99.9 F

Vega, Suzanne

Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 1 Sep 1992

Catalogue Number: UVIS5400122.2

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Description:
This limited edition release contains an 18-page hardcover book with song lyrics, photographs, 2 pages from Vega's diary that inspired the song "In Liverpool," and an old newspaper clipping about a man called Billy Purl (a character from the song "Fat Man And Dancing Girl"). The CD is multi-colored and features the bonus track "Private Goes Public."

Suzanne Vega makes it clear from the cover inwards that she's up to something different on 99.9 F. Her fiery red and yellow photo-manipulated hair and bandaged finger stand in stark contrast to the orderly mysticism conveyed on the front of her previous release, DAYS OF OPEN HAND. Producer Mitchell Froom surrounds her strong songs with surprises in instrumentation, arrangement, and mix. The set opens smartly with a couple of selections that stand in stark contrast to the more traditional folk bearing of her previous output. By the third song, "In Liverpool," things break open to reveal a lush and popish heart. The title song is a dazzling groove of fuzzy and staccato guitar chords cast over layered percussion and her lilting vocal. An array of superb players, including drummer Jerry Marotta, guitarists David Hidalgo and Richard Thompson, and bass player Bruce Thomas accompany her. While it represented a bit of an unexpected turn at the time of its release in 1992, 99.9 F is one of Vega's finest albums.

Details:

Discs: 1
Release Year: 1997
Running Time: 37 minutes
Weight (g): 101

Track Listing:

1.	Rock in This Pocket (Song of David)
2.	Blood Makes Noise
3.	In Liverpool
4.	99.9 F
5.	Blood Sings
6.	Fat Man and Dancing Girl
7.	(If You Were) In My Movie
8.	As a Child
9.	Bad Wisdom
10.	When Heroes Go Down
11.	As Girls Go
12.	Song of Sand
13.	Private Goes Public

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