This is really cool: Chinese music/rock awards. Miserable Faith won a lot of the categories, including album of the year. I absolutely love that album of theirs ♥ Helen won in the female singer category, which is also awesome. Not particularly fond of the other nominees. But, I object to AK-47 getting best metal performance. I've actually only heard their second album, but it generally wasn't too pleasant; meanwhile, Voodoo Kungfu are killer; I'd choose Ordnance over AK-47, too. Hell, even Suffocated are better. Dude from Honey Gun and Spring Autumn also won a category and both those bands are good, so that's nice.

Worked four hours today. Fridays are pretty painful. All day tomorrow and then a couple of my friends are getting together and we're gonna watch some scary movies. Hopefully it'll be fun.

I did some serious shopping tonight: a black sweater and a red sweater from Dynamite, grey pants, a pink tanktop and a grey/pink striped sweater from Garage, a book from Chapters, flats and sunglasses from Payless (they had a really good sale on) and some underwear. I spent too much money lol.

So, after a month and eight days of waiting, I finally have it!



The Beatles Stereo Box Set

I used to absolutely hate The Beatles, but I came around and now I'm like obsessed. These albums are all remastered and come in nice new packaging. Go (jrocknyc) reviewed this set not long ago, but that whole thing was odd to me. Why would you buy something like this if you didn't like the artist to begin with? Remastering doesn't re-write the songs. I dunno. I also disagree that they're boring to the modern listener.

Please Please Me (1963)
I heard some complaints about the stereo remasterings of the earlier albums, because the music and vocals sound too separated. Vocals are on the left and instruments on the right. It's not as bad as people made it out to be, but there;s an weird echo on the left side from the voclas O_O Not my favourite album of theirs, but the songs are catchy and there's some covers. And the vocal harmonies <3 Two two best are easily their first single, Love Me Do, which, songwriting wise, sounds like a huge step up from the other tracks and that absolutely awesome cover of Twist and Shout. The non-single tracks for this album were recorded in like 10 hours or something like that.
Best songs: I Saw Her Standing There, Boys, Please Please Me, Love Me Do, Do You Want to Know a Secret, Twist and Shout

With the Beatles (1963)
I think I might like this album more than Please Please Me, but not many of the songs are huge standouts. The songwriting and music are both pretty similar throughout the album. But, I did some comparing between the remastered disc and a previously released one, and it sounds so much clearer, but it's pretty noticible how the vocals are basically on one side. This album's just kinda... pleasant to listen to and the covers are quite good.
Best songs: It Won't Be Long, All My Loving, Please Mister Postman, Roll Over Beethoven, Hold Me Tight, Money (That's What I Want)

A Hard Day's Night (1964)
I think this is when they started making some really great music. This album has some key Beatles' tracks on it and is a lot more enjoyable than the previous two albums. There's a good variety in the songwriting, too. Great album :)
Best songs: A Hard Day's Night, I Should Have Known Better, Tell Me Why, Can't Buy Me Love, Any Time At All, The Things We Said Today

Beatles for Sale (1964)
This album didn't do much for me. Not too many tracks really grabbed me. It's one of those ones that you can go through entirely and feel underwhelmed at the end. I don't think this even made Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. It's not terrible, but... not that great, either.
Best songs: No Reply, Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!, Eight Days a Week, What You're Doing, Everybody's Trying to be My Baby

Help! (1965)
This album is really good. Full of catchy and well known songs. It lags a little bit towards the end, where the songs don't have anything all that unique about them; particularly from tracks 8-11. Really though, that's only a small portion of an otherwise great album.
Best songs: Help!, Night Before, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Another Girl, You're Going to Lose That Girl, Ticket to Ride, I've Just Seen a Face

Rubber Soul (1965)
Even though this album has one of my favourite Beatle songs (I'm Looking Through You), I didn't think I liked it much. I enjoyed it much more going through it again and found a good number of tracks I really liked. It's kinda folky sounding and quite different from Help!, even though they were released with only four months between them. The album was ranked number 5 on RS's Great Albums of All Time and is the first time the band used the sitar in their music.
Best songs: Drive My Car, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), The Word, What Goes On, I'm Looking Through You, Wait, If I Needed Someone

Revolver (1966)
I think it was George Harrison that said he viewed this album as a continuation of Rubber Soul. I don't know if I think of it that way. I also think they called this the 'acid album'. It's a bit more rockin' than the previous album and it has the really psychedelic Tomorrow Never Knows on it. It also has And Your Bird can sing; another favourite Beatles song of mine. The guitar ♥ Rolling Stone named this the third best album of all time.
Best songs: Taxman, Elanor Rigby, She Said She Said, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, For No One, Got to Get You Into My Life, Tomorrow Never Knows

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Rolling Stone's greatest album of all time. Notable for not only it's songs, but for the techniques used. I dunno if I'd exactly agree with that, but it is a good album. Tons of diversity in the tracks and interesting compositions and there's nothing on here that's really skip-worthy. I'm not a huge fan of Good Morning Good Morning and I've heard Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds more times than I've needed to over the course of my life. I've been listening to Lovely Rita a lot lately; s'a fun, cheery little song.
Best songs: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, With a Little Help from My Friends, She's Leaving Home, Lovely Rita, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise), A Day in the Life

