The Smile 名字由来

Thom Yorke 表示，新乐队的名字 The Smile 取自英国诗人 Ted Hughes 的一首诗，诗名即 The Smile (全文已贴在末尾)。

一首长诗，非常致郁，读起来仿佛是 Radiohead 一首很长的歌的歌词，符合乐队的音乐风格，值得留着慢慢品味。爱他们，便很难不爱这首诗。

Yorke 补充，这里的 smile, is "not the smile as in 'ahh', more the smile as in the guy who lies to you every day". 了解他们，自然明白，它不可能是扑哧一笑，我只看得到一抹五味杂陈的假笑 ;)

以下诗的全文：

The Smile

by Ted Hughes

Began under the groan of the oldest forest

It ran though the clouds, a third light

And it ran through the skin of the earth

It came circling the earth

Like the lifted bow

Of a wave's submarine running

Tossing the willows, and swelling the elm-tops

Looking for its occasion

But people were prepared

They met it

With visor smiles, mirrors of ricochet

With smiles that stole a bone

And smiles that went off with a mouthful of blood

And smiles that left poison in a numb place

Or doubled up

Covering a getaway

But the smile was too vast, it outflanked all

It was too tiny it slipped between the atoms

So that the steel screeched open

Like a gutted rabbit, the skin was nothing

Then the pavement and the air and the light

Confined all the jumping blood

No better than a paper bag

People were running with bandages

But the world was a draughty

The whole creation

Was just a broken gutter pipe

And there was the unlucky person's eye

Pinned under its brow

Widening for the darkness behind it

Which kept right on getting wider, darker

As if the soul were not working

And at that very moment the smile arrived

And the crowd, shoving to get a glimpse of a man's soul

Stripped to its last shame,

Met this smile

That rose through his torn roots

Touching his lips, altering his eyes

And for a moment

Mending everything

Before it swept out and away across the earth.

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纪念 2022.8.27，伦敦现场，站在很前排，看 The Smile 演唱整部新专辑，外加一首新的创作。离Thom 和 Jonny 那么近，太过玄妙，如同一场幻觉，仿佛下一秒天上就会有成群的青蛙劈里啪啦掉下来...