<音像世界>注定会成为我听乐生涯里程碑似的杂志,如今喜欢的欧美音乐人多半来自音像世界的推介,还有一些来自天津电视台的一档MTV节目。现在想想自己听的也是很主流的东东，从Roxette、Alanis Morissette、Blur、REM，到Eric Clapton、Cranberries、U2，连Nirvana也是被主流化、周杰伦化了的，更不用说什么Tom Petty &Heartbreakers、Lenny Kravitz了。
    在那个讯息不发达的年代，音像世界促成了我淘打口的乐趣，有时间就去大学旁边的小音像店，老板见我来了都会从里屋搬出一箱打口来挑，偶尔就会有在音像世界上看到的什么“年度十大唱片”之类的封皮，当然有时候纯粹是洋垃圾。Suzanne Vega的《Nine Objects of Desire》就是从一堆垃圾中淘出来的，5块钱搞定，当然回去还要拆开重新用透明胶粘带子，那会一般晚上的课要么不去，要么就拿着两盒打口去粘，粘完了就放到小爱华里听，真是一种乐趣。打口毕竟是国外的母带，录音效果比14元的引进版都好很多。记得那会的打口CD都是什么The Who之类的，只是没有CD机，只能买磁带了。
    曾经看过乐评人对《Nine Objects of Desire》的介绍，那期好像还放在了扉页上，漂亮的封皮让人过目难忘。好几年之后才听到她的Luka、Tom's dinner等，当时只是觉得她的音乐很诡异，元素很多，跟她的经历关系很大，有一种黑色的感觉，但很清新、优雅，看来当年获得格莱美提名还是有道理的。最喜欢其中的《World before Columbus》，Suzanne Vega的木吉他，他老公兼制作人的钢琴，这也是我最喜欢的Suzanne Vega作品。

"World Before Columbus"
If your love were taken from me
Every color would be black and white
It would be as flat as the world before Columbus
That's the day that I lose half my sight
If your life were taken from me
All the trees would freeze in this cold ground
It would be as cruel as the world before Columbus
Sail to the edge and I'd be there looking down

Those men who lust for land
And for riches strange and new
Who love those trinkets of desire
Oh they never will have you

And they'll never know the gold
Or the copper in your hair
How could they weigh the worth
Of you so rare

If your love were taken from me
Every light that's bright would soon go dim
It would be as dark as the world before Columbus
Down the waterfall and I'd swim over the brim

Those men who lust for land
And for riches strange and new
Who love those trinkets of desire
Oh they will never have you

And they'll never know the gold
Or the copper in your hair
How could they weigh the worth
Of you so rare