Suzanne Vega - The Best Of Suzanne Vega - Tried And True (1998)

Tracklist

01. Luka (Album Version)
02. Tom's Diner (7 Version)
03. Marlene On The Wall (Album Version)
04. Caramel (Album Version)
05. 99.9 F (Album Version)
06. Small Blue Thing (Album Version)
07. Blood Makes Noise (Album Version)
08. Left Of Center (Album Version)
09. In Liverpool (Album Version)
10. Gypsy (Album Version)
11. Book Of Dreams (Album Version)
12. No Cheap Thrill (Album Version)
13. World Before Columbus (Album Version)
14. When Heroes Go Down
15. The Queen And The Soldier
16. Book & A Cover (Album Version)
17. Rosemary (Album Version)


This excellent overview of Vega's career contains all the hits and a fair sampling from each of her five albums, though Days of Open Hand receives a cold shoulder (only "Book of Dreams" represents it here), being a critical and personal failure. The CD as a whole shows that while Vega has stayed fairly consistent as a songwriter, her growth has been marked in the collaborations with various producers, from the spare, simplistic sound stages of Steve Addabbo and Lenny Kaye to the lush metallurgy of Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake. The collection also features that bane of fans, the exclusive track, necessitating purchasing the CD when one owns all the other material. However, these two new songs - "Book & a Cover" and "Rosemary" - are quality entries in Vega's songbook, and once again feature the production skills of Froom and Blake.

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