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2010-07-05
我不能悲伤地坐在人民公园 - [music]
被左小附体了吧？加拿大乐队嗑药牛仔（Cowboy Junkies）的音乐没有这么好听过，今年新专辑《人民公园》同名歌曲和翻唱左小的那首《我不能悲伤地坐在你身旁》，就像是选自同一部诗集的篇章，写给这个热闹而又令人难过的国家。
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2010-06-25
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2010-06-22
我想杀死你 - [music]
凯蒂·梅卢阿新专辑《The House》的制作人是电气大叔 William Orbit（上回刚提到他），明显比以前流行了许多。
今天放的两首倒还好，只是「The Flood」在 2'03" 处莫名奇妙地变了个调子，就像硬塞进了麦当娜的《Ray of Light》（是的，麦姐那张专辑就是 William Orbit 制作的）。
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2010-06-17
血色像柠檬 - [music]
女声中最撩人的，Morcheeba 当年的主音 Skye 绝对算一个。可惜的是，自从这姑娘 2003 年单飞之后，再没有人能像 Morcheeba 幕后的高弗里哥俩（Paul & Ross Godfrey）给她写过那样销魂的流行 Downtempo 小曲。
Skye 是因为音乐理念不合而被迫离队，之后她尝试改变路线，但和后 Skye 时期的 Morcheeba 一样没能成功，他们寻求突破的勇气都超过了实现突破的能力。
好在，Morcheeba 在上周发行的新专辑《Blood Like Lemonade》里终于回到了熟悉的老路上，迷失了七年的高氏兄弟把 Skye 请了回来，性感如常。只是，不知道这种回归有多少是找回自信，有多少是无奈而为。
为彰显本人对 Skye 对偏爱，另附送她单飞时期的一首歌，来自制作人中的战斗机 William Orbit 今年的专辑《Odyssey》。不过，好像她和 Orbit 的气质总不如与高大高二那么契合。
如果你们喜欢，改天我可以放点 Morcheeba 的老歌。非常招人。
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2010-06-14
黑色的大陆，和谐的大陆 - [music]
索马里人凯南·艾卜提·瓦撒默的姨妈是歌唱家，祖父是诗人，小时候父亲虽不在身旁，但通过邮寄的 Hip Hop 唱片开始了他的早期英语教育。凯南注定要成名吗？不一定，13 岁之前，他还和三个兄妹一起困在摩加迪沙，索马里一天天陷入血腥的内战漩涡。好在这个小黑孩逃了出来，后来用带有非洲节奏、Eminem 嗓音、诗句般的歌词崛起于 Hip Hop 界。现在，K’naan 进一步主流，本届南非世界杯主题曲「Wavin' Flag」就来自他去年的专辑《Troubadour》。这张专辑是录制于雷鬼之神鲍勃·马利在牙买加金斯敦的录音棚。
放 K'naan 去年这张专辑中的另一首歌，「T.I.A.」（即 This Is Africa 的缩写），曲子热闹，正合这时节。
非洲是好的 Hip Hop 采样基地，当然在 Hip Hop 成为主流之前，摇滚，作为民谣和布鲁斯的变异，也喜欢搞这个地方。其实我对 K'naan 印象最深的，是他和 Keane 在后者今年的新专辑《Night Train》中合作的几首歌。不过，这个印象也许更多来自 Keane。上次放过一首「Looking Back」，也是和 K'naan 合作的，当时很想放的另外一首，这次一并送出。
既然过节，再多来一首。都提到了索马里，就让我想起了 Blur 主唱达蒙·奥尔班在 2002 年跑去和一票索马里艺人合作的专辑《马里音乐》。其中很多歌都是直接的采样，今天挑的这首是奥尔班在采样基础上的再创作，那个「啦啦啦啦啦」十足是 Blur 的调调。
另外，去年底介绍过南非的乐队 Freshlyground，小爵士小泡泡，不妨顺便重温一下。
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2010-06-10
假装是在看电影看自己的历史吧 - [music]
放前 30 秒时，我还以为是马克·凌库斯，接下来，我便听到了「马团」今年这张新专辑《Infinite Arms》的野心。貌似 Kyte 这类玩宏大调调的曲子都能干掉我。不过这首歌的歌词和曲子配起来有点莫名其妙，不如英国人写得好。
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2010-06-07
像普罗米修斯一样怎么也死不了 - [music]
你变了，时间变了，世界变了，而有些艺人，比如 Jack Johnson，怎么都不变，十年不换地在夏威夷海边唱我的姑娘姑娘偷走我的心，你说这是好还是不好？
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2010-06-04
这一夜，我们一起看电视 - [music]
We were watching TV Watching TV We were watching TV Watching TV In Tiananmen Square Lost my baby there My yellow rose In her bloodstained clothes She was a short order pastry chef In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway She had shiny hair She was the daughter of an engineer Won't you shed a tear For my yellow rose My yellow rose In her bloodstained clothes She had perfect breasts She