• Artist: Marianne Faithfull
• Rating:
• Style: Pop
• Track Picks: "As Tears Go By"

Review

Okay, the title is pretentious enough to have been used for a box set, and the songs jump around from decade to decade, but the 16-song collection A Stranger on Earth: An Introduction to Marianne Faithfull has its merits and, equally important, its surprises. The opening track, "As Tears Go By," is not Faithfull's mid-'60s hit pop/rock single version but her much darker and more personal 1987 re-recording, which is not only a better record but a perfect record, the artist and the song finally converging together at the former's optimum moment to tackle the latter. Leaping from there through her 1960s rendition of "Sister Morphine," to her classic version of "Reason to Believe," and to her Phil Spector-influenced "Is This What I Get for Loving You?," the disc offers multiple incarnations of Faithfull as a singer and persona and is, indeed, just about the best overview of the singer in under 20 songs (and not one of them "Broken English," which is saved for another anthology). And the sound is excellent. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	iTunes	Composers	Performers	Time
As Tears Go By		Mick Jagger, Andrew Loog Oldham, Keith Richards	Marianne Faithfull	(3:48)
Sister Morphine		Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards	Marianne Faithfull	(5:30)
Reason to Believe	...	Tim Hardin	Marianne Faithfull	(2:20)
Is This What I Get for Loving You?	...	Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Phil Spector	Marianne Faithfull	(3:51)
Come and Stay With Me	...		Marianne Faithfull	(2:25)
Strange Weather		Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan	Marianne Faithfull	(4:14)
Guilt		Barry Reynolds	Marianne Faithfull	(5:09)
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan		Shel Silverstein	Marianne Faithfull	(4:07)
A Stranger on Earth		Sid Feller, Rick Ward	Marianne Faithfull	(3:52)
This Little Bird		John D. Loudermilk	Marianne Faithfull	(2:02)
Monday Monday			Marianne Faithfull	(3:05)
Bored by Dreams		Marianne Faithfull, Angelo Badalamenti	Marianne Faithfull	(3:07)
I'm a Loser	...	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	Marianne Faithfull	(2:15)
House of the Rising Sun	...	Traditional	Marianne Faithfull	(4:12)
Sweetheart		Marianne Faithfull, Barry Reynolds	Marianne Faithfull	(3:17)
Gloomy Sunday		Sam M. Lewis, Rezso Seress	Marianne Faithfull	(3:15)

Credits

Marianne Faithfull (Main Performer), Mick Jagger (Producer), Mike Leander (Producer), Angelo Badalamenti (Producer), Tony Calder (Producer), Joe Ferla (Engineer), Joe Ferla (Mixing), Mark Miller Mundy (Producer), Andrew Loog Oldham (Arranger), Andrew Loog Oldham (Producer), David Whitaker (Producer), Hal Willner (Producer), Andy Street (Compilation), Joe Black (Project Coordinator), Daryl Easlea (Sleeve Notes), David Lascelles (Tape Research)