Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega

by Suzanne Vega

Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 7 July 2003
  • Label: A&M Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:18:17
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Retrospective' collects Suzanne Vega's A&M catalogue with new recordings, presenting the folk pop songwriting of 'Luka' and 'Tom's Diner' alongside later electronic experiments. Vega supervised the selection as an author's edition of her first two decades.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, storytelling, personal, ballad, traditional

Tracklist

  1. Luka (3:51)
  2. Tom's Diner (7" Version) (3:49)
  3. Marlene On The Wall (3:39)
  4. Caramel (2:55)
  5. 99.9 F (3:15)
  6. Tired Of Sleeping (4:22)
  7. Small Blue Thing (4:06)
  8. Blood Makes Noise (2:28)
  9. Left Of Center (From "Pretty In Pink" Soundtrack) (3:32)
  10. (I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May (3:46)
  11. In Liverpool (4:41)
  12. Gypsy (4:31)
  13. Book Of Dreams (3:22)
  14. No Cheap Thrill (3:09)
  15. Calypso (4:12)
  16. World Before Columbus (3:26)
  17. Solitude Standing (4:48)
  18. Penitent (4:16)
  19. Rosemary (2:43)
  20. The Queen And The Soldier (Live In Switzerland / 1991) (5:01)
  21. Woman On The Tier (2:25)

Credits

  • Barry Korkin - administrator [project assistance]
  • Cheryl Pawelski - administrator [project assistance]
  • Joann Frederick - administrator [project assistance]
  • Lee Lodyga - administrator [project assistance]
  • Steve Holroyd - transferred by [tape transfer]

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