October 31,2006
懷舊的Suede MV和碎碎唸
Trash by Suede
Beautiful Ones by Suede
我不是故意要拿Suede來洗版的!
可是今天看到這兩支MV,真的超懷念的。
相信跟我同期的朋友(例:某腐)一定也有同樣的感覺。
算一算這張專輯也十年了,也就是說我當初在MTV看到它們時,我還是1字頭年華的少女!
想到那時候我還是個要把吃飯錢省下來看電影買CD的窮學生,
音樂資訊極度缺乏,所以全靠MTV和當時還是純音樂台的Channel V。
(MTV也就算了,現在的Channel V簡直就是垃圾orz)
那時的MTV還蠻好看的,沒有那麼多置入性行銷或洗腦式打歌的節目,
播的音樂也還蠻多元化的,西洋和國語播的幾乎一樣多。
我就是從高中起在音樂台的薰陶之下,對西洋音樂開始產生濃厚的興趣,
更開始愛上看一些很有特色、千奇百怪的西洋MV。
(記得那時候我連Radiohead是誰都弄不清楚,還被Karma Police的MV嚇到XD)
現在的MTV只讓人搖頭嘆氣,除了去年讓我第一次在電視上看到Franz算有點貢獻之外,
(好吧我承認那是很大的貢獻)幾乎沒有什麼好看的東西了。
不過,還好我們有youtube,才能重溫當時的感動和驚奇!
Trash和Beautiful Ones就是在MTV全盛時期讓我印象很深的單曲,
害我往事湧上心頭了...
下面這支和主題沒有關係,只是覺得很驚奇,這支MV的年代更早了(那時我家好像還有唱機吧):
Brett當年好媚!!!!!!!!!!!!! @O@
再追加一支拍得很美的:
The Wild Ones (不放的話某位痴情花會生氣,所以...)
October 29,2006
Now Playing--New Generation
New Generation
by Suede
I wake up every day to see her back again
Screaming my name through the astral plane
And in this catalogue town she takes me down
Down through the platinum spires
Down through the telephone wires
And we shake it around in the underground
And like a new generation rise
And like all the boys in all the cities
I take the poison, take the pity
But she and I, we soon discovered
we'd take the pills to find each other
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
Can you hear her calling
And what she has said?
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
It's like a new generation calling
Can you hear it call?
And I'm losing myself, losing myself to you
I wake up every day, to find her back again
Breeding disease on her hands and knees
While the styles turn and the books still burn
Yes it's there in the platinum spires
It's there in the telephone wires
And we spread it around to a techno sound
But like a new generation rise
Cos like all the boys in all the cities
I take the poison, take the pity
But she and I we soon discover
We take the pills to find each other
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
Can you hear her calling?
And what she has said?
Oh but when she is calling here in my head
It's like a new generation calling
Can you hear her call?
And I'm losing myself, losing myself to you
October 24,2006
10/21 Echo@地社Britpop之夜
這是一篇很乾的感想,因為我沒帶相機,所以影片跟照片都沒。
不過經過這次,我發現看表演時專心看還是比較好,想拍東西的話都會分心,好像有點可惜...
回歸正題,這次因為某腐曾向我推薦過Echo這個團,再加上主題是Britpop之夜,
所以就在好奇心和熱血驅使之下,去了傳說中很小很擠的地下社會。
我和豆腐六點左右就到師大夜市附近吃了晚餐,吃飽以後先過去領號碼牌(我們是4和5號),
而櫃台的小姐說,我們領了號碼牌之後,8點半再回去地社就可以了。
當下還蠻開心的,想說號碼這麼前面,應該可以坐到十分不錯的位子吧!
沒想到在附近晃到8點半回去地社時,門口竟然擠了一大團人(完全不是以隊伍形狀排列的),
一問之下才發現根本沒按順序發號碼牌,也沒有排隊,所以開始時根本是用擠的 orz
(我非常不擅長人擠人啊!每次擠公車都閃到最後面去的...)
