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~ Marianne Faithfull (Artist), Beck (Artist), Billy Corgan (Artist), Dave Stewart (Artist), Jarvis Cocker (Artist), et al.
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  • Audio CD (4 Mar 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Hut Recordings/Virgin
  • ASIN: B00005V90Q
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55,096 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Sex with Strangers
2. The Pleasure Song
3. Like Being Born
4. I'm On Fire
5. Wherever I Go
6. Song for Nico
7. Sliding Through Life on Charm
8. Love & Money
9. Nobody's Fault
10. Kissin Time

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Marianne Faithfull is--after 38 years in music--still more famous for whom she had sex with in the 1960s than for her talents as singer and lyricist. Her 11th album, Kissin' Time, uses her wise and angry knowledge of this unjust state of affairs, and comes up smelling not of roses, but stale perfume, spilt gin and sex. The result is her best-ever album. Comprising collaborations with the likes of Beck, Blur, Pulp, The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and The Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, Kissin' Time takes in everything from spiky electro-pop (Beck's superb "Sex with Strangers") to Tom Waits-lite (Blur's rather self-conscious title track), by way of "Song for Nico"'s no-punches-pulled ballad tribute to the late Velvet Underground chanteuse, and the magnificent "Sliding Through Life on Charm", where Pulp's rousing anthemics provide the perfect backdrop for Ms Faithfull's hilariously filthy autobiographical defiance. Faithfull's cracked cabaret growl and painfully personal lyrics remain an acquired taste. But, if you can deal with a middle-aged woman's sexual and emotional honesty, and the album's deliberately eclectic tunes and textures, then Kissin' Time is a classic of bold, bitter and elegantly profane pop art. --Garry Mulholland

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kissin time puts the faith back in faithfull, 23 Jan 2003
This is the album that all die hard Marianne fans have waited the past decade for. Following on from 1999's melancholy yet infectious offering, Vagabond ways, Marianne shelves contemplative, earth mother for sassy rock goddess - welcome back Marianne.The list of collaborators reads like a who's who of rock royalty, old and new - Beck, Blur, Jarvis and Billy Corrigan to name but a few. The opening track (Sex with Strangers) sets the tone for the entire album, its Marianne sultry, laid back defaint and above all the girls speaking from experience....."Time for sex with someone else?" 'The Pleasure Song', 'I'm on Fire', and 'Wherever I go all provide an insight into what Marianne's made of but 'Song for Nico' marks a point where Marianne pulls out all the stops. Without doubt the Jarvis Cocker/Faithfull penned 'Sliding through Life on Charm' is one of the albums highlights if not the sassiest offering of her career. This is Disco 2000 sung by a woman who knows what she's talking about, and will have you tapping your toe before she even refers to her most intimate parts by a word that a woman of her age should not even understand! The next couple of tracks support everything before, but Marianne comes back with class in the form of 'Kissin' time' - Faithfull's conviction and Damon Albarn'raw talent fuse to provide a breath-taking conclusion. This album will astound fans and newcomers alike from the opening line of the first track to the last note of the last it is amazing that a woman with so much real talent just keeps oozing more.
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4.0 out of 5 stars At the cutting edge of the time, 19 Jul 2002
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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Marianne has always been an expert at bouncing back from obscurity, as with the legendary Broken English in the early 1980s. Kissin' Time sees Faithfull still at the cutting edge of pop with assistance by Beck, Billy Corgan, Dave Stewart, Jarvis Cocker, and Blur on the title track. In her book Memories, Dreams and Reflections, a short chapter is devoted to discussing the songs and the musicians on Kissin' Time. Marianne claims that the style was very deliberately 1960s retro as if it were the follow-up to her work of that decade. Not predominantly aotobiographical, the album happily celebrates love & life with a theme of fandom permeating it.

I have always associated Marianne with other famous blondes of the 1960s like Nico and Anita Pallenberg, so it's apt that she does a tribute to the Velvet Underground chanteuse with the expert help of Dave Stewart. This era produced another Nico tribute; compare the song with the same title on the album How I Loved You by Angels of Light. But I miss the emotional resonance and authenticity of 1999's Vagabond Ways. After the opening track, the ironic Sliding Through Life On Charm with its wry & witty biographical references - a song co-written with Jarvis Cocker - is the first that held my attention.

I also love the lilting pop/reggae tune Love & Money and her cover of Goffin & King's Something Good, which to my mind most closely resembles the type of innocent 60s pop she used to do at the start of her career. If it weren't for the voice of course, that has dropped to a more husky tone. My tracks of choice also includes Sex With Strangers with its ironic comments and edgy beat. So this album is the 2004 manifestation of Marianne reinventing herself, and it's interesting but not always emotionally gripping and memorable. Still, Kissin' Time deserves four stars for musical variety and humour.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A modern masterpiece, 9 April 2002
By D. Roundsley "metalbeat" (SF BAY AREA, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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One of the things lacking in most electronica, is personality, and that is a quality Ms. Faithfull has in abundance. Even though there were several different musicians involved, the CD has a cohesiveness. This disc is VERY modern sounding, but I think this will stand up very nicely with past glories, Broken English, Strange Weather, and A Perfect Stranger. Highly reccomended.
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3.0 out of 5 stars where is the missing track?
I bought this CD a while back, It is well worth the purchase just for "Sliding Through Life On Charm" alone! Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. Goodman

3.0 out of 5 stars Bitter-sweet but too many ballads
The amazing list of collaborators on this album drew me to buying it as I wasn't too familiar with any other Faithfull songs except "Broken English". Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2007 by Mr. Stuart Bruce

4.0 out of 5 stars Cutting edge
Marianne Faithfull has always been expert at staying ahead of the times, as with the seminal Broken English in 1979. Read more
Published on 9 April 2005 by Pieter

5.0 out of 5 stars It grew on me
When I first heard this album I thought it sounded very alien and I wasn't sure I liked it, but on the second or third listen I was won over by the quality of the writing and... Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2003

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