Marianne Faithfull

I must confess to having never heard Marianne Faithfull prior to two weeks ago, when I walked into 'TUL to do my show, and heard the DJ before me, Brian, playing the first cut off the new record, Before the Poison. Instantly, I was sold on this record. The fact that it has some songs that even begin to reach the heights of "The Mystery of Love" is simply icing on the cake. Featuring collaborations with PJ Harvey (on 5 cuts), Graham Coxon and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (backing band for most tracks, I think) - a lot of people are comparing this one to 1979's Broken English in terms of greatness. Having never heard that one, I can't comment. I can only say that this is a helluva record and this track is a helluva track. And I'm not a big user of "helluva".

Marianne Faithfull - "The Mystery of Love"

Buy the record from her site - which I think links to (arg) Amazon.