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Sleevenotes to Shadow Factory
转载自http://home2.btconnect.com/smoke/SARAH/TEXTS/shadowfactory.htm … it’s just POLITICS, not as some distant unreal end, but as something encaptured in everyday life… no ripped dungaree late-night beer talking or self-inflicted suffering made holy, and used, no sanctimonious ‘socialist...(0回应)
转载自http://home2.btconnect.com/smoke/SARAH/TEXTS/shadowfactory.htm … it’s just POLITICS, not as some distant unreal end, but as something encaptured in everyday life… no ripped dungaree late-night beer talking or self-inflicted suffering made holy, and used, no sanctimonious ‘socialist’ pose hawked popstarry-eyed with a thatcherist gleam when it comes to THE SELL, but something that’s basic and pure, just a surge of excitement and love and RESPONSIBILITY… popmusic as a spontaneous, lovable thing, created and bought in a onrush of NEED without needing to SAVE UP for weeks or meekly accept sad drab stigmatising 99p-only tack. so it’s idealism, so what, it’s a good place to start. Standing up alone (much harder), DOING, just what feels right… Something to do with – oh, let’s just say changing the world. so when one dismal morning a new song turns up at our door, full of wrong notes and wrong chords but crammed with right Everything Elses, and my typical daydreamy swirl has their name at once scuffed out with reverence on each rain-splattered sandcastled beach from Chepstow to Bridgwater Bay, so at the back of my mind will lurk gorgeous machine-gun panoramas, trembling alive with incipient HOPE and I’ll laugh and I’ll run and I’ll want to DESTROY and CREATE who knows what, I’ll just want want want NEED and that’s all that matters for now… this LP, 16 songs, all from Sarah 7"s, no unreleased out-takes or bonus mix cons, just an HONEST old-fashioned something we’re proud of, a statement of faith in all sorts of futures tomorrow…
神作你好
稚嫩的配器与可爱的声音。每种元素单独提溜出来都不错,然而作为一支乐队,却配合不到一起去。我想起来Iggy Pop的一个段子:小伙子年轻的时候听到了地下丝绒,忍不住骂道,这种水平也能出专辑?!于是The Stooges出现了。当然,这一张无比稚嫩的专辑是不能和大香蕉媲美了。但无数热爱摇滚的失意小青年们听过之后忽然...(0回应)
我穿着开裆裤,送你起飞
你曾经陪我去动物园,我们拉着手到海边。 你告诉我那些过去的情事,那些朋友和爱人,dee,Iris,Coka,Edward。他们现在还好么? 今天我又碰到了你。你依然和以前一样,披着那在我眼中属于97、98年苏格兰的阳光。你已经不再为那些过去的烦恼忧伤了。你找到了方向。你要飞走了。 我还穿着当年的旧...(0回应)













温润电流中的清新浪漫
即使是在做自己的乐队,Stuart David也无法完全丢掉Belle&Sebastian早年风格的痕迹吧。穿插在吉他与贝斯间温润的口琴声,在鼓机控制中的固定节奏里依然保留着Belle&Sebastian在Jeepster时独有的那份清纯感。有的感觉与风格无关。无论是电气化的晃动节拍,还是圆号背景下温柔的女声,都可以把苏格兰阳光下的悠适通过...(0回应)
即使是在做自己的乐队,Stuart David也无法完全丢掉Belle&Sebastian早年风格的痕迹吧。穿插在吉他与贝斯间温润的口琴声,在鼓机控制中的固定节奏里依然保留着Belle&Sebastian在Jeepster时独有的那份清纯感。有的感觉与风格无关。无论是电气化的晃动节拍,还是圆号背景下温柔的女声,都可以把苏格兰阳光下的悠适通过声音流淌出来。 好几首曲子都是在器乐背景中念诵着歌词。于是我不由得想起另外两个同样来自格拉斯哥却异常猥琐的男人。尽管都使用节拍器,都是带有苏格兰口音的念词,Arab Strap让我听到在黑夜潮湿的街角半醉的男人无声的悲情啜泣,Looper却让我忆起在金色光辉和翠绿青草间跃动的年轻脚丫们。 如今的Belle&Sebastian已经是世界级别的大牌Indie-pop乐队。他们开始享受起“清新之王”的显赫地位。他们的歌声(虽然我无比想念Isobel Campbell,但Sarah Martin也还好啦)依然悦耳且纯粹,但他们终究无法回到1996年那些白色的夏日午后,无法再像一帮刚刚大学毕业的年轻人那样完全凭借自己简单的心与声音去录制一张清新到不需再涂抹任何多余的色彩的唱片。时间改变的东西太多。你们也会和普通的苏格兰人一样秃顶或是增添皱纹。歌词中的爱情故事可以继续下去,但唱片封面上微笑着玩呼啦圈的姑娘却只能被相片定格,被搁置在书柜的角落里。 然而这也正是唱片的魅力所在吧。人们的血液会变得粘稠并衰老,但浪漫却可以被电流和声响存储下来,在某个时候重新注入枯萎的身体中去。
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