Beyond - 早班火車 (Morning Train)

This is a beautiful song by my all time favourite Hong Kong rock band, BEYOND. Many of us in East Asia and South East Asia picked up guitars because of BEYOND, that's the impact they created, especially when the band mastermind Wong Ka Kui, the genius was still with us!

Too bad God took him away in such a tragic way at such young age in 1993... Guess all legends had to die young... RIP 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui (June 10, 1962 – June 30, 1993)

Anyway, Morning Train was released in 1992 under Beyond's eighth Cantonese album 《繼續革命》（Carry on The Revolution). The lyrics describe about a man who's in a one sided love in a dreamy and beautiful way, where he meets his dream woman every morning in train.


Original recording version.


Beyond performed Morning Train without Ka Kui in 2003 Live.

Lyrics:
Sorry for my lousy translation, but I believe it is still better than any crappy software translation. I hope my interpretation could at least help you understand this song better. Cheers!

天天清早最歡喜　在這火車中再重逢妳
(Every happy morning, in this train we meet again)
迎著　妳那似花氣味　難定下夢醒日期
（Moving towards your flower like fragrance,  it is hard to know when to wake up from dreams)
玻璃窗把妳反映　讓眼睛可一再纏綿妳
（Through the reflection of the glass window, my eyes could linger around you again)
無奈妳那會知我在凝望著萬千傳奇
(How frustrated that you don't know that I'm staring into thousands of legends/fairy tales)

Chorus:
願永不分散　祈求路軌當中　永沒有終站 woo-oh
(Never may we part, I pray that this journey will never end, woo-oh)
盼永不分散　仍然幻想一天我是妳終站
(Never may we part, still I imagine one day, I'll be your destination)
妳輕倚我臂彎
(You lean on my arms gently)

火車嗚嗚那聲響　在耳邊偏偏似柔柔唱
(The noise of train whistle, sounded like soft singing right next to my ears)
難道妳教世間漂亮　和默令夢境漫長
(As if you taught the world what beauty is, and silently order the dreamland to be endless)

Repeat Chorus

多渴望告訴妳知　心裡面我那意思
(How I wish I could tell you the meaning of my heart)
多渴望可得到妳的那注視
(How I wish I could attract your attention to myself)
又再等一個站　看妳意思
(Yet another station, waiting for your decision)
三個站盼妳會知　千個站妳卻似仍未曾知
(Hoping you'll know after three stations, and yet you never know after a thousand satations...)

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Celine Dion - What Wonderful World

I know many of you may not like Celine Dion's What A Wonderful World cover, and always comparing her rendition to Louis Armstrong's originality and emotion...

Well, I just don't care a bit about the comments, yes, Louis Armstrong's version is the greatest one, but after all, it's just about taste and personal preference.

Most importantly, this song just soothed me from all the negativity I had today, and that's the reason why I'm sharing this version instead of the original's.


Thank you, Celine!


from Celine Dion - Miracle (2004)

Lyrics:
I see trees of green... red roses too
I see 'em bloom... for me and for you
And I think to myself... what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue... and clouds of white
Bright blessed days.... warm sacred nights
And I think to myself... what a wonderful world.

The colors of a rainbow... so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces... of people going by
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin'.. how do you do?
They're really sayin'... I love you.

I hear babies cry... I watch them grow
They'll learn much more... than I'll never know
And I think to myself... what a wonderful world

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Christina Rosenvinge - Expensive Shoes

Attracted by the dreamy melodies and vocal, I found this song on a compilation album Happiness & Tenderness 2006, published by Avant Garden Records. It was on air during a hair cut in a local hair salon, I quickly asked for the CD that the boss was playing to get to know the song and track list.

Happiness &s Tenderness 2006 (sold out)

Expensive Shoes is actually one the dreamy (a lil more upbeat) songs from Christina Rosenvinge's U.S. debut Frozen Pool album, published in 2011. Right now I still haven't listened to many of her songs, and her earlier Latin, Spanish pop songs. It is know that she moved to New York City in 1999, and changed her musical direction from Pop to Indie and Alternative. She was also a member of Christina y Los Subterráneos.

I love her angelic voice, and somehow her voice reminds me of Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star)... what do you think?

