Marianne Faithfull International Web Site
Includes bibliography, discography, lyrics, videography, recording sessions, and a list of plays Faithfull appeared in.
http://www.planete.net/~smironne/ |
RollingStone.com: Marianne Faithfull
Includes a biography, discography, articles, links and message board.
http://rollingstone.com/artists/default.asp?oid=966 |
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North Country Maid (Audio CD),09 April, 2002
List price $37.99
Letting off the Happiness. Burried by time, forgotten by all / 5
This album is one of the best of the 1960's folk movement. Its been buried by time and inferiority to Marianne's later work, but had Marianne never become the soul wrenching tobacco scorched chanteuse of later years this album may have been remembered for the beauty and strength it exhibits. Despite the supreme efforts of the likes of Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Mary Hopkin this album is at the top of the ranks for sad folk records. This is one of the most poignant and depressed records I have ever heard. It gains strength in its tragic quality from Marianne's beautiful and pristine soprano that seems to try relentlessly to push off the gloom that ensues her but it never quite outruns its grasp. The album is coherent and beautifully sad throughout (unlike some of her earlier works, i.e. Marianne Faithfull, Love in a Mist) and contains some of the most beautifully sad arrangements on record (i.e. Sunny Goodge Street, She Moved Through the Fair, Scarborough Fair). This record is the sound of happiness melting down the walls of an empty white room.
Song "Blowin’ In The Wind"
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
How many times can a cannon ball fly
Before they’re forever banned ?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea ?
How many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free ?
How many times can a man turn his head,
And pretend that he just doesn’t see ?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
How many times can a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
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Marianne Faithfull: Kissin' Time - PopMatters Music Review
Marianne Faithfull, Kissin' Time (Virgin), review by Adrien Begrand.
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/f/faithfull-marianne-kissin.shtml
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Marianne Faithfull : Marianne Faithfull (Japan) - Listen, Review ...
Marianne Faithfull (Japan) reviews and sound clips on the ARTISTdirect Network.
... Track Listing | Album Review | Credits | Similar Albums ...
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1635465,00.html
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