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Solitude Standing by: Suzanne Vega List Price: £5.99 CD-Charts Price: £2.98 You Save: £3.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0082839513623 Label: Polydor Group Manufacturer: Polydor Group Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Polydor Group Release Date: April 23, 1987 Running Time: 44 minutes Studio: Polydor Group Sales Rank: 5270 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Suzanne Vega emerged in the mid-1980s, and while her intimate voice and acoustic guitar brought to mind Joni Mitchell, her urbane lyrics suggested a sensibility that was as much reportorial as confessional. Vega's second album, which replaced the delicate acoustic textures of her self-titled debut with more dramatic arrangements, includes Vega's career song, "Luka", surely one of the biggest hits ever written about child abuse. But it was the energetic folk-rock production of "Luka", thick with ringing guitars and pushed by perky drums, that let the listener luxuriate in a song that suggested the darkness that can lurk behind a neighbour's door. The title tune confronts personal loneliness with a similarly powerful performance, while "Ironbound / Fancy Poultry" makes a downtown landscape sound downright homey. Well-turned tunes like "Calypso" and "Gypsy" recall the softer textures of her debut. Ironically, Vega's next big hit would come when the production duo DNA made a dance hit out of "Tom's Diner", a nursery-rhyme tribute to a coffee shop that opens the album. --John Milward Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Amazing lyricsI love Suzanne Vega - she is probably remembered by her more famous tracks, Luka and Tom's Diner, but her album provides us with a wealth of beautiful, meaningful lyrics and her striking and soulful voice. My favourites tracks are Fancy Poultry/ Ironbound and Language, with beautiful lyrics such as 'if language were liquid, it would be rushing in, instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any words could ever be'. Lovely album. Rating: - Beautiful, timeless and totally under-rated classic...Over her 20 year career Suzanne Vega has produced a great deal of music that's as good as or better than any of her more famous singer/songwriter peers, with the difference that she's prepared to push things out to the edge lyrically without losing sight of the fact that what makes a song work is a great tune, an exciting, carefully executed arrangement and... sincere delivery. And, when she gets it right, as she does here, the results are quite stunning. Stand-out tracks such as "Luka", "Solitude Standing" & "In the Eye" suck you in with their exhilarating, wonderfully catchy rock melodies until you listen again to their perfectly metered lyrics and realise that what she's talking about is something far darker and deeper than ... Read More: Rating: - a stunning astute follow upA clever, handsome and astute follow up to her previous album. There are problems, but suzanne vega being suzanne vega, these are minor, or forgivable ones. Full of grace, dignity and intrigue, this cd is one to buy. It may not be perfect but it has a deliberate and interesting charm. Rating:  - That difficult second albumFollowing her debut hit, Suzanne Vega the lady in question drifted slightly from her gentle folky sound to produce an album with a rockier edge. The lyrical content of the album remained on a par with the first but perhaps the melody wasn't quite so strong second time around. The album opens with the acapella "Toms Diner" (later to be pillaged by an anonymous one-hit-wonder dance band)and the gets going with "Luka" - a bouncy little number about child abuse of all things... "Ironbound", "In the Eye" and the title track all keep the quality high but tracks like "Gypsy" sound like something that didn't quite make the grade for her first release and was pulled into service to make the track count on the second. This is a good album, its ... Read More: |
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