Christina Rosenvinge on myspace

Christina's official website: christinarosenvinge.com


Frozen Pool (2001)

Lyrics:
So thank you for the lawn and the tea cups
the tutus and the crown that I´ve still got
now I shine like a new silver spoon
and keep quiet as I´m supposed to do

So thank you for the ring and the tulips
though I guess I was too young to refuse it
but it´s sunday I don´t need an excuse
I´m a shade in pretty expensive shoes

Yes, that twisted melody
spinning in my head like a ferris wheel
no, I wouldn´t be so sad
if I could be alone for a while

So thank you for the price on my raincoat
and that hook that looks so nice
round my pale throat
I´m a big girl paying all my dues
pretty girl in pretty expensive shoes
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny

SRV is one the modern guitar gods who played blues music and guitars through his heart and soul. He has inspired many other musicians and guitarists like Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, John Mayer, etc.

The 10th track of Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album, Texas Flood, Lenny is a beautiful piece of guitar solo SRV wrote for his wife Lenora "Lenny" Bailey.

According to a comment on YouTube, "Stevie saw a guitar in a music store window and wanted it but he couldn't afford it. When his wife, Lenny, heard this, she pooled together with a group of her friends to buy it for him. when they gave him the guitar he was so thrilled, he stayed up the whole night writing this song on it. He even named the guitar Lenny." (I ain't sure if this is true but sound convincing to me, though)

So let's just listen to this wonderful, bluesy and easy music of SRV, and you gotta feel the love in it!


Texas Flood (1983)

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Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine

I'm far from being a fetus when this song is written, hahaha!

This song is used as a background music for a design reel, which I don't remember who the animator is. Anyway, this song was written in 1966 by Lee Hazlewood for Suzi Jane Hokom and Hazlewood himself in 1966, but the version I post here is the remake of Nancy Sinatra and Hazlewood in 1967, and then featured on Nancy & Lee LP in 1968.

It's a rather sweet and sexy song, where a man met a woman who offered him summer wine, and ended up his silver spurs and money stole ;-)




Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best Of Nancy & Lee

Lyrics:
Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things

I walked in town on silver spurs that jingled to
A song that I had only sang to just a few
She saw my silver spurs and said lets pass some time
And I will give to you summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine

Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Ohhh-oh summer wine

My eyes grew heavy and my lips they could not speak
I tried to get up but I couldn't find my feet
She reassured me with an unfamiliar line
And then she gave to me more summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine

Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Mmm-mm summer wine

When I woke up the sun was shining in my eyes
My silver spurs were gone my head felt twice its size
She took my silver spurs a dollar and a dime
And left me cravin' for more summer wine
Ohh-oh-oh summer wine

Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time
And I will give to you summer wine
Mmm-mm summer wine
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Yanni - Santorini (Live at the Acropolis)

The first time I heard Yanni was through a Singapore TV program where they used Within Attraction as their opening music, and I didn't know who Yanni is during that time, until again, I watched Yanni's Tribute Live on Singapore's TV channel back in the 90s. Then, I fall in love with Live At The Acropolis too!

I love Santorini of Live At The Acropolis the most! The energy flows with the melodies smoothly, and it creates an impact in your heart, with its musical impressiveness! It's strong, but just nice that you'll be able to receive the energy that it delivers.

The other part I love about Yanni is his progressive style, and the slow keyboard solo of Santorini gives me an asian, oriental kind of feeling. It's just so imaginative, like taking you from where you are to Santorini to somewhere in the far east area and back in Santorini again...

It's gonna be a long weekend here in Malaysia, I'm going back in my home town and sure gonna play this song on my way home!



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Viva Voce - Special Thing (Get Yr Blood Sucked Out [Explicit])

Years ago, I heard this happy acoustic song for the first time when it was used as the background music of one of the Zune Arts animated video clip, The Zune Plane by FullTank.

No information was given on the music back then until recently some people re-uploaded this video together with the information about its background music.

Special Things is an easy listening, acoustic piece written and performed by American Indie Rock band - Viva Voce. Everything is so simple, but that's what this song has to make you happy when you listen to it.

P/S Never mind the album title, LOL! Just listen to Special Thing and relax!

Viva Voce performs Special Thing live!


Viva Voce official website: vivavoce.com
Viva Voce on myspace



Lyrics:
If the power dies again
Well who needs the light?
We'll see with our hands
and feel and understand

The notes create the source
They cause a driving force
and the sound that you explore
Through the wires on the floor

And it's a very special thing
She makes the people clap and sing
And my baby makes me happy all the time, all the time

It's the touch that's wearing thin
Where the strings break the skin
And the folks throwing stones
Have hearts like hollow bones

Lyrics www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/viva_voce/
But it's a very special thing
She makes the people clap and sing
And my baby makes me happy all the time, all the time

And it's a very special thing
She makes the people clap and sing
And my baby makes me happy all the time, all the time

And it's a very special thing
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