首先要為大家介紹目前台北市我醉喜歡的調酒師,尹凱(服務於Marquee)。對於材料掌握及層次的天份使他調出來的酒每次都帶來驚喜的氣味。有一陣子瘋狂想喝白蘭地的調酒,在阿凱的巧手下,我搭配了幾首下酒歌。
說到白蘭地,首先出場的非Brandy莫屬了。1998年這張好聽的專輯Never Say Never,除了有跟Monica合作的 The Boy is Mine, Almost Doesn’t Count等R&B佳作之外,醉適合搭配白蘭地的是這首 Have You Ever。曾經的嘗試挫敗疊出一層一層甘苦的口感,那是大人世界獨有的口感…
Have you ever searched for words to get you in their heart
But you don't know what to say
And you don't know where to start
接著是一首屬於不羈浪子的歌曲 1972年 Brandy (You're a fine girl) by Looking Glass。初聽見這首歌是在霹靂嬌娃的電影原聲帶 Charlie’s Angel OST,歌曲描述在港口城鎮當女侍的Brandy 愛上了一個更愛大海的水手。
The sailor said " Brandy, you're a fine girl,
What a good wife you would be!
But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea~"
噢~愛上浪子的白蘭蒂啊~嗯湯啊嗯湯~浪子都異常的真誠坦白,所以如此迷人,所以如此傷人
同樣的70年代,同樣的大露胸與大喇叭褲。黑人Funk Soul華麗的西裝及舞步 美妙的合聲,that’s what I call “SEXY” 但是這首Brandy (I Really Miss You)又是another story了:故事裡的Brandy永遠地離去了,而且據說這是一首寫給小狗的歌。 1978年 The O’Jays “So Full of Love”專輯
延伸聆聽→還是想看看華麗西裝舞步 到底~~ “Cry Together”
Back to the 90’s,饒舌歌手的天下。幫派女人醇酒純WEED的氣息,充滿在每一支有low ride跳跳車 煙霧瀰漫 大臀扭腰美女 人手一瓶V.S.O.P.的音樂錄影帶裡。1993年 Above The Law “Black Mafia Life”,老學校的同學們!上課啦~~ 把酒嘴給我插上!!
Everything is fine
When you're rollin' with your homies and a little bit of V.S.O.P.
All the niggaz gettin' high
With a whole lot of chronic and a gallon of a V.S.O.P.
If you wanna feel fine
Free your mind to the mega shots of V.S.O.P.
Now you gotta get hype
And you turn into G with a little bit of V.S.O.P.
Above the law - v.s.o.p
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延伸聆聽→Simply Red 的這首名曲Sunrise (2003, Home) 咦!! 這兩首歌的編曲簡直是一模模一樣樣耶!! (而且女人也狠多…)
其實其實 原來原來:它們都取樣自同一首1981年Daryl Hall John Oates的 I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) 啦!! 除了這兩團 連De La Soul, 2 Live Crew,甚至醉近狠紅的Olivia Ong都翻唱了這首歌呢
節目最後就來聽聽I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) 讓歡樂的氣氛趕走Monday Blue!