Have a Little Patience

Take That is history. Yet sometimes history replays.

Their new single "Patience" is typical brit-pop, and therefore, not bad. The theme is sorta like Enrique's Sad Eyes, though.



And how about Erique's Sad Eyes?

Where is Your Home?

In some episode (I forget which one) of Prison Break, our beloved character "Van Gogh" passed away. Although it almost becomes a "fashion" to write a "prayer" for every character that died in Prison Break, I do not plan to do so. And it seems that Haywire does not worth it, either—he does not seem to belong to this world where we do.

Then we heard this song Home at Haywire's fall. It felt a bit strange, but not out of place. "Home", such a warm word. It is so warm that people often forget why it is.

Dictionaries would not miss out on the word "family" for the entry "home", yet they might forget the word "destination"—although probably the word "home" "shines" because of, not "family", but "destination". There is a line in Trainspotting said by the character Mark Renton: Here I was surrounded by my family and my so-called mates and I've never felt so alone. Probably he felt this way because he felt his destination missing.

Where is your home? Maybe it is not about family, but it must be about where you belong. Is it where you are now, or is it the neverland that you have been looking for for so long, with blue sky, bright sunshine, and windmills rotating with refreshing breeze?

But I guess the lyrics are right anyway, One day you really got to go home.

Review: Just Like the Fambly Cat

It is hard to describe how it was like listening to Grandaddy's last album. Kind of sad, while well aware that sadness will not help. Anyway, drop the mood and let us see how it was like.

Just Like the Fambly Cat is just like Grandaddy, one cannot see this last album as one of those last albums that have a sum-up effect over the artists, though. Compared with earlier peaks like Sumday and The software Slump, Just Like the Fambly Cat is simply "plane" Grandaddy. During the nearly one-hour time, one could even be reminded of Under the Western Freeway for some quite similar tunes. Well, sometimes it is difficult to drop the mood, isn't it; Summer...It's Gone is quite emotional, and so sad that it almost brought me to tears. One could also find some songs with that kind of "bright color" of Grandaddy's and when you are listening, it is like sunshine were on you. The album ends with Jason singing I'll never return. (Shangri-La (Outro))

Grandaddy, thank you for your talent, and whatever, you will always be one of my favorites!

Grandaddy Forever

It feels so unreal that Grandaddy actually quit. It is not that sometimes facts do not feel kind of unreal, it is that they feel simply unreal, and then you think to yourself like, how did this happen? And it is even sadder to know that Grandaddy quit because they didn't see the hope of achieving the "greatness" that they had been going after all these years. I don't know how they defined the word "greatness"; I think they meant "success" actually. Because I believe everyone that has listened to Grandaddy knows they are great and they are one of the greatest. I don't know, either, what I would do if I were they and my band were not making money. Whatsoever, all these are just guesses, and all I could do now is wish them good luck after they separated ways after the greatness, I would stick with the word though, as Grandaddy.

Review: Rudebox

Robbie的新专辑Rudebox终于发布了！ 也许让我来评价这张电子舞曲主打的专辑我还不太合格，因为不了解这类音乐，舞曲我基本没怎么专门听过，电子我就听过Moby的那张Hotel，当时听Moby的感觉就是...没什么感觉，didn't get it. 但是对于Robbie的这张新专辑，我也听过几遍了，还是来说两句吧。

主打单曲Rudebox 我就不多说了，它得到的诸如“史上最烂单曲”之类的烂评已经够多了，我虽然也不喜欢这首歌，但多说也没什么益处。然后是第二首单曲：舞曲Lovelight，在我的另一个帖子里已经评价过，当时我说它“比Rudebox好一些，但也好不了多少”——现在看来我当时的评价是有失偏颇了，因为这首歌是翻唱——我对舞曲不热衷，也许最优秀的舞曲在我听来仍然很平庸。当然，现在可以来公允的评价一下这首歌：这首歌也许是一首经典舞曲，但Robbie的缺乏热情和灵感的演绎并没有让我觉得感觉出这首歌的精彩，我不去评价原唱是否优秀，但就我听的Robbie的这个版本，它是我听过的舞曲中平庸的，这一点和我之前的评价并不冲突。

前面几首主打的舞曲中唯一给我留下了一点印象的是第四首Bongo Bong - Je Ne T Aime Plus，节奏调皮可爱。我觉得Robbie还不如拿这首歌替代Lovelight出单曲。然后接下来的几首舒缓的电子乐我就不评价了，等我什么时候听懂Moby了再来评价。又或者什么时候Robbie来唱迷幻电子(which is unlikely)了我也许能说上几句。到了后半部分又回到了舞曲类的音乐。在倒数第二首让人惊喜的出现了一首Robbie style的抒情小品后，最后以一首说唱结束。

