Most of them synch into the mic for the video because vid audiences want that studio quality that can't be had on the set of a video stage. She's better live than in the studio.
,Marlene on the Wall, When Heroes Go Down, Small Blue thing, Caramel, Gypsy, Frank & Ava, New York is a Woman, Pornographers Dream, Left of Center, Tombstone, The Queen & The Soldier, I'll Never Be Your Maggie Mae, Some Journey, In Liverpool, Luka, Tom's Diner
I loved the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. This artist, Nik Kershaw, Psych Furs, New Order, INXS, The Assocation, Smith, OMD, Barry Manilow (Copacabana). Never heard a full soundtrack as good since.
Oh, and I forgot to say that when somebody enters your life that you care about you NEVER forget them because they are a thread woven into your life...
geez, not everything is politics and sex. those are the only two interpretations people can make anymore. whatever happened to songs, like this, about introspection or personal experiences? and i always say that "nothing much" to people so terrified at making eye contact. once, a black woman said "whacho lookin' at". i said "someone i thought was beautiful. im so wrong". i wasnt staring, just briefly admiring her look- she was pretty for a few seconds at least. i love suzanne.
No, it was written in the mid-80's. It's about being different and not part of the "in-crowd" in high school; it was in the movie "Pretty in Pink". However, these days, where it's "so politically incorrect" to be conservative or "right-wing", she should release inagain and only change the words to say "right of center"; keeping the remainder of the song the same; it would be a perfect analogy then!
So i'm confused, was she an alienated conservative, or was she a radical left winger standing up against the conservative crowd? Explain please, it's not too clear that analogy you try to make about "these days"
That's okay, I'm confused, too! What I think I was trying to say was that it was made in the "Reagan" years where money, power, glory, were all the rage. Nowadays, you need to be trying to heal the planet, going vegan, and being very liberal or you're the outsider. I think that's what I mean.....
My favorite suzanne vega song is on songs in red and grey. The song is called ST CLARE. The album was released just as 9/11 happened, consiquntly album sales were low becouse of the huge trajedy unfolding in america. Ive looked on here and can't find it id love to see the video if there is one.....
OMG!! I really had to see her live in Berlin!! Was really great and worth every cent. She played at the University that time when the album with the green apple came out
As many have said this song describes me. This was a rough way to be in if you were in high school in the 70s. The 80s seemed to celebrate individuality and daring to be different. We were hopeful about video and computers and music. Today the technology and YouTube gives us more choice then we ever dreamed about but left of center is not the place to be in this era of social networking. Try finding a job if you are a bad networker.
This song keeps on puzzling me. I can very clearly remember some kind of lucid dream, in which I heard this song. I even remember singing it for sometime, although my knowledge of english was very limited in that time.
That was in 1979, I was ten years old. The story should be impossible, but I am quite sure about it...
I was a stupid 17-year-old boy when Suzanne showed me that room where the video was filmed. I guess I lived a bit under a rock because I didn't know that the woman named Suzanne Vega, who was my friend, is also a famous singer-songwriter.
I had the hardest time finding this song, but am so glad that i managed to. I hear it all the time playing at the amusement park where i am currently employed and love it. She's an amazing artist.
The Live at Montreaux version of this song is a really great video compliment to this one. Everyone should view that one. Nevertheless this is one great song. Thank you Biochips
The Live at Montreaux version of this song is a really great video compliment to this one. Everyone should view that one. Nevertheless this is one great song.
I can figure out some songs pretty good ,but I always fail at this one because I cannot follow her voice fast enough. Can somebody please help me and tell me where to get sheet music for this song. Or at least post a tutorial to show me his/her ways on the keys. Thx in advance.
I kinda miss the blue eye shadow! LOL I'm surprised there are no references to the movie "Pretty In Pink" in this video, because it's on the soundtrack. That's how I found out about this awesome song!
You call yourself a "musician"? If you're unable to enjoy this song and all the other master pieces by Miss Vega, please stop playing an instrument or something cause you're not worth it.
Many of you may disagree but I thought that mainstream pop culture by and large blew chunks throughout the Eighties. The best music- whether it was The Replacements or Suzanne Vega- was property of the underground movement. That's my two cents.
i think it's worse now. at least we could scratch the surface of alternatives in the 80's through mass channels. then it was up to us to follow it or not. every now and then, we'd hear DM, Cure, SV, Smiths, i.e. something of sophistication, appearing. today, even that faint scent is blocked, thanks to crappy mtv and fearfully rigid record labels.
