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Because more than half of the 35 songs on this two-disc retrospective of Marianne Faithfull's 1979-95 output come from her three great albums -- Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, and Strange Weather -- or are previously unreleased outtakes or B-sides from them, A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology makes a fine primer to Faithfull's often challenging, always mesmerizing (or would that be always challenging, often mesmerizing?) music. "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife," her solid contribution to 1985's Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, is also included, giving Faithfull's hauntingly tragic voice the resonance and attention it demands. Weill and Faithfull seem made for each other, as the bulk of the second disc (comprised of songs from her 1990 live album and the underachieving A Secret Life, as well as the career-capping Strange Weather) makes clear. But there's also a strain to some of these tracks, as if Faithfull's aesthetic wandering eventually will bring her to that elusive cabaret of her dreams. On her best recordings, it indeed sounds like she's home.
© Michael Gallucci /TiVo
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Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Barry Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Terence Philip Stannard, ComposerLyricist - Joe Mavety, ComposerLyricist - Stephen David York, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1979 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Barry Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Charles Frederick Mavety, ComposerLyricist - Joe Mavety, ComposerLyricist - Stephen David York, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1979 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Barry Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1979 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Shel Silverstein, ComposerLyricist - Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1979 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
John Lennon, ComposerLyricist - Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1979 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Barry Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Terence Philip Stannard, ComposerLyricist - Charles Frederick Mavety, ComposerLyricist - Joe Mavety, ComposerLyricist - Stephen David York, ComposerLyricist - Heathcote Williams, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1979 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
KEITH RICHARDS, ComposerLyricist - MICK JAGGER, ComposerLyricist - Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1979 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Barry Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1981 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - Ben Brierley, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1981 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Steve Winwood, ComposerLyricist - Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1981 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Barry Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Stephen David York, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1981 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Ed Thacker, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Barry Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Dave Courts, ComposerLyricist - Mark Miller Mundy, Producer
℗ 1981 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Wally Badarou, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Barry Reynolds, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Harvey Goldberg, Producer
℗ 1983 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Wally Badarou, Producer - Barry Reynolds, Producer - Harvey Goldberg, Producer - Ben Brierley, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1983 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Wally Badarou, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Barry Reynolds, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Harvey Goldberg, Producer
℗ 1983 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
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Kurt Weill, ComposerLyricist - Bertolt Brecht, ComposerLyricist - Chris Spedding, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer - Sharon Freeman, Conductor - David Greenberg, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Paul M. Young, Producer
℗ 1985 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - Mark Isham, Producer - Richard M. Jones, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1986 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
AL DUBIN, Author - Harry Warren, Composer - JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer
℗ 1987 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Jerome Kern, Composer - JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Otto Harbach, Author - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer
℗ 1987 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Tom Waits, ComposerLyricist - JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer - Kathleen Brennan, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1987 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Sam M. Lewis, Translator - JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - Rezsoe Seress, ComposerLyricist - HAL WILLNER, Producer - Javor Laszlo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Doc Pomus, ComposerLyricist - Dr. John, ComposerLyricist - JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer
℗ 1987 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Andrew Loog Oldham, ComposerLyricist - KEITH RICHARDS, Author - MICK JAGGER, Author - JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer
℗ 1987 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Fernando Saunders, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - HAL WILLNER, Producer
℗ 1998 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Fernando Saunders, Producer - Bono, ComposerLyricist - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer - The Edge, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Fernando Saunders, Producer - Steve Winwood, ComposerLyricist - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - HAL WILLNER, Producer
℗ 1998 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Fernando Saunders, Producer - John Lennon, ComposerLyricist - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer
℗ 1998 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Fernando Saunders, Producer - JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - HAL WILLNER, Producer - Barry Reynolds, Producer, Associate Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - HAL WILLNER, Producer - Barry Reynolds, Producer, Associate Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
JOE FERLA, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - HAL WILLNER, Producer - Barry Reynolds, Producer, Associate Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Ron Wood, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Don Was, Producer, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Brady, Recorder, AssociatedPerformer - Lenny Kaye, ComposerLyricist - KEITH RICHARDS, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marianne Faithfull, MainArtist - PATTI SMITH, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Watts, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Gary Chester, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Angelo Badalamenti, Conductor, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Frank McGuinness, ComposerLyricist - Art Polhemus, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Chester, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Angelo Badalamenti, Conductor, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Art Polhemus, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Chester, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Angelo Badalamenti, Conductor, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Art Polhemus, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Chester, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Angelo Badalamenti, Conductor, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Marianne Faithfull, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Art Polhemus, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Because more than half of the 35 songs on this two-disc retrospective of Marianne Faithfull's 1979-95 output come from her three great albums -- Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances, and Strange Weather -- or are previously unreleased outtakes or B-sides from them, A Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology makes a fine primer to Faithfull's often challenging, always mesmerizing (or would that be always challenging, often mesmerizing?) music. "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife," her solid contribution to 1985's Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, is also included, giving Faithfull's hauntingly tragic voice the resonance and attention it demands. Weill and Faithfull seem made for each other, as the bulk of the second disc (comprised of songs from her 1990 live album and the underachieving A Secret Life, as well as the career-capping Strange Weather) makes clear. But there's also a strain to some of these tracks, as if Faithfull's aesthetic wandering eventually will bring her to that elusive cabaret of her dreams. On her best recordings, it indeed sounds like she's home.
© Michael Gallucci /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 35 track(s)
- Total length: 02:33:07
- Main artists: Marianne Faithfull
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Island Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group This Compilation ℗ 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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