Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (Original Version - HD 720p)

This is shit. The dance remix is better.

Emily Blunt can portray her. They look alike somehow.

I always thought of this song as kind of a stripped down 1980s version of the Beatles iconic classic, "A Day in the Life".

She has a fantastic jazz voice

Praise be the Mother of MP3!

1987!

Sis made a song with no rhymes 😂

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This is the original, magical and strange! It was shown in MTV and I loved when it came. I was really annoyed when the stupid remix was done.

hey why was this uploaded B&W? theres a color version? The quality of the audio here is great though so thank you.

wonderful amk

Paul McCartney - Another Day

So this is the original. I like the tupac version but i always wanted to know the original

It would be awesome if someone did a remix of this by putting a beat behind her voice.

Loving her unique voice

She's look like emily blunt

Where is the music?

This song used to scare me so bad as a little kid I'm trying to see if I'm still scared as an adult something about it I don't know

Fun Fact: the exterior of the real Tom's Diner was used for the exteriors of Monks Cafe in Seinfeld.

Another Fun Fact: Vega has said she wrote the song in 1981/2 and she based elements of the song on real events.
So... at one point she reads the funnies in the paper.
Only two newspapers in New York carried comic strips in 1981/2 And of those, in that period only the New York Post carried a front page about the death of an actor, William Holden. And Holden did indeed die from a fall resulting from his exessiv drinking. Which means the day the song reffers to has to be the day the story was published, which was Wednesday, November 18, 1981.

THIS is the only good version. The one with the stupid back beat sucks. Who thought that would be a good idea?

What kind of music genre is this? iloveit

Saving this video before I lose it again

The haunting nature of this song loses a little bit when you learn it's the diner from Seinfeld.

This song just drives me crazy. I love it!!! I used to listen to it back in the 90s and yesterday I learned who the writer was. I didn't even know that the original version was acapella.

letra simples e genial.

And the 34 people with no soul... Hmm

That real authentic acapella 💯👏👏

Very nice. I like this version better than the DNA versions I have heard so far.

It reminds me of Gilmore girls lol

I find her lovely.

BEST ORIGINAL VERSION... OTHERS SUCK !

I just found my new crush :)

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. Although many audiophiles ended up hating MP3, Brandenburg seems to have done pretty well for himself -- MP3 became an incredibly popular technology

Whose here after watching Network?

People seeing this in 2021

The pure clarity of her voice is incredible!
No wonder, that it was used to invent mp3!

This is the worst version of the worst song ever written, sorry.

トラウマ曲。

Shit sucks

Most boring lyrics of any song ever possibly? She’s literally written a song about buying a coffee.

💓💓💓 02/2021

I love this version ....so haunting and bueatiful....

the way she says Coffee.. is she from NYC?

lol what is this? there is no music at all.

IN 1987 I WAS 18 I STILL JAM TO IT DETROIT EASTSIDE 2021.

That is a Feminine Rap.
Not a female rapping like a man.

This is the most detailed, fascinating, boring story I ever heard.
The Doo doo doo doo doo doo-doo doo part of the song made me think eerily about it. So from a child to a 38 year old man, sometimes I'd skip it. But Suzanne really paints a picture with her words... even the Doo doo doo doo doo doo-doo doo part has meaning.
Many of us have these thoughts on our daily commute! lol