If anything- the Cure, Depeche Mode, and the Smiths was what was wrong with the underground. I'm not sure why there was such a fixation for British artists when exceptional American artists such as the dB's, Husker Du, the Three O'Clock, and Suzanne Vega were available.
Could have something to do with the second British invasion - or could it be even the third, couning the heavy metal boom in the '70s. The Brits came to set the standard and the Americans hence merely considered copycats.
But then, on a related topic, Vega came to pave way for may female singer-songwriters in the '80s and '90s. Also she is a great role-model for the art of eccentric thinking.
I'm not sure that Yanks were just merely imitating its British counterparts. None of the artists I've mentioned above were guilty of such. Did you forget about the Ramones? Although the Clash and Sex Pistols popularized punk- it was the quartet from Queens NY who triggered that movement in the mid to late Seventies which in turn was responsible for the post modern movement. Prior to them- there was an array of protopunk acts who also originated from the U.S.
no shit...you'll find me there too...always left of center, on the fringes. But I'll say this: it gets harder the older you get, so if you're like this be prepared for a rough ride...
The ultimate anthem of the estranged and marginalized. . . Suzanne Vega has always been too intelligent and thoughtful (and beautiful) to be accepted and understood by the popular masses.
Suzanne is so amazing. She really should have been a complete megastar instead of having a few big singles and a devoted following, but her songs are too introspective and intelligent. That VOICE, man. It's like velvet, like a female Leonard Cohen.
I wanna build a time machine and go back to the good ole days of feel good music and good times! music today is mostly about misery and materialistic things!
Thank God for lettin me live inna late 60's 70's and 80's! you new generation kids missed out bigtime!
I agree with you. I'm 25 and feel 70s and 80s would be much better time for me. In terms of music at last:) Music was made with passion then, not with samples.
Um, let me get this straight. You want to go back to a less "materialistic" and "miserable" time, so you pick... the 1980s? Were you actually alive in the 1980s? Have you even read a book or magazine or 3 page pamphlet about the 1980s?
Ok now first of all I did'nt post my comment to get ragged on by someone who's damn near young enough to be my daughter! I guess that comes from you listening too much music with misery and materialistic things of which will have no berring on the out come of your future! Your kind of music is miserable because it puts you in the mood to commit an act of misery!
Your generation of music is the reason why clubs are closed down b/c of the same niggas that you praise, are the same niggas that blaze. While you're looking real good in your ARMANI SUIT! And don't have to read about the 80's because i lived the 80's while you were runnung around with a bottle in ya mouth and shitt in yo diapers, like Jay-Z an Beyonce' back then! Back then was the SHITT! Most of todays artists ain't shitt they turned beautiful hip-hop into negative SLIP-SLOP!
You're kind of insane, aren't you? What the hell are you even talking about? I'll say this again, going very slowly: You yearn for a time that was less "materialistic", correct? So you pick the 1980s, the height of materialism. I don't know how this led to Jay-Z and Armani suits, other than that you're a fucking nutter.
And what i meant by less materialistic was in the music and i also said less misery! You see materialism and misery go hand and hand. Esp in your generations music of today.
If you don't have the materialistic things that you hear in todays music, (like an Armani suit) it leads to misery for some pepole, like you who like to say negative things under other pepoles positive posts!
Think about what you say or i'm gone make you think about it! Holla Back!
I, too, fell in love with Suzanne when I heard this on the Pretty In Pink soundtrack. That was when I was 16, and she has continued to be my favorite artist to this day. Her lyrics are always thoughtful and poetic. Can't wait for the new album, due out July 17th!
great song. Vega was one of the true lyrisists of her time. "left of center: is a personal account of her life. The song is very special and meaningful to me. one of the best songs of the 80s youth generation.
There is a version of this song where joe jackson plays keyboards, it is awesome. I really enjoyed Suzanne's recordings that came out around this time.
This song hit me like a brick when it came out. I became a Suzanne Vega fan by the end of this song the first time I heard it (on my then newly purchased "Pretty in Pink" album).
to me the song is more about a person who isn't part of any group and deals with it by sort of minimizing the value of the group he/she wants to be a part of (by way of probably one particular person)
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CosmoPolygon 2 years ago
ayaya ke music muy buena,me trae gratos recuer2s 90 teros y lin2s moment exelente cancion de ella la unica suzanne salu2s de peru pal mundo bye
virchylyo1980 2 years ago
i love her...
