Monday, February 03, 2025

My Music Monday

I was going to post about the passing of Marianne Faithfull, but I went in a much darker direction at the time and opted to hold off until My Music Monday

I knew "As Tears Go By", but more the Stone's version than Faithfull's. At the time I'm not sure I could have pulled her name out of a hat. 

1979 was when I truly became aware of her with the release of her "comeback" disk Broken English

Comeback. She was 33 at the time. 

My 16 year old self assumed she was 50+, but she lived hard and the voice on that record barely resembled her 1960's recordings. 

 Broken English is an amazing disk. At least it was for a teen me. Raw, is the best way to describe it. There is nothing pretty about it and it was considered 'new wave' at the time. 

The title track (today's selection), "Guilt" and the "Ballad of Lucy Jordan" really center the disk, though there were only eight tracks total. 

This disk really set her up for a much more artful 'second half', with critical praise for Strange Weather, Trouble in Mind and a Secret Life - the last one working with David Lynch's composer, Angelo Badalamenti.

The Broken English and going forward version of Faithfull truly made her one of a kind. 

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