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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Suzanne Vega
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 02:20:57 EDT
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> From: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine)

> I have a similar problem with this album. I like the first song, kinda
> sounds like Laurie Anderson's voice, but after awhile I just forget
> there is even a record playing.

Maybe there's a fuse blown in your stereo or something!

> My wife, who LOVES Joni Mitchell, bought this album because of the
> writeups that said Vega is the new Mitchell.

Why is it that when any female does a ballad or two, they are the next
Joni Mitchell?  They said this about Kate Bush too.  Foo!  Not very
similar at all.  And both Suzanne Vega and Kate Bush are much better
than Joni Mitchell!  (Sorry, Joni...)

> Her reaction --- where's her voice, cause Vega just kinda speaks the
> words instead of singing (maybe not all the songs, I can't remember).

Only on the one you just mentioned and "Neighborhood Girls".  Go listen
again.  Her voice is wonderful (though perhaps not *the* greatest or
anything...), and so is her music and lyrics.  I saw her live, and she
started with a solo a cappella.  It was amazing.  No voice???  Hah!

				"I am raining down in pieces"

				 Doug