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faithfullforever:

Marianne Faithfull
“Sister Morphine” (1979 re-recording)
“A Perfect Stranger - The Island Anthology”, 1998

About the song from “A Perfect Stranger” booklet by Ann Powers:

“But despite the new dialogues being forged by feminist writers  and activists, and the almost gleeful tantrums of the punk bands (some woman-led) who inspired “Broken English”, most women in rock remained romantic and hopeful. Faithfull had been screwed by romance and wanted some reality. That meant confronting guilt, perilous wrath, despair. People were shocked. New fans declared Faithfull a kind of ancient oracle, although when “Broken English” came out she was only 32 years old.

They gazed upon her if she were a mutant, utterly transfigured by heroin and bad luck from the ingenue she’d once been. In fact Faithfull was finally becoming the self she’d first  uncovered when she wrote and sang “Sister Morphine” in the year of her Ophelia. Her post-“Broken English” return to the song simply realizes the potential of that first, buried attempt.”

(via faithfullforever)