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Marianne Faithfull — North Country Maid

Pop · 1966

Album cover: Marianne Faithfull — North Country Maid

The sleeve

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Folk & folk rock

82.8
overall
No. 119
of 250 in the pop ranking

Scores

Performance70
Showcase70
Pressing62
Taste match86
Acclaim76

Character

Brightness55
Dynamics70
Space70
Sub-bass reliance12
Vocal presence78
Warmth72

Occasion suitability

Dinner70
Café70
Headphones84
Friday40
Background76

About the artist

English singer, songwriter and actress, born in Hampstead, London, to a British army-officer father and the Austro-Hungarian Baroness Eva von Sacher-Masoch; raised in Reading after her parents' divorce, she rose to fame as a 1960s pop icon before reinventing herself as a gravel-voiced art-rock singer

All records by Marianne Faithfull

The pressing

Discogs master498269
Versions14
Speed33 rpm
Top-rated release34251781
Reference pressing2025 Decca/ABKCO stereo reissue (UMCLP 106), remastered by Andrew Batt
Discogsthe pressing on Discogs