Suzanne Vega: Classic or Drip?

this is not what I expected her to sound like in 2014 - I like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq7CLAkRquc

hmmm does it work now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq7CLAkRquc

She's classic even just for Tom's Diner. The DNA remix is always good for hang outs

there's some godawful modern alternative rock song that samples the DNA remix of this and her voice and when it comes on the radio I'm always duped momentarily and then it starts in with its awful racket and I get mad

Solitude Standing still holds up, IMO. Great record.

I didn't know until doing research for an obit that Demme directed the video for the title track.

Drippy Indie pretenders these ladies. "...female singer-songwriters with fringes." Suzanne Vega? Your jokeing right? How about some voices with a little intensity to them, i.e. Veda Hilla, Marianne Nowottny, or Fursaxa. Please, get with it Ben! No wonder you can't laid, You dork you :)
― Eve, Saturday, March 9, 2002 8:00 PM

Ironbound/Fancy Poultry absolute classic, especially the long instrumental tail

oh yes. that was the first glimpse of what music could really be as a 10 year old in 1987

Listened to the first album last winter for the first time in years. "Cracking" is still so great.

Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles

Hearing this for the first time tonight, "Portrait of the Knight of Wands" came up in a mix and is pretty compelling:

https://youtu.be/UJofPsA6duY