Marianne Faithfull
Broken English
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AMG Review of Broken English
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All Music GuideAfter a lengthy absence, Faithfull resurfaced on this 1979 album, which took the edgy and brittle sound of punk rock and gave it a shot of studio-smooth dance rock. Faithfull's whiskey-worn vocals perfectly match the bitter and biting "Why'd Ya Do It" and revitalize John Lennon's "Working Class Hero."
Essential 80's Tracks, Part 109
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Marianne Faithfull spent most of the 1970s strung out on heroin and hoovering coke, so when she dropped "Broken English" on the world in 1979, it knocked everyone on their ass. The angelic voice that sang "As Tears Go By" in the mid sixties was replaced by a haggard, bleak moan, every bit of earned over years of living on the streets and just trying to get high. The album is just unbelievably *...
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The Ice Queen and I
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A couple years ago my daughter was asked to contribute a few poems for some "zine" that came out quarterly, and since they were to appear in the Winter issue, it was suggested she write stuff that had to do with snow, or cold, or that sort of stuff. Three of them she wrote on her own, and they were utterly inspired - e.g.; "I wanted to write a poem about Winter / The only word it rhymes with i...
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Essential 80's Tracks, Part 109
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Marianne Faithfull spent most of the 1970s strung out on heroin and hoovering coke, so when she dropped "Broken English" on the world in 1979, it knocked everyone on their ass. The angelic voice that sang "As Tears Go By" in the mid sixties was replaced by a haggard, bleak moan, every bit of earned over years of living on the streets and just trying to get high. The album is just unbelievably *...
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Marianne Faithful
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Have I mentioned how much I love this song? Man, it's incredible. All these years later I can still listen to it over and over.
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