微小的謊言近似錯誤。

法國靡靡電音二人組Air的JB Dunckel化名Darkel單飛首支作品，"At the End of the Sky"。


Darkel, "At the End of the Sky"

我總覺得法國人活在過去式的時態中。

話說回來，台灣人更有甚之，況且不知反省。


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談到王菲，很多人喜歡那首翻唱自The Cranberries "Dreams"的<夢中人>。（我想，王菲再聽到旁人提起此事一定猛捶心肝吧。）

話說回來，90年代中期的王菲，與其說是模仿小紅莓，倒不如說是Elizabeth Fraser上身。她先是翻唱了幾首Cocteau Twins歌曲，後來乾脆請原作者幫她寫歌了 -- 如當年破格專輯<<浮躁>>中的<分裂>和<掃興>，以及後來的<娛樂場>。

除了上次<懷念>的原曲"Rilkean Heart"，<胡思亂想>也是出自Cocteau Twins的"Bluebeard"。


Cocteau Twins, "Bluebeard"

下面是現場版。

Cocteau Twins, "Bluebeard (Live)"

漢人歌迷喜歡說菲姊轉音更棒技巧更好云云，但從Elizabeth Fraser口中發出的是融合了即興演唱vocalese技巧、蘇格蘭古居爾特語及英語的不傳密技，可不僅是隨著音階哼哼哈哈的轉音而已。

題外話，前幾天逛唱片行看到一張Cocteau Twins專輯上的側標寫著：「……謝嫂望塵莫及……」之類云云，一時之間還傻住了，謝嫂係賓個啊？

台灣的樂評就是這樣，喜歡濫用形容詞亂扯關係搬出一堆幾顆星評價排行榜成績的玩意，現在好了吧，看到自己當年寫側標糗大了唄。還謝嫂咧，難不成是要我買張柏芝的唱片啊？


Aliveness
Exploration
Aliveness
Energy
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Aliveness
Exploration
Fulfillment
Creativity
background:
It may be diverting
For some part of him
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you betray my confidence?
(x2)
Naming things is empowering
I balance, walk, and coordinate myself, alive
Aliveness energy
Healthy dependence
And healthy independence
And healthy assurances
This love's a nameless dream
And healthy boundaries
And how long would you miss me
background:
Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you mistreat me
Or betray all my confidence?
(x3)



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Yo La Tengo在巴塞隆納Primavera Sound 2006演唱新專輯I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass中的新曲"Mr. Tough"。


Yo La Tengo, "Mr. Tough"。

跟前兩張kind of blue、好聽到不行的And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out和Summer Sun比較起來，新專輯的風格反而有點回歸早期的甜美噪音取向，不過還是一樣動聽啦。

誰叫他們是 -- 「優啦！糖果」呢？


Yo La Tengo, "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass"。


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Cocteau Twins, "Rilkean Heart"。

這就是傳說中蔡依林即將翻唱王菲＜懷念＞的原曲。

若說Elizabeth Fraser是渾然天成的美聲，王菲是精雕細琢的仿作 -- 那Jolin，你是什麼？

別毀了一首歌又砸了自己的名聲。

Rilkean Heart
I looked for you to give me transcendent experiences
To transport me out of self and aloneness sent alienation
Into a sense of oneness and connection, ecstatic and magical
I became a junkie for it
I come looking for the next high and I'm sorry I've been putting the search
on the wrong place

I understand that you're confused, feeling overwhelmed
Well that's a feeling state from then, the reality

With cleaning up my emotional life and getting in touch with myself
I'm beginning to ground myself in my own sense of being as an entity
One entity on the planet,
Becoming truly self reliant
And become connected with something beyond me
That is where I have to go
I'm so sorry I've been putting the search on the wrong place

You're lost and don't know what to do
But that's not all of you
That's your reality today
And that is all okay

I understand that you're confused, feeling overwhelmed
Well that's a feeling state from then, the reality

Rilkean heart

Rilkean
heart x7
I'm lost I don't know what to do
It's not all on you
That's the reality today
Right now it's all okay
I understand that you're confused
Feeling overwhelmed
Love's a feeling straight from then
The reality



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話說，今天是本單位官方的打混日。

不是我在唬爛，根據上週的會議紀錄，爾後每個月的第一個週一，本部門都不必工作。看要上網聽音樂看書打混隨便你。

可以光明正大發呆反而叫人不知該怎麼摸魚才好。

來聽聽鏗鏘蓮姊唱唱歌吧。

一個人。


林憶蓮，<一個人>。

倘若，你的人生中很不幸不曾擁有過New Order的回憶，容我提醒你，原曲是New Order的"Bizarre Love Triangle"。


New Order, "Bizarre Love Triangle"。

Every time i think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine but it's a problem I find
Living a life that I can't leave behind
There's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of a fool won't set you free
But that's the way that it goes
And it's what nobody knows
While every day my confusion grows
Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say

I feel fine and I feel good
I'm feeling like I never should
Whenever I get this way, I just don't know what to say
Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday
I'm not sure what this could mean
I don't think you're what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be
Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say

別跟我說原曲是啥Frente唱的，我會毫不客氣地徹底鄙視你。

再來一首老是唱不好又愛K的歌。

打雷落雨時，我只需要它（請見舊文）。


李玖哲，<影子>。


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Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy"

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so crazy about that place
Even your emotions had an echo in so much space

And when you're out there - without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much

Does that make me Crazy?
Does that make me Crazy?
Does that make me Crazy?
Probably

And I hope that you are havin' the time of your life
But think twice, that's my only advice

Come on now who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you
think you are, ha ha ha, bless your soul
D'you really think you're in control

well
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
Just like me

My heroes had the heart to live their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinkin' I wanna be like them.

Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And there's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done

But maybe I'm Crazy
Maybe you're Crazy
Maybe we're Crazy
Probably

鬼門今年開兩次。

剪刀姊妹花同樣來兩回。


Scissor Sisters, "Comfortably Numb"，翻唱Pink Floyd經典。

青蚵男，難道這也跟陳董有關係嗎？

哈哈哈，沒人聽得懂這個笑話吧......

PS：話說到這裡，我一定要告訴大寶。當年我去那有閣樓陽台的夢幻公寓看剛出生的你時，你家裡真的有放Pink Floyd的卡帶。真是奇妙的胎教啊......

驚驚！


Scissor Sisters, "I Don't Feel Like Dancing"新曲大公開。

真迎合中國習俗的應景MV。自從菊花姊姊之後很久沒看到那麼ㄏㄧㄠˊ的男性了。


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這篇是上一篇的平衡報導。Christina Aguilera和偶像Etta James面對面，接受InStyle雜誌專訪。（後面出現我的偶像Chaka Khan......還有其他藝人談他們的偶像。不過Faith Hill和Aretha Franklin……實在看不出有何關聯，感覺就像訪問時下港台男歌手，每個都說兒時聽過張學友一樣。）



先聲明，三張Christina Aguilera的正規專輯我都有，而且是買的。這位女士缺的只是幾首好歌，以及需要有人告訴她，歌是可以好好唱的。

話說回來，Etta James今年詮釋當代經典（"Purple Rain", "Holding Back the Years"）的那張All the Way，也挺令人失望。感覺就是……不對味。這樣的歌手配上這樣的曲目，理應火花四射才對。不過依照Grammy偏好老人和企劃取向的慣例，說不定來年可以撈座獎項……

附上Etta James於50年代的經典現場畫面，品質頗差，不過現場氣氛之狂熱叫人神往。






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