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Strange Weather
~ Marianne Faithfull (Artist)
4.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Audio CD (1 Jan 1989)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Island
  • ASIN: B000001FU0
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 229,035 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
2. Ain' Goin' Down To The Well No Mo'
3. Yesterdays
4. Sign Of Judgement
5. Strange Weather
6. Love Life And Money
7. I'll Keep It With Mine
8. Hello Stranger
9. Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
10. As Tears Go By
11. Stranger On Earth
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The smoke and whiskey-voiced Marianne Faithfull has createda work of perfection with STRANGE WEATHER. Be wary, though;this is not the perky, angelic '60s Marianne, who winsomelyfrolicked along Carnaby Street with her boyfriend Mick Jagger. Nor is this the brash, punk Marianne who made a well-deserved mid-'80s comeback with the shocking obscenities and raw confessionals of BROKEN ENGLISH. This Marianne Faithfull is a world-weary, ravaged woman who has dark, knowing tales to tell, and whose whimsy has been replaced by woe.
Hers is a voice that has lived, suffered, and survived; and only avoice of such immeasurable experience could tell the sad stories and desperate dramas that abound on STRANGE WEATHER. Her interpretions of standards are singular--from Leadbelly'sblues ("I Ain't Goin' Down To The Well No More") to the Jerome Kern songbook ("Yesterdays"). Tom Waits' title track is the album's moody centrepiece, while obscure gems from Bob Dylan and Dr. John shine through the cloudy atmosphere. Marianne even reinvents herself with a staggering, bruised rendition of her '60s hit "As Tears Go By". And when she breaks into the well-worn "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams", she does so with the dark assurance of someone name-dropping a former address.
The album transports the listener to another place and time: a foggy street, stormy and dark, where just a sliver of sunshine is able to break through the clouds. A temperamental place, where STRANGE WEATHER brings out the most primal of emotions.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential Marianne, 5 Nov 2000
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For those who either remember or have heard Marianne's 60s hit that made her famous, "As Tears Go By", you really must buy this album. Upon reading the track listing, you will feel reassured, since "As Tears Go By" features; however, you will soon be in for a huge surprise.

Recorded over 20 years after "As Tears Go By", "Strange Weather" demonstrates Marianne's darker, more mature side. This is the album of a woman who has lived (and almost died), and has chosen to express herself through the medium of Berlin cabaret songs, compositions by Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, and Jerome Kern. (These same themes and styles would be returned to again over the next ten years, for example in "20th Century Blues" in 1996.)

Then, of course, there is THAT song. Gone is the sweet, chirpy, throwaway pop version of the 60s; in is the angst, the pain of everything associated with being an iconoclastic survivor whose "riches can't buy everything".

The voice is fractured, tortured and that of a woman deep in reflection. The album is intelligent, accessible and near-perfect, from the evocative "Strange Weather", to the camp Berlin cabaret of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", to the achingly painful "Yesterdays", and the startling acapella defiance of "Ain' Goin' Down to the Well No Mo'".

This is a classic and timeless album in the true sense of the word. When listened along side "Broekn English" and "A Secret Life", it represents part of a trilogy of the greatest work of one of Britain's most brilliant, demanding, controversial, and essential female artistes.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Accomplished, but caveat emptor, 30 Jan 2007
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This introspective and melancholic 1987 album of covers represents Faithfull's take on the blues but there's also some gospel and a torch song or two. Strange Weather is a collection of famo