Scenic Tour (Faye Wong album)
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Scenic Tour is an 1998 album by Beijing
-based C-pop
singer Faye Wong
. It includes 10 tracks in Mandarin, with 3 bonus Cantonese tracks.
Scenic Tour is also the first Chinese album recorded in HDCD techniques. Even today, it is still one of the most significant pop album recorded in HDCD.
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
-based C-pop
C-pop
C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music , a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Others come from countries where the Chinese language is used by a large number of the population, such as Singapore and Malaysia...
singer Faye Wong
Faye Wong
Faye Wong is a highly successful and influential Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva . Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong . Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing...
. It includes 10 tracks in Mandarin, with 3 bonus Cantonese tracks.
Scenic Tour is also the first Chinese album recorded in HDCD techniques. Even today, it is still one of the most significant pop album recorded in HDCD.
Track listing
- "感情生活" (Gǎnqíng Shēnghuó) – 5:15
- "Emotional Life"
- "臉" (Liǎn) – 3:34
- "Face" (the word refers to an important social concept in Asia)
- "色誡" (Sè Jiè) – 4:53
- "Sex Commandments"
- "半途而廢" (Bàntúérfèi) – 3:32
- "Give Up Half Way"
- "飛" (Fēi) – 5:41
- "Fly"
- "禰" (Nǐ) – 4:22
- "Thee" (the word is only used to address deities)
- "小聰明" (Xiǎo Cōngming) – 4:02
- "A Little Wit"
- "醒不來" (Xǐng Bù Lái) – 4:03
- "Can't Wake Up"
- "紅豆" (Hóngdòu) – 4:15
- "Red Bean"
- "童" (Tóng) – 4:41
- "Tong" (part of the name of Wong's daughter; the word also means child)
- "原諒自己" (Yùhn Leuhng Jih Géi) – 3:39
- "Forgive Myself"
- Cantonese version of track 4
- "償還" (Sèuhng Wàahn) – 4:17
- "Repayment"
- Cantonese version of track 9
- "情誡" (Chìhng Gaai) – 4:17
- "Love Commandments"
- Cantonese version of track 3, with a completely different musical arrangement