居然会有如此晨练操
能坚持看完的
可谓是囧神...
2008年6月8日星期日
2008年6月5日星期四
EURO 2008 Live time[欧洲杯中国直播时间表]
EURO 2008 6.08-30
No England,No focus?Let's see.
The live TV time in China.
Join me in death-H.I.M
HIM frontman Ville Valo seems totally at home sitting poolside at
his hotel in L.A. Sipping tea between cigarettes, the lead singer of the first
Finnish band ever to go gold in the U.S. is happy to be back in L.A. after
spending months at home recording the band’s follow up to 2005’s Dark Light, the
aforementioned gold record. Then again, if the quintet hadn’t been at home
during the dark, cold winter months they might not have recorded the aptly named
Venus Doom, an album that Valo describes as being “Like a trip into my personal
hell to a certain extent.”Musically, the album is the dark, hard rocking soundtrack necessary to
accompany Valo’s downward descent. “I felt that we needed a lot less keyboards
and there was just going to be more punching to the face type of thing,” Valo
says, referring to the differences between Dark Light and Venus Doom. “The whole
vibe seems fresh cause the direction we had with the last album we couldn’t go
further. So the album sonically is a bit more sparse. That’s the direction we’re
heading; heavier, doomier, and gloomier, and it’s great to tour that kind of
stuff.”
HIM will get the chance to see how the new material translates to the stage
over the summer when they join Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back
Sunday, and more on the main stage of L.P.’s Projekt Revolution tour. “All the
bands are kind of crossover in what they do, that’s really interesting,” Valo
says. “This is the first kind of traveling festival type of thing we’ve done
cause they don’t have anything like that back in Europe, so it’s exciting.” He’s
also intrigued by the eclecticism of the tour. “That’s one of the reasons we
wanted to be there,” he says of the mix of bands.
When talking about the musical references in the album, Valo rattles off
Sabbath and old-school Metallica. That rock authenticity and ferocity are
evident from the opening match that kicks off the incendiary title track. The
savage intensity is kept up in the machine gun style attack of “Love in Cold
Blood,” a track that explodes in a vicious guitar solo. The trademark HIM sense
of melody is found both in choruses throughout and in tracks like “Dead Lover’s
Lane,” as well as the acoustic “Song or Suicide,” a track recorded at L.A.’s
historic Chateau Marmont.Working with producer Tim Palmer (U2, Hot Hot Heat, Switchfoot),
who helmed Dark Light, and Hiili, the man behind the controls of the band’s
first album, the quintet has created a journey through many moods and feelings.
Often times, as on the title track, the epic 10-minute plus “Sleepwalking Past
Hope,” and the Zeppelin-infused closer, “Cyanide Sun,” that journey is an
intricate one encompassing a diverse series of sonic landscapes in the span of a
single song. “In this one we have a bit longer songs so arrangement-wise there’s
more differences within the song,” Valo says. “We wanted that contrast, having
really nice beautiful melodies and then having that really crunchy guitar thing
in there; so to have the balance between the right and wrong so to speak.”
The multi-layered tone of Venus Doom is something the band was striving
for. “The idea to have nine songs was based on Dante’s Inferno, cause hell has
nine layers, so it’s like going deeper down into hell and then coming back,”
Valo says. “There are so many different vibes and moods in the album that it’s
cool once you listen to it again, because you can’t absorb everything with one
listen.”
While that complexity hearkens back to great albums, something Valo is very
aware of, it’s also a fitting attitude for a band that continues to grow up. In
fact, keyboardist Burton had his first kid last year, prompting the group to
record Venus Doom back at home in Finland to allow the band members more time to
spend with their families.
Valo, who reads a great deal for inspiration, this time turning to
Scandinavian poetry, admits recording in Finland had some bearing on the tone of
the record. “We recorded the album during the winter so that could be one of the
reasons it sounds a bit gloomy and doomy; it’s always dark and super cold.”Weather and dark poetry aside though, it was Valo’s own evolving
life that had the biggest influence on the record. The lead single, “Kiss of
Dawn,” was inspired by the death of one of his close friends. “One of my mates
from here in L.A. committed suicide two and a half years ago, and that’s a
tribute to him,” Valo says of the song. “It’s about how it is on the other side
and how we react to it on this side. Just a young guy who had the world,
everything is possible, but deep depression and too many drugs cause you to do
stupid things. So the subject matter is not light on the album. But it’s good to
get this out. It’s cathartic.”
