Still my favourite song by far,the drums are just awesome.

...my favorite song on solitude standing is Luka

;-)


-Kulp

Too bad that I have not listened to SS for a long time. I have it in tape format, my daily car has a CD deck only. My wife's car had tape player, but I broke it trying to play in it an old album of a compilation of Instrumental classics (Ravel's bolero, Chariots of Fire, The Baby - performed by Argentinian piano virtuoso Raul Di Blassio, among others). I left it for too long under the merciless sunlight in Monterrey, Mexico. The tape ended up toasted and curled. I didn't notice it, and when I loaded it in the tape deck, it rendered useless both, the tape and my wife's car stereo. She still has radio AM/FM, but around here in NW New Mexico, you don't find much of Suzanne Vega, but plenty of Country/Western, Christian, and Rap/Hip-Hop music. I don't have anything against them, but it is not the same. I miss listening to the two anchor songs: Luka and Tom's Dinner. But I miss the most the title song and Calypso. BTW, was Tom’s Dinner-DNA ever released under any SV album or single?

Hi Adonai

Solitude Sanding, Calypso, Tom's Diner (DNA Remix) AND Luka are all on Retrospective, released world wide.

Tom's Diner (DNA Remix) was released on single (12", 7", 5", 3" etc. [i've got them ALL!!] and on Tried and True: the Best Of.

Sultan,
Yes, Tom's Diner(DNA) is on Tom's Album

...i have it,and its awesome, you should get it too...
i bought it online

BUY IT HERE:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002GJR/thesuzanneveg-20

-Kulp

The best song on "Solitude Standing" is Language. It is lyrically unforgetable and that alone would make it great. Add the layered and dense arrangement to those lyrics and you have the perfect song that reaches into your heart and mind.

I agree with Robert... Language has had a lasting impression on me. Definitely my favorite lyrically... It seemed to fit with my life perfectly. Ocassionally I'll pick up the good ol' pen and try to rock some verse--but half the time I can't find words to say what I want, exactly how I want. Yes yes... so Language is my favorite song.

Reminds me of... (Has anyone read As I Lay Dying?) Well, what Addie, a character from AILD who talks about the inadequacy of words...She says "words never fit what they're trying at..." among other things... Pretty cool...She was my favorite character...and I liked her chapter the most... You guys should go check it out. I wouldn't have read it on my own, but someone forced it on me...and...I'm a little submissive, I guess. Haha...

Another song that bears mention is "Night Vision". I realize that it is inspired by a poem, but again another arresting song. This song is a musical opposite of "Language". It is not as musically dense maybe to highlight the lyrics in a special and unique way. These two songs (Language and Night Vision) I have never heard live. Actually "Language" would be tough to play live with the complicated bridge, but these songs would assuredly leave the audience in amazed silence.

By the way Christie, thanks for agreeing with me. You are the first.

language is a wonderful song, i love the raw truth that goes into that song, it is purely beautiful.

Absolutely agree!!! Language is my favourite song DEFINITELY! It says things I always thought and felt in the best possible way with the best possible words and music, so incredible!!

Once I also tried asking Mike if they could play it live at the upcoming concert (I had met him at the soundcheck, it was an open air gig, back in...summer 2001 I think....) but he said that was quite unlikely....I guess they should kind of re-learn it, it's been so long since they last played it! (They did play it at least once, I have a recording of a gig with a live version of it!)

Suzanne if you ever feel like re-learning an old song, would you please consider choosing Language??? I bet lots of people would love to listen to it!

Miki

(the one who has always used the following signature)

"...these words are too solid they don't move fast enough to catch the blur in the brain..."

Hurrah hurrah for Language!
So, Robert... Last night I tried to post a response to what you'd said about Night Vision...but something went awry. Sigh...So I will try again.

About NV: This is another one of my favorites (I have many many many favorites)... I like the way the character has concern for the sleeper... they want to protect them and "keep them in light" because they know they can only give them one thing and wish they could do more... Or at least, that's what i get from it.

..that flies by...and is gone

You have me thinking here. Most Suzanne fans would all agree that "The Queen and the Soldier" is the pentultimate song that defines one of the the best of what Suzanne has to offer musically and lyrically. I know I should be in the other album strings. I will get there soon, but I am thinking that if you wanted to point a person to a song that further sums up Suzanne and her talent for our generation it would have to be "Language".

I really love Language...but you're mentioning the Queen and the Soldier... and... I have to say, that was my gateway suzanne...har har har... It's what led me to my liking... It is my favorite, I think, if not for simple sentimental reasons...

i should also be in another thread, but if we are talking about what truly made us appreciate her music and made us beg for more, i would have to say, for me it was "rusted pipe". that song got to me in ways that nothing else ever had before.i remember listining to the tape, when i was too young to understand it, untill i wore it out. and when i grew mentally, i realized what true beauty music could be.
and though i love "language" as well as all of her other songs, i think that "rusted pipe" is the one that really captured me and bound me in this metaphorical net that Suzanne has spun from the depths of her soul.