I am listening to Sodagreen's debut album right now! Feeling quite happy about it. Yup, I went out today to search for that album. I was so so so determined to find the album I actually searched a total of 5 different CD stores for it - HMV, Sembawang (is the company closing down?), Gramophone, CD-Rama and That CD Shop, all because I wanted to buy the CD at the cheapest price possible. I've become such a cheapo. Sheesh.
Anyway, I spent a total of 60 bucks on CDs today. I couldn't help it. There were so many CDs on sale, CDs that I wanted to buy ages ago but put the idea off because of either a lack of budget or lack of time or just simply forgot that I wanted to buy that CD, CDs that I never ever heard of but were being sold a dead cheap prices, so you know, you just got to have it... SO SO many to choose from. Argh. I went mad, just taking random CDs of the rack and telling myself that I've gotta have this and that. I'm gonna try and plough trough my whole stack of CDs later, before I go to sleep. Talk about collateral damage, or in this case, collateral purchases.
Its quite amazing that a simple entry on Sodagreen can be updated 3 times in a single day. What can I say? I turn fanatical sometimes. ____________________________________________________
My favourite Sodagreen song, from their debut album. The vocalist of Sodagreen, 吴青峰 is quite erm... niang. I mean, yeah, if you watch most of their MVs, he has really weird stage presence and actions, involving a series of twitches and rather effeminate actions, which looks like spasms or something. But of course, that could be attributed to the fact that they started out as an amateur underground band (which is how the best bands supposedly come about) so they don't really care about fancy moves or anything.
And oh yes, 吴青峰's voice is also awfully high, in fact, I think he may actually be singing in the key for females. That's how unnaturally high his voice is. Crazy. So you can be forgiven if you thought it was a girl singing the songs in the first place. I dunno how he managed to achieve that voice... its just too high for a guy. But oh well. He is talented. Most, if not all, the tunes and lyrics are composed by him. And who cares if he has quirks? Most of the best song writers have strange quirks - 阿信 of Mayday freaks out if his fringe is messed up, and he needs to wear a baseball cap to cover his face whenever he is outdoors; Chris Martin of Coldplay is a vegan even though he looks like he is malnourished or something; John Lennon digs strange, eccentric girls like Yoko Ono; Paul McCartney married Heather Mills (with her prosthetic leg); Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong puts on mascara; Elton John loves performing with feather boas around his neck... the list goes on.
Sodagreen's music appeals to me, because it reminds me of emo Brit rock, the branch of rock made famous by bands like Oasis, U2, Coldplay and recently, Snow Patrol. Its more mellow, more emotional that American punk rock, or heavy metal for that matter. Which is the kind of music that appeals to my horribly horribly damaged soul of course. *cough* You don't really find much Chinese Bands these days that are in this mould. Other Chinese bands I am fond of, like Mayday or FIR or 南拳妈妈 follows styles that are somewhat different. Mayday used to be quite emo as well, but recently, their style has been evolving into something slightly more American. FIR takes their inspiration from Jap rock. And 南拳妈妈's source of artistic inspiration is mainly from Jay Chou and his brand of hip hop/asian fusion music.
I just wanted to wax lyrical about Sodagreen's songs really. I'm just deliberately postponing that entry about my Europe trip that you guys know, is bound to turn up sooner or later. Sigh. _______________________________________________
I've been listening to way too much 苏打绿 songs these days. For the uninitiated, 苏打绿 (or Sodagreen) is a Taiwanese band that has recently been making waves in the Chinese Pop Scene. In fact, they just won the award for Best Group/Band at the Golden Melody Awards on Saturday, which is sorta equivalent to the Chinese Grammys. And if memory serves me right, this is actually their second time receiving this award. (They won two years ago when they released their debut album then.) Anyway, I like this particular cover of this rather old song. Apparently its for some charity so its released as a single or something. Like the lyrics, and the way they sang it.
Anyone out there with a copy of their debut album? I'm looking for it at various music stores. Can't seem to find it. Hmmmm. So if you do have a copy of it, do me a favour and lend it to me. Yup.
And for the record, I'm still having difficulty with the whole sleeping according to S'pore time thing. Probably goes to show that my body's too in tune with UK time. Hmmm.
Name: voldemort33
XY, 01/06/1987, s'porean typical geminian free-thinker moody & eccentric thinks far too much for his own good med student (be afraid. be very afraid!) demon45_6f@hotmail.com
crazy craves
music (jazz, rock and lounge) day-dreaming drawing & photography animals (sheep!) chocolate and tea! seafood, noodles and soup!
pet peeves
noisy crowds over-possessive, insecure, whiny people two-faced hypocrites housework and homework being called 'rich' rushing to do stuff crying, pesky kids
deepest darkest desires! (aka wishlist!)
to be a doctor (with a heart of gold!) a dog my own condo apartment a driving license and my own four wheel drive my own comic line someone to hug