TheNadialove 2 years ago
sue vegas music is totally different from what ive ever heard before
koala9812 2 years ago 3
That's Joe Jackson on the piano.
jbc6 2 years ago
Pretty in pink.
airjor1 2 years ago 5
this song is really good =]
xXHTIDXx100 2 years ago
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love this song.
ronniedoll 2 years ago 2
these grey eyes are incredible.
They pierce your soul.
BTW. Whatever happened to Sue Evans?
standingforcouncil 2 years ago 2
the quality is a joke. Thanks universal. You rule.
conicall 2 years ago
This vid would be so much better if she wasn't lip synching into a microphone. It looks really awkward and dumb.
gkaplan2000 2 years ago
Most of them synch into the mic for the video because vid audiences want that studio quality that can't be had on the set of a video stage. She's better live than in the studio.
chaosopher23 2 years ago
she was hot in the 80s
cybersphere 2 years ago 4
I just saw her perfrom a week ago (8/20/09). Her vocals are as strong as ever. Maybe more so.
clangley1959 2 years ago
Emotive. Moving. Inspiring. Corrupting.
Boyeksman 2 years ago
Her music is strill great and has aged very well.
Jude74 2 years ago
This is the Introverts' Anthem.
lovesrainydays 2 years ago 8
clever comment.
greenpen3 2 years ago
i miss my mullet
ludwigvontri 2 years ago
LOL! Oh yeah? I miss my hair!;)
JustinNyland 2 years ago 2
ha ha ha ha poor guy
gmansi 2 years ago
don't worry . .. .I'm still pretty:)
JustinNyland 2 years ago
Good! And also you dont spend money on shampoo :)
gmansi 2 years ago
one of the most talented song writer/artist and singer.. oh yeah and she's a hot irish girl too... im in love with u suzanne v....
MrDmfan 2 years ago
Can't get enough Suzanne Vega....Great song!!!!
rendezvous4u 2 years ago
amazing!!
thx for your show in israel at 19.7!
ronkingking 2 years ago
רשימת השירים המלאה:
,Marlene on the Wall, When Heroes Go Down, Small Blue thing, Caramel, Gypsy, Frank & Ava, New York is a Woman, Pornographers Dream, Left of Center, Tombstone, The Queen & The Soldier, I'll Never Be Your Maggie Mae, Some Journey, In Liverpool, Luka, Tom's Diner
הדרנים: Calypso, Rosemary
h78meiri 2 years ago
הו תודה רבה לך!
coronna84 2 years ago
80's music has a way of being eternal! It's coming back with a vengance lately! I'm happy!
alexhogan 2 years ago 3
RAD
amiee33 2 years ago
coolness...this is a really nice song
chica1yeye 2 years ago
ahh...13 years old, thinking of all the smart college chicks I would grow up and poke......what a disappointment that turned out to be...
glennwith2nns 2 years ago
Why? Were they 5'1 296 lbs with hairy chests and backs?
lumpagogo 2 years ago
I loved the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. This artist, Nik Kershaw, Psych Furs, New Order, INXS, The Assocation, Smith, OMD, Barry Manilow (Copacabana). Never heard a full soundtrack as good since.
wheateater 2 years ago 3
excellent song...still lives on.
sandy2172 2 years ago 4
Not only do i love this song. I love the video. neither have any bs about relationships or whatever. i agree completely with jas22
lizzypinkpanther 2 years ago 2
this song is one of the most AMAZING songs out there
lizzypinkpanther 2 years ago 3
i have a huge crush on her! but shes nothing compared to my gf <3 <3 <3
seeeethhhe 2 years ago 3
Oh, and I forgot to say that when somebody enters your life that you care about you NEVER forget them because they are a thread woven into your life...
lauraken 2 years ago 6
Oh the memories! My first love...The time of year...snow falling, and I was a timid teenager...I wonder where he is now, and what he is doing...
lauraken 2 years ago 3
i love this song!
cruz364 2 years ago 5
This is one of my favorite song of all time. Thanks for posting it.
lovesautumn 3 years ago 7
With Joe Jackson on piano.