这张专辑收了整整17首音乐，长度超过了一个小时，但如果在里面寻找我们Robbie迷所熟悉的“罗氏音乐”，恐怕只有She's Madonna和倒数第二首Summertime。对于歌手来说，变化是一件好事，像Robbie的那张摇摆乐专辑就相当成功，得到了乐界人士的肯定和歌迷的喜爱。只希望Robbie对新乐风的尝试都能像Swing When You're Winning一样成功。

最后推荐一首：
Bongo Bong - Je Ne T Aime Plus (King of the Bongo)

更新：修改了歌曲连接以便其在Pkblogs.com下也能工作。

更新：修改了图片连接以便其在Pkblogs.com下也能工作。

Robbie Williams: Dance & Electronic?

罗比又推出了他的最新单曲Lovelight。今天刚听过，和Rudebox一样又是舞曲，看来罗比的新专辑（将在十月份发布）是电子舞曲主打了。他的上一首单曲Rudebox的评价真是很差啊，所以这首风格一样的Lovelight的命运还真是悬！

这首Lovelight听起来很普通，就像所有的舞曲差不多，感觉没有什么特别出彩的地方。有Rudebox那么糟糕的评价在前，这首新歌的评价应该不会更糟了，毕竟比Rudebox好听很多。

舞曲向来不是我喜欢的音乐风格，感觉从他的上一张专辑开始，罗比就离我越来越远了。不管怎样，还是祝你好运吧Rob!

(现在这首新单曲在罗比的官方MySpace的首页就可以听到）

更新：刚刚又找到了这首新单曲的MV，Robbie在里面的表现不如他过去，感觉有些...疲倦。

Robbie Williams Asian Tour Cancelled

这条新闻从“罗比要来”到“罗比可能不来了”，到昨天得到的确认消息“罗比不来了”，我想包括我在内的罗比的中国的粉丝都会觉得很失望。虽然不是所有的国内的歌迷都有机会去上海现场去看演出，但我想如果罗比真得来中国的话，我的心情会和当时中国首届网球公开赛时一样开心。

新闻里提到最多的就是上海主办方可能遭受的损失，我想这对罗比的歌迷来说并不是最重要的。最重要的应该是罗比这次出尔反尔对罗比在中国乃至整个亚洲的声誉的影响。有人可能笑“罗比这个坏小子能有什么声誉？”但事实并不是这样，这次取消演出的事件和罗比平时“天天换女友”之类的事件可不能比，临时取消演出这样的行为涉及要艺人的艺德问题。

同时又有消息称罗比这段时间里他的忧郁症又开始犯了，不知道是不是真这样。如果事实真像罗比官方所说，取消是因为太累，档期太紧，那也许我们歌迷也应该对罗比宽容一些——如果有不满，我觉得主要还是要怪这次world tour的策划人。

In Your Love, My Salvation Lies

Prison Break里的这首配乐Orange Sky并不是那种张扬的音乐，而是给人很沉寂，很内敛的感觉。歌词跟剧情连接的很紧密，还表现出了除剧情表现的紧张气氛之外的另一种兄弟之情的温馨。

In your love, my salvation lies.

Beautiful as It Is

因为在Youtube上的一个网友制作的MV知道了Aqualung这个歌手，这首配给了电影Eye of the Beholder的Strange and Beautiful就如同这部电影里的故事一样动人。Aqualung的声线首先让我想到了Chris Martin，但Aqualung在这首歌表现出的的对爱的渴望却又胆怯的情素和Chris在他的Parachutes里的年少的热情和无畏完全相反，却同样浪漫。

在对这首歌的了解中无意间还发现了这首歌还是我最喜欢的电影之一Wicker Park的配乐，这让我回想起Wicker Park里那个纯情的女孩在第一次遇见片中的男主角的情形。真是巧合，但也不巧，我有时就会发现我的喜好之间有一些很让人惊奇的联系。接下来就马上印证了这个猜想，这首歌的演绎者是英国人，而我最喜欢的音乐类别之一就是brit-pop。

当我查到这首歌所在的专辑后，第一次看到唱片封面时我想，这世界上竟有如此美丽的侧面，这不就是歌里的那个静静站在一边等待着自己心中的可人儿的人的影象吗？

人如其歌。

（在这里听）