> 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.
Funny but I was listening to that album of Marianne Faithfull last night. I was completely unaware of the song's incendiary lyrics, but when she started spewing those words in, you're right, that deadpan way of hers (some will say matter of fact), it came across as even more terrifying for its calm and, is this allowed?, serenity. > NP: Beth Hirsch - Titles & Idols (she's the singer from the first Air > album) I like Beth's contribution on that seminal album of Air, but I was a tad disappointment with her first solo album -- not quite the brilliant singer who dazzled me in Air's albums.