crinklewing 3 years ago
i love this song
10Redrum01 3 years ago
geez, not everything is politics and sex. those are the only two interpretations people can make anymore. whatever happened to songs, like this, about introspection or personal experiences? and i always say that "nothing much" to people so terrified at making eye contact. once, a black woman said "whacho lookin' at". i said "someone i thought was beautiful. im so wrong". i wasnt staring, just briefly admiring her look- she was pretty for a few seconds at least. i love suzanne.
jas22 3 years ago 7
i heard her on the howard stern show a few years ago. shes a very nice lady.
jas22 3 years ago
love his song to pieces.
youkaichick 3 years ago
the song vacantly wierd but has a good message the tune is pretty ok i think that should be good enough to make a cd
mapleas810 3 years ago
She looks left of center every time she repeats those words and it's very fetching :-)
agquarx 3 years ago
beautiful
freeatlast1963 3 years ago
Very nice song. Suzanne looks really pretty in this video too.
AmberAprilAnnie 3 years ago 4
Is this about her political view ?
angela1894 3 years ago
No, it was written in the mid-80's. It's about being different and not part of the "in-crowd" in high school; it was in the movie "Pretty in Pink". However, these days, where it's "so politically incorrect" to be conservative or "right-wing", she should release inagain and only change the words to say "right of center"; keeping the remainder of the song the same; it would be a perfect analogy then!
alpineswissmiss 3 years ago 3
So i'm confused, was she an alienated conservative, or was she a radical left winger standing up against the conservative crowd? Explain please, it's not too clear that analogy you try to make about "these days"
kajunshaman 3 years ago
That's okay, I'm confused, too! What I think I was trying to say was that it was made in the "Reagan" years where money, power, glory, were all the rage. Nowadays, you need to be trying to heal the planet, going vegan, and being very liberal or you're the outsider. I think that's what I mean.....
alpineswissmiss 3 years ago
The answer is, no.
anbalbach 2 years ago
Her music never gets old ! Thanks for posting !
Laveau 3 years ago 2
anyone know how to play this on guitar?
fugepoo 3 years ago
The acoustic guitar part isn`t as obvious as on other SV tunes but im sure the tab/chords are findable!Think i`ll try myself!Good luck!
auto4union 3 years ago
My favorite suzanne vega song is on songs in red and grey. The song is called ST CLARE. The album was released just as 9/11 happened, consiquntly album sales were low becouse of the huge trajedy unfolding in america. Ive looked on here and can't find it id love to see the video if there is one.....
nidgybaby 3 years ago
Is this song refering to the political spectrum
nidgybaby 3 years ago
OMG!! I really had to see her live in Berlin!! Was really great and worth every cent. She played at the University that time when the album with the green apple came out
Marlonnowitsch 3 years ago
As many have said this song describes me. This was a rough way to be in if you were in high school in the 70s. The 80s seemed to celebrate individuality and daring to be different. We were hopeful about video and computers and music. Today the technology and YouTube gives us more choice then we ever dreamed about but left of center is not the place to be in this era of social networking. Try finding a job if you are a bad networker.
edkollin 3 years ago
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so 90's
ceroeck 3 years ago
By jingo this piece is 22 years hence.
Oh boy that makes me feel old.
God speed the marvellous Ms Vega.
TheDesertFerret 3 years ago
Susan, I LOVE YOU!!!!!
What a warm and sweet voice!!!
Kisses!!!
DieManMachine69 3 years ago
This song keeps on puzzling me. I can very clearly remember some kind of lucid dream, in which I heard this song. I even remember singing it for sometime, although my knowledge of english was very limited in that time.
That was in 1979, I was ten years old. The story should be impossible, but I am quite sure about it...
hoornkijker 3 years ago
Doesn't sound like it.. methinks your English sind sehr gut!
dabsy71 3 years ago
I was a stupid 17-year-old boy when Suzanne showed me that room where the video was filmed. I guess I lived a bit under a rock because I didn't know that the woman named Suzanne Vega, who was my friend, is also a famous singer-songwriter.
MadMax3030 3 years ago 5
aw that's sad. tsk tsk tsk...
powderutube 3 years ago
I am a death metal fan but this song made me cry
flwrpwr68 3 years ago 5
ooohh, i love her!!!!
soacker25 3 years ago
What a woman!
moneygob 3 years ago 2
I love this song!!!
So glad to see a video of it, but I'm not crazy about the Molly Ringwald getup though.
