Throughout this year, I've been quite diligent in keeping up my Canton pop downloads and listening. In fact, I have been rating all the songs I have downloaded, and those who have made "the cut" now go into my "Best of 2008" MP3 CD archive.
The following songs have earned my 5 out of 5 stars rating this year (congrats on the prestigious award. lol). I'd also have to rank them like this:
1. 謝安琪 - 囍帖街
2. 王若琳 - 迷宮 / Let's Start From Here
3. 王若琳 - 有你的快樂 / Lost In Paradise
4. 王菀之 - 永遠幾遠
5. 謝安琪 - 十字架
6. at17 - Over The Rainbow
7. 陳奕迅 - 路...一直都在
8. 周杰倫 - 說好的幸福呢
9. 謝安琪 - 17度
* Joanna Wang's album might have been released at 2007, but for all I care I consider it 2008.
囍帖街 is a timeless classic . The song seems to offer layers of feelings -- romance with a concealed grief and an even deeper life appreciation, all packaged in its simplicity – I still have a difficult time explaining why I love this song so much, after having listening to it time and time again. It’s the perfect concoction of my favourite singer at the moment, my favourite lyricist Wyman, and all-time favourite songwriter Eric Kwok, writing a song that outdoes himself compared to 夕阳无限好 for Eason.
Best album of year: this is a tough choice between 謝安琪's Binary and Joanna's Let's Start From Here -- and really the only two CDs I have actually bought this year me thinks. I would have to pick Joanna Wang, for having an album that never loses my interest despite repeating it to death earlier in the year, and also a “deep” album from song 1 to song 12. This is a very memorable album, disruptive almost, comparable to David Tao’s very first CD.
Most disappointing album of the year: HoCC's album Ten Days In The Madhouse that was just released. I can't tell whether she was trying to make another theatrical musical, CD album or just garbage. It is so crap... I mean, artistic, that it reminds me of that Faye Wong's album in the latter years (can't remember the title) where she just blabs/improvises without lyrics. Sorry, maybe it's just me not good enough to enjoy it. Not sure what she was thinking at all. Gosh. (Dis)honorable mention includes the EP from Candy Lo.
New Recognition of the year: this “award” is for a singer who has entered my "radar" for making a surprisingly good album. Besides the obvious Joanna Wang, this goes to 李卓庭; her robust, strong tone is impressive for her rock and roll songs. Comparatively, this year's newcomer 鄧紫棋 is superior from a technical perspective, but needs to tone down her improvisations, and sings more from the soul. She is going to be an interesting watch, after bursting out to stardom as 17(?) year old.
Worst album of the year: 楊千嬅's Wonder Miriam. (Dis)honorable mentions are 鄧麗欣 The Red Album and 蘇永康 So I say. Gawdamn Mark Lui. He's got no conscience. What a bad apple in HK music industry despite showing so much talent in his early days and having unmatched musical potential.
Happy new year everyone! And cheers to music.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
We've also bought 陳奕迅 and F.I.R. as well, methinks.
Oh and 劉浩龍 was pretty good too... 神啊!求求讓我睡 has been totally stuck on my mind. It might have something to do with me being sleep-deprived?
send me a copy of the best of :)
at least I won't forget my cantonese in this asian-defficient place :P
Post a Comment