# @girlnamednino on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCqeMMPRjwl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/29082137-girlnamednino-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-22T06:46:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nino Arobelidze

## Caption

I’m starting a new series, SONIC DIVE where I unpack all things songs, songwriters and their legacy. 

Part 1 therealsuzannevega & “Tom’s Diner”: 

 •”Tom’s Diner” was originally created as a solo a cappella show closer for her live shows but it didn’t really take off on a global scale until the British group DNA Remixed it in 1990 which reached No. 1 in Austria, Germany, Greece and Switzerland.

•Written from the perspective of the songwriter's photographer friend Brian Rose, the tune is a stream-of-consciousness snapshot of a rainy morning scene at a diner. The main character observes the people around her—regular customers, a stranger outside—and reminisces about a lost love, before finishing her coffee and starting her day.
"I picked these different moments out and I made a little storyline," Vega told a crowd in 1996. "That's one thing, I think, that people miss sometimes”. 
Via diffuserfm 

•”Tom’s Diner” has been sampled 122+ times many artists, including Public Enemy, Nikki D, 2Pac, Twin Hype, Yo Gotti, Lil’ Kim etc

•It has also been remixed and remade by many artists, including Peter Behrens, Bingo Hand Job, and Mark Jonathan Davis. In 1991, Suzanne Vega released Tom’s Album, a compilation of different versions of the song.

•After its release in 1987 audiophiles began using Vega’s a cappella track to test speaker systems for clarity. It was considered a good, warm recording of a human voice — something that could reveal flaws in an audio setup. Working at the Fraunhofer Society in Germany in the 90’s, audio engineer Karl-Heinz Brandenburg was hard at work developing the MP3 audio compression scheme. Brandenburg used Vega’s a cappella version of “Tom’s Diner” to tune the compression system, playing the track before and after compression was applied to tell whether MP3 sounded good enough. He figured Vega’s song would be a tough track to compress (as it was already favored by audiophiles), and would be a good test for whether MP3 was really listenable” via mental_floss 

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#suzannevega #tomsdiner #audiophiles #musicstories #songwriters #girlnamednino #storytime #records

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storytime, girlnamednino, audiophiles, musicstories, tomsdiner, records, suzannevega, songwriters

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