more for my own memories than anything else, although people did ask about the 优客李林 concert:they opened with five 优客李林 era songs:
流星 (黄丝带)
少年游 (少年游)
了解 (黄丝带)
黄丝带 (黄丝带) (one of my favourite songs, but possibly not suited to a concert?)
不知所措 (不知所措) which was a real crowd pleaser. people probably remember their last appearance together in singapore, when they sang this very song at the singapore 93.3 awards ceremony.) what was really bizarre was for the first few songs, they kept showing clips from the corresponding mtvs on the stage-side screens (lord, their hair in those days!)) i mean, what? the people who would come to a 优客李林 concert probably were well alive when those albums were released; i was among the younger people present.)
[welcome remarks.]
somewhat daft, though rather sweet, remarks on how they didn't need special guests because they were 彼此的特别来宾. (aww.) they also noted the deficiency of lightsticks in the audience. 林志炫： 因为喜欢我们的人都是比较成熟的! 李骥 quipping: 我们知道新加坡的法令非常严，不允许卖荧光棒的话，千万不要拿出来!!! (uproarious remark!)
[section highlighting their regular collaborators: songwriters, producers, musicians.]
ocean deep (apparently recorded in singapore and produced by martin tang)
多情种 (不知所措) - a 郑华娟 song.
疗伤 (不知所措) - a 韩贤光 song. incid, 韩贤光 was one of the musicians at the concert that night.
i think there must have been one other song here before we moved to the next section, but i can't think what it is.[李骥 section. 林志炫, leaving for a costume change: 现在轮到我喝水，李骥讲话。李骥 was brilliant at being self-deprecating! "我们安排得很贴心，大家要上厕所的可以现在去。" oh the darling!]
十分之一 (about a eight year relationship that failed - eight years accounting for one-tenth of the average lifespan. he told the audience that after he had sung it in the taiwan concerts (and told the story of the breakup), the girlfriend came across online reviews of the concert in which the song was discussed, and wrote to him (hoping for a reunion, it was implied), but he deleted the email and didn't write back. i expect this rather extended introduction to the song means 林志炫 must be a very slow dresser! )
在那遥远的地方 (not the folk song, but a folk-influenced 李骥 number. was not so keen on it.)
i love you forevermore (tribute to mother - the only one of his songs that i knew. (不知所措) ) 林志炫 reappearance - 李骥 got Soppy during this, and spoke a great deal of their close friendship and partnership.
有些女人不能碰 (true live - also recorded in singapore.) 李骥 took the 谢宇书 part and kept changing the lyrics (all the , and gesturing at 林志炫, turning the whole song into an unabashed celebration of the closeness between himself and 林志炫. it was just a little too maudlin for me, though i appreciate their closeness and friendship. [林志炫 section, 李骥's costume change]
蒙娜丽莎的眼泪
离人 (dedicated to late mother.)
说不出的告别 (the only song from a recent album, which astonished me. i was expecting many of his new songs, especially from his recent golden-melody-nominated albums, but they were all from the 90s. i guess this is a 优客李林 not a 林志炫 concert, afterall.)
散了吧 (a jean-jacques goldman! not good, i'm afraid - his voice definitely was off-pitch at times, and somehow lacked the clarity and soaring ease he usually has.) [詹兆源 section, though he wasn't present]
出嫁 (audience singalong) (林志炫 on the division of labour: 我代表优客李林的部分，李骥代表张清芳. 李骥 looks mildly horrified. they switch roles.)
你的愁我的梦 (认错) (first song 詹 had ever written for them)
相亲记 (黄丝带)
我的歌我的心 (少年游) (very, very beautifully done. i know everyone keeps gushing about his rendition of 离人 but i thought this was even lovelier - with a characteristically clean sound, so very effortless and beguiling. i can't believe i can't find a single clip of this on youtube. come on people! there must have been more of you with vidcams that night!)
输了你赢了世界 又如何 another wild crowd pleaser. (不知所措)
[introduction of new song: written in 1992 in singapore (while staying at the concorde hotel and feeling depressed about transitions and having no emotional anchor!)
出境入境 (very good, though for some reason i was expecting a ballad and was surprised by it. they can't possibly not release it as a one-off single? i also took to it because the lyrics spoke deeply to my own feelings.) [final special songs]
等待是一生最初苍老 (黄丝带) (positively one of my favouritest of favourite songs, on the david foster album. entire song sung in falsetto!!?!)
just for you (认错) [encore]
认错 (认错) come now, ending the final concert of your career without 认错?
单身情歌 (have no idea why they ended with this, because he has gone on record often enough, saying how much he dislikes the song for being commercialised and 通俗 and only recorded it because his bosses at sony insisted. it certainly became popular and he always has to sing it at concerts, but you'd think he'd have got it out of the way somewhere in the middle of the concert and finished on 认错?!) finally, since it's on youtube: post-concert interview, and a article in the paper.
