Finally... an FM cover that I actually enjoy! No, Marianne Faithfull has not been a chirpy soprano for, oh... going on 40 years. But I love the bittersweet darkness she brings to "Angel;" in fact, I think she quite owns this song, which is quite impressive when you consider that she probably has no idea what this song means (along with the rest of us!). But considering Stevie's and Marianne's strikingly parallel lives as youthful ingenues who transformed into American and British elder stateswomen via a hard life of rock and roll, booze, drugs and lousy lovers, perhaps she understands it instinctively... in words unspoken.
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