seventies music at all, and I'm not too sure where to begin there.

Hey, if you're new here, welcome. :-)

I am new; thanks. Seems like a great board.

what i do like, aside from her great 60s singles, are the folk-rock records she cut around the same time... and the country-rock (well, about as country-rock as say, scott walker's contemporaneous MOR lps) "dreaming my dreams" is pretty fine.

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Still, it looks as if they've caught it early, so prayers and all good wishes to her because she deserves to live to be a hundred after all she's been through.

i like this woman! (well the one song i've now heard :-) )

i feel i need to listen to more

her cover of kris kristofferson's "the hawk" (which can be found on both the trouble in mind soundtrack AND ambient ibiza vol. 2!) is gorgeous - i respond so instinctively to those warm synths...

These Decca sides are fascinating: she sounds so scared to inhabit the songs, as though she's aware of how decayed their arrangements sound: like a fruit that has begun to rot and its smell is still sweet but the flies are approaching. "Tomorrow's calling with promises new / I hear the echo of yesterday's blue."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRLlzYhFhhU

so good

a secret life is amazing. dreamy noir-pop shrouded in angelo badalamenti's creepy synth strings. anyone else a fan?

cutty i bet you love this album

another important factor in this album's greatness - so much fretless

I'm a fan---been listening through the 2-cd Island Anthology and it is unmitigated, consistent awesomeness. Broken English gets hyped for the frank lyrics, but we should dwell more on the melodies: "Witches' Song" and "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" in particular have gorgeous melodies.

Broken English is so great. The title song has earwormed itself into me, but in addition to the two songs I mentioned in April, I wanted to mention "Guilt": the arrangement is perfect for spotlighting her voice.

new album available in the US June 28th . Advance description sounds promising:

Horses and High Heels consists of four originals and eight covers ranging from Carole King’s “Going Back” to Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan’s “The Stations.” Four of the tracks feature virtuosic guitarist John Porter (Eric Clapton, The Smiths) while Lou Reed and Dr. John/MC5’s Wayne Kramer each make cameos on multiple songs. It was recorded in New Orleans and features a core of masterful local musicians. Hal Willner (Laurie Anderson, Allen Ginsberg), who also helmed Marianne’s critically-acclaimed 2009 collection of covers and duets: Easy Come, Easy Go, produced the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnygL9-ZqYE

this is a batshit clip, but that look at the end, the lick of the lips, those synths...it ends up making sense

her new single is extraordinary:

http://www.stereogum.com/1706638/marianne-faithfull-late-victorian-holocaust/mp3s/

this new album is excellent. best discovery so far from eoy catch-up

Just discovered Broken English...and Why'd Ya Do It. Crikey!

http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/12/12/marianne-faithfull-broken-english-round-86-toms-selection/

Great use of "Guilt" as a closing-credit track in one of the new Mindhunter episodes. In fact, lots of great period music in the series. Kudos to the producers for not using "Psycho Killer" at every turn.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/15/marianne-faithfull-i-was-in-a-dark-place-presumably-it-was-death?fbclid=IwAR1nChVaWE4ZdSDNV14Kz_HNVh92VSswbqH9yhUBwWixr7zlXA4gtRZR8Hc

Singer Marianne Faithfull earlier survived heroin addiction, suicide attempts, homelessness, breast cancer, hepatitis C, now she’s survived Covid but w/ some ongoing issues. She’s got new music & a book coming

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/arts/music/marianne-faithfull-she-walks-in-beauty.html

Sent my mom that link

Interesting interview. She’s a survivor. Now whether I want to hear her recite Shelley and others poetry, remains to be seen. Hopefully Ellis backing will make it work

Intrigued by this Montreux live album

out Dec. 8---benefit is because she still has Long Covid:

Marianne Faithfull tribute / benefit album, The Faithful, announced feat. Cat Power w/ Iggy Pop, Peaches w/ Shirley Manson, Bush Tetras, Lydia Lunch, Donita Sparks & many more

Stream the first track from the album today, Tanya Donelly & the Parkington Sisters' cover of "This Little Bird"

Best wishes for her recovery. I was watching an old BBC Arena tv documentary on Brian Epstein last weekend and finding her quite annoying - as I have done previously - with her description of the music/culture scene of the mid-1960s as a kind of exciting new aristocracy with she clearly saw herself fitting into.

