Sunday, June 20, 2010

郭靜 - 麻雀



There are no love songs like maudlin love songs and there are no maudlin love songs better than Mandarin maudlin love songs from Taiwan.

 UPDATE 10/28/2011: Looks like the video got taken down because of copyrights issue. Oh well.  Personally I think that's just dumb.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:52 AM

    《分飛燕》跟《一水隔天涯》都不錯嘍。

    寶琦

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  2. Anonymous3:00 AM

    Do you guys know the word for "a city with a million people" that ends with the letter E? [It's a long word.] Vanessa asked me that the other day as part of her homework [a crossword puzzle] but I couldn't find it however hard I tried using dictionaries and the Internet. Thanks, guys.

    Sid

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  3. Anonymous3:54 AM

    韋秀嫻 —— 《一水隔天涯》1966年電影版:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uy5Ai_wyDE

    甄秀儀/陳浩德(合唱) —— 《分飛燕》1973年原唱版:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIyb7pQIOhc

    Sid

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  4. I couldn't recall one recent Canto pop that I am impressed. But then again I sort of give up listening to Canto pop long time ago due to I guess various circumstances or reasons. I am not much of an active listener to begin with.

    Thank you for the 《一水隔天涯》 and
    《分飛燕》 they are fabulous. 《分飛燕》 is hugely popular, there are versions by "Lai Sai" and "Tam Bing Man and Lee Heung Kam" which I am sure you are familiar too.

    Generally speaking, I think I am old when I can't appreciate what's out there currently in the Canto sphere.

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  5. Anonymous2:12 AM

    I'm hopelessly outdated. I'm still very much into Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Santana, Deep Purple and Eddie Murphy etc.

    You Know Who

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  6. I understand. I am an accidental listener when pop song is concerned. I don't actively seek out any singer.

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