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Entertainment Weekly

Despite its raft of celebrity collaborators, this inspired album keeps the focus squarely on Faithfull's elegantly weathered voice while drawing lyrical inspiration from her dramatic history. [16 Aug 2002, p.72]

Mojo

Kissin Time is full with Faithfull's own history: disaster next to glory, next to the overriding feeling that, come what may, she will slide through it all by dint of charisma, wit and, indeed, charm. [Album Of The Month, March 2002, p.98]

Village Voice (Consumer Guide)

Her best bunch of songs since--not Broken English, that's ridiculous, but Strange Weather or A Child's Adventure.

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Blender

Her genius is not to let herself be trapped in yesterday. [#9, p.144]

PopMatters

An album rich in variety, good pop sense, and the unmistakable cool of someone like Faithfull.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Faithfull holds her own from the first track.

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E! Online

It's Pulp's contribution on the terrifically revealing "Sliding Through Life on Charm" that really raises a smile...and a little something else.

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Pitchfork

The results as a whole, whether fabulously disastrous or formidable, offer an aural spectacle that other 55-year-old, or even 35-year-old, rock stars should dream of wrangling.

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Magnet

It's everything you ever loved about obscure French and Italian new-wave cinema soundtracks without the stench of rancid popcorn. [#55, p.74]

Uncut

As a cross-generational experiment, Kissin' Time works. [Apr 2002, p.110]

New Musical Express (NME)

In her music, as in her life, everything revolves around sex - but unseemly as it is for a woman of a certain age to frug bawdily alongside Damon Albarn, Marianne gets away with it.

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Launch.com

The production can be a little too clinical and antiseptic in spots.

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Village Voice

At times smart, sometimes schlocky, and frequently both, there's an unmistakable hit-seeking aura to Kissin' Time that flirts with Tina Turner's Private Dancer career-resurrection formula without stooping to be conquered by it.

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Stylus Magazine

There’s nothing wrong with collaborators -- and Faithfull has picked some good ones -- but the quality seems to be directly linked to who is behind each song.

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The Wire

An album of mostly pleasant contemporary pop. [#218, p.61]

Rolling Stone

Marianne Faithfull's singing voice is like an open wound, a raw badge of suffering and self-examination that sounds best when the music gives Faithfull room to bleed. That happens on about half of Kissin Time.

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Q Magazine

These songs sound more like her collaborators' than hers. [Mar 2002, p.120]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes

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Shawn gave it an8:
It's certainly no Broken English, but still a very good album.

Sy B. gave it a 10:
her best...better than broken english...not as depressing as her other stuff...and hse sounds amazzing live

Susan T. gave it a 1:
I just saw marianne on saturday. she is and always will be an icon of rock and roll.

Terry M. gave it a 9:
Fabulous.-

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