擠的時候還瞄到入口處貼著一張語氣十分欠扁的公告:
「沒有領到號碼牌的人,可以去別的地方玩了。」
(如果我是沒領到的人,可能會把它撕下來揉爛XDb)
好不容易從有夠窄的樓梯硬擠進去,看到場地又是一陣傻眼,真的很小...
不過我們很幸運地有位子坐,雖然不是什麼舞台前的貴賓席,有座位我就偷笑了。
等了約莫20分鐘左右,Echo出場。
這次的表演來的時間真的很巧妙,因為我在表演前一整個禮拜無法自拔地一直在聽Suede。
(有時候就是會不知道為什麼,忍不住一直聽一直聽......)
所以可以說我在看表演前滿腦子都是Suede的音樂。XD
而Echo的音樂中可以聽出濃濃的Suede味,當下就對了我的tone。
雖然這我第一次看Echo,但他們給我的第一印象相當不賴:
鼓手是帥氣的正妺--加分!(所以就算有打錯鼓也可以原諒 XD)
Vocal是我喜歡的聲音--再加分!
再加上團員想必表演經驗蠻豐富的,大家的現場功力都不賴,
演唱大團的名曲時也表現得挺穩,整場看下來還蠻享受的,氣氛很不錯。
(我尤其喜歡他們的吉他,寫得很好聽,有幾首聽了很感動)
主唱柏蒼很有個人魅力(雖然他不是我喜歡的型),
而他邊唱歌邊吞雲吐霧的模樣,不知為何讓我想起兩個多月前看到的Carl,
雖然兩人一點都不像哇哈哈。
cover英搖名曲是表演的重頭戲之一,
而當天讓我最陶醉的,就是Radiohead的High and Dry了。
(我指的不是小邱破音版...雖然我也很欣賞那個版本XD)
這首鼓的前奏出來的時候...不誇張,我真的快飆淚了!
最後唱的Oasis不是Live Forever有點可惜。
(雖然我直覺覺得應該會是Don't look back in anger,那首最方便大合唱啦)
另外Disco 2000也蠻嗨的(雖然我不會唱),Without You I'm Nothing唱得很棒,
不過其實我比較希望他們多唱幾首Suede,大概是因為感覺上調性很合吧。XD
結果因為第一次聽他們的歌,整場聽下來印象最深的歌竟然忘了歌名,
看來要去找專輯來聽聽了。
October 15,2006
October 11,2006
MTV VMA大獎
前幾天看了MTV Video Music Awards,這才感覺到自己最近的改變。
雖然這種頒獎典禮本來就不會從頭到尾都覺得好看,
可是今年才深深感覺到幾件事:
1. 美國(尤其是紐約)真是rap和hip-hop的大本營。
幾乎有一半以上的表演都是舞曲和饒舌...看到我發起呆來。
2. 不知從什麼時候開始,我已經完全不想聽rap了。
3. 頒獎典禮裡面幾個美國團都不是很有看頭。怎麼歌聽起來都很像的感覺?
中間一些歌舞表演還蠻有趣的啦(夏奇拉的電動屁股應該列為世界第八大奇蹟),
可是整個看下來印象深刻的少得可憐:
Panic! At the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
整場典禮唯一令我留下印象的美國新團,表演還蠻有意思的。主唱的聲音我很喜歡。
OK GO現場搏命演出Here It Goes Again。
聽到導播說「快準備八台跑步機」的那一刻,是我整晚最興奮的一刻。XD
其實The Raconteurs也很有意思,可是一直躲在旁邊當串場,
連首完整的歌都沒唱完,零零碎碎的演奏讓人很不過癮。
第二次重播才看到的Killers唱了一首新歌就閃人了。
主唱果然不但歌聲變滄桑,外型也變滄桑XD
看來還是期待年底的EMA歐洲音樂大獎要緊。
October 3,2006
Now Playing--Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Street Spirit (Fade Out)的MV, 出自Radiohead <The Bends>專輯
最近的天氣,讓我覺得聽Radiohead再適合也不過了。
這首Street Spirit不論MV或歌曲本身,都是我最喜歡的Radiohead作品之一,
很悲傷的氣氛,可是優美到讓人想沈溺進去...
