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rachelmanija) wrote2006-06-29 10:45 am
rachelmanija) wrote2006-06-29 10:45 am
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Suzanne Vega
I present to you songs from my four favorite Suzanne Vega albums. I'm not so crazy about Days of Open Hand, and Songs in Red and Gray, the breakup album, works well as a whole but doesn't have any really stand-out tracks, in my opinion.
From Nine Objects of Desire, a very warm and sexy album, one of the warmest and sexiest songs on it, Caramel. The "nine objects of desire," as I recall, are four men, a photograph, a woman, her baby daughter, Death, and a plum. I cannot help but read the plum as a metaphorical as well as an actual fruit, though-- the Plum of Knowledge.
Two tracks from 99.9 F, an album which I thought was overproduced and discordant when I first listened to it, but which has grown on me a lot since the chance discovery that it functions as a soundtrack for one of the characters in Naruto made me dig it up and listen to it again. That discovery happened like this:
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octopedingenue: "I think of Blood Sings as so-and-so's theme song.
Me: "You mean Blood Makes Noise, right?
Both of us: "Whoa, check out some of the other tracks on that album."
Suzanne Vega is her first album, with lovely melodies and a cool, controlled tone in the lyrics overall, though not so much in the two tracks I'm hightlighting, Undertow and
Marlene on the Wall.
Solitude Standing had two famous tracks, "Luka" and "Tom's Diner," but I especially like the title song.
Order the series from Amazon: Naruto, Volume 1
From Nine Objects of Desire, a very warm and sexy album, one of the warmest and sexiest songs on it, Caramel. The "nine objects of desire," as I recall, are four men, a photograph, a woman, her baby daughter, Death, and a plum. I cannot help but read the plum as a metaphorical as well as an actual fruit, though-- the Plum of Knowledge.
Two tracks from 99.9 F, an album which I thought was overproduced and discordant when I first listened to it, but which has grown on me a lot since the chance discovery that it functions as a soundtrack for one of the characters in Naruto made me dig it up and listen to it again. That discovery happened like this:
octopedingenue: "I think of Blood Sings as so-and-so's theme song. Me: "You mean Blood Makes Noise, right?
Both of us: "Whoa, check out some of the other tracks on that album."
Suzanne Vega is her first album, with lovely melodies and a cool, controlled tone in the lyrics overall, though not so much in the two tracks I'm hightlighting, Undertow and
Marlene on the Wall.
Solitude Standing had two famous tracks, "Luka" and "Tom's Diner," but I especially like the title song.
Order the series from Amazon: Naruto, Volume 1