Disco de Suzanne Vega: “99.9 F”

I have all five of Vega's cds and I think she was her most daring with 1992's 99.9F. She blended alternative electronic sounds into her music creating a kind of Nine Inch Nails/Vega sound. I like all of her work, but I think this is a classic cd along with 1996's Nine Objects of Desire. She really hit her stride here. Songs like "Rock In This Pocket", "Blood Makes Noise", "99.9F", "In Liverpool", "If You Were In My Movie" and "As Girls Go" make this a classic. This is a must have for any rock collector.

I've only had the CD a few days now, but in those few days I've discovered how truly awesome this album is. Suzanna Vega's voice along with the industrial/machine-driven rock has mesmerized my ears. Songs like "Blood Makes Noise" and "Rock In This Pocket" are amazing pieces of music, and I find myself listening to the CD over and over again. I highly reccomend this CD to anyone looking for something original and amazing. You won't be disappointed.

Machine-driven music was not Suzanne Vega's most enticing musical direction, though the experimentation certainly yielded some pronounced successes and destroyed the notion that Vega was just a guitar-strumming folkie.

The often cacophonous arrangements at times intrude: Vega's voice and delivery are ill-equipped to compete with overloud drum machines and bass guitars. "Blood Makes Noise" has an exhilirating sound, but her heavily processed vocals are a take-it-or-leave-it affair, and her singing sounds very strained (hear her struggling for breath when she hits "I'd like to give the information you're asking for"). "In Liverpool", however, achieves a wonderful balance between 99.9 F-era Vega and Solitude Standing-era Vega, a song of great spiritual, melodic and lyrical clarity, recorded with the same industrial/dance leanings used throughout the album, but remaining human enough that Vega shines through.

Not a misstep, but a tangential exploration that would result in the harmonious folk/jazz/keyboard hybrid on Nine Objects of Desire.

In years to come Suzanne Vega will probably be remembered by most for her two biggest hit-singles , "Luka" and "Tom's Dinner" . That's so unfair for a singer who has released five really great albums and has contributed so much to what we call today ' the female music scene ' . 99.9F is her most eccentric yet charming album yet. For the first time she tries to use technology in her songs combined with her , excellent as always guitar melodies . The result is something between pop and funk but even with all that machinery influences , it still sounds personal . The lyrics are more risky than ever . She have the guts to write an almost dance track about Aids ( "Blood Makes Noise" ) but where she cuts like a knife is on "As Girls Go" where she simply does what Eminem wasted a whole record on ( suggesting that he actually tried to make a comment of today's reality ) withought insulting the gay community though ( "...If i could pull this off / would i know for certain / the real situation / behind the curtain? " ) . "In Liverpool" ( 1992's best video clip )and "99.9f" are also some of the tracks you should pay special attention to ( you will almost be hypnotised while listening to the second one ) . Vega is an artist who knows how to use the language properly and is able to write about something more than boyfriend troubles . She's much too clever for that . Even though she's gone all jazz and bossa nova now , she's still more fascinating than most of the other ladies in today's pop and rock world. Just buy this album and you'll find out what i am talking about.

She made it!!!!, after been all poetic with past albums, and acoustic and calm and relax, this album is a twist at 180 degres , industrial sounds, latin beats , rock fussions, a few folk influences and all this without left her personnal seal, so Suzanne, so Vega, have you noticed how deep bass rythms and suzannes voice seems to be the perfect combination? listen to her posterior albums after this one and you will notice that at least two songs in every album repeat this deligthfull formula, no other woman voice gets along that well with heavy bass sounds like Mss Vegas voice, lyrically as ussual this woman is a poet, even with this new musical horizon she opened that doesnt change and is for the best

HM