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Kissin' Time
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by Marianne Faithfull
Price:$15.98
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Album Details
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1. Sex With Strangers - Beck, Marianne Faithfull
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2. Pleasure Song - Marianne Faithfull
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3. Like Being Born - Beck, Marianne Faithfull
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4. I'm on Fire - Billy Corgan, Marianne Faithfull
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5. Wherever I Go - Billy Corgan, Marianne Faithfull
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6. Song for Nico - Marianne Faithfull,
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7. Sliding Through Life on Charm - Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull
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8. Love and Money - Marianne Faithfull
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9. Nobody's Fault - Beck, Marianne Faithfull
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10. Kissin' Time - Blur, Marianne Faithfull
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11. Something Good - Billy Corgan, Marianne Faithfull
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First album in well over two years by the veteran rocker. Features collaborations & contributions, in varying forms that range from writing to producing to performing, from an illustrious & diverse line-up of Faithfull devotees that includes Beck, Damon Albarn of Blur, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins & Etienne Daho. No U.S. release is scheduled. 2002.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Listener Reviews & Comments
With 1999's VAGABOND WAYS (not relased in America until 2000), Marianne Faithfull proved that, for a woman in her 50s, she could still command the same power & attention that albums like 1979's seminal BROKEN ENGLISH proved. Granted, Marianne is not the easiest artist to listen to, let alone love. Her critical look back at her past musical career & decadence is brutally honest & not often pretty. But before giving her a thumbs-down, one needs to realize how she got where she is today & when one does, they'll find Marianne to be a little more approachable & even human. What's especially amazing is that she still has a considerable amount of fans after all this time, including her fellow artists. Her newest album KISSIN' TIME is a concentration on duets & collaborations where both Marianne & the guest are on equal footing, causing both to play off each other's strengths. It was albums like BROKEN ENGLISH that helped establish Marianne as more than just Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriend & some would also argue that she has held up better than her former lover. The big question about KISSIN' TIME would be could an old pro like Marianne work well with the younger admirers? The answer turns out to be a resounding yes! Since 1999's MIDNITE VULTURES, Beck has been a little on the quiet side, the normally prolific Mr. Hansen taking his time with his next artistic move. But apparently, he had time to work with Marianne & gave her some of his best material, too. Songs like "Sex With Strangers" & "Like Being Born" (which may be more sinister than it sounds) are both typical of Marianne's pull-no-punches look at her past history & Beck's new-Dylan-ish stream-of-consciousness writing style. Just as it seemed only Beck could perform his own material, the writing team of Faithfull & Hansen works out well & hopefully will create more in the future. Marianne even goes straight to the source by covering Beck's "Nobody's Fault But My Own" (as "Nobody's Fault"). Certainly one of the more understandable songs Beck has ever created (not by much, though), Marianne works wonders with this one as well. The other big collaborator on KISSIN' TIME is former Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan, who not only gives Marianne some of his best material, but also his most direct. "I'm On Fire" & "Wherever I Go" are surprisingly romantic & even seductive for the usually gloomy Billy & helps gives Marianne a warm sensuality that one wouldn't have thought possible with her voice at this point in her career. An even more shocking success is Marianne's cover of Goffin & King's (popularized by Herman's Hermits) "I'm Into Something Good" with Corgan behind the boards. She just might be proving she has a heart of gold after all. That's not to say Marianne has lost her acid-drenched commentary on the darker side of love & life. "Song For Nico" (with former Eurythmic Dave Stewart) is a condensation of the life of the legendary German chanteuse in only 4 minutes & is one song that warrants the "parental advisory" sticker on the cover of KISSIN' TIME (BROKEN ENGLISH would have deserved one, too, but they weren't around yet in 1979). "Sliding Through Life On Charm" is probably the song most likely to offend (especially with the line mixing sex & the clergy) on the album & no surprise, coming from Pulp leader Jarvis Cocker (whose album WE LOVE LIFE has finally reached American stores). It also is one of the most autobiographical songs Marianne has ever sung with her name actually mentioned in the lyrics. Blur is another band who's been silent for a while (since 1999's 13), but as they go about crafting their next work, they take time out to work with Marianne on the title track. Not the outright shocker that is "Sliding Through Life On Charm", it still has that song's sense of brutal honesty, but with lyrics able to be heard by virgin ears. The remaining two songs are quite good in their own right, but they're easily obscured by the high-profile collaborations of the others. "The Pleasure Song" is written with French pop maestro Etienne Daho & is a good example of Serge Gainsbourg's odes to free love that perked up ears in the late 1960s. "Love & Money" is a short 2-minute ditty co-written with Marianne's BROKEN ENGLISH partner Barry Reynolds, with him performing most of the music. I think this is one song that could have benefitted from a better production job, giving it more room to breathe. The success of VAGABOND WAYS must have been a surprise to the music industry Marianne Faithfull has often had few good words to say about. Whereas that album was released by an independent label, KISSIN' TIME is released on Hut Records (subsidiary of the Virgin label). With Marianne enjoying a much more fruitful career (artistically) now than ever before, maybe her time to shine has finally come & on her own terms. Of course, KISSIN' TIME isn't exactly safe for listeners of all ages, but if you want to hear a veteran artist with just as much attitude as anyone else half her age, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone better than Marianne Faithfull.
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Kissin' Time
by Marianne Faithfull
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