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英文经典

10多年时在家里的小音像店里总能找到一打以上的不同版本的“英文经典”磁带,里面的歌曲几乎都差不多,不重复的歌曲不会超过5首,普遍会包含的曲目有:

  • Rhythm of Rain: 我买的第一张英文经典的第一首歌;
  • Yesterday Once More: 从那个时代较洋务的高中生到如今很土的大学生,都会唱;
  • I Just Call to Say I Love You: 老黑盲人Stevie Wonder;
  • Rivers of Babylon: 最讨厌的一首歌,光是听Boney M这个名字就感觉很不爽;
  • Right Here Waiting: 今天想到这歌只感觉Richard Marx是美国的阿毒;

另外与奥斯卡有点关系的有:

  • Unchained Melody: 那时候感觉太棒了,太深情了;
  • I’ll Always Love You: 开始那几句和当时国内的流行歌曲比起来很惊艳;
  • Casablanca: 仔细的琢磨品味就会觉得很有味;
  • Everything I Do(I Do It For You): 配上电影片段,这歌能让人很high
  • The Sound of Silence: 直到今天还特别喜欢,虽然小吉他伴奏想顺畅弹下来不容易,但唱方面还能容易点,所以特适合卡拉OK;

唉,这些歌伴我度过了无忧无虑、傻呵呵的初中岁月

自从去年12月初在MAO看了致敬Beatles的演出后,便疯狂喜欢上了这首“While My Guitar Gently Weeps”。搜到了这首歌的acoustic版本,别有风味,而且视频下面还随唱显示歌词。歌词与原版有点出入,当我看到“I’m sitting here doing nothing but aging”时,之前逐渐积攒下的这种温柔忧伤的感觉立刻爆发并把我感染崩溃了。

George Harrison太酷了。

It’s said Beatles’ Yesterday has the most versions, over one thousand different versions by different bands or artists. This is a peaceful song with a little sadness, accompanied by a acoustic guitar and a violin.


I’m looking back on the moment that Yesterday changed my life.

What if I didn’t buy the double-tape of English Classic 7 years ago? What if I didn’t spent a whole month to be skilled with the first guitar? What if I didn’t choose DLNU? Where would I be now? What would I do now?

There’re so many possibilities in life. Whatever, thanks Beatles.

Yesterday

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,I’m not half the man i used to be,
There’s a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go I don’t know she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong, Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she had to go I don’t know she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong, Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm.

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the kinks

近来又迷上了The Kinks。与Beatles和Rolling Stone一样,Kinks也是出现在黄金般60‘s的乐队,但他们最有名的那首“You Really Got Me”可一点也不像那个远古时代的作品,第一次听时,我莫名其妙地感觉这歌应该是被放在99年的那次Woodstock上演唱的,直到看了Kinks的原版视频,竟然还是黑白的。

目前在mp3中保存时间最长的歌是Kinks的“Sunny Afternoon”,这倒是一首规规矩矩的典型60’s的民谣。我一向对在歌词中包含“Summer”、“Summertime”的歌有种特殊的好感,可能是源于Janis Joplin那首经典的“Summertime”,我感觉“Summertime”是个有着无限美好含义同时又没法翻译的一个词,好到单单这一个词就能使人迷幻的浮想连篇…

Summertime, and the living are easy…
Morning found us calmly unaware/Noon burn gold into our hair/At night, we swim the laughin’ sea…

同样,Kinks的这首歌也使人感到轻松惬意。

可这首歌唱夏日时光的小曲中的环境却是在冬季,这四个傻乎乎的青年…

Sunny Afternoon

The tax man’s taken all my dough,
And left me in my stately home,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
And I can’t sail my yacht,
He’s taken everything I’ve got,
All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon.

Save me, save me, save me From this squeeze.
I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly,
Live this life of luxury,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertime

My girlfriend’s run off with my car,
And gone back to her ma and pa,
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty.
Now I’m sitting here,
Sipping at my ice cold beer,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.

Help me, help me, help me sail away,
Well give me two good reasons why I oughta stay.
‘Cause I love to live so pleasantly,
Live this life of luxury,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertime

Ah, save me, save me, save me From this squeeze.
I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly,
Live this life of luxury,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertime