Songs & Weather
Did I mention it was snowing? Well it still is and it's frigging March for christ's sake! ^^;;
Anyway, can anyone recommend some nice Chinese songs that have a pop-like yet eastern/Chinese traditional music? (It doesn't matter if it's Mandarin or Cantonese.)
I have been listening to these two songs and I sorta got addicted a little to the Chinese instruments lol. These songs were copied off my elder brother's music disc and I have no idea what they were called since I never checked the track name. I only know a few of the songs.
Here's two:
http://d.turboupload.com/d/400148/Track_06_70.mp3.html
This one above is from a HK Tv drama (金枝慾孽) it's about these...um.... King's Queen & mistresses and other servants/slaves/soldiers fighting each other inside the palace inorder to get fame, recognition and power from the King in order to survive. You may think - Wow I got elected to be a mistress/princess cool~ WRONG! Honestly speaking in the olden days, it could be worse than being in a prison cell than being in a palace(If you're not cunning enough.)
While the story is imaginary, it's a true fact within the culture, so for those that's interested in the chinese culture, this can be something you can learn about.
http://d.turboupload.com/d/400195/Track_15_59.mp3.html
Uh, I don't have an idea of what this is, all I know is that the melody's quite directed towards more on the chinese side but I like it, the man choir and teh kids choir in the background sounds cool!
And here's another one from the CD but not the same style:
http://d.turboupload.com/d/400250/Track_01_16.mp3.html
It's something else I really like =)
In fact, can someone give me feed back on the above songs? (This doesn't apply to people that speak cantonese but you can do it if you like.) The thing is, if you know mandarin and don't know cantonese, which sounds better to hear? I had a chinese friend over here, where I told her I find Mandarin to be less agressive in tone and sounds more harmonic, while she thinks Cantonese sounds better than Mandarin.
Even if you don't know both languages, I'm still interested to hear what you think of the tone ^^
PS: And if someone knows, do tell me the track title for them?
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Noticed an interesting thing in the yamane_ayano community. Click on it, and look at the title bar once it appears. You can see the extra 'BL' goodness in one of the spelling mistakes. I just spotted it today. Interesting lol.
And ViewFinder(Naked Truth) Ch7 is finally out! (Yay!) I find Tabaka-kun being much much cuter than before for some odd reason lol.
Anyway, can anyone recommend some nice Chinese songs that have a pop-like yet eastern/Chinese traditional music? (It doesn't matter if it's Mandarin or Cantonese.)
I have been listening to these two songs and I sorta got addicted a little to the Chinese instruments lol. These songs were copied off my elder brother's music disc and I have no idea what they were called since I never checked the track name. I only know a few of the songs.
Here's two:
http://d.turboupload.com/d/400148/Track_06_70.mp3.html
This one above is from a HK Tv drama (金枝慾孽) it's about these...um.... King's Queen & mistresses and other servants/slaves/soldiers fighting each other inside the palace inorder to get fame, recognition and power from the King in order to survive. You may think - Wow I got elected to be a mistress/princess cool~ WRONG! Honestly speaking in the olden days, it could be worse than being in a prison cell than being in a palace(If you're not cunning enough.)
While the story is imaginary, it's a true fact within the culture, so for those that's interested in the chinese culture, this can be something you can learn about.
http://d.turboupload.com/d/400195/Track_15_59.mp3.html
Uh, I don't have an idea of what this is, all I know is that the melody's quite directed towards more on the chinese side but I like it, the man choir and teh kids choir in the background sounds cool!
And here's another one from the CD but not the same style:
http://d.turboupload.com/d/400250/Track_01_16.mp3.html
It's something else I really like =)
In fact, can someone give me feed back on the above songs? (This doesn't apply to people that speak cantonese but you can do it if you like.) The thing is, if you know mandarin and don't know cantonese, which sounds better to hear? I had a chinese friend over here, where I told her I find Mandarin to be less agressive in tone and sounds more harmonic, while she thinks Cantonese sounds better than Mandarin.
Even if you don't know both languages, I'm still interested to hear what you think of the tone ^^
PS: And if someone knows, do tell me the track title for them?
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Noticed an interesting thing in the yamane_ayano community. Click on it, and look at the title bar once it appears. You can see the extra 'BL' goodness in one of the spelling mistakes. I just spotted it today. Interesting lol.
And ViewFinder(Naked Truth) Ch7 is finally out! (Yay!) I find Tabaka-kun being much much cuter than before for some odd reason lol.