Not necessarily so. The Fraunhofer Society used a number of other audio samples to test the format, but Suzanne's vocals were deemed to be a suitable reference material for them to fine-tune the format.
As your fact may be fun mine is actually a fact: Tom's Diner was used as one of the main controls in the listening tests to develop the MP3 encoding algorithm, but was not the first MP3 ever created.
and realise how sad an pathetic your life really is when you go to that place where nobody knows you and you never get to know anyone new and no one really pays any interest and you
One of the handful of songs that imprinted on me growing up in the 90s/early 2000s riding around in the car. I often find myself voicing out the signature "dut-dut-do-de-dut-dut-do-de" for no reason at all when I'm comfortable......needless to say I facepalmed quite hard when someone thought I was trying to reference Centuries. It's Daft Punk's HBFS and Kanye West's Stronger all over again....
if you wanna hear the arabic version of this song search for سيمون تاتارا it was sung by Simon an Egyptian singer in the 80's. my daughter was singing tatara tatarara and i started singing the arabic song she opned her mouth in shock :)
The original a capella version of this was used to fine-tune the MP3 standard to ensure the compression got the best quality sound possible. It was also used to test the FLAC compression algorithm.
This is the song I used to sing instead of counting my steps from our home to the stores every time I was instructed to buy things over and over again when I was a kid. Touching the flowers along the way instead of feeling sorry! Hahaha
After spending so much time trying to find this song, I finally found it again after searching what songs were sampled in Kevin Cossom’s “I Get Paper.”
Das Lied habe ich immer im Auto von meiner Mutter gehört. Da bin ich noch in die Grundschule gegangen. Heute bin fast 20. Wie die guten Zeiten doch vergehen.
When I hear this song, I always picture my first love. Not that I want to, it just seems to happen. Just like the tear who falls at the scentence 'I am thinking of your voice...'.
I love how this song seems to make no sense intentionally, as if that's what makes it meaningful. I love it! Amazing how different this sounds from the DNA Remix!
u really gotta have a gift to find this song by memory and not by something u heard in the past few years. something a tv show or movie ended forever to this song and i havent forgot it but i forgot the show or movie.
Dad had this on a mixed music CD. This was back in like 2003 or something. Completely forgot about it until I heard my college band play Centuries and somehow I recollected an old memory.
I was just in Pittsburgh 2 days ago. The site is now a parking lot. God is still great and I have a feeling this affected me the way it did for a reason
Wow. I’ve had this song stuck in the back of my head for, well, my whole life. But i never knew until just now that the version I knew was a remix (the DNA version). It’s so strange to hear the original after the fact. I love both versions now.
This song reminds me of the winter of 1991 when it came out. I was in a White Tower downtown Pittsburgh on a dreary weekday afternoon eating a burger and coffee my life was in a lot of turmoil and this was like a refuge to me. Four years later I read in the Pittsburgh paper that the manager of this place was killed in a robbery. Today this site is an upscale oriental bistro. Life really sucks sometimes.
I finally found this song after searching for it my whole childhood, now I'm 17 and I'm so proud I finally found it because 8 year old me didn't know the artist of this song
Desi guy it is the best song i heard befor 26 years ago and it is still as i heart and feal it as i hear it for the fist time also i got sick i forget fast and this song brings and refrash my memory
السلام لا يتأتى باليأس فمن بنى الاساس لا تشغله الا النقاء الذي يجب ان يعاد البناء فالنذير قاله صلى الله علية وآله وصحبه وسلم وامير الشعراء احمد شوقي (( الامم الاخلاق ما بقيت ان اخلاقهم ذهبت ذهبوا))
www.whosampled.com/sample/125667/DNA-Suzanne-Vega-Tom's-Diner-Soul-II-Soul-Caron-Wheeler-Keep-on-Movin'-(Club-Mix)/ this is the one thanks! couldn't find it on RUclips but got it on a sample sight happy listening!
