Mondo Bongo – Joe Strummer

Latin style让我想到了各种大街上卖的15元一张的车载精品-_-。好吧,”Mondo Bongo”真得很不错,4星专辑。

很简单地被推荐听完后,就开始各种reverberate在脑海里了,有机会欣赏下整张album的rock。

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A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles

The title comes from a Ringo Starr malapropism, the product of a marathon recording session. Lennon was fond of these Ringoisms and wrote the song over-night. Said Lennon, “The only reason [Paul] sang on it was because I couldn’t reach the notes.

Ringoisms,高端,Shinejitsisms is okay. 非常clear的歌词,不过我们绝想不到各种work like a dog的场景-_-,在这样一个时代,回看美国过去50年,那种生活,其实还是很向往的,虽然绝大多数人是不能因为自己喜欢什么就去做什么的,也没有这个机会去打破各种shackles。但是总有”When I’m home ev’rything seems to be right” 。

“一夜狂欢”

1964年,Director:Richard Lester

 

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She Loves You – The Beatles

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写这篇时比较纠结到底是用John的歌名做title好还是用现在这个好,因为不是很喜欢拆分开来发。最后屈服于SEO的了-_-b  当然我的主题还是John Lennon的歌曲,不过同时也不是什么需要强烈推断能力,各种artistic appreciation能力的作品。

“She Loves You”无异议做标题。

“Oh My Love”应该算比较偏的了,这是和Lennon后来重点写的关于“Love”的作品比,不得不说他对Yoko Ono Lennon的某种emotion真是一门高深的学问,估计要有那种生活才能明悟。

“Imagine”估计和“Hey  Jude”一样被很多人听到爆了,不过个人感觉来说还是更甚一筹的。那几段melody的的确确很耐听,越发感觉到那段时期钢琴运用技巧的高超了,就现代的一些顶尖大学音乐学院来说,特别是JAZZ类的授课长度都有超过了医学院,这些随着时间推移会积攒越来越多精华内容的学科,很是让人好奇今后会又怎样的趋势。回到Imagine,它所表达的正能量才是精髓。

“Please Please me”,a Roy Orbison song – Martin said it would sound better sped up, Lennon : “By the time the session came around, we were so happy with the result,we couldn’t get it recorded fast enough.”最早的东西了,也是最好的之一。

“Mother”,不谈什么commercial的东西,真的是很个人化的一首歌,有关primal therapy(’有道’告诉我:primal 是”被压抑童年情绪的释放”的奇葩解释)那段经历和Lennon年幼时的悲情故事(神级人物永远是这种background),让这首歌瞬间就”crazy”了起来,最后反复的那段,太强的钢琴运用和Lennon的感情投入。(这和Yoko Ono(小野洋子)”龚琳娜”版本行为艺术”唱”法何其”相似”0.0 ,Yoko Ono到底是靠Lennon吸金还是真有所谓的love,直接决定那种行为的真正意义,真相只能是在她自己心里。

“Here, There and Everywhere”,很soft以及sweet的歌,Paul McCartney给人的感觉就会如此。

“If I Fell”,wiki给了它”pop”。

Oh My Love


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Angie – The Rolling Stones

Single by The Rolling Stones from the album Goats Head Soup

Released : 20 August 1973

Writer(s) : Mick Jagger /Keith Richards

Recorded : November–December 1972

Genre : Rock

Length : 4:33

piano accompaniment : Nicky Hopkins

歌词似在叙述一对将要分开之人感情的体现。Mick Jagger的vocal配上此歌举足轻重的钢琴伴奏,只有赞叹了。

一些资料:”Angie” is an acoustic guitar driven ballad which tells of the end of a romance.The song was written almost entirely both lyrically and musically by Keith Richards and in Richards’ own biography he claims that the name Angie is a pseudonym for heroin and his attempt to quit while detoxing in Switzerland.  Keith Richards自称是为表达自己试图远离毒品的情绪所写的音乐与歌词。

