The Best of Suzanne Vega: Tried and True

• Artist: Suzanne Vega
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• Release Date: December 14, 1999
• Type: Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Rock

Review

This excellent overview of Vega's career contains all the hits and a fair sampling from each of her five albums, though Days of Open Hand receives a cold shoulder (only "Book of Dreams" represents it here), being a critical and personal failure. The CD as a whole shows that while Vega has stayed fairly consistent as a songwriter, her growth has been marked in the collaborations with various producers, from the spare, simplistic sound stages of Steve Addabbo and Lenny Kaye to the lush metallurgy of Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake. The collection also features that bane of fans, the exclusive track, necessitating purchasing the CD when one owns all the other material. However, these two new songs -- "Book & a Cover" and "Rosemary" -- are quality entries in Vega's songbook, and once again feature the production skills of Froom and Blake. ~ Ted Mills, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Luka	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(3:52)
Tom's Diner [DNA Featuring Suzanne Vega]	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(3:50)
Marlene on the Wall	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(3:41)
Caramel	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(2:55)
99.9° F.	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(3:14)
Small Blue Thing	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(3:55)
Blood Makes Noise	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(2:29)
Left of Center [Featuring Joe Jackson on Piano]	Suzanne Vega, Steve Addabbo	Suzanne Vega	(3:35)
In Liverpool	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(4:44)
Gypsy	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(4:04)
Book of Dreams	Suzanne Vega, Anton Sanko	Suzanne Vega	(3:23)
No Cheap Thrill	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(3:10)
World Before Columbus	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(3:27)
When Heroes Go Down	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(1:56)
The Queen and the Soldier	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(4:50)
Book and a Cover	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(3:49)
Rosemary	Suzanne Vega	Suzanne Vega	(2:45)

Credits

Suzanne Vega (Main Performer)