am sitting In the morning At the diner On the corner I am waiting At the counter For the man To pour the coffee And he fills it Only halfway And before I even argue He is looking Out the window At somebody Coming in "It is always Nice to see you" Says the man Behind the counter To the woman Who has come in She is shaking Her umbrella And I look The other way As they are kissing Their hellos I'm pretending Not to see them And Instead I pour the milk I open Up the paper There's a story Of an actor Who had died While he was drinking He was no one I had heard of And I'm turning To the horoscope And looking For the funnies When I'm feeling Someone watching me And so I raise my head There's a woman On the outside Looking inside Does she see me? No she does not Really see me Cause she sees Her own reflection And I'm trying Not to notice That she's hitching Up her skirt And while she's Straightening her stockings Her hair Is getting wet Oh, this rain It will continue Through the morning As I'm listening To the bells Of the cathedral I am thinking Of your voice And of the midnight picnic Once upon a time Before the rain began I finish up my coffee It's time to catch the train
التمام والاتمام للتأمل في ليالك يامن قيد وأسر وسر سور والسد الممتنع منذ زمن وزمنك كان جميل فما حال بك يامصر الاصرار والامصار كانت القاهرة مقصدها.......
My friend has been searching for this song for years. Well it happens especially when the only thing you know about it was: "The-the-thethe-the-thethehe-the-the-thethe-the-thethethe..." He should have asked me, I'm a big Susanne Vega fan and know the whole lyrics by heart! lol..
I like the both versions of this song... how can you compare songs that have a different style, even if they have the same words? I mean... Giorgio Morder did a nice job with the musicality of the base and i like the simplicity of the original song. I feel differents feelings listening them, and i like it. At least... enjoy them.
+Ludovico Rizzo Some people really don't get the whole point of a cover, it's not suppossed to be an exact copy of the original or try to immitate it, every artist adds it's own touch and style to the songs they cover.
@@graveyardkids2551 I havent heard that version, but I dont mean to be mean when I say this, but saying this doesn't make sense is quite ignorant. It's not some big branching story, it's supposed to paint a beautiful picture from the perspective of a person from which we get a small bit of back story. It's the simple things :) However I did just listen to Tupac's.... version...? (In lack of a better term...) Its neat.
Lyrics Some legends are told Some turn to dust or to gold But you will remember me Remember me, for centuries Just one mistake Is all it will take We'll go down in history Remember me for centuries Hey, hey, hey Remember me for centuries Mama, fight my teenage dreams No it's nothing wrong with me The kids are all wrong the story's aloof Heavy metal, rock my heart Come on, come on and let me in I'm cruising on your thighs, leave my fingerprints And this is for tonight I thought that you would feel I never meant for you to fix yourself Some legends are told Some turn to dust or to gold But you will remember me Remember me, for centuries Just one mistake Is all it will take We'll go down in history Remember me for centuries Hey, hey, hey Remember me for centuries And I can't stop until the whole word knows my name 'Cause I was only born inside my dreams Until you die for me, as long as there is a light, my shadow is over you 'Cause I am the opposite of amnesia And you're a cherry blossom You're about to bloom You look so pretty, but you're gone so soon Some legends are told Some turn to dust or to gold But you will remember me Remember me, for centuries Just one mistake Is all it will take We'll go down in history Remember me for centuries Hey, hey, hey Remember me for centuries He's been here forever He's the chosen fruit I could scream forever We all poisoned you Some legends are told Some turn to dust or to gold But you will remember me Remember me, for centuries Just one mistake Is all it will take We'll go down in history Remember me for centuries Hey, hey, hey Remember me for centuries
Which LP or EP does this version appear in? Solitude Standing has the cappella and the instrumental version and the DNA version appears in her Retrospective compilation album but I can't find this version anywhere....
I'm here because I found out this is the song used to determine what frequencies were to be dropped to encode down to MP3. Now I'm curious if I can hear a difference between this and a low bit depth version.
