The Very Best of Marianne Faithfull

The Very Best of Marianne Faithfull Artist: Marianne Faithfull
Label: Polygram Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 042282048226
EAN: 0042282048226
ASIN: B000006YM3


Release Date: 2001-05-08

The Very Best of Marianne Faithfull


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Tracks:

  1. As Tears Go By
  2. Come And Stay With Me
  3. Scarborough Fair
  4. Monday, Monday
  5. Yesterday
  6. The Last Thing On My Mind
  7. What Have They Done To The Rain
  8. This Little Bird
  9. Something Better
  10. In My Time Of Sorrow
  11. Is This What I Get For Loving You?
  12. Tomorrow's Calling
  13. Reason To Believe
  14. Sister Morphine
  15. Go Away From My World
  16. Summer Nights

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars very fine.......2005-12-02

This CD fully delivers what its title promises: Marianne Faithfull's best early songs. All in her delicate and well-balanced style.

There are sixteen of them.

They fully expose Marianne's beautiful voice, in a time before she ruined it by using heroine. A voice gone forever, setting a mood that touches the very essence of the Sixties.

Just close your eyes, listen, and surrender yourself to a beautiful and pure world that never existed -- though back then people believed it could.

5 out of 5 stars Early Days: Faithfull The Folk Siren.......2003-03-07

Although I already owned Marianne Faithfull's Greatest Hits album that contains thirteen of these tracks, I had to acquire this one too for her exquisite interpretations of two folk classics: Tom Paxton's The Last Thing On My Mind and Tim Hardin's Reason To Believe with which Rod Stewart later had a huge hit. It was well worth it!

Other sixties classics here include Monday Monday and Yesterday plus the two famous Stones songs As Tears Go By and the lugubrious Sister Morphine. The informative sleeve insert provides an interesting overview of her career, even giving the UK and US chart positions of her singles and ep's. I was surprised to learn, for example, how firmly she stood in the folk tradition in those early years, always having considered her more of a pop singer.

Besides the Paxton and Hardin numbers, my other favorites remain the yearning Come And Stay With Me, a Jackie De Shannon song which reached No. 4 in the UK in 1964, the Goffin/Mann composition Something Better, Spector/Goffin/King's Is This What I Get For Loving You and the sorrowful Go Away From My World. If I had to choose between "Greatest Hits" and this "Very Best Of", I would definitely take this one since Reason To Believe, The Last Thing On My Mind and Scarborough Fair are more beautiful than the tracks Counting, With You In Mind and Some Other Spring found on the Greatest Hits album.

5 out of 5 stars Essential.......2002-05-11

These recordings are absolutely essential to almost any serious music lovers collection , especially for those only familiar with her second musical incarnation. It wrenches you istening to her pure voice and knowing of the personal and vocal decay which spawned so quickly later on.

Tracks like As Tears Go By are sad but pleasantly beautiful, Sister Morphine dark and brooding. The recordings differ greatly in delivery and style but all have merrit. Special mention goes to Yesterday,probably the most beautiful version ever recorded and on Something Better she sounds almost identical to Melanie (Safka). The booklet inside has a full and informative biography and contains the recording date and chart peak of each track.

A worth wile and eye opening listening experience, creating a more complete understanding and appreciation for her later work , although they then become even harder to listen to.But
one thing is clear: Marianne Faithfull was already a major talent from the outset of her career.

5 out of 5 stars Essential.......2002-05-11

These recordings are absolutely essential to almost any serious music lovers collection , especially for those only familiar with her second musical incarnation. It wrenches you istening to her pure voice and knowing of the personal and vocal decay which spawned so quickly later on.

Tracks like As Tears Go By are sad but pleasantly beautiful, Sister Morphine dark and brooding. The recordings differ greatly in delivery and style but all have merrit. Special mention has
to go to Yesterday,probably the most beautiful version ever recorded. On Something Better she sounds almost identical to Melanie (Safka). The booklet inside has a full and interesting biography up to A Child's Adventure and contains the recording date and chart peak of each track.

A worth wile and eye opening listening experience, creating a more complete understanding and appreciation for her later work , although they then become even harder to listen to.But
one thing is clear: Marianne Faithfull was already a major talent from the outset of her career.

4 out of 5 stars

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