NMNHTV13 3 years ago
I like it! I always liked the fringe years
nicck 3 years ago
a great song i love it
mastercchan 3 years ago
I had the hardest time finding this song, but am so glad that i managed to. I hear it all the time playing at the amusement park where i am currently employed and love it. She's an amazing artist.
secreteflower 3 years ago 4
What amusement park? They play it at the park i work at too, VF!
warinthepocket 3 years ago 2
Gorgeous.
nooriginalthoughts 3 years ago 2
Classic Vega
harrismille 3 years ago 2
The Live at Montreaux version of this song is a really great video compliment to this one. Everyone should view that one. Nevertheless this is one great song. Thank you Biochips
lilislam123 3 years ago
The Live at Montreaux version of this song is a really great video compliment to this one. Everyone should view that one. Nevertheless this is one great song.
lilislam123 3 years ago
I can figure out some songs pretty good ,but I always fail at this one because I cannot follow her voice fast enough. Can somebody please help me and tell me where to get sheet music for this song. Or at least post a tutorial to show me his/her ways on the keys. Thx in advance.
Biochips1 3 years ago
It's Joe Jackson playing the keys at the end of the song.
podbay 3 years ago 2
Graham Maby on bass.. from JJ's band.
saxshooter 3 years ago
gawd, i miss this song. dont make me pull out my p. i. p. soundtrack...
octavia9 3 years ago
I kinda miss the blue eye shadow! LOL I'm surprised there are no references to the movie "Pretty In Pink" in this video, because it's on the soundtrack. That's how I found out about this awesome song!
bloofan06 3 years ago 2
I vaguely remember the movie (saw it in the 80's), I vaguely remember Molly Ringwald was in it, the song I remembered well.
BearUrsus 3 years ago
Love the Make Up of the 80's!!!!
MissGreenie 3 years ago 3
Yes, but I sure don't miss the makeup on men. I'm quite happy androgyny is dead. Super nasty!
love2run122 3 years ago 2
im very curious as to where this video was filmed?
lillipuet 3 years ago
This video was filmed in Soho.
Patriciameadows 3 years ago
a.q bu yazdıklarınızdan kimse bişi anlamıyoki:D:D:d
bilan62 3 years ago
a.q bu yazdıklarınızdan kimse bişi anlamıyoki:D:D:d
bilan62 3 years ago
Where did the last twenty years go ?
daytime2064 3 years ago
don't remind me ,anyway who' is the cute drummer?
paris4la 3 years ago
Sigh...I miss the mid-80s. Loved this song. And, damn, Suzanne was smokin' hot!
magic8ball2112 3 years ago
Any idea if the bass guitarist is mike visceglia?
cyrilchua 3 years ago
Yeah it is mike himself
marionettej 3 years ago
Wasn't Joe Jackson on this somewhere???
ninaian 3 years ago
Yes - he played the piano solo on this track.
okelydokely2 3 years ago
i thought the pianist was joe jackson, he of the "could you be my no.2" and "stepping out" fame
walkinonthinice 3 years ago
this vid and song bring back like megamemories. i just love this song SOOOOOOOOOO much. thanks for posting. i'll keep watching....b
borgerson 3 years ago
Does anyone know what inspired SV to sing this tune?
Schneebuddy 4 years ago
For all I know it deals with her life as an outsider when she was a youth.
lol Somehow this song could even deal with my own teenage life many years ago. But I was a little girl when this tune came out, and even loved it.
StratoJess 3 years ago
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horrible song. terrible wates of c f g!
DonnieBrownIII 4 years ago
You call yourself a "musician"? If you're unable to enjoy this song and all the other master pieces by Miss Vega, please stop playing an instrument or something cause you're not worth it.
Biochips1 3 years ago 2
Hey, this is from Pretty in Pink!
Steve197201 4 years ago
amazing vocalist & songwriter. such a beautiful voice. just saw her live last month, i hadn't heard many of her songs but now i'm like wow
LiquidRush 4 years ago 7
Yeah, I know she's rocking the Ausseys at the moment. That's why she cannot come around to answer my e-mail. :(
Biochips1 4 years ago
yea saw her here in Oz, will have to drop her a line!
LiquidRush 4 years ago
You can even contact her on MySpace. Maybe she'll add you.
Biochips1 4 years ago
I'm still looking for her drugs. Will anybody help me? Cause I really need them.
Biochips1 4 years ago
Not my favourite by her. I think she's great but this song doesn't take me away like the others. **** Though
LyricWatch 4 years ago
I have to add that this woman today looks like all my nightmares connected. But the young Vega is my fav female artist.
