"... That's the thing about pretty faces. We'd much prefer to watch them wilt. We don't expect them to belong to the fighters-- the junkies and monks and cockroaches who'll survive every atomic bomb and suicide attempt and outlive us all. And we definitely don't expect them to make songs as gnarled and candid as the ones on Faithfull's finest record, Broken English, but there you go: the best records are all, in some way or another, the ones that blow a mouthful of smoke in the face of expectation. The world that thought it had tsk-tsked Miss X into submission was probably not ready for Broken English in 1979, and even today as it's released in a deluxe edition, it's still raw enough to make you squirm-- the cracked, undead voice of a woman back from exile to make a record about the simple audacity of staying alive."
Pitchfork
amazon - Broken English: Deluxe Edition
Glasswerk
YouTube: Broken English 1979, Broken English (acoustic) 2011, Working Class Hero, The Ballad of Lucy Jordan, Why d'ya do it 2004, Witches' song, Brain Drain, Guilt (Live on Sunday Night 1988), What's The Hurry?
2010 November: Marianne Faithfull
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