痞客邦的布魯斯

炎炎夏日，閒來無事；連續兩個拜訪台灣的颱風又非常不受歡迎，竟然完全沒有放假，搞什麼啊？


（照片取自Wikipedia）

所以就來寫寫文章了，今天就來回顧一下阿左喜歡的一些音樂吧！其實我聽的音樂說單一很單一，說雜亂也很雜亂。根據阿左媽的描述，我大概是一出生就開始在聽音樂，因為小時候家裡開電器行，當時店裡都會擺著一台留聲機，上面一個蓋子，打開之後裡面就是個唱盤，把黑膠唱片放進去，唱針擺到唱片的位置上就可以聽到音樂了。阿左媽還說當時若我喜歡某一首歌，就會在那首歌聽完後自己跑去把唱針放回去，再聽一次。（這時候可以唱ABBA的Thank You for the Music啦！Mother says I began to sing long before I could talk.）根據阿左媽的獨家爆料，當年我最喜歡聽的歌曲是「梅蘭梅蘭我愛你」，有沒有粉勁爆呢！

好啦，言歸正傳。首先登場的是80年代一批從英國到美國打天下的所謂「新浪潮樂團」之一的Human League當年最走紅的一首歌，叫做「Don't You Want Me？」這首歌發行於1982年，當年的阿左可還是一個青澀的國中生，英文才剛開始學沒多久，所以也不太理解歌詞裡面到底在講些什麼，反正聽節奏，跟著主唱亂哼就行了，也沒有人在乎啊！

說也很奇怪，這種「不求甚解」的態度竟然延續到往後很久的時光，對這首歌的印象就只是中間副歌不斷重複的那段「你不要我了嗎，寶貝？你不要我了嗎？喔喔！」當年這首歌最走紅的時候，舞廳裡面的所有人也只會跟著哼這兩句啊！

前陣子決定上網把歌詞找出來看看裡面到底發生了什麼事情，原來也不過是那種言情小說裡面常常出現的橋段--某個男人慧眼把上某個女人，然後靠他的人脈把這個女人捧成紅牌，結果這個女人紅了之後就想過河拆橋，男人心有所不甘，一方面放話說「老子能把妳捧紅自然也能把妳毀滅，想當年妳也只不過是個吧女」，另外一方又放軟身段苦苦唱著「妳不要我了嗎，寶貝？妳不要我了嗎？喔喔！」

當年這首歌的單曲在英國一地就賣了一百四十萬張，名列英國音樂史上唱片銷售量第二十五名。當然在美國也拿到了單曲三週冠軍，讓這首歌打響了國際知名度。不過呢現在再回去看MV當然覺得很老氣，但是在當時這可以是最Hito的打扮跟造型喔！（笑）

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up, and turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too

(Chorus)
Don't, don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find
You think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry

Don't you want me baby? Don't you want me oh
Don't you want me baby? Don't you want me oh

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do

(Chorus)

Don't you want me baby? Don't you want me oh
Don't you want me baby? Don't you want me oh

(Repeat four times and fade)