Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega is essentially A&M's updated version of their 1999 issue, The Best of Suzanne Vega: Tried and True, adding "Tired of Sleeping" from Vega's Days of Open Hand, "Calypso" and "Solitude Standing" from Solitude Standing, "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May" and "Penitent" from the 2001 recording Songs in Red and Gray, and "Woman on the Tier (I'll See You Through)" from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack. Unfortunately, A&M chose to drop "Book and Cover" from the track listing, which was only previously available on The Best of Suzanne Vega: Tried and True. Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega is essentially A&M's updated version of their 1999 issue, The Best of Suzanne Vega: Tried and True, adding "Tired of Sleeping" from Vega's Days of Open Hand, "Calypso" and "Solitude Standing" from Solitude Standing, "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May" and "Penitent" from the 2001 recording Songs in Red and Gray, and "Woman on the Tier (I'll See You Through)" from the Dead Man Walking soundtrack. Unfortunately, A&M chose to drop "Book and Cover" from the track listing, which was only previously available on The Best of Suzanne Vega: Tried and True. false 2025-02-02 02:54:42 Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega 2003 2003-07-07 2003-07-07 78 Folk Rock Pop Rock 111977 2249140 b4189794-dc16-31be-99e7-b7e2fe425c8e cf119120-7df5-47d7-9dec-49f8837a4e40 c062345b-dbc5-34ec-b4ea-806bd7196218 /media/data/media4/Music/Suzanne Vega/Retrospective_ The Best of Suzanne Vega/folder.jpg DNA feat. Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega 1 1 Luka 03:52 1 2 Tom's Diner 03:49 1 3 Marlene on the Wall 03:41 1 4 Caramel 02:54 1 5 99.9F° 03:15 1 6 Tired of Sleeping 04:25 1 7 Small Blue Thing 03:55 1 8 Blood Makes Noise 02:29 1 9 Left of Center 03:30 1 10 (I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May 03:48 1 11 In Liverpool 04:44 1 12 Gypsy 04:03 1 13 Book of Dreams 03:24 1 14 No Cheap Thrill 03:10 1 15 Calypso 04:13 1 16 World Before Columbus 03:27 1 17 Solitude Standing 04:39 1 18 Penitent 04:18 1 19 Rosemary 02:44 1 20 The Queen and the Soldier (live) 05:02 1 21 Woman on the Tier (I'll See You Through) 02:26 Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter best known for her folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans almost 40 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s, releasing four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, including "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center", "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill". "Tom's Diner", which was originally released as an a cappella recording on Vega's second album, Solitude Standing (1987), was remixed in 1990 as a dance track by English electronic duo DNA with Vega as featured artist, and it became a Top 10 hit in over five countries. The original a capella recording of the song was used as a test during the creation of the MP3 format. The role of her song in the development of the MP3 compression prompted Vega to be given the title of "The Mother of the MP3".Vega has released nine studio albums to date, the latest of which is Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, released in 2016.