Self Assignment - Five Albums A Week

Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs

Either listen to these.
Or no music at all.

Phil Spector Sentenced to 19 Years to Life

Legendary producer to go to prison for murder.
He should have killed himself...
It's better that way I think.

Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman - Yeah! Oh, Yeah! (The Magnetic Fields)

+ this song is from a Merge complication, called Score! which features bands like The National, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, but not a very good complication. It's got some weird songs.
+ I love both Jens Lekman and Tracey Thorn, and I love this song. This is such a great collaboration covering a great song.

+ this is such a true and funny song originally by The Magnetic Fields from the "69 Love Songs", a massive album that contains literally 69 love songs.

Are you out of love with me?
Are you longing to be free?
Do I drive you up a tree?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Do I drive you up the wall?
Do you dread every phone call?
Can you not stand me at all?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Though I need you more than air
is it true you just don't care?
Are you having an affair?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
When we met I thought
money was everything
so I let you buy the house,
the car, the ring
but I can't take your perpetual whining
and you can't sing
I though if we live apart
we could made a brand-new start
Do you want to break my heart?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
I've enjoyed making you
miserable for years
found peace of mind in
playing on your fears
How I loved to catch your gold
and silver tears, but now my dear
What a dark and dreary life
Are you reaching for a knife?
Could you really kill your wife?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Of, I die, I die, I die!
So it's over, you and I
Was my whole life just a lie?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!

城市


流暢的旋律。我覺得非常不錯聽的一首流行曲子。
歌詞是還蠻有城市的fu。
時光穿梭。我們不在左右只在彼此其中。

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart


It's hard to believe, that being pure at heart is really a pain.
But that's the way I feel.

With loves, and hates and passions just like mine,
They were born and then they lived and then they died.
It seems so unfair. I want to cry.

For Mercy has a human heart, pity a human face.

... I still believe that people are really good at heart.

關於王菲...

最喜歡的五張專輯: (沒有任何所謂的順序)
將愛王菲
只愛陌生人
浮躁
討好自己

最喜歡王菲的二十首歌 (也沒有任何所謂的順序)
  1. 冷戰
  2. 笑忘書
  3. 但願人長久
  4. Summer Of Love
  5. 天使
  6. 約定
  7. 妳快樂(所以我快樂)
  8. 蝴蝶
  9. 為非作歹 (The Sundays' Here Where The Story Ends)
  10. 分裂/不安
  11. 打錯了
  12. 只愛陌生人
  13. 當時的月亮
  14. 乘客
  15. 空城
  16. 紅豆
  17. 懷戀
  18. 矜持
  19. 不眠飛行
很明顯的,王菲不光是要討好自己,還要討好大部分的聽眾。不管期不期待他的復出,她輝煌的的過去十幾年,已經唱了不少很好聽的歌了。看來要再跟 Cocteau Twins 合作是不可能的,不過張亞東能繼續幫她做的話,那還可以小小期待一下。當然如果新歌好聽的話,那是很好,不過不好,也沒差。她已經很厲害了。原本只想寫十首最愛的歌,可是好像額度不夠。不知道為什麼,她的歌對我來說還是很棒。就算我現在已經很少聽中文歌了。

Great Stuffs

Truly great things always happen way ahead of its time, therefore it's hard for everyone to accept the genius of it at the time. Often the great things would stand on its own, and not fade away. There's a long history of it. Particularly for painters, musicians, directors...all the art-related stuffs. Recently, I've discovered a lot of great stuffs, The Velvet Underground and Nico's, Fellini's films, Godard's films, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless... these things were not made for its time, they were made for the future. Those people really have a vision of their own. I now came to appreciate their genius, partly because of their history (if they are shit and got sunk in the time, I wouldn't have a chance to know them). And mostly I really like them and not for the fame's sake. So when the next big thing comes up, would I appreciate it? I don't know, I hope so.