Strange Weather

Marianne Faithfull | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Island
• ASIN: B000001FU0
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,953 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for a bluesy, rainy day., October 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Strange Weather (Audio CD)

This is a wonderful album for feeling kind of melancholy. Faithfull's cracked voice has an odd kind of beauty, yet her songs are full of sorrow.

I love listening to this album when I'm a bit blue, and have found it to wear well over the years.

Sorrowful without being maudlin. I'd recommend it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here is a little controversy, August 8, 2005

By 

Scott R. Chamberlin (Venice, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strange Weather (Audio CD)

Strange Weather is Marianne Faithfull's masterpiece.

To me, it's as good as an album gets. Why? It's like looking into a soul, which, to me, is the highest virtue of art: to lay out the human condition as a truly honest expression of the author. The truth here is so profoundly expressed that even a song that shouldn't by any stretch belong to Marianne Faithfull, "Ain't Goin' Down," rolls through her voicebox like something she might have said in a half-sleep, a revelation.

Yes, it's melencholy; yes, it is melodramatic. But the songs and the album are "of a piece," like an old engine that cranks with every tune and starts up with just the same reliable grind and effortless churn.

It's truly beautiful, from beginning to end. While I love 20th Century Blues as well, I don't get that from any other Marianne Faithfull album. But I don't need it from any other. We have the purest, truest expression, right here.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marianne proves her talent, November 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Strange Weather (Audio CD)

When this album came out in '87, a critic called it "music to slit your wrists by." Marianne took it as a compliment. The CD is definitely a downer to those unfamiliar with Marianne. With this, she explores old blues and torch standards, and also does a new version of "As Tears Go By," her first hit back in '64, updating to suit her much-changed voice, and sinking her teeth into the intense world-weary feel of the lyrics. She also does a version of "Yesterdays," first done by Lady Day herself, Billie Holiday. A real highlight, that one. Even Sinatra couldn't do that one justice. While I wouldn't recommend it as an intro to Marianne's music, it is definitely a treasure and proves that Marianne Faithfull is an artist worth her weight in gold (even though she doesn't have many gold records to back that up).