Coffee is for losers
There's so much cool music I associate strongly with driving to school in the morning with my mom, from Suzanne Vega to the Morning Edition theme. But she used to listen to "Solitude Standing" so often during the morning drive that I can't listen to it without thinking about cold car seats and the residual taste of cereal and toothpaste in my mouth. It's really an amazing album, even though aspects of the production sound pretty dated now.
I was playing the famous song "Tom's Diner" on the guitar, trying to figure out how she must have written it before she decided to do it "a capella." I really doubt she wrote it unaccompanied; the melody really really strongly suggests the chord progression I put under it.
Of course, I'm probably just thinking about this song because Lauren has been living a block and a half from the actual Tom's Diner all summer. It's funny to imagine Suzanne Vega, an artsy little Barnyard girl drinking her coffee and scribbling deadpan observations about people in a fancy notebook, thinking she must be really, really deep.
I was playing the famous song "Tom's Diner" on the guitar, trying to figure out how she must have written it before she decided to do it "a capella." I really doubt she wrote it unaccompanied; the melody really really strongly suggests the chord progression I put under it.
Of course, I'm probably just thinking about this song because Lauren has been living a block and a half from the actual Tom's Diner all summer. It's funny to imagine Suzanne Vega, an artsy little Barnyard girl drinking her coffee and scribbling deadpan observations about people in a fancy notebook, thinking she must be really, really deep.