Marianne Faithfull
Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology
Label:  Island 
Date:  10/27/1998
Length:  0:00
Format:  2CD
Genre:  Rock; Pop
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Broken English    
      2.  
      		 Witches' Song    
      3.  
      		 Guilt    
      4.  
      		 The Ballad of Lucy Jordan (Shel Silverstein)    
      5.  
      		 Working Class Hero (John Lennon)    
      6.  
      		 Why d'Ya Do It?    
      7.  
      		 Sister Morphine    
      8.  
      		 Sweetheart    
      9.  
      		 Intrigue    
      10.  
      		 For Beauty's Sake    
      11.  
      		 So Sad    
      12.  
      		 Truth, Bitter Truth    
      13.  
      		 The Blue Millionaire    
      14.  
      		 Falling from Grace    
      15.  
      		 Running for Your Lives    
      16.  
      		 Ballad of the Soldier's Wife    
      17.  
      		 Trouble in Mind (The Return)    
      18.  
      		 The Boulevard of Broken Dreams    
      19.  
      		 Yesterdays    
      20.  
      		 Strange Weather    
      21.  
      		 Gloomy Sunday    
      22.  
      		 Hello Stranger    
      23.  
      		 As Tears Go By    
      24.  
      		 A Perfect Stranger    
      25.  
      		 Conversation on a Barstool    
      26.  
      		 A Waste of Time    
      27.  
      		 Isolation    
      28.  
      		 Blazing Away    
      29.  
      		 When I Find My Life    
      30.  
      		 Times Square    
      31.  
      		 Ghost Dance    
      32.  
      		 Sleep    
      33.  
      		 Love in the Afternoon    
      34.  
      		 Bored by Dreams    
      35.  
      		 She    
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      After a decade and a half of recording everything from '60s pop covers culled from the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, country music, and pensive singer-songwriters, Marianne Faithfull signed with Island Records as a reinvented new-wave punk queen. With sharpened edge at the ready, she cut 1978's Broken English, a harrowing purge of sexual jealousy and guilt, six cuts from which are featured here. Her voice, ravaged from years of excess, cracks with wasted beauty and lent tarnished experience to her tales of struggle and hopeless nostalgia. After several albums of modern pop (a healthy selection from all are included in this essential anthology), Faithfull hooked up with producer Hal Willner to record 1987's Strange Weather, adopting a new role as an ageless, bluesy chanteuse. A Perfect Stranger follows through her latest collaboration with Angelo Badalamenti (1995's A Secret Life) and features six previously unreleased tracks, including a cover of John Lennon's "Isolation" and "A Waste of Time," a song she cowrote with Steve Winwood. --Rob O'Connor