Nine Objects Of Desire: Suzanne Vega: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Birth-day (Love Made Real)

2. Headshots

3. Caramel

4. Stockings

5. Casual Match

6. Thin Man

7. No Cheap Thrill

8. World Before Columbus

9. Lolita

10. Honeymoon Suite

11. Tombstone

12. My Favorite Plum

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5.0 out of 5 stars Suzanne at her most sensual, Dec 31 2003

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This review is from: Nine Objects Of Desire (Audio CD)

This is an extraordinarily sensual album, as noted by others, with "Stockings" and "Caramel" standing out. The other standout to me is "World Before Columbus," a warm love song, with the rest of the songs good enough but forgettable. Contrary to some of what you may read here, "Nine Objects" wasn't a clean break from the "99.9F�" sound still found here on several songs, but the bossa nova style used to good effect on several others was new for Vega, as were other jazz touches, and they suit the material perfectly. I'm not sure everyone below is interpreting Ms. Vega's often-cryptic lyrics properly, but her poetry is as rich here as ever, and the heat of this CD, however subdued and smoldering, was a welcome contrast to earlier material. Though I only really fell in love with a few songs, "Nine Objects" was my favorite of her first 5 CD's for a long time. On re-listening 7 years later, I think this is because the sound is consistently gorgeous, perfectly produced, and this helps one overlook the unremarkable quality of the bulk of the songs. Of course, "unremarkable" by Suzanne Vega standards is so remarkable that there is nothing to criticize here except by comparison with other work by the same artist. Musically, this CD draws me in like none of her others save "99.9F�", and lyrically it's second to none save perhaps "Songs in Red and Gray". This is no second-best, though - Vega's works are all different, and I'd consider this one an essential for any serious (or perhaps less-than-serious) fan.

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5.0 out of 5 stars See If You Can Identify The Nine Objects, Dec 3 2003

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This review is from: Nine Objects Of Desire (Audio CD)

Being a child of the new generation, I kinda swallowed all of Suzanne Vega's recordings into one full year of listening (even her latest stuff); each record being so richly layered and unique, I took my time with each and it was not easy to decide, but this record, 1996's Nine Objects Of Desire was most definitely my favorite.

For one, it's different; it's a jazz-tingled, blues sprinkled, funky instrumentalist love affair with seduction in general. Each song is a short anecdote to passion; and this passion can be as exquisite, yet simple as a plum (My Favorite Plum), as supple as caramel during the envisioning of an intimate evening (Caramel), or a masculine figure to sweep her off her feet (Thin Man - a personal favorite due to its sheer exuberance); some of these songs denote so much sentiment that it makes you wonder how privileged Suzanne Vega was to feel these fundamentally rare emotions, or at least render such a rich retelling of them.

Nonetheless, the topper of the concept of the entire album is that they are really desires; she marvels in the sensations, but there is this prevailing emotion of yearning, which is how life is, for the most part. The near 40 minutes that the album lasts will be like a breather, a snippet of the perfect erotic fantasy, the perfect evening, the perfect love affair, the perfect vocal savoring, even the perfect honeymoon. The album really scratched an itch in me.

Highlights: Lolita, No Cheap Thrill, Casual Match, Caramel, Birthday, The World Before Columbus, and Thin Man.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Continues where 99.9Fahrenheit left her, July 9 2003

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Vega continued to re-invent herself throughout the 90s. This was her second "industrial-folk" album and it would be followed by Songs In Red And Grey in 2001 (which sounded less 'produced' than Nine Objects).

Nine Objects Of Desire has some of her most memorable songs and the album never sinks too deep into mediocrity. The stand-out tracks are the jazzy "Caramel", the groovy "No Cheap Thrill", the silvery "World Before Columbus" and the closing number "My Favourite Plum". Personally I prefer the follow-up to this album. If you end up liking Nine Objects you should definitely try Songs In Red And Gray.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cohesive and smooth.
This album is perhaps Vega's best work (though I do have difficulty choosing which is my favorite of her albums!). Read more

Published on July 7 2003 by lisa

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, Funny Lyrics Melds with Cool, Stylish Music.
It was by chance that I overheard a song off this CD in a movie and was surprised to see Suzanne Vega in the credits -it was so different from the her style from the 80s which I... Read more

Published on Jun 24 2003 by greensbeans