Audio CD review:
Marianne Faithfull - Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology

Marianne Faithfull - Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology

Band: Marianne Faithfull Title: Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology Rating: Release Date: 27 October, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Broken English 2: Witches' Song 3: Guilt 4: The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan 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: The Blue Millionaire 14: Falling From Grace 15: Running For Our Lives 16: Ballad Of The Soldier's Wife 17: Trouble In Mind (The Return) 18: Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 19: Yesterdays 20: Strange Weather 21: Gloomy Sunday 22: Hello Stranger 23: As Tears Go By 24: A Perfect Stranger 25: Conversation On A Barstool 26: A Waste Of Time 27: Isolation 28: Blazing Away 29: When I Find My Life (Live) 30: Times Square (Live) 31: Ghost Dance 32: Sleep 33: Love In The Afternoon 34: Bored By Dreams 35: She

Editoral Review With sharpened edge at the ready, she cut 1978's Broken English, a harrowing purge of sexual jealousy and guilt, six cuts from which are featured here. After a decade and a half of recording everything from '60s pop covers culled from the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, country music, and pensive singer-songwriters, Marianne Faithfull signed with Island Records as a reinvented new-wave punk queen. Her voice, ravaged from years of excess, cracks with wasted beauty and lent tarnished experience to her tales of struggle and hopeless nostalgia. After several albums of modern pop (a healthy selection from all are included in this essential anthology), Faithfull hooked up with producer Hal Willner to record 1987's Strange Weather, adopting a new role as an ageless, bluesy chanteuse. A Perfect Stranger follows through her latest collaboration with Angelo Badalamenti (1995's A Secret Life) and features six previously unreleased tracks, including a cover of John Lennon's "Isolation" and "A Waste of Time," a song she cowrote with Steve Winwood. --Rob O'Connor .. You can see a complete list of all Marianne Faithfull discography, or go back to the Marianne Faithfull tabs