2017年5月18日 星期四
Electric Light Orchestra
去年看了《A Hologram for the King》( 梭哈人生),IMDb評價一般,但我覺得還不錯。電影中有一幕,司機在發動車子後(確認車子沒被裝炸彈),轉過頭問 Tom Hanks:
「Hey! Like Electric Light Orchestra?」
「Yeah!」
車上的音響播放著...
The city streets are empty now
(The lights don't shine no more)
And so the songs are way down low
A sound that flows into my mind
(The echoes of the daylight)
Of everything that is alive
(In my blue world)
I turn to stone when you are gone
I turn to stone
I turn to stone, when you comin' home
I can't go on
聽到時就覺得驚艷!查了一下,是Electric Light Orchestra電光合唱團(ELO)的〈Turn To Stone〉,接下來的好幾天就一直聽著《Out of the Blue》這張專輯,然後又聽了《Discovery》,都是非常棒的專輯!若是喜歡The Beach Boys的人應該也會喜歡,只是ELO多了一點科幻味,還有一點弦樂。後來又覺得這個爆炸頭主唱Jeff Lynne實在有點眼熟,才發現他是Traveling Wilburys的一員。
Traveling Wilburys是由Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty和Jeff Lynne所組成的樂團。
《Discovery》這張專輯裡面,我最喜歡的一首是〈Need Her Love〉,也是我個人心中2016年的年度歌曲。不管什麼時候聽,都有一種被抽離出現實的感覺。
She gives me love that I could never hope to have,
She tells me that she needs me,
She tells me that she's glad,
And if she goes away,
I'm like someone who's left out in the rain,
I need, I need her, I need her love.
She came in from the west,
A summer breeze I couldn't rest,
I had to take a fast train, to be there by her side,
She made me feel so good,
She made it like it should be all the time
I need, I need her, I need her love.
Just when I was thinkin' of her,
She came along and made me
want her. I need her love, I need her love, I need her love.
If she goes away,
I'm like someone who's left out in the rain,
I need, I need her, I need her love.
The boats that sail, the planes that fly, she is with me.
I wonder if she wonders, if this is all for real,
I couldn't stand to see her cry because of me,
That would be sad.
I need, I need her, I need her love.
She tells me everything,
She makes me smile, she tries to sing,
But never shares her suffering,
If things are going wrong,
She makes it like a dream,
If things are as they seem the world is good.
I need her, I need her love, I need her love.
2015年5月1日 星期五
啦啦...啦啦啦
妳說妳最想要當女主角
但是街上的行人來去匆匆
恐怕這個城市裡誰都演不好
我們自己該有的角色
冬樹的衣已換了新綠 但是妳的顏色越來越陰暗
啊~ 街上的人啊 你是否聽見
妹妹小時候的心願
啦啦...啦啦啦
昇哥昨天表演時,提到《啦啦...啦啦啦》這首歌的故事,他說,他以前常跟朋友去吃一家臭豆腐店,店裡的老闆有個腦性麻痺的妹妹,平常會在店裡面幫忙,說話時有些口齒不清,每次看到昇哥,總是會跟昇哥說,她要去拍電影,她想要當女主角。沒想到後來,昇哥的導演朋友真的找她去當女主角,在昇哥《發條兔子》的MV中演一個女巫。開拍前,妹妹還很開心地跟昇哥說,我終於要當女主角了!
幾年後,昇哥又在街上遇到妹妹,昇哥急忙問她,妳怎麼會在這裡?沒想到妹妹的病情似乎更加嚴重了,她看著昇哥,完全認不得昇哥是誰...。
後來在《P.S.是的我在台北》這張專輯中,昇哥就為了妹妹寫下《啦啦...啦啦啦》這首歌。
妳哥哥他很生氣要妳別裝瘋
但是街上的行人來去匆匆
之前不是好好的怎麼就變這樣
攤子的生意也幫不上忙
夏夜的風溫柔的吹 妳在人潮中越來越遙遠
啊~ 街上的人啊 是否看見
我妹妹在黃昏時走去哪
啦啦...啦啦啦
聽了昇哥的故事後,再聽昇哥唱這首歌,就覺得非常難過。像這類的故事,大概也只有昇哥會關心,然後還把它寫成歌吧。昇哥是真正的藝術家。而我認為這類的歌,不也有一點“ Folk Music ”的意念嗎?關於人民的歌,關於社會的歌,關於時代的歌。這是一個小人物的故事,也是你和我的故事,對我而言,這些平凡的故事,可能才是通往真理的唯一道路。
秋天我走在街上以為我忘了
但是街上的行人來去匆匆
沒有心情不好 沒有特別的好
忘了我們該走的方向
秋天的夜有點枯萎 你在人潮中是個女主角
啊~ 街上的人啊 你是否有聽見
我們曾有的心願
啦啦...啦啦啦
2014年12月4日 星期四
I'm not there
I'm Not There (The Basement Tapes Complete) from Skinny Moo on Vimeo.
From Clinton Heylin
Known studio recordings: Big Pink, West Saugerties, summer 1967 [INT].
“There are times you just pick up an instrument – something will come – some kind of wild line will come into your head and you'll develop that. If it's a tune on the piano or guitar – you'll write those words down. And they might not mean anything to you at all, and you just go on. Now – if I do it, I just keep it for myself. So I have a big lineup of songs which I'll never use.” Dylan, Sing Out/June 1968
I'm Not There 可能會是我心目中2014年的最佳歌曲,這首歌沒有在任何公開演出表演過,沒有精緻的錄音室版本,是1967年 The Basement Tapes時期錄製下來的。
” Actually, Dylan simply employed his usual trick of not telling his fellow musicians when he was about to start a song, and Hudson had to hastily lean over and press “record” on the reel-to-reel. “
它沒有正確的歌詞,因為它裡面有許多詞句是make no sense的,有些甚至不是單字,可能只是一個無意義的發音。狄倫只是在不斷重複的和弦中,唸出一些他腦袋浮出的詞句,有些有意義,有些沒意義。聽著歌,想像狄倫演唱時的表情,你可以感受到那是一種完全的投入,像是他的思緒已經進入了另一個世界。
Heaven knows that the answer
she's don't call in no-one,
she's the way, a sailing beautiful,
she's mine, for the one,
整首歌的氛圍有些慵懶,狄倫的聲線起伏不定,時而低沉,時而強硬,但狄倫唸出的每一句詞句,都充滿了力道,充滿了攻擊性,頗有責備的意味,像是一首情感上的protest song。
Yes I believe that it's rightful,
oh I believe it in my mind,
I b'told like I said when I before
carry on the crying,
and she's all good to told her,
like I said, carry on,
I wish I was there to help her,
but I'm not there, I'm gone .
這首歌已經在我的iPod上重複播放了好幾天,每次聽都是一種感動,然後就永遠搞不懂為何狄倫總愛把一些好歌私藏起來,我猜,或許這些歌詞的片段對於狄倫來說,太過於赤裸吧,也許有他不願回想起的故事,而他把它唱出來,封印在歌曲裡面。
1985年的時候,曾有人問過狄倫,為何不將這首歌放進專輯中,迪倫只簡單的回說...
" it wasn't there! "
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