A VIBE!| FIRST TIME HEARING Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner REACTION
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2022
- A VIBE!| FIRST TIME HEARING Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner REACTION
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The original acapella version was used by Swiss sound engineers to develop the codec for the MP3 file compression. They wanted to get a clean female voice with compression. Because of that Suzanne Vega is sometimes called The Mother of The MP3.
She originally released this as an acapella song but some early Hip Hop guys (DNA) put the beat to it and were passing it around on tape. Vega heard it and was blown away and instead of calling lawyers, she called her producers and tracked down the guys who remixed it. They took it to the studio and did a pro remix with their beats. The remix is a monster!
She was reading the newspaper about an actor "who had died while he was drinking". That was William Holden who fell and hit his head drinking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom's_Diner
Great comment. 👍
Oh no! I liked William Holden!
The acapella version was much better in my personal opinion
I did not know that. Very cool...
Mosty audio nerds know this, using the original version would be better. The relation between tech and a performance another one is the length of a cd it was because it had to fit Beethoven's Ninth Symphony which was in a popular performance 74m.
I'm sure people will recommend "Luka", her signature song about an abused child. She also did "Left of Center" (with Joe Jackson), and "Blood Makes Noise" is a total banger.
And Marlena on the Wall.
Left of Center is my favorite by her
Left Of Center was the first song by her that I heard and Yeah, By far a definite favorite.
That one can bring tears depending on your life experiences.
I wish you guys would stop spoiling the content of the song before they react to it.
And the original Tom's Diner is an an a cappella version, with no instruments, and this was how she often performed it in concert.
better that this one, imo
Sorry that was NOT the original…..I was ya know alive back then and up it WAS this song that was released and was a hit. The a cappella was later…l.🙄
That was like 40 years ago. Old song
"Caramel" is a good song. She's a really good storyteller. "Blood Makes Noise" has a cool sound/vibe.
FYI, this is actually DNA featuring Suzanne Vega. The original was a capella and had another verse. I've seen her in concert and she does this song as a singalong with the audience. Lots of fun.
Also, Tom's Diner is (was?) an actual restaurant in NYC. The exterior was used in Seinfeld.
Her whole "Solitude Standing" album, which this song is on, is great. I love her voice!
I wore that album out. So good!
that album and "Days of Open Hand" were both good.
Agreed. Both those Suzanne Vega albums (among others) are really great.
I don’t think she has truly had a bad album yet. 99.9•F and Beauty & Crime are other favorites.
Yes that was one of my favorite albums of my youth!
I absolutely love her voice and how simple this song is
This is one of those songs that, when you were in a club, this would get the dancing started! It has a nursery rhyme quality, but the lyrics made you wonder where it was going. Not everyone liked it, thought it was boring, but I enjoyed how different it was.
Solitude Standing is one of the greatest albums ever -- every song is fire.
She has her own style. The Luca song is sad but it is an important topic.
Fall Out Boy reused the “da da da da” part from Tom’s Diner in their song “Centuries” 👍
I feel like Suzanne Vega was in Tom's Diner writing whatever she saw while Sheryl Crow was sitting in a bar doing the same thing with "All I Wanna Do". Both have similar story lines about just whatever it is they see at the time.
Most recently the song is sampled on "Centuries" by Fall Out Boy, in 2014 and in 2022, by Sofi Tukker on their single "Summer in New York. It was also sampled in songs by Public Enemy, Nikki D, 2Pac, Twin Hype, Yo Gotti and Lil' Kim.
This song is such a vibe! Okay, Jay and Amber one genre you have to dive into is the New Jack Swing from the 80s to early 90s. Johnny Kemp, “Just Got Paid” song and video from 1988 is a great start and definitely will get you up and dance! 😎
Seconded!! New Jack Swing is such an overlooked chapter in Pop history.
NJS? Allow me to throw in Color Me Badd.
