Luka: Suzanne Vega
The other day I heard an interview with Suzanne on NPR, and it made me realize how seldom I play her music. I'm rectifying that today.
This song originally appeared on her second album, Solitude Standing, released in 1987. The song of hers I first heard, Tom' Diner, is also on this album.
This particular cut comes from Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega released in 2003.
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September 16, 2010 at 12:04 pm
yousendit link:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/948910245/31ea97cf2dfc9ec8a3ae73bd31fd9c9d
September 16, 2010 at 12:28 pm
A really nice pick today Kat – Luka in its various versions was the starting point for me and I wandered along with Suzanne Vega for a while and particularly liked 99.9F.
Tom’s Diner was the one and the same diner as featured in Seinfeld.
September 16, 2010 at 3:58 pm
I got caught by 99.9F. It was on a CD that I found in a pawn shop with that season’s hits. Played it over and over. Her voice’s catches and dips form a series of shapes in my mind that I particularly like. Music is definitely 3-dimensional.
September 16, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Thank you, my Dear Hedley
I has forgotten about Tom’s Diner and Seinfeld. I should have remembered as that was the song which led me to Suzanne Vega.
September 16, 2010 at 6:52 pm
I caught on to her as soon as her first LP came out in the UK – basically, being a university student back then, 1985, I had nothing better to do than improve my record collection. I must have worn that album out, especially the Queen and the Soldier track! I even managed to catch her in concert, either 85 or 86, but, like you, hadn’t listened to her for some time now. Thanks for reminding us.
September 16, 2010 at 7:09 pm
brian,
I was happy to have been reminded myself and even happier to share.
Every day, except the weekends, I post two songs, almost always folk. When I post a singer I haven’t remembered or heard about in a long time, I always wonder how many more I’m missing.
September 16, 2010 at 7:07 pm
On a 1987 Swedish television special, Vega said: “A few years ago, I used to see this group of children playing in from of my building, and there was one of them, whose name was Luka, who seemed a little bit distinctive from the other children. I always remembered his name, and I always remembered his face, and I didn’t know much about him, but he just seemed set apart from these other children that I would see playing. And his character is what I based the song Luka on. In the song, the boy Luka is an abused child – In real life I don’t think he was. I think he was just different.”
September 17, 2010 at 11:47 am
sblake,
I never would have guessed the source for this song. I found it incredibly interesting that song was born from an observation.