MV : "等等" by Grasshopper

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MV : "Goodbye kiss" by Jackie Cheung

Old 'un by the God of song. One of my favourite Jackie songs.

MV : "Jade butterfly" by Nicholas Tse 謝霆鋒

Great song by Nic.

MV : "落花流水" by Eason Chan

Some of his songs are really great though dunno whats up with his hair in this MV!

Joey Yung is a Cosmo Girl

From SCMP.

MV : "Mr Pig" by Andy Hui

One the better songs in Andy's latter few years.

CD : Vincy Chan - more Vincy

Vincy Chan's latest album is very fine indeed. 10 great songs starting with "Love delusions" which is a rollicking pop-rock song and ending with a duet "My memory isn't mine" the singer Ocean. Unlike a lot of albums there are not many fillers and Vincy is on good singing form throughout. Like most cantopop albums there is a bit of a mixture of styles but the mixture isn't too jarring and it is a great excursion in contemporary pop-rock. I'd stretch to saying this is the best cantopop album of the year so far. I haven't bought that many though admittedly... but even if i had i doubt this wouldn't be far off the top of the list.

Janice Vidal interview

Talking about her English language album, her sister's drug arrest et cetera. Interview by SCMP.

MV : "白紙" by Vincy Chan

Got Vincy's new album yesterday, its very good indeed and includes this song.

MV : "Big brother" by Janice Vidal

One of Janice's early hits.

MV : "砒霜" by Bowie Lam & Gigi Lai

Lets have a duet!

MV : "个性" by Linda Wong

Another great old Linda video.

CD : Janice Vidal - morning

Janice has usually included some songs in English on her cantopop CDs (including some translated Leon Lai songs on her debut) but this is her first fully English album. She sounds great of course with her pronunciations spot on though on some songs her breathing is a little too audible. My favourite song on the album is "speechless" which is a nice ballad with good tone and a big chorus. Its basically a good cantopop album in English though the lyrics are maybe a bit basic.

MV : "你不是好情人" by Twins

Ahh Twins, where did it all go wrong? Well we know of course but lets not go into that!

MV : "I am Aaron Kwok" by Aaron Kwok

Aaron thinks we need reminding who he is!

MV : "睡公主" by G.E.M. Tang

Right up to date cantopop wise a nice song by G.E.M. Tang.

CD : Rowena Cortes - raining sha la la

Rowena Cortes did not release many albums in her short(ish) cantopop career in the 1980s but with this re-issue as part of UMG's Black in Black series this more or less completes her cantopop discography. There is one more album i have seen the cover of dating back a bit further (late 70s i think).

Raining sha la la was a hit for Rowena and starts off this typical mid-80s cantopop album, the song has a lovely early electronic melody to it. Electronics were just getting going in cantopop by then so this album is a mixture of the more organic funky sounds of the early 80s and the electro-pop which dominated the genre well into the 90s and the best songs are in this vein such as 暗藍 and 笑匠. Of course there are a couple of western cover versions though these arn't terrible. Overall its a good selection of music with Rowena's sweet vocals and seems a shame Rowena did not release that much after this album.

One nice touch, as with all the Black in Black series, is the black CD and faux-LP design.

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MV : "DNA gone wrong" by Leon Lai

Oh no my DNA has gone wrong!

MV : "虹日" by Hacken Lee

Going really old skool with Hacken!

MV : "In search of the deities" by Joey Yung 容祖兒

Joey's new album is really good, this song is off it.