歌詞也寫得詩意又深刻。總之就是一整個讓人無法自拔的作品啊。
Lyrics:
Rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out
This machine will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again
Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see it's beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again
Immerse your soul in love
Immerse your soul in love.
September 29,2006
跟音樂有關的閒聊
我沒本事寫什麼深奧精闢的樂評,不過聽到好聽的東西時還是很想發洩一下。
這篇文章就是拿來發洩用的。



Muse,我最近這幾個月瘋狂迷上的目標。
第一次聽到New Born的前奏的時候,只有目瞪口呆可以形容,怎麼有這麼好聽的音樂?
到現在還沒機會回頭去聽第一張Showbiz,因為一直沈浸在這三張的世界中,
那層層疊疊的華麗編曲,優美激昂的鋼琴,狂野的貝斯,十分到位的鼓,還有神乎奇技的吉他,
加上Matthew Bellamy有時悲情有時憤慨有時性感的vocal,真是迷人極了。
聽他們的音樂好像掉進一個很深很深的黑洞,會被無止盡地吸進去,然後慢慢飄起來...
不,其實沒那麼靈異啦,但真的會讓人有種跟外界脫離的感覺,即使我在搭公車人擠人,
旁邊擠著一堆用台語聊天的太太,我還是可以飄飄然地沈浸在Muse創造的宇宙中。
三張專輯各有所長,Origin of Symmetry聽來最情緒化,有種致命的吸引力;
Absolution從後Radiohead形象轉型成功,是我最喜歡的一張;
Black Holes and Revelation的轉變令人驚艷,加入電音元素展現的全新風貌,讓人很興奮XD
最近早上搭公車都一直在聽Absolution,幾乎整張都好好聽啊...(陶醉)

花了一點時間才把Belle & Sebastian的所有專輯聽熟,
這張Dear Catastrophe Waitress是近期才開始聽的。
這張專輯開始,B&S的歌除了清新地唱出憂鬱的少年情懷,也加入了成人世界的煩惱,
本來是中慢版民謠為主的曲風,加入了許多輕快活潑的元素,變得更有親和力、更俏皮可愛,
才聽過幾輪,這張已經和If You're Feeling Sinister並列我心目中的B&S經典。

The Magic Numbers--這個團光看外型就有夠妙,他們走錯時空了吧?XD
怎麼看都是幾十年前的嬉皮再見啊!!!!!!!!
不過外型不是他們的重點,重點是,他們的音樂實在有夠迷人,
聽的時候我忍不住會想起Beach Boys,因為聽起來就是那個年代的風格,
編曲簡單而清爽,唱腔與和聲都很old fashion(好的那一種),嗓音十分有特色又討喜。
(聽說他們是親戚,怎麼搞的一家子都這麼會唱歌?)
整個感覺就是把多年前的流行樂重新包裝,並且加入自己的精神賦予新意,
變成清新怡人的民謠搖滾。剛好這樣的東西就是對了我的胃口。
希望這些新世代嬉皮們下一張能再接再勵保持下去XD
September 19,2006
Colours Are Brighter
點下列任何一個Banner,就能進入<Colours Are Brighter>的MySpace網站:
Colours Are Brighter是Belle & Sebastian號召眾樂團集結而成的一張慈善專輯,
主題是幫助Save the Children這個慈善團體募款。
這個構想是哪裡來的咧?
