What's wrong with a little destruction?

做夢也沒想到的奇妙結果。

Radiohead You scored 52% popularity, 60% maturity, 52% individuality, and 61% intensity!

You don't remember that Radiohead is your band. Why you gucci little piggy! Pretty much the all-around perfect indie band, they're popular, but they're still really good and very original and they're constantly evolving.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people <I>your age and gender</I>: You scored higher than 99% on popularity You scored higher than 99% on maturity You scored higher than 99% on individuality You scored higher than 99% on intensity

Link: The Indie Band For You Test written by levitateme on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

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其實我根本不應該在這裡貼文章，我應該趕快專心看稿子。

剛喝了一杯奶茶下肚（我真的有重度奶茶癮），強打精神準備熬夜工作，

不知不覺又挑上The Bends來當我的背景音樂。

每次聽這張專輯，都對不同的歌特別有感覺，今天是這首Fake Plastic Trees：





百般拖延無奈之下，我要在Thom Yorke的歌聲中開始工作了。

太悲嗎？不會，對今天我來說這是最完美的氣氛。



A green plastic watering can

For a fake chinese rubber plant

In the fake plastic earth



That she bought from a rubber man

In a town full of rubber plans

To get rid of itself



It wears her out, it wears her out

It wears her out, it wears her out



She lives with a broken man

A cracked polystyrene man

Who just crumbles and burns



He used to do surgery

On girls in the eighties

But gravity always wins



And it wears him out, it wears him out

It wears him out, it wears him out



She looks like the real thing

She tastes like the real thing

My fake plastic love



But I can't help the feeling

I could blow through the ceiling

If I just turn and run



And it wears me out, it wears me out

It wears me out, it wears me out



And if I could be who you wanted

If I could be who you wanted

All the time, all the time

我要先來喊話一下：豆腐你一定要看這篇！！我終於找到了！！

雖然品質很不怎麼樣！！！！可是我證明了這東西真的存在！！XDDDD



咳咳，我來為一頭霧水點進來的朋友解說一下好了（如果有一人頭霧水點進來的話）：

其實這一切都是起源於之前在電視上打歌打得兇的Snow Patrol。

下面這個就是播到快爛掉的Chasing Cars的MV：



其實拍得還蠻美的我覺得。



好，重點來了。

話說我某個假日的早上醒來沒多久，開電視來看順手轉到MTV台，聽到耳熟的開頭，

心想又是那首Chasing Cars，本來想轉台了（因為實在播太多遍），但看到MV怎麼不太一樣？

基於好奇心我便往下看，最後不小心就看完了，而且完全搞不懂為何會有這支MV。

就是下面這個（品質很差，但我只找得到這個）：



我在想搞不好只有我一個人覺得好笑？可我看到他每到副歌"If I lay here"那句時，

就躺在不同的地方，我就覺得很白痴。XD

之後我就再也沒在MTV台看到它了，而且之前YouTube上也找不到。

沒想到今天一時心血來潮上去找就有了！

不知道這個是什麼怪版本就是了。難道這個團其實有惡搞魂？XD

Sunrise

by Pulp



used to hate the sun because it shone on everything I'd done.

Made me feel that all that I had done was overfill the ashtray of my life.

All my achievements in days of yore range from pathetic

to piss-poor, but all that's gonna change.

Because here comes sunrise. Yeah, here's your sunrise.

I used to hide from the sun, tried to live my whole life underground.

Why'd you have to rise & ruin all my fun?

Just turned over, closed the curtains on the day.

But here comes sunrise.

Yeah, here's your sunrise when you've been awake

all night long & you feel like crashing out at dawn.

But you've been awake all night, so why should you crash out at dawn?

Running the World

by Jarvis Cocker



Well did you hear, there's a natural order

Those most deserving will end up with the most

That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top

Well I say, "Shit floats"



If you thought things had changed

Friend, you'd better think again

Bluntly put, in the fewest of words:

Cunts are still running the world



Now the working classes are obsolete

They are surplus to society's needs

So let 'em all kill each other

And get a maid overseas.

That's the word, don't you know

From the guys that's running the show

Let's be perfectly clear boys and girls,

Cunts are still running the world



Oh feed your children on crayfish and lobster tails,

Find a school near the top of the league

In theory I respect your right to exist

I will kill you if you move in next to me

Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust

Oh, but the takings are up by a third, oh so

Cunts are still running the world



The free market is perfectly natural

Do you think that I'm some kind of dummy?

It's the ideal way to order the world

"Fuck the morals, does it make any money?"

And if you don't like it, then leave

Or use your right to protest on the street.

Yeah use your right, but don't imagine that it's heard

Cunts are still running the world

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Heavy Weather, from <Jarvis>



看了一堆Pulp全盛時期的影片，再看到Jarvis Cocker現在的模樣真有些不習慣。

很難把這個戴膠框眼鏡、低調地邊彈邊唱的男子，

跟當年那個手舞足蹈的Sex God聯想起來，

不過不同時期有不同的魅力。（我覺得啦）

在加班到頭昏眼花、下班後夜晚的公車上，聽著他的新專輯，

什麼辛苦疲累都瞬間忘記了。

雖然已經是中年大叔了，Jarvis的魅力還是很難抵擋啊。



感性完畢，且看大叔多年不改的手指功：



Fat Children, from <Jarvis>

這裡面可以看到Pulp的成員喔（女鍵盤手很好認）。

Outsiders

by Franz Ferdinand



It's been some change

But we're still outsiders

If Everybody's here

Then hell knows we ride alone...