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Definitely not my favourite Beatles album. There's a few really good tracks, but other than that I honestly don't like it very much. The songs just seem really dull. You can't deny the absolute greatness of Hello Goodbye. That song is fabulous, especially the ending part. The other songs... passable, not terrible, but aren't ones I'd really go out of my way to listen to. Maybe it'll grown on me. I dunno.
Best songs: The Fool on the Hill, I Am the Walrus, Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane

The Bealtes [White Album] (1968)
The Beatles' 2-disc monster of an album and RS' 10th best album of all time. Lots of tension during the recording of this, even causing Ringo to temporarily leave. There's so much diversity in the songs, but they're not all good (Honey Pie comes to mind, Revolution 9). I think this album's the most straight-up rock of their releases, but there's still influences of other genres and all four members contributed songs. You have the fast-paced Back in the USSR in contrast to the melancholy Happiness is a Warm Gun. The hard-rock stylings of Helter Skelter and the bluesy Yer Blues. I'm not even gonna mention anymore becuase they're all over the place, musically.
Best songs: Back in the U.S.S.R., Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, Birthday, Yer Blues, Helter Skelter, Cry Baby Cry

Yellow Submarine (1969)
Like half the album is instrumental. My guess is that it's just music from the movie. Yellow Submarine is an okay song, but not my favourite. Hey Bulldog's the only really good one; very good, in fact. I don't like All You Need is Love and the rest are just kinda meh sounding.
Best songs: Hey Bulldog, All Too Much

Abbey Road (1969)
Really their last album. the Let It Be sessions were done first, but everyone was so frustrated with them that they abandoned it and then worked on this album. Some absolutely fantastic songs, like Come Together are on this album and overall it's really good. There are no bad songs, but, as with some of their other releases, the rest are mostly in the meh category. At least this have the possibility to grow on you. Towards the end, there's a batch of songs not even two minutes lol; but there's some great ones in there.
Best songs: Come Together, Something, Oh! Darling, Octopus's Garden, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Here Comes the Sun, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

Let It Be (1970)
I kinda went through this album without realizing it was even over. The songs are all pretty different from each other, but the ones I didn't mention are kinda underwhelming. I think, for me, I just need some time to warm up to a lot of the tracks in their discography. There's not a ton that I think are terrible, so I could easily see it happening.
Best songs: Dig a Pony, Across the Universe, I Me Mine, Let It Be, I've Got a Feeling, One After 909, Get Back

Past Masters Vol. 1 & 2 (1988)
An album of songs that were'nt released on album. It's actually a really cool set. The Deutschsprecherin in me appreciates the two German tracks lol. It actually has some of my favourite Beatles songs on it and the alternate versions of album tracks are interesting. There's some pretty good covers on here, too. Yeah, overall I really liked this set.
Best songs: Komm, Gib mir deine Hand, Sie liebt dich, Long Tall Sally, Lady Madonna, Revolution, The Ballad of John and Yoko


I also bought Paul McCartney & Wing's Band on the Run album. Fucking amazing. Fucking. Amazing.

This is my desktop right now ♥


Just finished listening to the 2009 Super Girl compilation album. Really liked it. I wasn't expecting to, but generally all the songs were good.

Second attempt at a German translation:



Weißt du eigentlich
Do you actually know
Was du bist für mich?
What you are for me?
Alles andre als normal
Everything else is normal
Und jederzeit loyal royal
And at any time loyal royal
Du bist mein Fundament
You are my foundation
Keine die mich so gut kennt(1)
Keine die mich sieht wie du(2)
Old Shatterhand und ich Winnetou
Old Shatterhand and me Winnetou

Immer werden wir so bleiben
Always we'll remain
Jung und frei und schön
Young and free and beautiful
Wir beide
Both of us
Stehen auf der guten Seite
Staying on the good page(3)
Jahr für Jahr
Year after year

Immer werden wir so bleiben
Always we'll remain
Lachen über schlechte Zeiten
Laughing through bad times
Deine Schmerzen sind auch meine
Your pain is also mine(4)
Jahr für Jahr
Year after year

Weißt du eigentlich
Do you really know
Was du tust für mich?
What you do for me?
Wenn du meine Lasten trägst
If you carry my burdens
Und dich mit meinen Feinden schlägst
And you fight with my enemies
Ich vertrau dir mehr als mir
I trust you more than me
Und ich liebe dich dafür
And I love you for it
Dass du bist wie du isst
That you are how you are(5)
Dass du niemals vergisst
That you never forget
Was das Wichtigste ist
What the most important is
Wir beide
Both of us

Immer werden wir so bleiben
Always we'll remain
Jung und frei und schön
Young and free and beautiful
Wir beide
Both of us
Stehen auf der guten Seite
Staying on the good page
Jahr für Jahr
Year after year

Immer werden wir so bleiben
Always we'll remain
Lachen über schlechte Zeiten
Laughing through bad times
Deine Schmerzen sind auch meine
Your pain is also mine
Jahr für Jahr
Year after year


1/2- Really not sure how to go about translating these two
3 - Seite is a page, but that phrase could also mean 'staying on the good side'
4 - One of those German plurals which isn't plural in English. Kinda like how one pair of pants in singular (Hose) and many are Hosen lol.
5 - I've never encoutered 'isst' before. I guess you can translate is like 'ist' (is), but that's not the correct conjugation for sein (to be) with du (you). I thought originally it was like 'you are what you eat' or something lol


I have so much schoolwork to do. So much D: D: