Only knew "Luka" before jumping into this one, and yeah it clearly is the best song. It does work extremely well as an introduction though, the whole record also tackling mellow and ethereal guitar-led pop melodies. The rest of the album sometimes reminds Fleetwood Mac, or the jangly stuff R.E.M. was doing at the time, without ever attaining "Luka"'s level of greatness. It's an album that lives because of its massively successful single, and the importance it played in developing MP3 technology. Basically, the dude who worked on developing the audio compression scheme found at first it was impossible to compress the a capella "Tom's Diner" into an audible song, only succeeding by refining his process. Apart from all that, it's a nice and mellow 80s folk pop record.
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