Rich Kid Blues [IMPORT]

Marianne Faithfull

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 11, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1984
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Diablo Records UK
• ASIN: B000009NQ4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,117 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
1998 reissue on Demon of 1984 compilation comprised of tracks she cut in the early '70s. 12 tracks, including 'LongBlack Veil', 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' and 'Visions Of Johanna'.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bittersweet and bluesy, December 19, 1999

By	Donn Hart (Boston) - See all my reviews

Recorded shortly before Marianne found herself living on the streets as a heroin addict, she recorded "Rich Kid Blues." Gone now was that sweet, pretty young girl the world was enamored of. A brutal drug bust she was caught in with the Rolling Stones started a systematic assassination of her character in the tabloids. Her reedy haunting soprano had dropped into a whiskey-soured husky instrument. On this record, you can almost smell the tobacco on her breath.

That aside, though Marianne herself hates this album with a passion, it truly does need to be heard. Her rendition of "The Long Black Veil" is fantastic (her former paramour, Mick Jagger, later did this track with the Chieftains in 1995). The title track is murky and haunting. "Corrine, Corrina" is also murky and multi-layered. Call it art-blues, if you will. "Chords of Fame" and "Sad Lisa" are great. But the real highlight is her cover of Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna." Fantastic.

It's definitely worth it to buy this CD. Do not hesitate.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Touching, April 25, 2000

By	Miguel Cane "Writer, Journalist, Film Critic" (Mexico City, Mexico) - See all my reviews

This record has been maligned by Marianne herself, since it was recorded during a time of pain and horror in her life.

And it shows.

This is a record that reveals that missing link between her girly pop years, her North Country Maid years and what was to come in the form of "Broken English"...

The voice is weak and raspy and she was probably too high to care when she recorded it. Or too hungry and despairing. Whatever it might have been, it also gives this CD a sense of vulnerability and loss that has not been achieved before, and there is a glimmer of hope.

You can feel it. And that's what counts.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fear of the Chords of Fame, January 4, 2002

By	F. R. W. Miles "unkawo" (Oak Hill, VA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Hurt, lonely, strung out on drugs; yet somewhere deep within her soul is the spirit of hope, the spark of light that this is not the end. From a cover of Cat Steven's "Sad Lisa" to the almost autobiographical cover of Phil Ochs "Chords of Fame", "Rich Kids Blues" is a tour through a world most of us only glimpse but thankfully never live in.

The voice is thin at times and the emotions pour through. After I first heard the album I just sat there stunned at the raw feelings, the agony, the wanting. I was drained. Only Lou Reed's Velvet Underground's "Heroin" has any music had that effect on me.

Yes, the album is uneven. True, it is not "Broken English". Is it worth the effort? YES.

"Rich Kid Blues" was recorded in the period of pain that provided the base that came to full blossom in "Broken English."