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Entertainment WeeklyDespite 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]
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MojoKissin 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]
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Her best bunch of songs since--not Broken English, that's ridiculous, but Strange Weather or A Child's Adventure.
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BlenderHer genius is not to let herself be trapped in yesterday. [#9, p.144]
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An album rich in variety, good pop sense, and the unmistakable cool of someone like Faithfull.
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Faithfull holds her own from the first track.
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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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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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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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The production can be a little too clinical and antiseptic in spots.
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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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MagnetIt's everything you ever loved about obscure French and Italian new-wave cinema soundtracks without the stench of rancid popcorn. [#55, p.74]
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UncutAs a cross-generational experiment, Kissin' Time works. [Apr 2002, p.110]
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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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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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The WireAn album of mostly pleasant contemporary pop. [#218, p.61]
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Q MagazineThese songs sound more like her collaborators' than hers. [Mar 2002, p.120]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Negative: 1 out of 6
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ShawnJun 4, 2005It's certainly no Broken English, but still a very good album.
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SyB.Sep 25, 2002her best...better than broken english...not as depressing as her other stuff...and hse sounds amazzing live
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SusanT.Sep 24, 2002I just saw marianne on saturday. she is and always will be an icon of rock and roll.