维基说Angie所指的普遍认为是David Bowie’s 的第一任妻子 Angela 甚至有可能是女星Angie Dickinson.少数认为是关于Richards刚出生的女儿Dandelion Angela的。个人认为前后两种可能都不大吧,Angela Bowie本人似乎多次说过与她无关,Jagger和Keith也没有提到过此人。又看到第一版本是写为Anita,后Keith认为发音不太好才改为Angie,当时正好是其女儿出生时,这点可能有关联。

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I Fought the Law (The Clash Version)

Recorded by the Clash in 1979

(Written by Sonny Curtis of the Crickets,Firstly popularized by Bobby Fuller Four [1965])

Genre : Rock (Bobby Fuller Four)

Genre Punk Rock (The Clash)

昨天晚上在其它地方写过关于此歌歌词的个人理解上的随笔,搬运到博客来。

The Clash版本和原版的差别,似乎很容易听出来,能借鉴到区分多个“Punk”字样的流派。更深层地看,原版更多的是”政治导向”,而后者更能体现”尽情抵制”。

全曲很短,歌词重复度相当高,”I fought the law and the law won”出现了近20遍,其它的部分似是对状况的描述。”Breakin’ rocks in the hot sun”为全曲开头,表达的是”挖矿日当午”的一个景象,黝黑的皮肤,烈日下挥汗奋力工作的这么一个man,很容易看出是一个处于middle class的家伙,甚至是underclass。”I needed money ’cause i had none”直至”Robbin’ people with a six-gun”解释了它触犯law的过程,起码是歌词表面上想要描述的一个情景,结合”left my baby””best girl i had”等”痛苦”的表述,完善了这么一个社会底层工人的悲苦生活。”Guess my race is run”其中”race”有种族的含义在,但具体的解释只有原作者知晓了,作词的Sonny Curtis本人是白人。

“I fought the law”是指”Robbin’ people”犯下的罪,但是并非是他天生从内就是恶人,他有自己的工作,”hot sun”下也坚持着,他有着自己的妻子和孩子,在他的眼中自己的妻子是”the best girl”,心中如果是邪恶的人自然眼中也没有这种”美”,所以说白了反映的也是无奈,因为这不是一个good man通过努力就可以使生活得到保障的社会。

许多这个年代的白人流行曲更多的是将音乐与政治联系,阐释一些反社会主流文化的内容,而这类白人通常来说是年轻人,对父辈所掌控权力的社会进行另类的抵抗,或者是用激烈的方式凸显自我意识。”I Fought the Law”是以那一代踏入社会,工作着的人民为描述对象,评论了一些社会问题。

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Scarborough Fair/Canticle (斯卡伯勒集市) (ballad)

“Scarborough Fair/Canticle”

Single by Simon & Garfunkel

from the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Released : February 1968 (Single release. LP release October 10, 1966)

Format : 7″ single Recorded July 26, 1966

Genre : Folk rock, baroque pop

Length : 3:10

Label : Columbia Records

Producer : Bob Johnston

traditional ballad of Great Britain and more precisely Yorkshire

LYRIC

作为一首无比经典的民谣,个人是把歌词当做诗词来背诵的,至于各种反战元素,需要自己感悟,那样才会最深刻。估计在The Graduate观影后会做一个总结。

有机会好好分析一下更新在这里

A version published in 1889 is typical of modern versions:  

同时又看到非常诗意的翻译版本,地址:http://www.xiami.com/song/1283243

同时附上伴奏原版琴谱一张,钢琴,吉他

 

 

The Sound Of Silence

Paul Simon and Garfunkel 

Released September 1965

Format 7″ single

Recorded March 10, 1964 (main track); June 15, 1965 (overdub)

Genre Folk rock

Length 3:05

Label Columbia

Writer(s) Paul Simon

Producer Tom Wilson

LYRIC

“The Sound of Silence” was originally called “The Sounds of Silence” and is titled that way on the early albums in which it appeared and on the first single release; only on later compilations was it retitled “The Sound of Silence”. Both the singular and the plural appear in the lyrics. In his book Lyrics 1964–2008 Simon has the title in the singular.

视频

 (照片剪辑)

(live)

(Paul Simon 911 十周年)

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjg4MTMzMTYw.html

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjI0MjQ0MTY4.html

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjUxMzc1OTI=.html (2003 live)

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzMwOTUxOTI=.html (钢琴)