Perfect Stranger: Island Years

Author: FAITHFULL,MARIANNE

Format: Best of

PartNumber: CD524579

Release Date: 23-10-1998

Details: Amazon.ca After a decade and a half of recording everything from 1960s 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 another 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 co-wrote with Steve Winwood. --Rob O'Connor

UPC: 731452457929

EAN: 0731452457929

Model: CD524579

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood