While most people will know her from her two bonafide hits, "Luka" and a sampling / remix from DNA with her "Tom's Diner" back in the late 80s. In a way, both those songs encapsulated Vega.
Both decent songs. Both overplayed.
Vega started out firmly in the folk-rock genre. It was with DNA taking her a cappella "Tom's Diner" and adding electronic music to make it a hit.
She slowly would break away from folk and delve more into interesting sounds - including electronic and jazz. Her then husband produced her fourth and fifth disks that had little in common with her first two albums - but not necessarily in a bad way.
With 99.9F° it took me a long time to learn to appreciate that disk. Years. I had been so wedded to her earlier style it just jarred me a bit. Maybe more than a bit.
But I've come to like it - a lot. Her follow-up disk, Nine Secrets of Desire, still ranks in the upper reaches of the best albums I own.
Still I'm pulling from 99.9F° with "Blood Makes Noise". The percussion alone is cool. The juxtaposition to her vocal to the industrial sounds is so well done.
On the traditional Billboard charts, the song (nor album) did very well. But it played well on their 'modern track' chart and even their 'club play' one. I'm 99.9% sure I never heard it at any club I went to, but it would have been cool.
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