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For context Suzanne Vega is a famous independent musician from decades prior: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Vega https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzan
by austincheney 5y ago
For context Suzanne Vega is a famous independent musician from decades prior: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Vega https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Vega
One of her more well known songs is titled Tom’s Diner.
- mprovost 5y agoTom's Diner was picked by Karlheinz Brandenburg as the reference song to develop the MP3 format. The team developing the audio compression algorithms listened to it over and over until it sounded "good". http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2015/07/on-the-20th-birthday-of-the-mp3-an-interview-with-the-father-of-the-mp3-karlheinz-brandenburg/ http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2015/07/on-the-20th-bi...
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- 7thaccount 5y agoHaha. I immediately wanted to know if this had anything to do with Tom's Diner
- bla3 5y agoThat's also mentioned in the 10th paragraph of the linked post, and most of the post is about Tom's Diner from there on.
- hairofadog 5y agoAlthough it's covered in the article, I wanted to add a little more context for folks who aren't familiar with the song: * The song Tom's Diner was a notorious earworm that seemed to get stuck in the head of society at large for a few months in the early 90's. For a short while it felt like some version of it was playing on every radio everywhere * The original track was minimal – just her voice – so lent itself to a wide variety of covers and remixes that crossed a lot of genres * Suzanne Vega was an advocate for those covers and remixes at a time when the record industry was not, and eventually put together a full album of remixes called Tom's Album