I remember when this came out in the ‘90’s when I was in high school! It was such a different vibe then I remember it even being on the news/news shows then. Great song and great memories! Thanks you guys! ❤
Fun Fact. Tom's Diner (a real diner by where Suzanne went to college), was used for the exterior scenes of Monk's Cafe on Seinfeld.
A couple of things:
First, in the words of Whitney Houston, her name is not Susan. 🙂
Second, this was credited as DNA featuring Suzanne Vega. Vega's original version is a cappella.
If you want some more late 80s/early 90s, jazzy R&Bish, please get more Sade reactions. You've done her once but you gotta do more.
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"Quiet Storm" songs. When it comes to her, I only listen when there's a summer shower, with some wine. And I will add Sweetest Taboo.
Memories of 1990'' 91'' This song played none stop on the ''Box'' This is a ''Classic''🎶🔥🔥🔥😎
Fall Out Boy sampled this in their song ‘Centuries’.
A staple in the hip hop community. This song will forever be a classic.
The song Amber is thinking about is “Centuries” by Fall Out Boy. It samples it
That was the first one I thought of too, but I think Drake samples it too. It's such an earworm, so it's probably been sampled by many others too.
Another fun hit from the same year would be Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins 🔥🔥🔥
My Suzanne Vega favorites are "Marlene on the Wall" and "Caramel."
I love Marlene on the Wall!
"Luka", amazing and haunting song
Actually Rob and Amber, this song was originally recorded a acapella on Suzanne Vega's 1987 album, Solitude Standing. You two should listen to the originally version of this song to get a idea of listening to her voice without the melody.
The actor who died Suzanne is talking about was William Holden the golden Era of Hollywood actor who tragically died of an alcohol related accident in his apartment in 1981. Dude was a brilliant actor. Very unfortunate.
This song has been sampled in over 100 songs! Including 2 Pac, Drake, Fallout Boys and Easy E, just to name a few!
I'm hesitant to recommend Suzanne's "Luca". It's a beautiful, heartbreaking song - a huge hit when it came out. The subject matter is sad, and it will hit you both straight in the heart. Especially, because you are parents.
And their son is named Luka
Female Friday : Suzanne Vega Solitude Standing.
you need to hear the Tom's Diner version without the beat track. you hear her actual voice and the unique quality that made her popular. it's acappella just her voice.
Yes! I Concur. Solitude Standing was always my favorite from her.
Should check out solo Natalie Merchant or her with her band 10,000 Maniacs.
Fall Out Boy samples this at the beginning of their song "Centuries".
When this song came out back in the day, it was everything! Such an amazing song. And the lyrics are so simplistic it’s like she’s journaling her day and put it in a song. You can’t get music like this anymore.
Yes Amber, it was sampled by the band Fall Out Boy. A banger of a band. The song is Centuries.
This song reminds me of riding home on the school bus in 10th Grade, listening to this on a dark, rainy fall afternoon. Also, the "Tom's Diner" in the song is the same one that is on the TV show Seinfeld.
One of my all time favorite artists. I love all her work.
Soul 2 Soul added the backing tracks making this a classic collab.
Yea. You finally got to Suzanne Vega. This is the DNA remix of her original spoken word version. I know what other song you were referring to. Luka. Thank you for this reaction. ✌️❤️🙏🎼
Yep. I suggested/unsuggested "Luka." I loved it back in the day, but listening to it now? It just makes me cry. It's a great song, but I think it would be rough on you guys.
I love this song. And it is featured in a really good movie called Untamed Heart with Marisa Tomei, the actress that played Mona Lisa in My Cousin Vinnie. I highly recommend that movie! This song has been sampled by dozens of artists, including Fall Out Boy (Centuries) and Drake (Juice).
Love that movie! Great suggestion
And Nicki D - Daddy's Little Girl.
Love Untamed Heart. Such a feel-good movie.
They already reacted to My Cousin Vinny weeks ago.
