99.9ºF, by Suzanne Vega.
Yeah, yeah, y’all know Luka and Tom’s Diner, but this album from 1992 was my jam. Working at the record store and maybe watching, like, Alternative Nation or something late at night on MTV is the only explanation for how I ever heard this song, but it is firmly embedded in my consciousness, and it’s been fun to get reacquainted with the whole record this week while I’ve been thinking of doing this one.
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Uh, so this was a fun Saturday morning project in between loads of laundry. Feel like I caught the spirit of it, as usual with many more voices in the chorus to disguise my lack of range. I also feel like singing along with all these tracks makes it way harder for me to carry the melody, so the fuzzy background vocal you hear is probably the best approximation of the melody out of three tracks.
I’ve gotten better at working with drum loops, recording a couple bars of bass, keys, etc., and then looping those, too, but I still had to do some light surgery on this one about 3/4ths of the way into the recording process to fix a bunch of tracks I broke.
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