Showing posts with label Marianne Faithfull. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marianne Faithfull. Show all posts

Friday, January 15, 2010

The wages of sin

Marianne Faithfull? Isn't she dead? Drugs, maybe?

Not quite, reports pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones.

In 200 or so wicked words in the Jan. 18, 2010 issue of the New Yorker, he notes that Faithfull, a '60s British Invasion icon, still "appears." Not "sings."

Frere-Jones recaps her career and concludes, "Her voice is the sound of sin, finally collecting its wages."

It's enough drive a reader to Romans 6:23 in the King James Version of the Bible.

Easily infuenced by a well turned phrase, I bought Faithfull's latest CD Easy Come Easy Go (Behold, I am RetroMan).

He's right.