@@stephenulmer3781 *Late suggestion
I was in highschool when this came out. This and "Sadness: Part One" were very popular at the time.
There is NO WAY Jay&Amber make it through Suzanne Vega - Luka😭
It got first suggested about the time Amber had picked the babies name.. and folks suggested to them not to check it out yet
Luka is one of my least favorite Vega songs, because of how overplayed it is. "Blood Makes Noise" is a *great* track.
Love this version of this song. Luka is sad, but excellent. Definitely should be your next Vega song.
This is one of those "touchstone" songs for its era.
Every time I hear this song it stays in my head for WEEKS! Ear worm!
This is a remix version by a group called DNA. Suzanne recorded it a year or so earlier on her album, and it was just her with no instrumentation.
Luka is sad. But "Left of Center" is a blast. I think that's off the "Pretty in Pink" soundtrack.
One more vote for the original. The beat squashes the angst, sweetness and heartbreak
Agreed. I love J and Amber but this is like going to see a Van Gogh and reacting to the wallpaper behind the frame. Soz.
@@stuartmorgan1770 Nothing wrong with appreciating the wallpaper. A good gallery might have put a lot of thought into how the environment changes the art.
I really like both versions. This one is probably more accessible. I don't think it would have been such a massive hit as it was without the remix.
This is actually DNA featuring Suzanne Vega. Suzanne was more folk rock and this ended up as her biggest hit, at least in the UK. Luka is another powerful song from Suzanne about child abuse.
Luka, Left of center, Marlene on the wall, Solitude standing . These are great songs
Suzanne Vega is that vibe that you can't shake, and lyrics that build a story that you get involved with, "Luka" is an important song that got a very dark message that needed to be told out on the radio and to the masses, but my favorite is "Blood Makes Noise" another song that grooves, but with all her songs you must listen closely to the lyrics.
Credit where credit is due - this is DNA feat. Suzanne Vega. Brings back good memories of the time!
Here's a bit of history the song Tom's Dinner including the"scandal". It was an original composition by Suzanne written in Tom's Restaurant (northeast corner of Broadway and West 112th Street) and was on her Solitude Standing album from the early 80s. It was written intended to be accompanied by piano and guitar. Two versions appear on the album the 1st is a capella, the 2nd is instrumental (keyboards,& guitars).
This version ya were listening to came about in early 90s ... when two British record producers going under the name DNA, **without permission** from Suzanne her label or publisher, sampled segments from Suzanne's a cappela version laying it on top of dance beat from Soul II Soul ("Keep On Movin'"). After getting permission from Suzanne who liked the mix, her record company paid off DNA and released the mix.
Y'all need to react to She's Homeless by Crystal Waters it has this same kind of vibe.And also please check out Tennessee and People Everyday by Arrested Development.
It’s why I’ve been requesting Her for months now she has such an amazing voice.
Dont let people talk you out of not reacting to Luka cuz it’s a sad song there are a lot of sad songs in the world but Luka is the #1 song by Suezanne Vega hands down!!
Agree
The drum beat is a classic go-to which has been used by so many, for grooves like this. It first appeared in the track “Keep On Movin’” by Soul II Soul.
I had no clue. Thank you. Actually Jay & Amber should react to Soul II Soul and other rnb bands from the UK : Loose Ends, Omar....
I love watching you guys enjoy what you hear. It's fun because a lot of this music was happening when I was in my early 20's. Showing different age groups what they have never heard or seen is wonderful!
