Author: VEGA,SUZANNEBrand: Umgd/Pop-U.S.Format: Remixes includedRelease Date: 05-05-1987Details: Product description Breakthrough 1987 album featuring 'Luka', 'Tom's Diner' & 'In The Eye'...arguably her finest hour! Amazon.ca Suzanne Vega emerged in the mid-'80s, 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 neighbor'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 English 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 MilwardUPC: 750215136246EAN: 0075021513624Languages: EnglishBinding: Audio CDItem Condition: UsedVeryGood
