刚粗略的翻看了格兰美奖的现场，里边Taylor Swift的演唱让我想起了90年代的歌手 Lisa Lobe. 那首 dave matthew band 的演唱也不错，这支乐队我一直非常喜欢。 其它倒没有什么自己太感兴趣的。Green Day 拿到最佳表演奖，可惜市面上没有DVD看到，同时提名的Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood那张DVD倒是去年夏天买到的。

crowspal兄的好唱片不少。



什么时候crowsgal也现身就更好玩了。

呵呵，真没想到。这下好，两全了。

Radiohead,当年我买的时候是稀缺货，呵呵。

double CDs

Couting Crows[crowspal 编辑于 2010-02-04 10:55]

昨天给唱片擦擦灰，很长时间都没听了。都是我最喜欢的。

可能Schen兄也没有想到，这还真是个巧合，俺那天买圣咏的时候另外还买了一张DVD，就是Enigma2008的《七生万相》，呵呵！

晚上和朋友先接受了圣咏的洗涤，然后进入《七生万相》的虚无， 这张迷幻的感觉还真很强,本来在喝茶，看完我和朋友忍不住又去酒吧了，嘿嘿！

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Christopher Cross -Arthur's theme

田纳西中部摇滚音乐节

前面Peter White and Christoper Cross的she is in love又勾起了我对Christoper Cross的怀念，从DVD rip两首他最知名的歌与大家分享。

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Christopher Cross -Sailing

田纳西中部摇滚音乐节

不错, 俺知道这小姑娘,不过没主动听过她的歌呢.

惭愧，我去年才听说她的名字。

其实我听音乐很开放的，新老通吃。但必须承认，比起本帖主题的八十年代，现在的美国排行榜，上面好听的歌真的很少。这也就不奇怪Taylor Swift如此走红。

我和crowspal兄同类，不过我喝酒不行，不泡酒吧。Club我最喜欢，只是现在也很少去了。

Club中文翻译成夜店很不好。夜店这个词，总给人不好的印象。

格利高里圣咏不好听，用来赎罪也不够，还是找找看哪个Club还在放Enigma的Sadness吧。

其实偷工减料还好，就怕误导人民群众。

来一首新的。听说这小妮子这几年很红。
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Taylor Swift
You Belong With Me
From "Fearless" 2008/Big Machine

所以我现在很少看中文维基了，直接看英文的

好！

维基中文明显比英文版本偷工减料。

摘自维基英文：

Speculation about drug references

After the song's initial success, speculation arose that the song contained veiled references to smoking marijuana.[6] For example, the word "paper" in the name of Puff's human friend (Jackie Paper) was said to be a reference to rolling papers, and the word "dragon" was interpreted as "draggin'," i.e. inhaling smoke; similarly, the name "Puff" was alleged to be a reference to taking a "puff" on a joint. The supposition was claimed to be common knowledge in a letter by a member of the public (who offered no qualifications for his expertise on the topic) to The New York Times in 1984.[7]

The authors of the song have repeatedly rejected this urban legend and have strongly and consistently denied that they intended any references to drug use.[8] Peter Yarrow has frequently explained that "Puff" is about the hardships of growing older and has no relationship to drug-taking.[9] He has also said of the song that it "never had any meaning other than the obvious one" and is about the "loss of innocence".[10]

On one occasion, during a live performance, Yarrow mocked the drug-related interpretations by reciting his own tongue-in-cheek drug-related reinterpretation of "The Star-Spangled Banner", and ended by saying, "You can wreck anything with that kind of idiotic analysis."[11]

In 1976, "Paul" of Peter, Paul and Mary also upheld the song's innocence. Noel "Paul" Stookey recorded a version of the song at the Sydney Opera House in March 1976,[12] in which he set up a fictitious trial scene. The Prosecutor, a snake, accused the song of being about marijuana, but Puff and Jackie protested. The judge finally leaves the case to the jury (the Opera House audience) and says if they will sing along with the song, it will be acquitted. The audience joins in with Stookey, and at the end of their sing-along, the judge declares "case dismissed."

An example of how this myth had become part of the popular culture four decades after the song's introduction, can be gauged by the song's appearance in the 2000 film Meet the Parents, where there are many conversations and references to its supposed drug message. The song also appears in the fourth episode of The Oblongs, where Bob, Milo's father plays a few lines on a piano at a parent-teacher meeting.

Another example of how the urban legend has become part of the culture comes from an assertion made by Fox News that in January 2004, as Yarrow was campaigning with personal friend and Presidential candidate John Kerry, Kerry had made a gesture as if puffing a joint as Yarrow sang "Puff".

[辘轳仙影 编辑于 2010-02-02 23:46]

俺当时可是把它当童谣听得，磁带的介绍也是这么说的。 巧了，我记得当年这盘美国民谣磁带里也有刚才那首leaving on a jet plane,还有Bob Dylon 的 blowing in the wind，是国内出的，现在忘了是不是和英文教学资料配套的。

摘自维基中文：

歌詞

這首歌曲的歌詞是基於一名當時正於康乃爾大學讀書的一位十九歲男生——Leonard Lipton所作的一首詩歌。他是由美國詩人Ogden Nash一首所創作的詩歌「Custard the Dragon」的身上得到靈感的。他創作完自己的那首詩歌後，便把它交給他的朋友，也是在康乃爾大學學習的Peter Yarrow，他後來便將這首詩變成一首歌，並將更多的內容放在其歌曲上[1] 。

這首歌的歌詞是一個關於一隻名叫「Puff」長生不老的龍跟他的玩伴「Jackie Paper」的小故事。故事是說「Jackie Paper」小時候整天跟「Puff」玩耍，但當他長大後，卻對虛構的探險不感興趣，更沒有理會「Puff」，令牠生活在孤獨和沮喪之中。故事的場景設定於一個名叫「Honalee」的虛構小島，其名稱是由Leonard Lipton所創建的。

Their second album, Moving, released in January of 1963, got off to a slightly slower start, but it found its way to number two and a 99-week run with help from "Puff (The Magic Dragon)," a song that Peter Yarrow had written in college. The single rose to number two that spring and became one of the most beloved children's songs of all time, as well as the trio's passport through any potential controversy.

As long as they included "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" in their repertoire, however, the trio was still largely immune from attack by the right.

确实有此一说。不过，我是先听到weeds的说法，其次才听到儿歌的说法。

[辘轳仙影 编辑于 2010-02-02 23:31]

这首歌也正是我小学时候听到的.就歌词而言,以前都把它作童谣.前几年我有次看电视, 英文电视节目中就在谈这首歌,结果完全不是这个意思, 这首歌其实是和Weeds有关的，呵呵。

这首歌也可以看作他最后终结的写照吧! 不过不是喷气机。

Peter, Paul & Mary也少了一位——Mary去年死于白血病。

再来一首：
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John Denver featuring Peter, Paul and Mary
Leaving on a Jet Plane
From "Album 1700" 1967/WB

巨星不死，巨星只会凋零……