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2008-10-02
The Lemmonheads cover 'Luka'...
This is a pretty good album. The Lemmonheads cover "Luka" on their album "Lick." Vega's original is pretty good, too.
2008-09-06
Folk Rescue...
Vega's second album, "Solitude Standing", was released in 1987. It revisited the straightforward, unpretentious folk sound and deceptively poetic format of her self-titled 1985 album, producing two fine singles, "Tom's Diner" and "Luka". At a time when folk was largely buried under a mass of big-sound rock, Vega helped rescue it. Pure voice, sweet guitar, lyrics with integrity ranging from the whimsicality of "Tom's Diner" to the powerful social message of "Luka", but with credibility and authenticity in every track. Vega help this listener rediscover contemporary music.
2007-07-20
This CD blew me away......
When I first heard Tom's Diner it was like I was sitting there next to the artist watching these event unfold as you sat in the window booth. But I was blown away when she sang the whole thing in acapella. Luka I already like from hearing it on the radio. Ironbound and Gypsy stirred up images in my mind of hardship and fleating love. Night Vision took me a few years to figure out...yeah I am a little slow sometimes. But when I got it it was another 'wow' moment. That is what I like about Suzanne Vega's music. It makes me get lost in the lyrics images. Tom's Diner is a prime example. But if you are a person that likes lyrics that don't make you think or imagine then you shouldn't buy this CD.
2007-06-05
A firm standing album...
Despite the hype surrounding Tom's Diner and Luka, the rest of the songs on this album firmly stand on their own. The accoustics and artful poetry via Suzanne Vega stand out in her second album with thought provoking compassion. Don't merely fall into the envelope of Tom's Diner and Luka (which, while great songs, are not her only stars). After 20 years this album still holds strong and brings you to the nostalgia of a bygone era.
2007-04-10
Mother of the MP3...
According to sources on the web, the first song in this collection, Tom's Diner, was used as the model piece in the development of the mp3 compression algorithm. Thus, Suzanne Vega has earned the title, "Mother of the MP3." Somehow appropriately, since it is rendered without music in the first cut, music for Tom's Diner is played without words in the last. It is worth the price of the album if only for Tom's Diner. The rest is pretty good too.
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