http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KV-PTK0UZ4
I read something once that described Marianne Faithfull as the most famous broken voice in rock and there's something so worn and classy and cigarette stained about her voice and I think it's exquisite. This song, written oddly enough by Shel Silverstein, is delicious - the synths propel you forward, Marianne sings about a housewife's deep desires to escape her Betty Friedan-style life, and the song never arrives at a sonic resolution leaving you still moving after the song ends. This is beautiful despair.
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