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Loved it! 2 28.57%
Liked it. 3 42.86%
meh 2 28.57%
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Old 08-28-2018, 01:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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.
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Yay! Here we go! Was afraid this was totally dead without Troll at the helm.
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Old 08-28-2018, 05:44 PM   #3 (permalink)
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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.
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That's quite a transformation! WoW! Am intrigued.
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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.
"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.
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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.
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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.
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“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
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