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~ Suzanne Vega
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  • Audio Cassette (1 Feb 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Universal
  • ASIN: B000002G61
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 732,806 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Birth Day (Love Made Real)
2. Headshots
3. Caramel
4. Stockings
5. Casual Match
6. Thin Man
7. No Cheap Thrill
8. World Before Columbus
9. Lolita
10. Honeymoon Suite
11. Tombstone
12. My Favourite Plum

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Vega's second collaboration with husband/producer/keyboardist Mitchell Froom expands the sonic palette introduced on 99.9 F to create an atmosphere that is both more open and moredistinctive. Froom's ubiquitous synthesizers and samples step aside on several songs to make way for tastefully orchestrated horns and strings. The semi-industrial pop of 99.9 F gives way to a more eclectic compositional bent. "Caramel" isa smooth, jazzy ballad that bears a strange kinship to an Astrud Gilberto bossa nova. "Lolita" boasts a lilting samba feel mediated by electronic percussion.
This being a Suzanne Vega album, there are also a few introspective acoustic-guitar based plaints. In fact, these (particularly the subtle, eerie narrative "Honeymoon Suite") are among the most memorable of NINE OBJECTS' 13 songs. Elsewhere, colourful, lighthearted arrangements offset dark subject matter, as on "ThinMan" and "Tombstone", both contemplations of mortality. NINE OBJECTS OF DESIRE finds Vega pushing the envelope slightly, while maintaining the quality songcraft that her listenershave come to expect.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hotter than 99.9 degrees, 14 Feb 2000
By Geoff Batchelor (Baildon, W Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nine Objects Of Desire (Audio CD)
If your image of Suzanne Vega is 'girl with guitar', then this is the album to change your mind. Its mostly intense, noisy and rhythmic from the opening scream of 'Birth day' onwards. There's a wide musical palette anchored around Mitchell Froom, her producer & husband. This CD builds and extends 99.9 degrees, and is even better. Her song lyrics are pared and pointed, with out the sheer wordiness that some of her earlier albums had. This is great stuff, and I hope she keeps going like this.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Album of desire(corrected version), 26 Jan 2005
By Milt Ingarfield "milt_fm" (Arbroath, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nine Objects Of Desire (Audio CD)
At Just over a decade since her eponymous debut album, "Nine objects of Desire" album shows that none of the interesting wordplay of that collection has gone.

Now the music has more of a sophisticated feel than the debut had, this is the influence of her now ex-husband Mitchell Froom.
Along with the drum work of Jerry Marotta, this player has worked for the likes of Robbie Robertson, Peter Gabriel, Steely Dan and Ron Sexsmith in his long and varied career as a session man.

His drum work against the keyboard playing of Mr Froom creates the perfect foil for the lyrics and vocals of Ms Vega.

The first thing that I noticed about this album was how "big" the sound is, every sound that matters is larger than normal.
I don't know if that's the way that Mitchell Froom's partner in recording, one Tchad Blake who has also worked in past on recording sessions by Los Lobos and Ron Sexsmith, has recorded and mixed this album but the overall sound of the whole collection is excellent.

The resulting recording sessions have been mastered by another of my favourite audio wizards one Bob Ludwig.

As the opening song begins "Birthday (love made real)" the passage of time that separates this album from the debut of 1985 disappears, the familiar wordplay that attracted me to the artist in first place is still there but now the music now lives up to the words. The sound of the tracks continues the feel and sound of the previous album "99.9°F" with the same layers of percussion and keyboard sounds.

The best example of this on the album for me is the track "Causal Match" with it's use of a "drum loop" drums and percussion and huge sounding keyboards against the chorus of "A Casual Match, In a very dry season, Fire and ash, Is the season's yield", a very impressive song that's only second to the track that was released as a single "No Cheap Thrill" which has all the same elements in large amounts to spare.
If the song had been played more on "Day Time" radio the track would have been a huge hit in my opinion.

The last 3 tracks on the album are more like the style of her Debut album, more folk than funk of the new style.

In less than 40 minutes with these 12 vignettes, Suzanne Vega has covered more subjects than some more popular artists do in a whole recording career, this is album not to be over looked by music fans...

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Softer and More Refined Vega!, 12 Oct 2006
By Morten Vindberg - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nine Objects Of Desire (Audio CD)
This was Suzanne Vega's second album produced by Mitchell Froom. There is a great variation in moods and styles and Froom obviously has a great skill of giving Vega's songs inventive arrangements without ruining them with over-production.

This album is a natural follow-up the very experimental album "99.9 F" which had a lot of odd sounds and rhythms. You find quite a lot of the same things here, but the overall impression is that of a softer and more refined album.

What make Suzanne Vega's albums so good is the songs and her soft voice; what makes her albums great is the perfectionism in which the songs are arranged and produced. Both elements are present on this album, which may very well turn out to be her most satisfying and enduring.

A handful of these songs would have fitted nicely into "99.9 F"; "Birthday", "Stockings", "Casual Match", "No Cheap Thrill" and "Lolita" . Among them my favourites are "Stockings", with great sensual lyrics, "No Cheap Thrill" and the almost heavy "Birthday".

On other tracks a more refined touch is apparent. "Caramel" is a latin-inspired great tune with a tasteful hornarrangement. "My favourite Plum" is another memorable song with a beautiful string arrangement. "World Before Columbus" are "Honeymoon Suite" two acoustic songs with Vega playing the guitar. I particularly like the thought-provoking lyrics of "Honeymoon Suite".

"Headshots" is another favourite.

Least appealing are the jazzy track "Tombstone" and the riff-based "Casual Match" and "Lolita"
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Album you should desire...
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