Happy birthday, Mrs. Marianne Faithfull! [The somber track contains lyrics about star babies enjoying sweet little sleep and throwing up in Meanwhile Park, amid other allusions to drug abuse and a gorgeous violin solo by Bad Seed Warren Ellis. I had the song Late Victorian Holocaust floating, around and it seemed to me to suit Marianne thematically, Cave says. You know, its a memory song about a young girl getting up to mischief in London, and I felt it could be served well by that certain sort of racked vocal Marianne does so beautifully. By her own estimation, if Faithfull had written it, the songs subject would have been exceedingly severe. To have an ex-junkie singing an ex-junkies song about smack would be too much, she says. Having written it with said ex-junkie, that would be too much. We both, neither Nick nor I, have touched heroin for 25 years, so we can actually do that [write a song like that] now.]
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:39:12 +0000
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