What is the taste of your youth? Sweet or bitter or bitter-sweet? What does it look like? Full of sunshine or grey skies? Being extremely shy and reserved, I was never the sunny kind of people. I might be one of those typical youth that we describe as "miserable green" who like to whine (very often for trivialities in the eyes of the grown-ups), inexperienced, unsophisticated and diffident. I suddenly remember my younger days because of my recent favourite - the debut album of Two Wounded Birds. Their songs are nostalgic (or some people may say it's cheesy, no), those 50's beach-boys-like pop songs. Catchy and haunting, about the feeling of being young, feeling hopeless and wasted, the unwillingness to grow up and face the real world. Oh yes, that is the album for me. I know, I know these are the lyrics that will make any grown-up roll their eyes and I know To Be Young sounds so much like The Pretenders' Don't Get Me Wrong, still this is my favourite summer album. It reminds me of that old feeling I always have, feeling of the insecurity and hopelessness, in the perfect pop tunes (so may I say that I'm still young at heart? but the said fact is, youngsters are allowed to be insecure and hopeless, while the old people like me will only be categorized as a loser).
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don't know why when I feel down,
Midge Ure's song - Tumbling Down -
always haunt around me.
drive by heart or mind, the result will be different.
Oh my brother was a huge Ultravox fan so I also like Midge Ure, I remember his If I Was but I don't know about Tumbling Down, the title seems like a sad song, have to search it on web :p
tell your brother that Ultravox re-unioned and just released a new album couple months ago.
Tumbling Down is different style to Ultravox's songs.
but my brother now probably forgets all that stuff, he is a boring person now, not listening to music, esp. western music anymore.
oh, can't find tumbling down in youtube, it's not a hit.
check your gmail ah....
oh received with thanks! really a nice song, though it's like dubbed from a cassette ;p
smart ! 夠原汁原味嘛。
I digitized most of the tapes for storage.
haha, good explanation as "原汁原味".
all my cassettes and vinyls are just covered in dust, no devices to hear them.
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