Album · Suzanne Vega
99.9 F° by Suzanne Vega
99.9 F° is an album by Suzanne Vega, released in 1992. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 42 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Blood Makes Noise”, on 25 lists with a best position of #20.
99.9 F°, Suzanne Vega's fourth album, came out on A&M in September 1992, and it's the moment the folk singer plugged in and got weird. Mitchell Froom, the producer she later married, helped her swap the hushed folk of old for an electronic, experimental clatter, all industrial thumps, warped textures and odd, clanking rhythms, with her cool, precise voice cutting straight through the middle.
"Blood Makes Noise" is the jolt, a pounding, mechanical little nightmare that went all the way to number one on the Modern Rock chart, while "In Liverpool" and the title song show how well the new sound fits her sharp, literary eye. It went gold in America in the end, and the artist herself has named it the favourite of all her studio albums. It was the first of two records she made with Froom.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from 99.9 F° on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood Makes Noise | 25 | #20 | – | 1992–2022 | |
| 2 | 99.9 F | 10 | #196 | – | 2007–2023 | |
| 3 | In Liverpool | 7 | #733 | – | 1999–2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.