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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: re: Suzanne Vega
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 07:19:23 EDT
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> From:	mit-eddie!nessus	(Doug Alan)
 
>> 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...)

Well, Doug, I am one of those people who have thought of Suzanne Vega
as "the new Joni Mitchell" (I didn't know that anyone else has done so,
though). It's got little to do with the fact that she sings a "ballad
or two". I find Vega's lyrics to be complex and rich in the same way as
Mitchell's and in a similar style. Though Kate Bush's lyrics are also
rich and complex, they are in a different style than Mitchell's. While I
like Kate Bush's songs (aside: I love her new album!), they don't remind
me at all of Joni Mitchell. Suzanne Vega's do.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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