Pretty much every autobiography I’ve read from a musician has some cautionary tale about drug/substance abuse, and hers was no different. However, her recounting of her acid days during the 60s would make you think she’s advocating it.

RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/30/marianne-faithfull-singular-icon-of-british-pop-dies-aged-78

RIP - loved her autobiography. "Broken English" is on a very short list of albums that blew my mind when i first heard it.

The album produced by Beck is one of her best.

oof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W62_7PG55_Y

Had to share this one, a secret favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-DCSJI6dwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DTwK5xysg

yeah Kissin Time is fantastic

RIP

Crap quality but her beauty shines thru while singing this Gainsbourg nugget <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqpR47fPiFg

in her memoir she claims that while fuck Mick Jagger he fantasized rather loudly about wanting to suck Keith's cock (Keith was in the room next door).

RIP. I was just listening to Strange Weather a couple of days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Rab2fBQSg

Gary Indiana on Marianne Faithfull in 1987. pic.twitter.com/O8vm1UqOyl

— Andrew Marzoni (@andrewmarzoni) January 30, 2025

Wild that she was about 38 and sounded so weathered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOaV0gTzmKc

From that same soundtrack, this beautiful Kris Kristofferson cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bOqhmaQao

I forgot about her lovely contribution here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55UqrnjtcZY

Have we talked about her movie, Irina Palm?

In which she stars as a grandmother who gives handjobs to pay for her grandson’s medical bills? Because it’s a good, surprisingly tender film.

I love Before the Poison so much, Faithfull fronting Grinderman!, but the tunes with Pj Harvey are so incredible, I wish they had done a whole record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAclFYBkC9s

Also how come Willner never got her to cover any Ecstasy era Lou songs?

Marianne singing "Rock Minuet" would fix me

Such a wonderful performance/film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeA3H7VJ7tw

Always loved this elegiac anthem of aging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_kEz1NhOUQ

Derek Jarman's Broken English "video EP"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REJILapxVnw

Her brief sequence in Godard’s Made in USA singing “As Tears Go By” in a cafe had me thinking things like, “why is this so great? Is it the song? Is pop music a higher art form than film? But this is a film… but it’s also by far the most affecting thing in the film…” etc.

Two very rare screenings of an excellent 35mm print of When Pigs Fly at MoMA in NYC, my favorite of Faithfull's screen performances, on March 14 and 17. Director Sara Driver will be there on the 14th to give a Q&A.

Guardian has a link to a consid of MF on film here, along with a recently posted eyewitness account of pop bird's how-dare-she legit stage debut and that:

Fury and denunciations: when pop idol Marianne Faithfull took to the stage – and silenced her critics

Michael Billington

and from 1967, concise backstory of then-current hubbub re her casting, a publicity-related brief encounter w her, and the original Guardian review of the production:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/08/marianne-faithfull-royal-court-chekhov-1967

and one of my all-tyme fave Dylan covers---wish she'd done an alb of these, jeez:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoslciWMeo

Ah beautifully done! Maybe there's enough out there and/or in the vault to compile into an all-Dylan album? On many days, this is my favorite Dylan song.

Saw this posted elsewhere:

I met her in Chicago, IL spring 2005, before her show.

A bit of an amusing story. She entered the venue, The Park West, via the patron entrance & I was very close to her in proximity. Security demanded she produce a ticket to gain entry to which she angerly replied "I am the f***ing performer, now let me in!" Security replied with the same line about everyone needing a ticket. I had about five album jackets with me as I had hoped to meet her for an autograph. She sees my album jackets & has me show them to security to verify she is indeed Marianne Faithfull. Security then gave her the okay to enter, but first she (very graciously) carefully & slowly autographed each album for me with beautiful penmanship. Also, gave me a very big thank you & smile.

It certainly was worth the drive from Indianapolis to Chicago.