Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Suzanne Vega Title: Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs Members Wishing: 5 Total Copies: 0 Label: Razor & Tie Original Release Date: 1/1/2010 Re-Release Date: 6/15/2010 Genres: Pop, Rock Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 698519250322 |
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 | Suzanne Vega Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs Genres: Pop, Rock
In 1985, singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega released her stunning self-titled debut album. Twenty five years and seven million albums later, Suzanne is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation... more » |
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Product Description In 1985, singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega released her stunning self-titled debut album. Twenty five years and seven million albums later, Suzanne is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation. Now she is reinterpreting a majority of her catalog in an intimate and personal manner, creating four new thematic albums that will be released over the next two years. The first is Suzanne Vega Close Up, Vol. 1: Love Songs, which includes stripped-down versions of her influential hit song "Marlene On The Wall," the bossa nova favorite "Caramel," and many more. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsBeautiful Songs from Suzanne Vega Bonnie Brody | Fairbanks, Alaska | 06/18/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "Suzanne Vega is the real thing. If you remember ther 1987 hit song 'Luka' and, like me, were one of those who loved it, this album is for you. It is filled with her wonderful dissonant and melodic voice (yes, both together) and the songs are incredibly good. 'Gypsy' is one of my favorites. It is a love song about a woman who wants to be held like a baby who can't stop crying by a man she's recently met. He's a potter, lean and wise and the romance is full-blown in Vega's song. 'Caramel' is a jazzy cut that makes you want to get up and dance. 'Songs in Red and Grey' is about an affair seen through the eyes of a child. 'If You Were in My Movie' is a winsome and creative cut where Vega imagines her lovers in different roles - the doctor, the detective, etc. 'Some Journey' is about the imaginings of where we would be now had we met on a journey. 'Bound' is a powerful cut about the ravagings of the world on the body and soul. The songs tell stories of love and sometimes pain, but they are Vega through and through. I heard part of this album on NPR and read the description and history of this album's creation, also listened to cuts from each song. It's a CD I can't afford NOT to have, it's that beautiful." Quintessential Suzanne Vega S. Nowlan | Boulder, CO USA | 07/22/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "When I first heard Suzanne Vega in the 1980s, her lyrically-powerful yet fragile voice seized me. I followed her through the next couple decades, enjoying each new album, and the intelligent, yet vulnerable, lyrics she produced. This album reinterprets songs from throughout her career and prior albums. The cover of this album shows a sepia-tinted black and white photograph of her and her guitar. I think this image perfectly matches what one receives from the album itself. She strips each song to its essentials. Her instrumentation is spare. And yet Suzanne Vega's delicately-beautiful voice unfolds the lyrics with heartbreakingly-clear precision, the tracks exquisitely shaded with the emotion appropriate to each lyric's subject. I particularly like "Bound." In my mind or heart, I hear a soul whose lover has left or is leaving, but who remains suspended between despair and hope that perhaps that lover can be reclaimed: "And I ask, I'm asking you / If you might still want me." Somehow, the gentle interplay of guitar and voice captures this ephemeral moment of intermixed sorrow, expectation, acceptance, wistfulness, and questioning much more clearly than the more fully orchestrated arrangement of the same song from her "Beauty and Crime" album." Nice return visit David Arnstein | California | 07/06/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "Ms Vega recorded these songs many years ago, so why bother with a new CD? The voice is terrific, perhaps even better than all those years ago. The presentation is a bit more emotional, more serious.
For some listeners, this project will seem unnecessary and redundant. Me, I found value in this collection. I still enjoy it after repeated plays." |
