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Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega
(Vega, Suzanne,) |
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Bibliographical information (record 163849) |
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- It's the rare singer-songwriter whose emotional confessions rise above bathos to find true resonance with their listeners; rarer still the one who can connect their audience with the plight of everyday strangers. Suzanne Vega not only managed that feat on her unlikely, child-abuse themed breakthrough hit "Luka" in `88, but opened the door for a renaissance of intelligent, female folk-oriented music in the decade that followed. This 21-track anthology spans Vega's career before and since, a chronicle of cool, sharp-eyed detachment infused by a restless, oft-underrated sense of musical invention that spans club-mixes (the "Tom's Diner" here was originally a "pirate" deejay mix by DNA that Vega wisely adopted), Latin jazz ("Caramel"), electro-percussive rhythm explorations ("Blood Makes Noise," "99.9F," and ""Woman on the Tier" from the
- Luka
Tom's Diner - DNA
Marlene On the Wall
Caramel
99.9 Degrees Farenheit
Tired Of Sleeping
Small Blue Thing
Blood Makes Noise
Left Of Center
(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May
In Liverpool
Gypsy
Book Of Dreams
No Cheap Thrill
Calypso
World Before Columbus
Solitude Standing
Penitent
Rosemary
The Queen And The Soldier (Live)
Woman On The Tier (I'll See You Through)
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NEU Grand LibraryGrnd. Floor (MCD 000435)
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