Biochips1 4 years ago
What does this song mean exept of damn coolness
Biochips1 4 years ago
She's damn pretty in the video! Don't thaught so
Biochips1 4 years ago
thy heart
dwells on the dark side of moon
but something in the way says watch out
and listen to the singing of a loon
lukavlcek 4 years ago
Many of you may disagree but I thought that mainstream pop culture by and large blew chunks throughout the Eighties. The best music- whether it was The Replacements or Suzanne Vega- was property of the underground movement. That's my two cents.
541967 4 years ago 4
It's true, in the 80's the good stuff was all underground. They played crap on the radio... Kind of like right now...
sweetontic 4 years ago 8
You have no idea of special music. By the way SV was underground.
Biochips1 4 years ago
i think it's worse now. at least we could scratch the surface of alternatives in the 80's through mass channels. then it was up to us to follow it or not. every now and then, we'd hear DM, Cure, SV, Smiths, i.e. something of sophistication, appearing. today, even that faint scent is blocked, thanks to crappy mtv and fearfully rigid record labels.
batistootah 4 years ago 3
I agree with you 100%, we should all unite and make a stand... Our generations really need to do something prolific....
sweetontic 4 years ago 2
If anything- the Cure, Depeche Mode, and the Smiths was what was wrong with the underground. I'm not sure why there was such a fixation for British artists when exceptional American artists such as the dB's, Husker Du, the Three O'Clock, and Suzanne Vega were available.
541967 3 years ago
Could have something to do with the second British invasion - or could it be even the third, couning the heavy metal boom in the '70s. The Brits came to set the standard and the Americans hence merely considered copycats.
But then, on a related topic, Vega came to pave way for may female singer-songwriters in the '80s and '90s. Also she is a great role-model for the art of eccentric thinking.
joeytruelove 3 years ago 4
I'm not sure that Yanks were just merely imitating its British counterparts. None of the artists I've mentioned above were guilty of such. Did you forget about the Ramones? Although the Clash and Sex Pistols popularized punk- it was the quartet from Queens NY who triggered that movement in the mid to late Seventies which in turn was responsible for the post modern movement. Prior to them- there was an array of protopunk acts who also originated from the U.S.
541967 3 years ago
agreed..
haggisforT 4 years ago
WATCH AMER0
densefawg 4 years ago
no shit...you'll find me there too...always left of center, on the fringes. But I'll say this: it gets harder the older you get, so if you're like this be prepared for a rough ride...
awrifford 4 years ago 6
The ultimate anthem of the estranged and marginalized. . . Suzanne Vega has always been too intelligent and thoughtful (and beautiful) to be accepted and understood by the popular masses.
hutchisonkh 4 years ago 3
That's why I adore her.
Biochips1 4 years ago
i miss the 80s! but not the clothes,LOL
yesago 4 years ago
Suzanne is so amazing. She really should have been a complete megastar instead of having a few big singles and a devoted following, but her songs are too introspective and intelligent. That VOICE, man. It's like velvet, like a female Leonard Cohen.
nickca420 4 years ago 2
I never realized she was that pretty.
Darryl80 4 years ago
miss my mullet
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Bragolin 4 years ago
She is so cute in this video!
Rpkasp 4 years ago 2
I wanna build a time machine and go back to the good ole days of feel good music and good times! music today is mostly about misery and materialistic things!
Thank God for lettin me live inna late 60's 70's and 80's! you new generation kids missed out bigtime!
er1c175 4 years ago 2
I agree with you. I'm 25 and feel 70s and 80s would be much better time for me. In terms of music at last:) Music was made with passion then, not with samples.
laserdave82 4 years ago 2
Or we were just too young to know what we were missing!!!
sweetontic 4 years ago
this song was also on the Pretty in Pink soundtrack!