Su is the definition of cool. She first found my ears through an excellent Boston radio station in the '80s, when they played "Queen and the Soldier". She played at Passim's Harvard Square around the same time as Allen Ginsburg, whom she probably knows. She went on to do other very great songs like "Left of Center" and "Small Blue Thing"...which has out of this world great poetry. [I'll affix a snippet below]
I am cold against your skin
You are perfectly reflected
I am lost inside your pocket
I am lost against your fingers
I am falling down the stairs
I am skipping on the sidewalk
I am thrown against the sky
I am raining down in pieces
I am scattering like light
Scattering like light
Scattering like light
Today I am a small blue thing
Made of China, made of glass
I am cool and smooth and curious, I never blink
I am turning in your hand
Turning in your hand
Turning in your hand
Small blue thing
Turning in your hand
I LOVE Small blue thing! Fave song on her debut album but every song is great! Undertow is another stand out!
@@TheKrissy68 She's so great with the double and triple meaning. "Turning in your hand." Genius. Beautiful too. And my favorite on the album.
I use to go around humming this, use to drive my family nuts! 🤪
Always fun to see you dance Amber. We love you guys. My son is off to college. You’ve filled the void. I feel like we’re friends.
So glad to hear Suzanne Vega! Female Fridays would be awesome if you reacted to... Carole King "I Feel the Earth Move," "It's Too Late," "Jazz man"; Missing Persons "Walking in LA" (Totally 80's); Indigo Girls "Closer I Am to Fine,"; Natalie Merchant " These Are the Days" "What I Am"; Linda Rondstat "Blue Bayou" (if you haven't heard it already). And of course Etta James' "At Last" More later... LOLOL. Love y'all!
Great list! I'd love to hear some Joan Armatrading.
@@flygirlsuz8757 definitely!
i want to hear Chuck E's in Love Ricki Lee Jones for female friday so badly!!!
I always forget about this song, but I have loved it since the 90s. ❤️
"No Cheap Thrill" is another really good Suzanne Vega song.
This is my era! I remember this coming out in high school. I always thought the 90s were such undefinable era, but as an adult I can see it was definitely a time period! I listened to the top 4p every week and there was such an interesting mix of songs at this time.
What I love about this song is that she paints a picture verbally. You can see what she sees.
Just remember we only had MTV and the radio. So yes I remember this song very well. Great job guys. Thanks
That entire album is pure magic.
this song gets stuck in my head for hours and sometimes days after i hear it lol ... thanks for this :)
The band is Deep Roots that sings this. Vega heard the cover snd tracked them down giving her full consent she was so excited. Amber you caught it, the deep
Voice after the first. I believe they are a German band. I love them
"left of center" was straight fire! and off a fantastic soundtrack!
Wikipedia says this about the new version of "Tom's Diner": "German groups AnnenMayKantereit and Giant Rooks covered the song in 2019. The cover went viral on TikTok in March 2022, reaching 10 million views on TikTok and 45 million streams on Spotify."
Some Suzanne suggestions: "Frank & Ava", "The Queen and the Soldier", "In Liverpool", "Penitent", "Songs in Red and Gray", "Harbor Song"...
I still know EVERY word to this song
The funny thing about this song; it would later become famous as the diner Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine dined at on Seinfeld + the guy who created the MP3 used Suzanne Vega’s voice on the a cappella version to fine tune his algorithm.
This is actually Tom's Restaurant the Diner that was made famous in Seinfeld. Coincidentally, Vega used to frequent it prior to the Seinfeld series. On the Seinfeld series they always blocked out the "Toms" part of the sign and it just always showed "Restaurant."
Great song, this was a HUGE radio hit. Always great to hear it!
There's so many of her songs. Luka. Marlena on the Wall The Soldier and the Queen. Great singer
I saw Suzanne Vega at First Night Boston in 2012 & “Tom’s Diner” was the highlight of the show.
The artist that sampled this song was Fall Out Boy song name Centuries
Silhouettes dancing over colorful imagery will never not be a vibe
This was all over the clubs at the time! Still love the beat and everything about this tune! Try Luka next, and “Blood Makes Noise” is fabulous to check out as well.
