The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120451   Message #2621005
Posted By: VirginiaTam
29-Apr-09 - 03:44 AM
Thread Name: Marianne Faithfull BBC4
Subject: RE: Marianne Faithfull BBC4
Well I watched the Why'd Ya Do It video. Still not convinced. So I thought hang on... try listening without looking. But then I coulnd't get around the visual image of her sad attempts at sexually aggressive body language out of my brain.

So I decided (because I want to give her vocal delivery a fair test) to open the Broken English recording done 1980. And even putting it in context with the 80's it still did nothing for me. I cannot hear any ????? (what word am I looking for) emotional investment in her voice, which would make the style and tone of her voice quite awesome.

The gravelly atonal quality is only empty husk without that vital kernel of feeling in it.

Am I wrong? Perhaps that is what she was attempting. Maybe a disenfranchised body divorced from soul sound.

I still say her later stuff does absolutely nothing for me.