| Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega |  | Artist: Suzanne Vega
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music
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Sales Rank: 7,966
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 060694936702
EAN: 0060694936702
ASIN: B00008PRS4
Release Date: April 22, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Luka | | • | Tom's Diner - DNA | | • | Marlene On the Wall | | • | Caramel | | • | 99.9 Degrees Farenheit | | • | Tired Of Sleeping | | • | Small Blue Thing | | • | Blood Makes Noise | | • | Left Of Center | | • | (I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May | | • | In Liverpool | | • | Gypsy | | • | Book Of Dreams | | • | No Cheap Thrill | | • | Calypso | | • | World Before Columbus | | • | Solitude Standing | | • | Penitent | | • | Rosemary | | • | The Queen And The Soldier (Live) | | • | Woman On The Tier (I'll See You Through) |
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Album Description
Import pressing of their greatest hits collection packaged in a slidepack. Part of the Universal 'Just the Music' Campaign. 2006. * Please note, no liner notes are included.
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It's the rare singer-songwriter whose emotional confessions rise above bathos to find true resonance with their listeners; rarer still the one who can connect their audience with the plight of everyday strangers. Suzanne Vega not only managed that feat on her unlikely, child-abuse themed breakthrough hit "Luka" in ‘88, but opened the door for a renaissance of intelligent, female folk-oriented music in the decade that followed. This 21-track anthology spans Vega's career before and since, a chronicle of cool, sharp-eyed detachment infused by a restless, oft-underrated sense of musical invention that spans club-mixes (the "Tom's Diner" here was originally a "pirate" deejay mix by DNA that Vega wisely adopted), Latin jazz ("Caramel"), electro-percussive rhythm explorations ("Blood Makes Noise," "99.9F," and ""Woman on the Tier" from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack) neo-classicism ("Small Blue Thing") and a sharp-edged pop sense ("I'll Never Be Your Maggie May," "Book of Dreams") that can't be denied. That it's all still clearly rooted in a diverse pantheon that includes Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Woody Guthrie is all the more remarkable. Rarities include "Left of Center" from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, a live "Queen and the Soldier" and previously import-only "Rosemary." Also features all lyrics and the insightful recollections of Vega colleague/Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye. --Jerry McCulley
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