Easy Come, Easy Go
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Brand: FAITHFULL,MARIANNEEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-03-17
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Down From Dover
- Hold On Hold On
- Solitude
- Crane Wife
- Easy Come Easy Go
- Children Of Stone
- Many Worlds
- In Germany Before The War
- Ooh Baby
- The Phoenix
- Dear God Please Help Me
- Sing Me Back Home
Music reviews of Easy Come, Easy Go
Music Review: Faithfull Fulfilled
Rating: 5 Stars
For almost three decades, it has seemed safe to assume that Marianne Faithfull has, consciously or otherwise, been attempting to recreate the artistic and critical success she acheived with 1979's precedent-setting Broken English.
The less abrasive Dangerous Acquaintances (1981) almost succeeded artistically, and the Hal Wilner-produced collection of standards, Strange Weather, was wildly hailed by critics everywhere upon its release in 1987.
Since then, Faithfull, who began her career as a pop star in the 1960s, has often floundered creatively in her capacity as a recording artist.
Projects have been announced and then mysteriously scuttled (Sex At The Top and Blazing Away, which was originally planned as an album of newly-composed material); releases such as A Secret Life (1995) and Kiss'in Time (2002), like the earlier A Child's Adventure (1983), have been largely tepid and insubstantial; and her audience has been buried under a turgid barrage of unfocused, exploitive compilations which have endlessly recycled material from various stages of her remarkable career.
Faithfull has spoken publicly about her unhappiness with her recording history, and especially with what she sees as critical neglect.
One truth, rarely acknowledged anywhere, is that Faithfull's first period of fame in the 1960s bore some of her greatest contributions to Western culture. Today, and ever since their release, beautifully produced songs like 'Sally Free & Easy,' 'With You In Mind,' 'Young Girl Blues,' 'Sunny Goodge Street,' 'The Sha La La Song,' 'In The Night Time,' and 'Tomorrow's Calling' hold up amazingly well, completely and almost magically transporting the listener to a lost era.
However, Easy Come, Easy Go, a daring collection of covers once again produced by Hal Wilner, should bring Faithfull the kind of critical and artistic recognition she deserves---and on a grand scale. It is certainly the strongest and deftest album Faithfull has recorded since 1979.
Besides the immaculate instrumentation throughout, the most remarkable thing about the project is that Faithfull's rendition of many of the songs is superior to the originals.
Neko Case's abrasive 'Hold On, Hold On' is so blistering a cut that it might have been an outtake from Broken English. Espers's extended melancholy ode to addiction, 'Children of Stone,' is painted in somber goth tones, while the Decemberists's folkloric 'The Crane Wife 3' is a poignant elegy to a complex and conflicted relationship.
Duke Ellington's wistful 'Solitude' includes some of the album's nimblest phrasing, while Morrissey's 'Dear God Please Help Me,' one of the most powerful songs ever composed on the theme of sexual repression and release, is one of the crowning achievements of Faithfull's career.
Elsewhere, on Randy Newman's 'On Germany Before the War,' Faithfull revists the arch, twilit landscape of 'The Soldier's Wife' and 'The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,' while Dolly Parton's 'Down From Dover' and Merle Haggard's 'Sing Me Back Home' allow Faithfull, who attempted American roots music in the 1970s, another opportunity to prove herself a viable country singer.
Perhaps the most important aspect of Easy Come, Easy Go is that, though addressing themes of addiction, isolation, murder, the ending of pivotal relationships and even infant mortality, Faithfull never adopts the persona of the willful, self-destructive personality who, almost simultaneously, then begins to self-identify as a victim, as she often has since A Child's Adventure.
Easy Come, Easy Go skillfully presents listeners with a more mature, poised, disciplined, and wiser Faithfull than has yet been seen.
Paradoxically, those songs with a strong emotional content--'Hold On, Hold On,' 'Children of Stone,' 'The Crane Wife 3,' and 'Dear God Please Help Me'--are the most genuinely moving compostions Faithfull has ever recorded.
The packaging includes lovely photography of Faithful by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, who also created the striking cover for 2005's 'Before the Poison.' Though the cover art may seem incidental, it is important in this case, as for 15 years, Faithfull has released album after album containing images of herself which are either purposefully blurred, or ostensibly designed, for some unfathomable reason, to make her appear as unattractive as possible.
Featuring longtime collaborator Barry Renolds in addition to Marc Ribot, the project is also informed by the talents of Cat Power, Nick Cave, Keith Richards, Rufus Wainwright, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
While not all the song choices and arrangements may be equally palitable to all tastes, the least that can be said about Easy Come, Easy Go is that it will be the world's loss if Faithfull, Wilner, and friends don't schedule time in the studio together again shortly.
This project should be the beginning, not the end, of a powerful and influential new period in Faithfull's career.
Description of Easy Come, Easy Go
U.S. pressing of this release including two bonus tracks: 'The Phoenix' and 'Dear God Please Help Me'. Easy Come Easy Go is a collaboration between the British icon and producer Hal Wilner. All the songs have been chosen by Marianne and Hal, and range from Billie Holiday's 'Solitude' to 'The Crane Wife' by current band The Decemberists. Other tracks include songs originally by Merle Haggard, Espers, Bessie Smith, Morrissey, Dolly Parton and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Easy Come, Easy Go also includes some interesting guest performances from Keith Richards, Antony Hegarty, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, Sean Lennon, Cat Power and Teddy Thompson. Decca.Alternative Rock CDs
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