had high hopes She had almond eyes She had yellow thighs She was a student of philosophy Won't you grieve with me For my yellow rose Shed a tear For her bloodstained clothes She had shiny hair She had perfect breasts She had high hopes She had almond eyes She had yellow thighs She was the daughter of an engineer So get out your pistols Get out your stones Get out your knives Cut them to the bone They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine They built the dark satanic mills That manufacture hell on earth They bought the front row seats on Calvary They are irrelevant to me And I grieve for my sister We were watching TV Watching TV We were watching TV Watching TV She wore a white bandanna that said Freedom now She thought the Great Wall of China Would come tumbling down She was a student Her father was an engineer Won't you shed a tear For my yellow rose My yellow rose In her bloodstained clothes Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek That no-good, low-down dirty rat Who used to order his troops To fire on the women and children Imagine that; imagine that And in the spring of '48 Mao Tse-tung got quite irate And he kicked that old dictator Chiang Out of the state of China Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa And they armed the island of Quemoy And the shells were flying across the China Sea And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory Called Taiwan And she is different from Cro-Magnon man She's different from Anne Boleyn She is different from the Rosenbergs And from the unknown Jew She's different from the unknown Nicaraguan Half superstar, half victim She's a picture star, conceptually new And she is different from the Dodo And from the Kankabono She's different from the Aztec And from the Cherokee She's everybody's sister She's symbolic of our failure She's the one in fifty million Who can help us to be free Because she died on TV
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2010-05-31
摇滚拯救女王 - [music]
摇滚我是听 Hard Rock 入门的，你知道，这都是老美的庸俗玩意儿，再加上当年看了好多 B 级片，搞得我都不知道英国还有摇滚乐。
后来找到了更好的东西，转向于 RHCP、R.E.M.、Beck，当然还有 Nirvana。遇到英国来的朋友，聊天时只能大喊「I love Blur and Suede!」，你说我爱甲壳虫是不是也太显得自己跟不上时代了？其他英国乐队名字，当年能数出来的都不是摇滚了，Portishead、Massive Attack，是不是还有阵子流行 Rave 来着，反正也跟着听。
过了很久才发现，我 1TB 的硬盘里留着的，竟然大部分都是英国乐队。还有一个发现是，一张新下的专辑，放了第一首歌就着了迷的，大部分也是英国乐队。这国家人不多啊，却总有牛鼻的新血，神奇的小组合每年都会像夏天的痱子一样四处冒出来。比如今天的 Kyte，从后摇玩到 Electropop 加 Ambient，这种创造力太让人high了。
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2010-05-27
谁在望着你，谁常驻你身边 - [music]
我天然喜欢有电影画面感的音乐。约翰·弗卢先提，红辣椒乐队的前任吉他手，单飞后出的专辑都有这种气质。
红辣椒这种年轻时颓得一塌糊涂的乐队，貌似老了之后都有追忆人生的冲动，但他们在音乐中复述的记忆，充满粗糙的颗粒感，像临摹一幅砂纸般的老脸，尤其令人感怀。
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