I’ve long hoped for F.I.R. and Mayday to collaborate, and they did so on a song called 第一天 “Di Yi Tian” on 孫燕姿 Stefanie Sun Yan-zi’s 完美的一天 “Wan Mei De Yi Tian” (A Perfect Day) album.

The song is credited to “First Day"– F.I.R., St[efanie], and [May]day. Neat, huh?

The bridge is perhaps the coolest part, where Faye, Stefanie, and the lead singer of Mayday all alternate lines. However, the ending of the song REALLY REALLY SUCKS.

Perhaps someday F.I.R. and Mayday will collaborate alone on a song.

On another note, I would LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE to hear Faye (lead singer of F.I.R.) sing the female part of Shin’s (another band) 千年之戀 “Qian Nian Zhi Lian.”

Interestingly enough, F.I.R. also has a song called 千年之戀 “Qian Nian Zhi Lian” although they’re completely different songs.

I’m very annoyed at this blog right now because somehow, all the spammers can still spam me, but normal people can’t comment anymore.

That, and I really don’t like WP (it’s too complicated).

I purchased 3 new albums off my wishlist at yesasia.com, and I’m sad to say I’m a little disappointed in the selection. First of all, I got Ocean Au’s 2nd album (since I liked the first one so much), Eason Chan’s “special thanks to…” and F.I.R.’s new album, “Wu Xian” (Boundless).

I’d already heard all the songs before I bought the Eason one, so I knew it wasn’t as good as “It’s Me” or “Black, White, and Grey.” However, I’m still a big fan of Eason’s music and I decided I wanted more of his Mandarin CDs, since he’s an HK star and does more Cantonese pop than Mandarin pop.

The Ocean Au album is a little disappointing because as I was flipping through it, I noticed that the same composer wrote EVERY SINGLE SONG and the same lyricist did ALL THE LYRICS. Already, I don’t like seeing that kind of thing on an album. There’s a lot of famous composers and lyricsts out there that I notice tend to write songs I like, and I always look at the album booklet to see who did what. There’s not enough diversity on the type of songs and the lyrics are all pretty sub-par. The mixing doesn’t sound as crisp or professional as his first album, either. Sigh! A disappointment.

As for F.I.R., how is that disappointing? Not the music, of course, but the album package itself. I purchased the CD+VCD set, because I wanted to see some of their music videos. Bad idea! It didn’t come with a lyric booklet. I would gladly trade the VCD in for a lyric booklet anyday. I can’t stand not being able to read along while I’m listening to the music. ARRGH!! I guess I shouldn’t have bought the CD+VCD set. If anyone wants to trade me, I will sell you this one (it’s in “like-new” condition) and buy the CD only. RRRRGH.

So… bleh. I still have 4 CDs in my wishlist, hopefully whenever I decide to get those I won’t be disappointed in them…