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• RE: This is for Marianne. - Dynamite Ham 09:15:13 01/31/25 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: This is for Marianne. posted by Self-Inflicted on January 30, 2025 at 11:29:58

  Her cover of "Trouble in Mind" from the 1985 Alan Rudolph film of the same name is so good and sets the tone for the entire movie.
  
  Godspeed Marianne.
  

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• RE: This is for Marianne. - 6bq5 13:33:27 01/30/25 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: This is for Marianne. posted by Self-Inflicted on January 30, 2025 at 11:29:58

  A sad day indeed!
  I saw her in Dark Ride here in SF 10 + years ago-
  and have most of her recordings -
  an incredible woman!
  Happy Listening
  
  

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• So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking - alaskahiatt 12:18:13 01/30/25 (8)
  In Reply to: RE: This is for Marianne. posted by Self-Inflicted on January 30, 2025 at 11:29:58

  sure took its toll on her voice.
  

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  • I believe she had a severe case of laryngitis that caused a lot of damage to her voice. nt - dancingseamonkey 10:26:09 01/31/25 (1)
    In Reply to: RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking posted by alaskahiatt on January 30, 2025 at 12:18:13

    nt
    
    
    "Trying is the first step towards failure."
    Homer Simpson
    
    

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    • That and heavy smoking get mentioned online. nt - alaskahiatt 14:16:48 02/02/25 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: I believe she had a severe case of laryngitis that caused a lot of damage to her voice. nt posted by dancingseamonkey on January 31, 2025 at 10:26:09

      
      

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  • Ex-Stones girlfriends tend to have shorter life expectancies - Jon E. Busey 08:19:49 01/31/25 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking posted by alaskahiatt on January 30, 2025 at 12:18:13

    Marianne. Anita Pallenberg.
    First time I watched the Rock'n'Roll Circus, as the cameras did a closeup of Marianne while she was singing Something Better, her eyes were so glassy and unfocused it looked like she was about to nod off.
    To her credit she made the comeback of a lifetime after suicide attempts and junkiedom with the critically acclaimed Broken English in'79.
    

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  • If you're not a singer . . . - tlea 20:57:55 01/30/25 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking posted by alaskahiatt on January 30, 2025 at 12:18:13

    . . . you don't understand. It's less to do with lifestyle than biology.

    I never smoked or did heroin. I can no longer hit the highs that I could in my 20s, but forty years later I understand a lot more about tone and phrasing than I did then.

    I think her voice got better over time. Her 2018 album, Negative Capability , with Warren Ellis and Nick Cave was brilliant and underappreciated.

    
    . . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
    
    

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  • RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking - violinist3 17:14:52 01/30/25 (1)
    In Reply to: RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking posted by alaskahiatt on January 30, 2025 at 12:18:13

    I noticed that with people with a good singing voice and smoke.
    Their voices seem to get deeper over the years much more than non smokers.
    Joni Mitchell etc.
    
    Those who have smoked since their early teens show it more.
    
    

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    • I agree that smoking makes the voice deeper, and it also eliminates - alaskahiatt 18:05:42 01/30/25 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking posted by violinist3 on January 30, 2025 at 17:14:52

      the higher frequencies. Smoke voices also get raspy and sometimes distorted. Her singing on a Chieftains CD was not just low. She sounded to me like she was on her death bed. It was a real turnoff to me. Some singers with low raspy voices sound great and soulful. Hers was distracting. My opinion only, of course.
      

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  • RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking - orthophonic 14:39:03 01/30/25 (1)
    In Reply to: RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking posted by alaskahiatt on January 30, 2025 at 12:18:13

    I believe it was more her years of Heroin abuse.
    

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    • RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking - beach cruiser 20:29:38 01/30/25 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: So sad and exactly my age. Still like her first LP the best. All that smoking posted by orthophonic on January 30, 2025 at 14:39:03

      unless she was regularly smoking heroin, I doubt the damage is comparable to a tobacco addiction. one is in the blood, the other goes down the windpipe.
      

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