Come & Stay With Me/If I Never Get To Love You/Time Takes Time/He’ll Come Back To Me/Down Town/Plaisir D’Amour/Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat/As Tears Go By/Paris Bells/They Never Will Leave You/What Have They Done To The Rain/In My Time Of Sorrow/What Have I Done Wrong/I’m A Loser
The eponymous Marianne Faithfull was the second of her simultaneous album releases. It is more pop based and contains her first two top ten hits As Tears Go By and Come & Stay With Me. A compilation CD of Marianne's best releases from the period 1964-67 is strongly recommended. Her later darker work is best avoided. (UK:15)
"Hearing these songs transported me back to 1964 and an innocent time of great British music. Listen to Paris Bells or They Never Will Leave You and wonder at the sweetness of Marianne's voice."
"If you loved the 60s British folk and pop scenes, you'll love this album. Some wonderful memories are in store for those who remember her back then, and a revelation for those that are only familiar with her cigarette and drug tortured voice of today."
"There are many interesting songs here. Marianne's voice was exceptionally sweet and pure back then, in sharp contrast to her recordings from the late seventies and beyond. Her music was also much more upbeat in the sixties, as this set shows."
"This collection of vintage Marianne Faithfull is her best stuff. Listen and enjoy. Every song is worth the listen."
"The music is somewhat dated, but I still enjoy her voice which had a higher range at that time but still contained a hint of the lower, huskier voice that eventually, through abuse of her voice, became the lower range growl that it is today."
"All the early hits are here, the beautiful As Tears Go By and Come & Stay With Me, songs I can picture no one else from the time singing but Marianne. Paris Bells is heartbreakingly beautiful, plus Marianne singing In My Time Of Sorrow, a beautiful song reflective, not of her present, but of what was yet to come. An excellent album that very well may make you fall in love with that voice. It wrenches you listening to her pure voice and knowing of the personal and vocal decay which spawned so quickly later on."
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