Belle & Sebastian的Mick說,有一天他起床時腦中浮現一首關於猴子逃出動物園的歌,
他把這首歌唱給其他人聽,大家就一起通力合作完成了這單曲,
可是卻不曉得這首歌要拿來幹嘛。這時有人建議可以錄一張專輯,
內容是集合許多樂團為兒童唱的歌,並且可以拿來做善事。
於是這張專輯就誕生啦。
可別小看這麼一張「一時興起」發起的專輯,更別小看B&S的號召力,
演唱的陣容排排站可是相當驚人。
真的要感謝他們的發想,才能讓我們聽到這些樂團俏皮逗趣幼稚的一面XD
專輯曲目如下:
1. Four Tet featuring Princess Watermelon - Go Go Ninja Dinosaur
2. Rasputina - A Skeleton Bang
3. Franz Ferdinand - Jackie Jackson
4. Snow Patrol - I am an Astronaut
5. The Divine Comedy - Three Cheers For Pooh, Cottleston Pie, Piglet Ho
6. The Kooks - The King & I
7. Half Man Half Biscuit - David Wainwright's Feet
8. The Barcelona Pavilion - Tidy Up Tidy Up
9. Jonathan Richman - Our Dog is Getting Older Now
10. Ivor Cutler Trio - Mud
11. Belle and Sebastian - The Monkeys are Breaking Out the Zoo
12. Kathryn Williams - Night Baking
他們的官網相當有意思,有一些東西可以看,不過內容似乎還在增加中。
(那些插畫真是可愛啊~我愛那隻忍者恐龍XD)
不過總覺得這樣的專輯,台灣好像不太可能代理...?
到時如果運氣好,也許可以在佳佳買到吧,但五六百塊以上是跑不掉了 >"<
最後引用一段Snow Patrol對於自己那首太空人歌的經典註解:
Q.What was recording the songs like?
A."We wanted to make our version of the song sound as if it was made in space.
There are two ways to do this. Either, you can make it in space. This is tricky as
it involves actually becoming an astronaut. The training alone takes years and
I've heard you need to be very good at mathematics for some reason and I'm not
very good at maths at all. This only leaves one more option, that we give the song
a spacey feel. So we sprinkled some space dust (that we bought at a special market)
on top of the song and now it sounds like it was made far above the earth. Really
it was made in a studio in Ireland but if you don't tell anyone I won't either."
Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, who recorded "I Am an Astronaut"
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September 12,2006
Now Playing--The State I Am In
The State I Am In
By Belle & Sebastian
I was surprised, I was happy for a day in 1975
I was puzzled by a dream, stayed with me all day in 1995
My brother had confessed that he was gay
It took the heat off me for a while
He stood up with a sailor friend
Made it known upon my sisters wedding day
I got married in a rush to save a kid from being deported
Now she's in love
I was so touched, I was moved to kick the crutches
From my crippled friend
She was not impressed that I cured her on the sabbath
So I went to confess
When she saw the funny side, we introduced my child bride
To whisky and gin
The priest in the booth had a photographic memory
For all he had heard
He took all of my sins and he wrote a pocket novel called
The state I am in
So I gave myself to god
There was a pregnant pause before he said ok
Now I spend my day turning tables round in marks & spencer's
They don't seem to mind
I gave myself to sin
I gave myself to providence
And I've been there and back again
The state that I am in
Oh love of mine, would you condescend to help me
Cause I'm stupid and blind
Desperation is the devil’s work, it is the folly of a boys empty mind
Now I'm feeling dangerous, riding on city buses for a hobby is sad
Lead me to a living end
I promised that I'd entertain my crippled friend
My crippled friend
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September 4,2006
有趣的翻唱
"Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You", by Muse
偶然在youtube上看到的,Muse翻唱世界名曲"Can't Take My
Eyes Off Of You",
非常有意思的版本,充滿了Muse式的搖滾味!!
Matthew
Bellamy把這首歌唱出一種意想不到的風格,那個嘶吼實在太妙啦!
我尤其喜歡要轉副歌的部份,顯然現場的觀眾也跟我一樣喜歡,瞧他們興奮的...
XD
