No Budget

上次回台灣去逛唱片行的時候,很意外的看到了黃小禎的"新"專輯。買回來才發現,她原來是舊專輯再版重發。我想真的不多人知道她的第一張專輯叫《No Budget》,因為手工製作才出兩百張。這張的歌大部分都很短,一分鐘左右。雖然短,可是一首好歌的精隨已經從那簡單的吉他和歌聲中聽得出來。如果你喜歡黃小禎,請看這篇「回到做音樂的最初:黃小楨」。寫得很棒!試聽可以去官方網站。

Eighties Fan

I think I am really an eighties fan.
I love almost everything comes out during that time. Say Anything. The Smiths. The Jesus and Mary Chain. The Cure. The Stone Roses. Flashdance. Dirty Dancing. The Replacements. The Big Chill. Sonic Youth. Soft Cell. Felt. New Order. My Bloody Valentine. Marvin Gaye. Blondie. OMD. The Pastels. E.T. Forever Young. The Terminator. Predator. The Breakfast Club. Back To The Future. A Flock of Seagulls. C-86. Culture Club. Gang Of Four. The Go-Betweens. INXS. Lou Reed. David Bowie. Talking Heads. Bow Wow Wow. Depeche Mode. Talk Talk...fuck, too many to name.

A Letter To Elise

This song is so good. Same as Trust, from the 1992 album, Wish.

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
I know I'll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire
The way they should
The way the blue could pull me in
If they only would
If they only would
At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
That hides away
From me and you
There're worlds to part
With aching looks and breaking hearts
And all the prayers your hands can make
Oh I just take as much as you can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh I throw it all away
Like throwing faces at the sky
Like throwing arms round
Yesterday
I stood and stared
Wide-eyed in front of you
And the face I saw looked back
The way I wanted to
But I just can't hold my tears away
The way you do

Elise believe I never wanted this
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about
But I let the dream go
And the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out...

So Elise
It doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

And every time I try to pick it up
Like falling sand
As fast as I pick it up
It runs away through my clutching hands
But there's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else
I can really do
At all...

Julie Christie

Julie Christie, the rumors are true...
If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused, and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
Live alone in the paradise, makes me think of two.
Love lost, such a cost. Give me the things that won't get lost.

Trust

there's no-one left in the world
that i can hold onto
there is really no-one left at all
there is only you
and if you leave me now
you leave all that we were undone
there is really no-one left
you are the only one
and still the hardest part for you
to put your trust in me
i love you more than i can say
why won't you just believe?

靠,聽到我都想哭了...這首歌真的淒美的不行。
聽 The Cure,真的不能只聽精選集!
還有這首歌為甚麼會放在 Friday I'm In Love 後面?
情緒需要改變這麼大嗎?