Some of the stuff Valo says he can only get out through songs. “There are a
couple of tunes that are too close to me personally, I can’t talk about, so it’s
better to leave that stuff open for interpretation,” he says. Nowadays I don’t
tend to write songs of just one story, there’s usually three of them going on at
the same time. And it’s good to leave people pondering, because my story is as
wrong or right as their story. If you find something that fits your life or
situation you’re in, that makes it true.”
Don’t let the heavy topics and the self-proclaimed doom and gloom,
requisites for any self-respecting hard rock record, fool you though. Valo says
the making of this album was all about what would be fun for the band. “This one
we were like, ‘Let’s just have a lot of fun and play as loud as we can,’” he
says. “And most of the songs were originally on guitars so I was playing riffs
differently. It was just me playing my Telecaster through a fuzz box and rocking
out.”
So what does Ville Valo want fans to take from the album? “Nobody can say
the album’s not heavy or that it’s not emotional or not melodic,” he says. “It’s
got everything we’re all about and that’s where we are now as a band.”
Listen Pop music: Join me in death
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2008年6月3日星期二
Apologize-OneRepublic
OneRepublic 是美国的一个流行摇滚乐队，成立于科罗拉多州。作曲／制作人ryan tedder 和他的高中朋友zach filkins 在科罗拉多州斯布林市创建了乐队。然后乐队搬迁到洛杉矶。在columbia records短暂的工作之后，他们和interscope records/mosley music group 签约了，并且完成了和乐队同名的首张专辑。这张专辑在2007年末发行。乐队的核心ryan tedder同样也是创作pop, rock,rnb的作曲／制作人。从一支标准的地下乐队到后来有机会与timbaland这样大师级的人物合作甚至被点名看好，不得不说是一种幸运，而他们的myspace也从去年开始始终保持着超高的点击率，这也彻底改变了乐队的环境，星路变的平坦，成为了billboard的热门选择。
他们的歌曲apologize的混音版本被收入timbaland2007年发行的专辑timbalandpresents:
这首歌给人的感觉便是一听钟情的,节奏
shock
value中。这首歌曲的原始版本作为专辑的单曲发行。８月末，在洛杉矶本地电台kiis-fm的节目中，这首歌受到了大量的点播。
声线都恰倒好处，淡淡的忧伤，但是节奏超赞，是一首绝对的佳作！！虽然是不能再aologize的情况，却不是那么撕心裂肺的夸大悲
伤，却有种淡定的看开了的感觉，所以有些空灵的感觉……有些放下了，却有点放不下的感觉……有些空灵但又不是很过，还是很真实的
，仅仅是偶尔悄悄离开地面一点点的低空飘过的感觉……尤其是那一句拒绝的话：“i said it's too late to
apologize……”，总感觉没有彻底拒绝，尽管有些受够了身心俱伤，却仍然有回旋余地的感觉，总之就是还有的放不下的感觉
……用自己的语言太难描述...还是用心去感受....
但，也许仅止于此了，像一首首相似的悲伤情歌一样的类似，是timbaland这个黑人大叔，让这首歌有了些不一样的感觉。
他看似加入了点和主歌不太协调的hip-hop风，却淡淡的，不着痕迹，不是很过分的凸显它，却让歌曲更有节奏感韵律感，还很有
新鲜感。两种不太相溶的东西的调和，像放慢放缓10倍更优美的hip-hop，也像舞曲混音过的抒情摇滚。顺便，也颇有商业效果
。这么一点点的hip-hop元素的加入，能让这首歌更为酷爱hip-hop的美国人喜爱～荣登榜首很久～
vote - the Submarines
喜欢音乐，但称不上一个音乐发烧友，偶尔看看别人的音乐介绍、音乐日记，再不然逛的最多的地方就是酷狗论坛了，算是淘淘Music。
刚进“欧美元素”版块，随便点了一首【单曲推荐】vote - the submarines，便被这首歌的旋律吸引了，轻快、柔和。
来自专辑<declare a new state>
cut the rain
we two have swallowed trust
you have changed
and i...
i didn't change enough
and some have said that true love
is something we are sure of
but my only hope lies
in your being confused
with all said i would wait
one hundred summers
just once again to be with you
on monday evening
the cloudy skies
on super tuesday
i wanted to die
and so you love me
sometimes i'm fun
but you only need me until
the darkness takes the sun
away from me
i've lost you
away from me
i've lost you
away from me
i've lost you
away from me
i saw a silver sun
and wanted it to touch everyone
you held my arms and pulled me back
but there's no way that
i can give this up
some other way
there's got to be another
some other way
there has to be another
some other way
there's got to be another way
we are scientists we will not be afraid
i'm not saying
that there's no hope for this
but you have tried
to change my mind
and we all know
our system's broken and i...
i'll never vote again
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