This song has tormented me since 2012! when I was 9 I saw a video of some frogs flying, idek xD But this song was playing, and I could never remember any of the words!!! And then when I put it to the back of my mind, I heard "Centuries" and I was like fuuuuuckkk!!! But Yus today my life is complete!! Sort of I just need to find that video of flying frogs with this song playing, lel xD HELP MEEE!!!! 😂
Fun fact: This song was the first MP3 file ever created!
wow! really?
Not necessarily so. The Fraunhofer Society used a number of other audio samples to test the format, but Suzanne's vocals were deemed to be a suitable reference material for them to fine-tune the format.
As your fact may be fun mine is actually a fact: Tom's Diner was used as one of the main controls in the listening tests to develop the MP3 encoding algorithm, but was not the first MP3 ever created.
RIP mp3
incrediblejonas 一
"Hey whats the song that goes dududuru dududuru dududuru dududuru?"
Tom's diner or Centuries by fallout boy.
They sampled it from this song
+Wait a second I know, I was just joling
Nocturnal im dying thanks
Darude-Sandstorm
literally me
Don't you just love a song with good "doot doots."
These doots are flowing like freshly frothed milk.
+Jerry Ufer ye
Doot Doot by Freur
Omg i cant stop singing "tut turrurut tut turrurut..." All day loooong, so catchy!
The sort of song that makes me want to just wander off into a new place altogether where no one knows me...
same, go to a place where everyone is happy and nice to me. in a life where I have happiness too
Yes, but sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name and they're always glad you came
and realise how sad an pathetic your life really is when you go to that place where nobody knows you and you never get to know anyone new and no one really pays any interest and you
This song is way waaaay ahead of it's time
One of the handful of songs that imprinted on me growing up in the 90s/early 2000s riding around in the car. I often find myself voicing out the signature "dut-dut-do-de-dut-dut-do-de" for no reason at all when I'm comfortable......needless to say I facepalmed quite hard when someone thought I was trying to reference Centuries. It's Daft Punk's HBFS and Kanye West's Stronger all over again....
Crab De Sass daft punk is soo good but, it's a real shame that only "get lucky" becomed recognized
I first heard it in 1998
if you wanna hear the arabic version of this song search for سيمون تاتارا it was sung by Simon an Egyptian singer in the 80's.
my daughter was singing tatara tatarara and i started singing the arabic song she opned her mouth in shock :)
It's crazy how this song was from way back 1987.... it sounds like something from at least 10-15 years later...
+rkmugen Even more so when you consider it was written November 18, 1981. (From the obituary of the guy who was drinking - William Holden).
The song still the same
"Does she see me? No she does not really see because she sees her own reflection."
Modern life everyone.
oh man its been years since I've listened to this. so good
Love the bass and (sparse, but effective) electric guitar on this, almost feels like Joe Dart and Cory Wong from Vulfpeck playing them.
For anyone wondering this specific version is from her Close-up series
That dirty bastard withholding that coffee!
nossa procurei muito essa música!!!! agora vou ouvir até enjoar!!!
The original a capella version of this was used to fine-tune the MP3 standard to ensure the compression got the best quality sound possible. It was also used to test the FLAC compression algorithm.
This is the song I used to sing instead of counting my steps from our home to the stores every time I was instructed to buy things over and over again when I was a kid. Touching the flowers along the way instead of feeling sorry! Hahaha
After spending so much time trying to find this song, I finally found it again after searching what songs were sampled in Kevin Cossom’s “I Get Paper.”
This one ☝️ along with the de DNA’s version are the best ❤️!
This has been in my head all day have not heard it since highschool 20 plus years ago
I really love this song! ❤ 1987
Das Lied habe ich immer im Auto von meiner Mutter gehört. Da bin ich noch in die Grundschule gegangen. Heute bin fast 20. Wie die guten Zeiten doch vergehen.
Finally I found it! I spent almost a year! So happy!
I love this song so much 😃 Have a great day!