MariposaGirl1981 4 years ago
Um, let me get this straight. You want to go back to a less "materialistic" and "miserable" time, so you pick... the 1980s? Were you actually alive in the 1980s? Have you even read a book or magazine or 3 page pamphlet about the 1980s?
nickca420 4 years ago
Ok now first of all I did'nt post my comment to get ragged on by someone who's damn near young enough to be my daughter! I guess that comes from you listening too much music with misery and materialistic things of which will have no berring on the out come of your future! Your kind of music is miserable because it puts you in the mood to commit an act of misery!
er1c175 4 years ago
Your generation of music is the reason why clubs are closed down b/c of the same niggas that you praise, are the same niggas that blaze. While you're looking real good in your ARMANI SUIT! And don't have to read about the 80's because i lived the 80's while you were runnung around with a bottle in ya mouth and shitt in yo diapers, like Jay-Z an Beyonce' back then! Back then was the SHITT! Most of todays artists ain't shitt they turned beautiful hip-hop into negative SLIP-SLOP!
er1c175 4 years ago
You're kind of insane, aren't you? What the hell are you even talking about? I'll say this again, going very slowly: You yearn for a time that was less "materialistic", correct? So you pick the 1980s, the height of materialism. I don't know how this led to Jay-Z and Armani suits, other than that you're a fucking nutter.
nickca420 4 years ago
And what i meant by less materialistic was in the music and i also said less misery! You see materialism and misery go hand and hand. Esp in your generations music of today.
If you don't have the materialistic things that you hear in todays music, (like an Armani suit) it leads to misery for some pepole, like you who like to say negative things under other pepoles positive posts!
Think about what you say or i'm gone make you think about it! Holla Back!
er1c175 4 years ago
Lmao. yes lets go back to that ideal non materialistic time that was the 80's, har har har
wildbilljam 4 years ago 4
Great song, great talent, beautiful voice and I'd forgotten how cute she was with short hair in this vid. Thanks for posting!
icantthinkformyself 4 years ago 2
Joe Jackson played piano.
JWL65 4 years ago
Correct - go to the top of the class.
RMGLUCK 4 years ago
THIS SONG IS AMAZING!
The last decade with a lot of good music.
AuroraABC 4 years ago 4
i think joe jackson worked on this song :)
babiebungle 4 years ago
ove this ong!
lucidity95 4 years ago 2
brill song - cheers
blurette 4 years ago
1986 it was apart of the pretty in pink soundtrack too
Brucegreinke 4 years ago 2
Yeah, a classic John Hughes film - always prefered "Some Kind of Wonderful" though
Wasp502 4 years ago
what year was this done...looks like the 80's
onekgguy 4 years ago
I like it.^^
bluepuppylover 4 years ago
Another great tune....thanks UMG!!
jenna1818 4 years ago 2
love her so much
valkyrieJ 4 years ago
Thanks!!
Great Song
aviadfin 4 years ago
Talented lady!...Left of Centre is my favourite track of hers...very poetic and sexy
Widsy320 4 years ago
prefect song...!
QC OK. 75% OF MAX.
exceededlimits 4 years ago
I, too, fell in love with Suzanne when I heard this on the Pretty In Pink soundtrack. That was when I was 16, and she has continued to be my favorite artist to this day. Her lyrics are always thoughtful and poetic. Can't wait for the new album, due out July 17th!
Ladylillysong 4 years ago
great song. Vega was one of the true lyrisists of her time. "left of center: is a personal account of her life. The song is very special and meaningful to me. one of the best songs of the 80s youth generation.
phil63333 4 years ago
Was this used in the Less than Zero soundtrack?
LucindaLC 4 years ago
Pretty in Pink
wheateater 2 years ago 2
Isn't she?
LunaSeaSane 2 years ago
There is a version of this song where joe jackson plays keyboards, it is awesome. I really enjoyed Suzanne's recordings that came out around this time.
RadConsv 4 years ago
This song hit me like a brick when it came out. I became a Suzanne Vega fan by the end of this song the first time I heard it (on my then newly purchased "Pretty in Pink" album).
hscfree 4 years ago
i know we were at the early stage of video's ,but the pretty in pink movie clips should have been used instead of this video
paris4la 4 years ago
what a voice!!
joshuan10 4 years ago
Was this song played in the pretty in pink movie?I don't remember hearing it.
heavymetalrockstar 4 years ago
It's only played a little bit, and it's kind of quiet. Very easy to miss.
Puniqe 4 years ago
i love you suzanne, you're very talented.
dldyer 4 years ago
to me the song is more about a person who isn't part of any group and deals with it by sort of minimizing the value of the group he/she wants to be a part of (by way of probably one particular person)
omnamaste 4 years ago
then what about "so I'll continue/to be wanting you"?
dixseptiemiste 4 years ago
Love it!
thegetupkid69 4 years ago
Always loved this song, very emotional and a great catchy song. :)
Jambalaya28 4 years ago
what's this song all about?
banker24 4 years ago