As a bleak, cold month, January is an appropriate time for listening to songs with turbulent undercurrents. The Who's "Eminence Front" works on that front. So does Milo Greene's "Move." There's a Marianne Faithfull, song, however, that's also appropriately unnerving.
No, it isn't from her '60s, "As Tears Go By" folk days. It's from 1980 and had somehow escaped my notice until recently. While watching Faithfull perform "Broken English" on "Saturday Night Live," I thought, "If I hadn't already heard who the musical guest was, I would never have guessed this was her. Her voice has a considerable rasp, which is appropriate for the song, but sounds nothing like her pure, clear style from 15 years earlier."
And yet, the breaks in her voice and the uneasiness of the groove underneath kept me tuned in. I find the tune strangely compelling and will likely segue it with "Move" on my next pairs-of-segues CD.