I love this version
It took me forever to find this ahhhhhhhhhh FINALLY!!!!
More than 30 years of matchless affiliations with this album ❤️❤️
am i the only one who is here not because of centuries ?
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No, you are not the only one who is not here because of centuries. I even didn't know what is that centuries but I knew this song of Sussane Vega.
im here because Giorgio Moroder ft Britney Spears Tom's Diner :v
Even tough I've known this song for ages, I came here since I heard Guthrie Govan playing a little excerpt from this tune.
im here because my aunt kept singing this
When I hear this song, I always picture my first love. Not that I want to, it just seems to happen. Just like the tear who falls at the scentence 'I am thinking of your voice...'.
It's taken me 'Centuries' to find this song!
I love how this song seems to make no sense intentionally, as if that's what makes it meaningful. I love it!
Amazing how different this sounds from the DNA Remix!
I've been searching for this song for a long longgggg time now only i found it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I've just googled "tu tu tu ru" or something like that and found this song
SOME LEGENDS ARE TOLD SOME TURN TO DUST OR TO-
oh crap
mikey g 😂😂
Remember meeeeeeeeee
Remember me for centurieeeeees
mikey g meeeeee
Rest in peace William Holden ( April 17, 1918 ~ November 12, 1981)
u really gotta have a gift to find this song by memory and not by something u heard in the past few years. something a tv show or movie ended forever to this song and i havent forgot it but i forgot the show or movie.
Dad had this on a mixed music CD. This was back in like 2003 or something. Completely forgot about it until I heard my college band play Centuries and somehow I recollected an old memory.
been listening to this song since I was a small boy playing with my tmnt figures way back in the day!
I was just in Pittsburgh 2 days ago. The site is now a parking lot. God is still great and I have a feeling this affected me the way it did for a reason
I don't know what it is bout this song, there is just something so good about it and makes me feel some type of way😂❤
sheena Ponce De Leon well but its shit compared to centuries
I am not really a 90's fan...BUT I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS ONE!!
+Eric George It's an 80's song :)
Hellb88 Really? It must have been re-released then coss I never heard it until 1990
I spent 3 fucking years looking for this
Love that bass line
Britney version is amazing 💙 Love Suzanne and this song bring me peace!
I've been looking for this since i heard the song Centuries 💘 And i finally found it! 💓💓😂
ikr
shit me too
Me three
I know! I had heard it before so recognised it but didn't know the name. Searched for aaaaaages!
OMG SAAAAAME
best version on internet
+Francesco Fabio Estoy de acuerdo contigo
dajee amigo !
you're so correct
alguna idea de como se llama esta version?
Omg yes this is the best version of this song, I hate that one with the beats but I guess that's the original ver lmao
i love this song!!!!
gemitaiz... on the corner... :'(
PaniKnife finalmente ho trovato il commento che cercavo.
glass of beer Ahahah anch'io
GEM
Yep
When the doody hit the water, the water hit the booty. X'D
+MsHannerBananer hahaha wow thats a surprise I didn't think I would find one of your comments here hahahaha cool :)
Wow. I’ve had this song stuck in the back of my head for, well, my whole life. But i never knew until just now that the version I knew was a remix (the DNA version). It’s so strange to hear the original after the fact. I love both versions now.
This song reminds me of the winter of 1991 when it came out. I was in a White Tower downtown Pittsburgh on a dreary weekday afternoon eating a burger and coffee my life was in a lot of turmoil and this was like a refuge to me. Four years later I read in the Pittsburgh paper that the manager of this place was killed in a robbery. Today this site is an upscale oriental bistro. Life really sucks sometimes.
it's like song wants to be a epic rock song but stops just before
Which is when fall out boy came along
The official remix by European producers DNA is a top-10 song in MUSIC HISTORY.
I found a remix of this song a long while ago in Grooveshark and for some reason it was called OST by Marceline
So glad i finally found this
I finally found this song after searching for it my whole childhood, now I'm 17 and I'm so proud I finally found it because 8 year old me didn't know the artist of this song
pure voice!!
