RESULTS OF A PARTY

best unreleased song
The Boulevardiers (Karien)
Daniella (Fabio)
The Boulevardiers (Huub)
The Silver Lady (Markus)
Black Widow Station (though not really unreleased..Marion)

best lyrics of 99.9F° and why?
Private Goes Public - thanks to LR (Karien)
Song Of Sand - strong, short lyrics (Ellen)
Song Of Sand - strong meaning in few lyrics (Markus)
Private Goes Public - that's private (Fabio)
Bad Wisdom - once again can recognize myself (Marion)

best sentence by head
If language was liquid it would be rushing in - instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word would ever be (Karien) (I agree, Marion)
If sand waves were sound waves what song would be in the air (Markus)
With my knees against my mouth I am perfectly round (Marion)
The light is pale and thin like you (Dirk)
If you want me you can find me left of centre wondering about you... (Huub)

best haircut of Suzanne
The new one - the longer the better (Markus)
Days of Open Hand (Fabio)
Days of Open Hand (Ellen)
Solitude Standing - video - while singing, not dancing (?)
Solitude Standing - so short so beautiful (Dirk)
Short - end of 1987 (?)

Suzanne Vega is........
....a small blue thing (?)
my heroin because she takes life seriously with a good sense of humour (KS)

the best song of 99.9 F° and why?
Blood Makes Noise because "makes noise" (Fabio)
Blood Makes Noise - As Girls Go - Guitar Solo! (Huub)
Bad Wisdom - simply beautiful (Markus)
Song of Sand - so emotional (Ellen)
In Liverpool - nice mood - Song of Sand - beautiful (Marion)
Blood Makes Noise - fast (Dirk)
As Girls Go - it combines everything of the whole album (Karien)

the "worst" song of 99.9 F°
Bad Wisdom - except the lyrics (Karien)
As A Child - horrible, annoying organ (Huub)
If You Were In My Movie - no ups + downs (Markus)
When Heroes Go Down - it goes lalala... (Ellen)
When Heroes Go Down - too much Elvis Costello?! (Marion)
If You Were In My Movie - music is boring (Fabio)

best album and why?
The first one because of my memories but 99.9 F° is almost better (Karien)
The first one - it was so different at that time (Ellen)
The first one - so simple - so strong (Fabio)
The 1. one - so simple - so strong (Markus)
99.9 F° - because, well just because (Huub)
The first one - an introduction to a new musical world - very different from the new wave music I used to listen to at that time (Marion)
The 1. - because of the lyrics (Dirk)

the best video
Tired of Sleeping - best by far (Huub) (ooops, I hadn't seen In A Lonely Place at that moment)
Luka (Karien, Flor, Marion)
Tired of Sleeping - but In A Lonely Place with the Smithereens is even better (Fabio)
Tired of Sleeping - In Liverpool is very very nice too (?)
In Liverpool (Ellen)

what do you want to ask Suzanne?
her autograph (?)
a new tour - with Marc Shulman! (The M. Shulman Fans Club of Italy)
A song with David Sylvian (Fabio)
her opinion about Kate Bush (Markus)
to sing with her (Dirk)

top 5 Suzanne Vega songs

Cracking              Cracking
Night Vision          Neighborhood Girls
Straight Lines        Pilgrimage
50 50 chance          As Girls Go
Wooden Horse          Gypsy
(Fabio)               (no 1-4 just for the moment, Karien)

Small Blue Thing           Small Blue Thing
Gypsy                      As Girls Go
The Queen And The Soldier  Ironbound
Cracking                   Cracking
Song Of Sand               Tired of Sleeping
(Ellen)                    (Huub)

Gypsy                 Small Blue Thing
Bad Wisdom            Some Journey
Fifty Fifty Chance    Solitude Standing
Queen and Soldier     Language
Song Of Sand          Pilgrimage
(Markus)              (Marion)

Marlene On The Wall
Language
Undertow
Some Journey
Freeze Tag
(Dirk)
These are the results of a small investigation during the Vega-party on 4th of October 1992 in Amsterdam. Maybe in the future we have to do something like this again. But then we will ask all the 40 paying members of the Info Center. Anyone who already has some (original) questions; please send them to us.


Karien Smeding

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