Fable [Import]

Faye Wong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 9, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI
• ASIN: B00005HLER
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #405,759 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Cambria Period

2. New Roommate

3. Xiang Nai Er

4. Asuro

5. Flower From The Other Shore

6. If You Were Not True

7. I Don't Love Anyone Who Doesn't Love Me

8. You Like It Not, I Like

9. Farewell Firefly

10. Forget & Smile

11. Firefly

12. Sincerely Yours

13. Eyes On Me (Ft. In Final Fantasy Viii (Almighty Radio Mix)

14. Xiang Nai Er (Japanese Version)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Faye Wong has done it again!!, December 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Fable (Audio CD)

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I think this is Faye Wong's greatest album yet. This is the first album of any artist that I have listened to in which all the tracks are good. Whenever I pop it into my CD player, i can't help but listen to the whole album because it's so good!!

"The Cambrian Era" gives a great introduction to the album, with a lot of mysteriousness.
"The New Tenant" has a great backbeat rhythm.
"Xiang Nai Er" is probably my most favorite song of all time. No matter how many times I listen to it, I still love it all the same.
"Asura" tells a story (if you get the translation) and is very classical.
"Flowers of Paradise" is hauntingly beautiful, totally orchestrated, and has a beautiful melody.
"If You Were Unreal" is very cute with a little reggae rhythm in it.
"I Don't Love Anyone Who Doesn't Love Me" is a great song which really captures her emotions in it.
"You Like It, So I Like It" is also very nice and is a very calm song.
"Firefly" has a rock mood and captures her anguish and captivating melody.
"Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is a really great song, with just her, the piano, and strings.

I really love her singing in this (she's a total genius) and this album is definitely a must-have, even if you don't speak one word of Chinese (like me)!!!!!!!!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Faye's Best, March 10, 2002

By 

Matthew M. Yau "Voracious reader" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fable (+ Bonus Video CD) (Audio CD)

Faye Wong's 2000 release FABLE simply negated all the previous releases except for EXASPERATION in 1996. This album is probably the best in Faye's career, and one of the very best in contemporary Asian music scenes. The first five tracks weave (also the best five tracks) weave into a tale that dated back to pre-historic times. Faye Wong composed the music for all these five tracks with Lin Xi's poetic lyrics. The music was recorded in Beijing. All five tracks were arranged, programmed, and mixed by long-time music partner and friend Zhang Ya Dong, who also played drum. The Beijing Symphony Orchestra performed strings and Yue Hao Kun took the bass. Faye Wong inthis album once again demonstrated her senses for an alternative music that redefines the mainstream Hong Kong/Taiwan music, which is mostly characterized by soft ballads and sappy love songs.

Track 01-PRE CAMBRIAN ERA features trip-hop groove that creates a haunting mood. Faye's vocal is high and solid, with abosultely no fault. The song kicks off the album with a love-at-first-sight encounter of the prince and princess. The Beijing Choir performed the background vocal and enhances the ominous disposition.

Track 02-NEW TENANT is no doubt the best track in the album. I personally think NEW TENANT is the best song ever in Faye's career. The refreshing note attributes to use of breakbeat arrangement. The song is a clever mix of electronica with orchestrated rock and breakbeat arrangement. Zhang Ya Dong deserves the credit for creating such a scintillating acoustics listening experience. Lin Xi's lyrics is simply arousing: I've seen a tsunami but never seen your smile. I've caught a bird but never caressed your feather.

Track 03-CHANEL is a more upbeat, jubilant track of the quintuple. CHANEL proclaims the flamboyance of the flourishing love affair. The music is much simpler and weaker than PRE-CAMBRAIN ERA and NEW TENANT but still not a bad selection. CHNAEL features trumpet by Wen Zhi Yong.

Track 04-ASURA is one of the eight celestial dragons in ancient Chinese fairy. Asura is belligerant, envious, jealous, and destructive. ASURA symbolizes the destruction of relationship. The Beijing Woodwinds Ensemble performed woodwinds for this piece, joined by Wang Mei on harp and Wang Zhi on French horn. ASURA exudes a melancholy, disappointing mood.

Track 05-FLOWER FROM YONDER SHORE is an old Buddhist saying referring to the wings of flowers take off and fly after the flowers wither. The soil filtered out love and hatred will again burgeon with new seeds. The instrumental beginning of this track go on for about 1:55 before Faye began the vocal performance. FLOWER FROM YONDER SHORE strikes me the most with Faye's chanting. Percussion and French horn add to the ethereal mood.

The following tracks from 06 to 10 are mainstream Taiwanese ballads that don't deserve any much comment. I think Faye should have released the first five tracks alone in a maxi single to better preserve the unity of the fable. Tracks 06 to 10 obviously have nothing to do with the fable. The last track, Track 12-Love Letter to Self deserves some attention. Long-time music partner C. Y. Kong has bestowed Faye with one of the most elegant, beautiful tunes in recent years. Any brave move will be confronted with much criticism and even persecution. Many have found this album dispensable and not worthy of the wait. I persoanlly welcome this breakthrough in music style-with the introduction of new music element such as the mix of electronica with carefully orchestrated rock in NEW TENANT. Many Asian artists, espcially from Hong Kong and Taiwan, compromised too much and released music that will attract sales. Faye Wong obviously has chosen the road less traveled. I expect more music that digresses from the straight line, and more experimental music. I definitely recommend the quintuple.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars open up the sky of music and imagination, October 22, 2001

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"v-drake" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fable (+ Bonus Video CD) (Audio CD)

pushing the limits of creativity and purity, faye has delivered another complex yet well produced album: fable. the album treads a fine line between commercialism and boldness and uses an appropriate combination of electronica and meticulously-orchestrated rock to tell an interesting story. building upon the simple premises of princes and princesses in ordinary fairy tales / folklores, the album explores love and passion in the 21st century. as time has changed, so have the endings of fairy tales and fables. there is no prince nor princess, and they don't live ''happily ever after''either. everyone learns to deal with disappointment and disillusionment. however, the album ends with a relatively self-reliant and uplifting note, which also corelates the artist's personal growth and current state of mind. all in all, a pop album that is both haunting and elegant. recommendations: cambrian period, firefly and a love letter for myself.