Beautiful song...
Teşekkürler Halil bey
gives me chills, so guud
I'd been looking for this forever after i heard it on the radio! And I only managed to find the title in Jeremy's Unholy Song Mashup 4
the fuck is wrong with people. Whenever I asked them what song is this they told me darude sandstorm.. finally. ahh
Desi guy it is the best song i heard befor 26 years ago and it is still as i heart and feal it as i hear it for the fist time also i got sick i forget fast and this song brings and refrash my memory
+philip elash ... and who's Lucy?
Is this supposed to be a troll comment? Of course its Darude - Sandstorm, get yourself together man.
I just searched "tytytyydy"
Actually Darude's Sandstorm was his attempt to cover Tom's Diner, but he didn't quite get it right...
You know that Centuries from Fall Out Boy has the exact same beginning, cool that the modern band used this.
holy FUKK IM SO HAPPY I FINALLY FOUND WHO SUNG DIS
2017 OH HELL YEAH
السلام لا يتأتى باليأس فمن بنى الاساس لا تشغله الا النقاء الذي يجب ان يعاد البناء فالنذير قاله صلى الله علية وآله وصحبه وسلم وامير الشعراء احمد شوقي (( الامم الاخلاق ما بقيت ان اخلاقهم ذهبت ذهبوا))
GEMITAIZ ON THE CORNER
anyone hear the version with drums added. it's near impossible to find. heard it on absolute radio a while back
Do you mean the remix by DNA? That's the version on her greatest hits album.
That's where I heard it and that's what I'm looking for 😂
The DNA remix is DEFINITELY not the right one...
www.whosampled.com/sample/125667/DNA-Suzanne-Vega-Tom's-Diner-Soul-II-Soul-Caron-Wheeler-Keep-on-Movin'-(Club-Mix)/
this is the one thanks!
couldn't find it on RUclips but got it on a sample sight
happy listening!
am sitting
In the morning
At the diner
On the corner
I am waiting
At the counter
For the man
To pour the coffee
And he fills it
Only halfway
And before
I even argue
He is looking
Out the window
At somebody
Coming in
"It is always
Nice to see you"
Says the man
Behind the counter
To the woman
Who has come in
She is shaking
Her umbrella
And I look
The other way
As they are kissing
Their hellos
I'm pretending
Not to see them
And Instead
I pour the milk
I open
Up the paper
There's a story
Of an actor
Who had died
While he was drinking
He was no one
I had heard of
And I'm turning
To the horoscope
And looking
For the funnies
When I'm feeling
Someone watching me
And so
I raise my head
There's a woman
On the outside
Looking inside
Does she see me?
No she does not
Really see me
Cause she sees
Her own reflection
And I'm trying
Not to notice
That she's hitching
Up her skirt
And while she's
Straightening her stockings
Her hair
Is getting wet
Oh, this rain
It will continue
Through the morning
As I'm listening
To the bells
Of the cathedral
I am thinking
Of your voice
And of the midnight picnic
Once upon a time
Before the rain began
I finish up my coffee
It's time to catch the train
Anyone here after watching 73 questions with Emma Stone?
Vinukh Kalansuriya me :-D
Vinukh Kalansuriya meeee xdd
Vinukh Kalansuriya YES I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT HAHA
oh my god yes!!
i love this song it makes me sleepy
the music part at 2:15 reminds me of the cabinet of dr caligari
I search this song during so many years
Some legends are told...
التمام والاتمام للتأمل في ليالك يامن قيد وأسر وسر سور والسد الممتنع منذ زمن وزمنك كان جميل فما حال بك يامصر الاصرار والامصار كانت القاهرة مقصدها.......
My friend has been searching for this song for years.
Well it happens especially when the only thing you know about it was: "The-the-thethe-the-thethehe-the-the-thethe-the-thethethe..."
