Kissin' Time - Marianne Faithfull
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The 60's star offers up ten new tracks with the help of friends Pulp, Blur, Billy Corgan, Beck, and Dave Stewart.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. 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]
  2. An album rich in variety, good pop sense, and the unmistakable cool of someone like Faithfull.
  3. 80
    Her genius is not to let herself be trapped in yesterday. [#9, p.144]
  4. 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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. SyB.
    10
    her best...better than broken english...not as depressing as her other stuff...and hse sounds amazzing live
  2. Shawn
    8
    It's certainly no Broken English, but still a very good album.
  3. SusanT.
    1
    I just saw marianne on saturday. she is and always will be an icon of rock and roll.

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