哈欠吟者在伯林艮晒太阳时的哼哼唧唧: 水榭听香

再不喝咖啡音乐时间

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:25:22 GMT

从左边的“My Yobo”里播放（小心音量！）

前两天看了《Once》，让我有点怀念当年听那些纯情民谣的时光。放几首大家怀怀旧吧。

查了查《Once》的男女主角，Glen Hansard和Marketa Irglova。原来Hansard真是街头唱出来的，也真跟Irglova合作过音乐。难怪戏演得放松，驾轻就熟呀。这首《Falling Slowly》的歌词不错。“games that never amount，to more than they're meant, will play themselves out”，虽是讲男女间的游戏，我觉得也多少和了minimalism的理念。

上周末往墙板上钉这些年听音乐会的门票。发现出国前就想听，到现在还没还愿的，就剩Bob Dylan和Suzanne Vega了。当初刚听到Suzanne Vega是一盘朋友混的磁带，只有她的3首歌。《Marlene on the Wall》就在其中。那会听不懂歌词，就抓了一句“I'm fighting things I cannot see”。二十岁时正满世界望断天涯路，觉得这话无比精辟。后来不知那儿去搞了完整歌词来，就彻底投降：这姓苏的太TMD NB了。十多年了，虽然她的新专辑不大听得进去，这张同名专辑总也听不厌。那么简简单单的东西，却常能给点新的感觉。充分证明少即是多的真理。

最后一首老但是还没掉牙的是Tracy Chapman的。虽然她的社会关注歌曲比情歌有名，她的情歌也着实细腻。其实我更热爱她的几首哲学思考类歌曲。这种歌能好听，而且很好听，简直不可理喻。不过今天是情歌大联唱，先挑个《If Not Now》吧。反正我对Chapman的尊敬如江水绵绵，就象对给我们听Chapman的陈鸽老师的怀念。改天再来听《Fast Car》，讲陈鸽的故事。

Women in Arts

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:59:06 GMT

事先警告，看完了可能会有点晕。

一路看下来还是觉得雷诺阿的最好。

不喝咖啡音乐时间

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:11:03 GMT

大概快20年前了吧，那会儿还在上初中。中午家里人不在，我总是扒在收音机边上等雀巢咖啡音乐时间。咖啡和音乐，两样小资大毒草，一个懵懂小屁孩儿。结果可想而知，我中毒了。后来又有什么DHL，史东时间，音乐调频，摇滚杂志。一路没停，直到我发现了打口带。有一阵儿特羡慕那些音乐节目的主持人。记得有个Maggie，还有个张有待。就是觉得他们特牛。

后来听了N年音乐。
后来喝了N年咖啡。
后来我把咖啡戒了。

音乐还是要听的。如今作DJ也容易。所以，我要作陈有待！（说完自己就吐了一键盘）。

在Yobo上淘了淘，居然有Bark Psychosis的《Hex》。6、7年前不知怎么找到一个叫沉默的蟋蟀的网页，收了些挺有意思的东西，包括Bark Psychosis。从那以后我才开始听后摇之类的。Bark号称后摇之父。如今听可能没什么稀奇，当年大概是挺革命的。Bark是个短命/断命的乐队。在世的时候不怎么受人瞩目。好容易开始走红，却只出了一张好评如潮的《Hex》就散伙了。倒是身后又出了2张专辑把过去的EP炒一遍冷饭。10年后Sutton才又借尸还魂。短命乐队有的是，有影响力的少。Bark应该算一个。传言窦唯深受Bark启发，应该是真的。听过《Hex》再来听窦唯《山河水》以后的作品就很make sense。有几支曲子简直就是直接从Bark的碟里扒下来的。当然后来窦唯越玩越玄，这是后话。

这支《Pendulum Man》后来在《Game Over》和《Replay》里炒过现场版。我记得更有趣些，可惜Yobo上没有。

从蟋蟀那里发现的宝贝还有Keith Jarrett。这个更是大师。可惜Yobo上也没有。

Pink Floyd就不用说了。只是《Dark Side of the Moon》红得发紫，紫得发臭。搞得我一直不太喜欢。只这首《The Great Gig in the Sky》是我的最爱。想象中听这首歌最好的场景是：住纽约洛杉矶Downtown大高楼四五十层的，有玻璃落地大窗的那种，找个depressed的晚上，把灯全灭，边看city lights边让这吟唱淹没。听到高潮处，就涌身望下一跳。夜风吹在脸上，自由落体地向那浮世中寻个解脱。

子曰这首《相对》有趣。很难想象子曰这么柔情的一面。当初挺看好子曰。主要是跟别的乐队不一样。那种古戏味是让人耳目一新的。也是因为老崔力荐吧。可后来就没动静了。要说短命，真算国内乐队的特长。

Here's to the crazy ones

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:16:55 GMT

Why the best clips on YouTube are mostly commercials?

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:17:31 GMT

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feeling disappears
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way


Main Riff
                                               _     
E|--------0-----------0-----------0-----------| |
B|--------1-----------1-----------3-----------|*|
G|--------2-----------0-------2---2-----------| |  play this a few times
D|----2---2-------2---2-----0-----------------| |
A|--0-----------3-----3-----------------------|*|
E|--------------------------------------------|_|

Another Riff

    G         Am7        F/G        C/G           _
E|--3----------3----------3----------3-----------| |
B|--0----------1----------1----------1-----------|*|
G|--0-(8x)-----2-(8x)-----2-(8x)-----0-----------| |
D|--0----------2----------3----------2-----------| | reapeat this once  
A|--2----------0----------0----------3-----------|*|
E|--3--------------------------------------------|_|

3 riff 
(each chord is strummed 8 times ... and all down strokes)
   G   Am7   F/G   G  G  Am7  F/G  G
E|-3----3-----3----3--3---3----3---3---------------------
B|-0----1-----1----0--0---1----1---0---------------------
G|-0----2-----2----0--0---2----2---0---------------------
D|-0----2-----3----0--0---2----3---0---------------------
A|-2----0-----0----2--2---0----0---2---------------------
E|-3---------------3--3------------3---------------------

What hands can do

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:30:27 GMT

What hands can do.

Ali Farka Toure

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:10:20 GMT

第一次听Ali Farka Toure是在Harjani家的party。喝过半夜，大家陆续告辞。还赖着不走的总也是我们这几个。屋里一时静了下来。灯色昏黄下，Ramesh郑重其事地放上一张CD。琴音泻地。平静清越的歌声流过酒精泡软了的身体，一阵麻酥酥的。那是一张Ali Farka Toure的Talking Timbuktu。

惊为天籁之余，转天我就去买了一张他的Radio Mali来。青天白日之下，嘈杂工作之间，天籁褪色了不少。听了几遍，没多久也就搁下了。

而如今，Ali Farka Toure竟已经死了。

早上出门的时候，我又淘了他的CD出来，想悼念一下。开在101上，一曲Amadinin响起，听得竟有点出神。那客厅，那灯光，那酒意，和着加州早春的阴雨，轻轻漫了进来。

牛，真牛

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:02:12 GMT

蛋蛋给的两个YouTube链接。

如今的孩子太猛了：

这个Jake Shimabukuro更牛：

Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:45:20 GMT

Well my friends are gone and my hair is gray
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the tower of song

I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the tower of song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the great beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the tower of song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they don't let a woman kill you
Not in the tower of song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And theres a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the tower of song

I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the tower of song

Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is gray
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the tower of song