Hi folks, I've been listening to Marianne Faithfull's masterpiece Broken English (yeah, not in the best of moods right now!), and as this last song Why D'ya Do It - if you can call it a song - assaults my ears in all its incendiary brilliance, I'm moved to wonder if there's ever been a more vitriolic lyric set to music. I guess there has, but this must be right up there, and her delivery - at once deadpan and incandescent with rage - makes it downright frightening.
A footnote is that I've seen her perform it live twice, and got the version on the live album Blazing Away, and the studio version beats them hands down. Azeem in London NP: Beth Hirsch - Titles & Idols (she's the singer from the first Air album)
