Tom's Diner

It's DNA with Suzanne Vega, 25 on the Capital Countdown from this week in 1990.

DNA, two British producers, took Suzanne's acapella of Tom's Diner, which was its original form, and dubbed an electronic dance mix underneath it and released it as Oh Suzanne.

But here's the kicker.

They never asked for permission to do so.

were 27 with Dear Abby, up 5 from 32.

Crosby, Stills and Nash were 26 with Live It Up, down 19 from 7.

DNA and Suzanne Vega were 25 with Tom's Diner, up 4 from 29.

Duran Duran were 24 with Violence of Summer, up 3 from 27.

Until I moved to New York and I realized this was a specific place.

But Tom's Diner by Suzanne Venkates.

That, even as

a kid.

My top pick tonight, and I could not be more delighted to say this, Suzanne Vega is playing at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall from 9pm.

Suzanne Vega, Tom's Diner, Luca, a voice that could stop a room, in the concert hall, on a sunny Friday night in Sydney.

If you have a ticket, you are having a very good day.

If you don't have a ticket, check for returns, and if not, put on solitude standing while you cook dinner and pretend.

There you go.

Tom's Diner, it was.

Okay.

It

Cause she had to come up with, she'd never had a right on demand before, you know, she just wrote when it happened.

And, uh, So here we were, you know, we had another seven or eight songs to fill in an album, you know, and we had Tom's Diner too, so we had four songs.

Yes, Tom's Diner.

But then, you know, with a track like Solitude Standing, did that start as a kind of a jam? You know, like, is there such a group? Yeah, because

if you look at it, there's not many lyrics to that song.

Let's keep that, you know.

Yes.

But then after that comes out, and obviously you must think, oh, thank God there's so many good singles on it because it's, yeah, Tom's Diner, Luca, Gypsy, Solitude Stone's got a great one.

Yeah.

Put a rivet in there or something.

You see my wallet? This is what you need.

Let me see.

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What is that, Chris? What's it say?

I bet they were.

I wish I had appreciated those live performances, but they would just do two songs real quick, and it was while we all had our one break for the show taping, so I never really watched.

Right.

You know who did watch indie rock and punk bands that played on a skateboarding, snowboarding show?

Yes.

Get out there.

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