Great Suzanne Vega tunes to check out: "Cracking," "Marlene on the Wall," "Left Of Center" (w/ Joe Jackson!), and "Blood Makes Noise"... all great tunes... the first two are more folky... "Left Of Center" has got a lovely roll to it... and the latter a more industrial rockin' sound... She's an excellent writer / lyricist... and I just love her voice, too.
Just a friendly heads up Amber. If you are going to do the song Luca, it will break your heart. Especially since you have a son with that name. You're an empath, and it's a story about child abuse. Told from the first person perspective. You've been warned. It is a very powerful piece of music. But I don't want to see you blindsided
Definitely agree. I cannot second this enough.
Fall Out Boy “Centuries” is probably what Amber has on her running playlist. That song’s about 7 years old.
I haven't even thought about this song in over 20 years. I mean I literally forgot that it even existed. As soon as I saw the thumbnail and read the title it took me back to my college days in the 90's.
Tom’s diner that they are singing about is the same diner they use in Seinfeld .
I was able to see Susanne Vega at the KROQ Accoustic Christmas on 1992. This version is with DNA. They do the di di didi part. Great collaboration.
P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" is a song from around that time...early 90s.
The actor who died while he was drinking was William Holden.
❤️ this song!! haven't heard it in a while!! THANKS!! you made me 😃👍❣️👍😃
Luka, Book of Dreams, In Liverpool, Book and a Cover, Left of Center. Suzanne Vega has lots of great songs to look into.
This has always been my favorite song of her’s. I worked with a woman who played this thing incessantly. It grows on you.
The song Amber’s trying to think of is Centuries by Fall Out Boy.
As far as other Suzanne Vega songs go, definitely recommend Luka (as you’ve already heard about) and The Queen and the Soldier (a great story-telling song)
Fun fact: This version was the very first song that was converted to mp3 back then in the Fraunhofer institute where the mp3 codec was invented.
Luka is a must, her signature and perhaps the message she needed to send as an artist.
One of my favorite tracks Suzanne Vega appears on is a guest spot with The Smithereens on their song called "in a lonely place". It's a pretty downbeat, post break-up kinda tune but her voice in duet with the late Pat DiNizio is tremendous
And Joe Jackson is someone you have to hear as well. As close as you could get in the 80's to being a crooner. A good example of his talent, style and personality is You Can't Get What You Want 'til You Know What You Want.
Different for girls 👍
Luka is a rough one, so be prepared.
Have a great day!
What Amber was remembering from the opening of this song was Centuries by Fall Out Boy
What I like about this song is how it paints such a vivid picture of simplicity. You can see everything she describes with her words as clearly as if it were happening in front of you, and there's a palpable nostalgia to it. DNA made it a thousand times better with their remix. Great stuff.
This version of the song is effectively a cover and Suzanne's vocal an extended sample. DNA were a couple of students from Bath in England who released this, without permission, in 1991(?). Suzanne's team wanted to sue them until Suzanne heard the track and decided she liked it. A deal regarding the royalties was then thrashed out. This version is shorter than the original acapella track being bereft of the final verse. It also contains more of the de-de-deda's than the original.
Interestingly, Suzanne's album "Solitude Standing" that included the original version of this song also included an instrumental reprise, so there are actually three Suzanne versions of this song!
BTW the actor who had "died while he was drinking" was William Holden, a huge Hollywood star of the fifties and sixties and Ronald Reagan's best man at his wedding. I always find it ironic that it "was no-one I had heard of".
"Solitude Standing" is an excellent album full of great songs, including my favourite (which is actually one of her oldest songs, predating her debut album) "Gypsy".
Luka was a HUGE hit and the first I remember about talking about a hidden subject that needed talking about! Try it.
As other's have noted the original is just Suzanne's voice accapella. Someone added this beat later and the song became a hit. My wife still has a letter that Suzanner wrote to her after she sent her a fan letter as a kid.
Back in the 80s, early 90s, Saturday Night Live was sort of a must in my household. I remember this band performing on there and was like, "what the heck did I just witness?"