November's Chopin

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十一月的萧邦
Studio album by Jay Chou
Released	November 1, 2005
Recorded	Unknown
Genre	C-pop
Length	51:58
Label	Sony BMG
Producer	Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Hong Kong) Limited
Jay Chou chronology
Initial J (2005) 十一月的萧邦 (2005) 依然范特西 (2006)

November's Chopin (Chinese: 十一月的萧邦; pinyin: Shí Yī Yuè De Xiāo Bāng) is Jay Chou's 6th album, which was released on November 1, 2005. It was the highest selling album of 2006 in Taiwan, beating Jolin Tsai's "J-Game," which ranked second. Aside from the ten new songs, the album also included the theme and interlude songs that Chou composed and performed for the hit movie Initial D (film), in which also found Chou's own first acting in a real movie. The album's title refers to Frédéric Chopin, "The Poet of the Piano," the 19th century Polish composer whom Chou greaty admires and is inspired by. Chou also threw in a little pun by both naming and releasing his album in November. The words "bleak" and "gloomy" that often describe the month of November are also the very words that are usually used to depict the mood of some of Chopin's work. This album features considerably fewer rap songs in it than Chou's other albums.

The music video for the album's opening track "Nocturne" was filmed with backgrounds in New York. The release also comes with three music videos on a separate VCD.

[edit] Track listing

1. 夜曲 Nocturne (Yè Qǔ)
2. 藍色風暴 Blue Storm (Lán Sè Fēng Bào)
3. 髮如雪 Hair Like Snow (Fā Rú Xuě)
4. 黑色毛衣 Black Sweater (Hēi Sè Máo Yī)
5. 四面楚歌 Attack From All Four Sides (Sì Miàn Chǔ Gē)
6. 楓 Maple (Fēng)
7. 浪漫手機 Romantic Cell Phone (Làng Màn Shǒu Jī)
8. 逆鳞 Reverse Scale (Nì Lín)
9. 麥芽糖 Malt Candy (Mài Yá Táng)
10. 珊瑚海 Coral Sea (Shān Hú Hǎi), duet with Lara Liang Veronin
11. Bonus Track, 飄移 Drifting (Piāo Yí), Initial D opening theme
12. Bonus Track, 一路向北 All the Way North (Yī Lù Xiàng Běi), Initial D ending theme

[edit] Included music videos

1. 夜曲 Nocturne (Yè Qū)
2. 髮如雪 Hair Like Snow (Fà Rú Xuě)
3. 一路向北 All the Way North [Bonus Track] (Yí Lù Xiàng Běi)

[edit] Trivia

• The orchestral background in the song "四面楚歌 Attack From All Four Sides" is the "Apple loop" named "Orchestra Strings 08" found in GarageBand and also in Logic Pro. Fort Minor's "Believe me" and MYRS' "熱浪" also used the same loop.