Suzanne Vega: Classic or Drip?

It is. I love this woman

The real one isn’t cute, and isn’t atmospheric. It’s just plain, which is why I liked it.

Ha: I wrote a short piece for someone a while ago about precisely this -- how Tom's Restaurant is one of very few "plain" places in Manhattan, and how it's become weirdly well-known via two pop-culture things that are actually all about how plain it is.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/4357.jpg

<3 <3 <3 <3

No quite as cleverly penned as her NY Times post but still worth checking out---

http://web.mac.com/suzannevega/iWeb/SuzanneVega.com/Blog/4DC657FC-568B-4B6F-8F86-C14058D16D06.html

i am loving 'rosemary' and 'world before columbus' today - the arrangements & her voice are so warm.

Her debut and that specific sound is still one of my favorite things ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom's_Diner

i had no idea about the story of this song

I realized how much I like that 99.9 album.

New acoustic re-recordings are actually rather good. Her voice sounds wonderful.

http://www.suzannevega.com/store/

Suzanne Vega was my first lesbian crush. Can't quite pin what I liked her in the first place, something sincere and genuine about the way she writes and sings her songs. Came to know her from Tom's Diner but stayed for Caramel and Liverpool.

that made no sense.

New acoustic re-recordings are actually rather good. Her voice sounds wonderful

Might have to pick that up, I was totally in love with those songs at the time. Although it's kind of depressing when an artist feels the need to reheat old stuff in this way.

yeah, I'm tempted to pick this up but listening to the clips, I realize that all my favorites (ie. from the 2 first lps) were already accoustic to begin with.

nah moka that made perfect sense!

i mostly play s.vega when i'm hungover these days, her voice has an incredibly comforting feel to it.

It's heartening to see love for SV. I dug out and listened to her first couple of records for the first time in a few years and realised I'd slept on them, Solitude Standing especially. Fear of that mid/late 80s production put me off from revisiting, but they still stand up pretty well, some of it still sounds maybe a bit 80's NY session guy.

Because of this I checked out the recent volumes of reworked songs (I wonder if she's going to do the whole lot eventually) some of the arrangements are kinda curious but in the main they sound pretty great.

Cosign wholeheartedly on previous comments about the wintry qualities of those two records, Ironbound/Fancy Poultry was the ideal soundrack to a sunny but freezing Xmas shopping sortie.

First album was one of my main school-bus-cassette-walkman tapes.

She does really nice harmonies on this song "Handsome Molly" by New England folk guy Bill Morrissey. This is the song, but the original with her on it isn't on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooCDIYeOSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIBmZjONtA

Funny how Ringwald-ized she looks in this.

and hot!

suzanna vega - "left of center"
replacements - "left of the dial"

what else were musicians left of in the mid-'80s?

Reagan.

she's writing a play about carson mccullers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z20AyVto81E

Spotted that Serj Tankian's new single is called Left Of Centre, not a cover sadly.

shes hot

in the "goods off the back of a wagon" sense?

hot in face and hot in voice - doublehot

99.9F and Nine Objects of Desire are still both pretty great records, aren't they? The former is like Laurie Anderson as a folk singer.

two of her weakest imo

An intriguing opinion!

i like the early stuff, the first two LPs are unfuckwithable

first new studio album in seven years: Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles

nice title?

Forever sitting with her knees bunched up by the window in some Soho loftspace staring out at a pale, wintry afternoon.

all hail the mother of the mp3

What if I like Susanne Vega and the new albums by Beck and Neil Finn. Does Metamucil have a subscription service?

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