He should have asked me, I'm a big Susanne Vega fan and know the whole lyrics by heart! lol..
I like the both versions of this song... how can you compare songs that have a different style, even if they have the same words? I mean... Giorgio Morder did a nice job with the musicality of the base and i like the simplicity of the original song. I feel differents feelings listening them, and i like it. At least... enjoy them.
+Ludovico Rizzo Some people really don't get the whole point of a cover, it's not suppossed to be an exact copy of the original or try to immitate it, every artist adds it's own touch and style to the songs they cover.
+Jorge Montes
Exactly!
I'm guessing you haven't heard Tupac's dope fiend she diner his story actually makes sense
@@graveyardkids2551 I havent heard that version, but I dont mean to be mean when I say this, but saying this doesn't make sense is quite ignorant. It's not some big branching story, it's supposed to paint a beautiful picture from the perspective of a person from which we get a small bit of back story. It's the simple things :) However I did just listen to Tupac's.... version...? (In lack of a better term...) Its neat.
enjoy the magic !!!! this is magic . she has always had style and the magic !!!!
I like this version over the vocal only one better. Adds more beat.
My favorite Susanne Vega song.
Anyone have the video for this. I miss it so much.
SOME LEGENDS ARE TOLD
Lyrics
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me, for centuries
Just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries
Hey, hey, hey
Remember me for centuries
Mama, fight my teenage dreams
No it's nothing wrong with me
The kids are all wrong the story's aloof
Heavy metal, rock my heart
Come on, come on and let me in
I'm cruising on your thighs, leave my fingerprints
And this is for tonight
I thought that you would feel
I never meant for you to fix yourself
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me, for centuries
Just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries
Hey, hey, hey
Remember me for centuries
And I can't stop until the whole word knows my name
'Cause I was only born inside my dreams
Until you die for me, as long as there is a light, my shadow is over you
'Cause I am the opposite of amnesia
And you're a cherry blossom
You're about to bloom
You look so pretty, but you're gone so soon
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me, for centuries
Just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries
Hey, hey, hey
Remember me for centuries
He's been here forever
He's the chosen fruit
I could scream forever
We all poisoned you
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me, for centuries
Just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries
Hey, hey, hey
Remember me for centuries
young Nastyman lol
young Nastyman - Damn you, man. 😂
😂😂😂
wow love this so much
It is so Francoise-Sagan-y song. Just love it so much))) Dudududududu
What version of "Tom's Diner" is this? There's also the version by DNA.
Who still listen it in 2017 ?
DEEPLY funky bass!
Ive found it thank goodness 😃
i honestly prefer this version over the DNA remix, but what is this version called? is it on spotify? soundcloud?
This song will be remember for centuries
In which album is this version of this song? because the cd version is shorter and without the bass
UNTAMED HEART, folks.
Which LP or EP does this version appear in? Solitude Standing has the cappella and the instrumental version and the DNA version appears in her Retrospective compilation album but I can't find this version anywhere....
They're no percussions in this version? Is there a version like on the radio? I can't find it!
ffs I've been trying to find this song for two fucking hours thank fuck I found it
Quelqu'un pourrait me dire dans quelle pub on a utilisé cette musique ?
Sounds Amazing
I'm here because I found out this is the song used to determine what frequencies were to be dropped to encode down to MP3. Now I'm curious if I can hear a difference between this and a low bit depth version.
Travis Phillips you mean bitrate
the earworm that's been torturing me for a decade. reliiiiiiiiief
This song has tormented me since 2012! when I was 9 I saw a video of some frogs flying, idek xD But this song was playing, and I could never remember any of the words!!! And then when I put it to the back of my mind, I heard "Centuries" and I was like fuuuuuckkk!!! But Yus today my life is complete!! Sort of I just need to find that video of flying frogs with this song playing, lel xD HELP MEEE!!!! 😂
What a killer bass line!
A moment of silence for those searching hi and low for this historical artefact