SUZANNE VEGA - Beauty and crime in Amsterdam

This recording is a remaster of BigDee's FM recording of Suzanne Vega's show in Amsterdam from last October. The original torrent had a couple of problems which have been corrected for this remaster.

- First of all "Blood makes noise" wasn't indexed as a seperate track. This has been corrected here.

- The original recording also had some digital skips. Most were very small (less than 0.2 seconds), but "New York is a woman" and "Rosemary" both had 5 seconds missing. To complete the missing bits and to correct the small skips I've used a recording sourced from the Fabchannel.com webcast of this show. The website doesn't list its bitrate, but looking at the spectral view it looks like 128 kbps to me (if somebody can find accurate info on this correct me and I'll edit this info). If you know where the original skips were it's easy to spot where the edits happen, but at least the songs are complete now and we can hear the show as it was actually performed. Check out the mp3 sample below for a before/after comparison of the skip in "New York is a woman" and decide for yourself.

- Some of the tracks also had Suzanne's intro's at the start which I always find annoying as it makes them impossible to skip when you're tired of hearing them. They have been moved to the end.

- Also, the original torrent didn't have any artwork. This one has with some pictures I took at the show.

I hope you enjoy this remaster as much as I do. Thanks a lot to BigDee's original source. Until another FM recording surfaces this is as close to a perfect version as we can get. Enjoy!

Date: October 22 2007
Venue: Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Source: FM broadcast (BE WARNED: some very small webcast sections)
Sound quality (1-10): 10

Lineage original source: radio->Dio 2496->HDD->Soundforge (minors edits)
Lineage webcast sections: Fabchannel.com webcast->Edirol R-09 (line in)->WAV (44.1 kHz/16 bit)
Lineage remaster: WAV->Adobe Audition 1.5 (editing)->CDWAV (trackmarks)->Master

THE BAND
Suzanne Vega - Vocals, acoustic guitars
Ben Butler - Electric guitars
Laila Biali - Keyboards, vocals
Mike Visceglia - Bass
Doug Yowell - Drums

Disc 1 (44:14)
1.Tom's diner (solo) (3:51)
2.Marlene on the wall (4:33)
3.Ludlow street (4:07)
4.New York is a woman (3:30)
5.Caramel (3:49)
6.Frank and Ava (3:54)
7.Gypsy (6:15)
8.(I'll never be your) Maggie May (3:57)
9.Left of center (2:46)
10.Blood makes noise (3:37)
11.Angel's doorway (3:53)

Disc 2 (45:46)
1.Pornographer's dream (4:53)
2.Unbound (4:11)
3.In Liverpool (6:50)
4.Luka (4:03)
5.Tom's diner (with band) (7:30)
6.Zephyr & I (3:30)
7.The queen and the soldier (6:27)
8.Bound (4:57)
9.Rosemary (3:23)

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