The Album Club 2017: "Broken English" by Marianne Faithfull
 

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artist: Marianne Faithfull
album: Broken English
length: 36:25
year:1979
tracklist:

1. Broken English
2. Witches' Song
3. Brain Drain
4. Guilt
5. The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
6. What's The Hurry
7. Working Class Hero
8. Why D'Ya Do It

Sopitfy: yes, two versions

• Broken English
• Broken English (Deluxe Edition)

Youtube: yes, as a playlist, not as a single video containing a full album. The playlist may contain a video blocked in your country.

Yay! Here we go! Was afraid this was totally dead without Troll at the helm.

Aw, I love this album. Her voice is so torn up and smashed (iirc, from years of heroin use) that it has a really strange and haunting feeling to it. Great songs, especially the closing track. Best thing to ever be banned by Australia.

That's quite a transformation! WoW! Am intrigued.

"The last track, the six-and-a-half-minute "Why'd Ya Do It?", is a caustic, graphic rant of a woman reacting to her lover's infidelity. The lyrics began with the man's point of view, relating the bitter tirade of his cheated-on lover. It was set to a grinding tune inspired by Jimi Hendrix's recording of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower". Poet and writer Heathcote Williams had originally conceived the lyrics as a piece for Tina Turner to record, but Faithfull succeeded in convincing him that Turner would never record such a number.[3] Its plethora of four-letter words and explicit references to oral sex caused controversy and led to a ban in Australia.[citation needed] Local pressings omitted the track and instead included a 'bonus' 7" single of the extended version of "Broken English" . The ban did not extend to import copies, and the song was also played unedited on the Government-funded Double Jay radio station and Brisbane community broadcaster 4ZZZ.[citation needed] It wasn't until 1988 when Island re-released the album in Australia that "Why D'Ya Do It" was finally included."

Wow. How very lame of you, Australia.

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I have a golden opportunity to listen to this for this thread and the random album thread.

Or maybe not. I don't have enough time to listen to this before the deadline. I'll pass.

Don't worry about a deadline. If you can't find time to listen to it this week, then try next week. I had opportunity to listen to this album in the beginning of the week, but didn't get around to a review. Just hang in there kid. The main goal at this point is trying to keep the Album Club afloat until Trollheart's return.

Ah. Cool. Sounds good.