Many of you are tuning tonight expecting to see our retro Friday night retro music video feature called 'Friday Night Videos'. Well I listened to my 90s music playlist on Spotify today and got all nostalgic so tonight we are going to time travel forward to the early 1990s. A time when people were a little angrier and the music is a little edgier.
I blame flannel shirts ... they are itchy, uncomfortable and wearing them can lead to all kinds of social upheaval.
I want to start this new retro, but not as retro as the series that preceded it retro ...
Let me start over.
One of my favorite albums of all time is Suzanne Vega's 1992 release 99.9 F. When it first came out I played the CD in my car every day going to and from work. Now some twenty-eight years later tracks from that release still litter several of my playlists.
Here is the title track 99.9 F:
99.9F° (Ninety-Nine Point Nine Fahrenheit Degrees) is the fourth album by American singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega. Released in 1992, the album marked a significant departure for Vega, as she embraced a more electronic, experimental sound. It peaked at No. 86 on Billboard magazine's album chart and was Vega's fourth Top 20 album in the U.K. The single "Blood Makes Noise" reached No.1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
Here is your bonus video for 'Blood Makes Noise':
Blood Makes Noise is notable for its clangy percussion, which has been compared to industrial music. Vega said that the percussion was meant to recreate the sounds the "blood makes" in someone's head when someone's afraid and that she had never heard of industrial music. The song doesn't clarify what the fear is in response to, but some have argued the song is about a patient taking an AIDS test. Suzanne Vega has denied this; in a 2001 interview with The A.V. Club, she says she likes "to take a moment out of its context. It makes you identify with it, without knowing why. In a way, its kind of eerie, because it means you can hear the song, identify with it, and not really know what the circumstances are. And in some ways, that's more satisfying to me."
I love this album so much so here is "In Liverpool":
Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for her folk-inspired music.
Vega's music career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid 1980s, releasing four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, including "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center", "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill". "Tom's Diner", which was originally released as an a cappella recording on Vega's second album, Solitude Standing (1987), was remixed in 1990 as a dance track by English electronic duo DNA with Vega as featured artist, and it became a Top 10 hit in over five countries. The song was used as a test during the creation of the MP3 format. The critical role of her song in the development of the MP3 compression prompted Vega to be given the title of "The Mother of the MP3".
Vega has released nine studio albums to date, the latest of which is Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, released in 2016.
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