hey folks i just got given a piece of paper that supposedly admits two to see suzanna vega and seth lakeman tonight at the koko in camden.
one of you need to be female
i can't make it so if you want it seriously i can give you the ticket if you can get to camden around 6:30-7
― ken c, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
no??!?!
― ken c, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Long post by Suzanne that eventually tells the story of "Tom's Diner" and hw she becaem the mother of mp3s and much more...
http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/toms-essay/index.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 September 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i love her
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 September 2008 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
This is one of my favorite anectdotes:
I was working backstage at a club last year where Suzanne Vega was the 7:30 and TMBG were the 9:30, both doing record release shows. Vega knew Flansburgh from around the music scene and they struck up a conversation. John asks, "What's your new record about?" and she says "Oh, it's a personal thing about my reactions to September 11th in New York, how the city responded and changed and grew."
"Wow," says Flansburgh, "Ours is about giant robots."
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 26 September 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i love her even more
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 September 2008 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I love that her openness to DNA's remix of "Tom's Diner" (when the record co. simply wanted to do a cease and desist) led to her hearing all of the following:
Other versions came flooding in from all over the world. People made them up and mailed me cassettes. I loved one by Michigan & Smiley, a kind of reggae improvisation. And Nikki D, a young black woman from Los Angeles with a gold tooth, changed it into a song about teenage pregnancy — that was another one of my favorites.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 September 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
that vega blog is really interesting!
― lex pretend, Friday, 26 September 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
It is. I love this woman
― baaderonixx, Friday, 26 September 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Friday, 26 September 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/4357.jpg
<3 <3 <3 <3
― baaderonixx, Friday, 28 November 2008 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 November 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i am loving 'rosemary' and 'world before columbus' today - the arrangements & her voice are so warm.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Her debut and that specific sound is still one of my favorite things ever.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom's_Diner
i had no idea about the story of this song
― goole, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I realized how much I like that 99.9 album.
― US EEL (u s steel), Monday, 4 January 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
New acoustic re-recordings are actually rather good. Her voice sounds wonderful.
http://www.suzannevega.com/store/
― Rockefellatio (SeekAltRoute), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Monday, 8 February 2010 06:00 (fourteen years ago) link
that made no sense.
― Moka, Monday, 8 February 2010 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― anagram, Monday, 8 February 2010 08:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― saaberonixx (baaderonixx), Monday, 8 February 2010 09:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 8 February 2010 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIBmZjONtA
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Funny how Ringwald-ized she looks in this.
― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
and hot!
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
suzanna vega - "left of center"replacements - "left of the dial"
what else were musicians left of in the mid-'80s?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Reagan.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 January 2011 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
she's writing a play about carson mccullers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z20AyVto81E
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 3 January 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Spotted that Serj Tankian's new single is called Left Of Centre, not a cover sadly.
― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Monday, 3 January 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
shes hot
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
in the "goods off the back of a wagon" sense?
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
hot in face and hot in voice - doublehot
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 26 April 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
two of her weakest imo
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 9 August 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
An intriguing opinion!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
i like the early stuff, the first two LPs are unfuckwithable
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 9 August 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
first new studio album in seven years: Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles
nice title?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 21 February 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link
Forever sitting with her knees bunched up by the window in some Soho loftspace staring out at a pale, wintry afternoon.
― MaresNest, Friday, 21 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
all hail the mother of the mp3
― Mordy , Friday, 21 February 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
What if I like Susanne Vega and the new albums by Beck and Neil Finn. Does Metamucil have a subscription service?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 21 February 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
this is not what I expected her to sound like in 2014 - I like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq7CLAkRquc
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 10:00 (ten years ago) link
hmmm does it work now?
She's classic even just for Tom's Diner. The DNA remix is always good for hang outs
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 02:21 (six years ago) link
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
― akm, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
Solitude Standing still holds up, IMO. Great record.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
I didn't know until doing research for an obit that Demme directed the video for the title track.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
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
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
Ironbound/Fancy Poultry absolute classic, especially the long instrumental tail
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link