I've seen some years

But you're still my Caesar

With everything I feel

I feel you've already been here



The only difference is all I see is now all that I've seen



it's bright on the outside

The bright love the dark side I know

It's obvious but sometimes you just have to say it so

You don't feel so weak

About being such a freak

alone



In seventeen years

Will you still be Camille

Lee Miller, Gala or whatever

You know what I mean yeah



Love'll die

Lovers fade

But you still remain there

Squeezing in your fingers

What it means for me to be yeah



The only difference is what might be is now what might have been



When you saw me sleeping

You thought I was dreaming

Of you

no I didn't tell you

That the only dream

Is Valium for me



I've seen some years

But you're still my Caesar

With everything I feel

I feel you've already been here



Love'll die

Lovers fade

But you still remain there

Squeezing in your fingers

What it means for me to be yeah



The only difference is what might be is NOW







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為了慶祝新版頭來放首Franz的歌XD (自嗨貌)

這首歌是我在YCHISMB裡面的愛歌之一，

裡面的貝斯真是極品啊~~ (絕對不是因為是版頭那個人彈的我才這麼說!!真的!!)

還有，我很喜歡這首歌的歌詞，

大概是因為自己常常覺得自己也是個Oustider吧。:P

聽音樂真的需要時機。

在我沒工作的時候，Suede某天突然從last.fm裡冒出來，

我突然覺得很好聽，就突然想把他們專輯找齊來聽。

（以前聽是聽過，可是沒有聽得很深入）

這一次一聽，到現在他們的專輯都完全沒有離開過我的MP3，

尤其（我知道我已經講過很多次了）Sci-fi Lullabies實在是太令人著迷了，

我的愛曲每天都在換，但不變的是那種讚嘆的心情。

Dog Man Star是專輯中的經典，那種格句、那種優美跟頹廢的魅力，

整體聽下來就是一張了不起的、概念完整的專輯。

這一兩個禮拜則是最常放Coming Up，充滿了活力跟朗朗上口的歌曲，

我最喜歡跟著唱Lazy了，因為我也很Lazy哈哈哈。（毆）





The Killers的新專輯我幾乎是第一時間就聽了。

我必須說個人喜歡這張更勝第一張，感覺上編曲更豐富，多了一些霸氣，

少了一點大辣辣的俗氣（不好意思，我真的覺的第一張好聽歸好聽，還是俗俗的），

主唱的新（滄桑式）唱腔也更有特色，感覺上他們的風格有成功地加以發展。

不過不小心聽了一個多禮拜後就很少聽了。最近耳朵實在太忙...





Death Cab For Cutie一向被我視為「舒緩型」的音樂，

之前聽Plans時只是覺得很順耳優美，對幾首單曲印象比較深，

但這張Transatlanticism（好長的名稱...不知道該怎麼翻，「跨大西洋主義」？）

則是整體平均水準很高，整張都令我印象深刻的專輯。

除了招牌的慢版抒情曲，也有輕快悅耳的中快版歌曲，整體就是十分溫和討喜，

連我平常對Indie Pop完全不熟的同事都能輕易接受。

所以我才說以後如果開咖啡店，要在店內放DCFC的歌啊！XD







我的新愛團，之前提過的美國壯漢－－My Morning Jacket。

一開始是因為難以定位的Z而為他們著迷，而再往前聽之前的專輯則是另一番風景，

我平常其實沒在接觸此類草根音樂團體，

但他們的音樂－－聽說叫另類鄉村－－卻跨越了某種界線，

比我所認知的鄉村樂更有力道、又更親和（兩者聽起來好像矛盾但其實不會），

而且編曲和錄音聽起來就是一整個清新脫俗－我很喜歡他們Vocal的部分聽起來很遼遠，

好像有回音的感覺，還有鼓的力道十足，一些快歌聽來超過癮的。



之前在逛誠音時，看到Sweatbees（上面第一張圖）在架上，心裡還想：

這什麼鬼東西？封面解析度也太差了吧！

可是因為實在很喜歡他們的音樂還是買了。

回家興致勃勃地拆開來看，裡面是一張解析度也是超差的團員合照，而且沒歌詞。囧

喂喂喂，跟充滿設計感和插畫的Z也差太多了吧！

（以上完全是無意義的抱怨）

是說最近他們又出了Live專輯，試聽了一輪，現場功力真不賴！

這同時也意味著我的敗家... Orz

Charmless Man

by Blur



I met him in a crowded room

Where people go to drink away their gloom

He sat me down and so began

The story of a charmless man



Educated the expensive way

He knows his claret from his beaujolais

I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray

But then nature didn't make him that way



He went....



He thinks his educated airs

Those family shares

Will protect him

That we'll respect him

He moves in circles of friends

Who just pretend

That they like him

He does the same to them

And when you put it all together

There's the model of a charmless man



He knows the swingers and their cavalry

Says he can get in anywhere for free

I began to go a little cross-eyed

And from this charmless man I just had to hide



He talks at speed

He gets nose bleeds

He doesn't see

His days are tumbling

Down upon him

And yet he tries so hard to please

He's just so keen

For you to listen

But no-one's listening

And when you put it all together

There's the model of a charmless man



He thinks his educated airs

Those family shares

Will protect him

That you'll respect him

And yet he tries so hard to please

He's just so keen

For you to listen

But no-one's listening

And when you put it all together

There's the model of a charmless man

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這裡在舉辦一個2006最佳唱片封面設計的票選活動，

總共有50個封面得到提名。（這裡有50張被提名的封面可以看，是PDF檔）

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