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Suzanne Vega (DNA Remix) - Tom's Diner (1990) (www.youtube.com)
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So I love this (at first unauthorised) remix of her acapella track on Solitude Standing. I had her first album on my Sony Walkman cycling to school every morning. She has a lovely voice and she is a great guitar player.

She liked the remix herself: “A&M asked me what I thought of it and I told them it was really kind of nice. So I said, 'Go ahead and release it.' I wasn't expecting it to be successful—I never thought it would be that popular. It just seemed very charming."

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't like how the "duh-dut-duh-duh, dut-duh duh-duh..." loops. The end and the beginning are mashed together in such a way that the rhythm sounds inhuman and it feels bad to sing along with. There's too much or too little space, just the wrong amount.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 5 days ago

I was at a Suzanne Vega concert, and when she was singing Tom's Diner, the audience sang "doodoodoo" in the places following this remix.

This interrupted her own vocals, and was really annoying.

Her original version of Tom's Diner

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I never realised that this version was a remix, it works so well. Great tune.