Suzanne Vega / Suzanne Vega ‎(US, A&M Records, SP-5072) <May 1985>

Suzanne Vega / Suzanne Vega ‎(US, A&M Records, SP-5072) <May 1985>
(1) SP0 6 5072 A EUR 6 FDP M1 A1A STERLING
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1985年のデビュー作。上手いとかいうのとはちょっと違う、嫌みのない透明感が魅力でした。MTVの全盛期で、ワム、マドンナ、マイケル・ジャクソンなどの派手で人工的な音が席巻している時代に出てきた、地味でアコースティックな音で、とても新鮮でした。

ポップ～ロック系の音楽の主流はいつも派手・爆音に向かいますが、必ずカウンターカルチャーとしてこのような作品が出てきて受け入れられている気がしますね。この頃だとFairground AttractionとかTracy Chapman、近年だとBeirut、Antony and the Johnsonsなんかが該当するでしょうか。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXb6Lb_h0Oo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGbL9shf66c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDDaAOpDbc

"Marlene On The Wall"

Even if I am in love with you
All this to say, what's it to you?
Observe the blood, the rose tattoo
Of the fingerprints on me from you

Other evidence has shown
That you and I are still alone
We skirt around the danger zone
And don't talk about it later

Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing

But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing

Marlene on the wall

I walk to your house in the afternoon
By the butcher's shop with the sawdust strewn
"Don't give away the goods too soon"
Is what she might have told me

And I tried so hard to resist
When you held me in your handsome fist
And reminded me of the night we kissed
And of why I should be leaving

Marlene watched from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing

But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing

Marlene on the wall

Marlene watched from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing

But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing

Marlene on the wall

And even if I am in love with you
All this to say, what's it to you?
Observe the blood, the rose tattoo
Of the fingerprints on me from you

Other evidence has shown
That you and I are still alone
We skirt around the danger zone
And don't talk about it later

And I tried so hard to resist
When you held me in your handsome fist
And reminded me of the night we kissed
And of why I should be leaving

Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every man who's been here

But the only one here now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing

Changing, changing, changing, changing

Marlene watched from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing

But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing

Marlene on the wall