Perfect Stranger The Island Anthology Music Cd

Faithfull Marianne - Perfect Stranger The Island Anthology

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Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology      Artist : Marianne Faithfull      List Price : $19.98 USD        Your Price : $15.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1998-10-27      Studio : Island      Label : Island      Avg. Customer Rating : (13 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Perfect Stranger The Island Anthology      Lots of ground is covered in this anthology      Rating:      I was going to get a CD of just "Broken English" but decided to get the 2-CD Island anthology instead because of all the great stuff on it. Marianne Faithfull is such an evocative singer - I have to say don't listen to this if you're depressed. There's so much hard-living and lessons learned in her voice. Overall, this is a great set of music, although I wasn't too crazy about the electronica stuff - simpler is definitely better for her voice.     Customer Reviews for Perfect Stranger The Island Anthology Cd      A great great great anthology      Rating:      Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2XS4JR9UE765B My name is Jeremy Gloff. I am a musician (check me out on Amazon!) and retro music enthusiast. If you enjoyed this review make sure to check out my Amazon user profile to check out my other reviews. I am always up for making new friends and discussing the music I love!!! Editorial Reviews for Perfect Stranger The Island Anthology Audio Cd      Amazon.com      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. 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. 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