2007-06-08 17:41
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Oasis和Radiohead的合体，听起来就像KG和Shaq的合体一样棒不是吗？可惜作为专辑来说，这终究只是一张实验品。
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The Beta Band – Dry The Rain
This is the definition of my life
Lying in bed in the sunlight
Choking on the vitamin tablet
The doctor gave in the hope of saving me
In the hope of saving me
Walked in the corner of the room
A junk yard fool with eyes of gloom
I asked him time again
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain the rain
The rain the rain the rain now
Dusty brown boots in the corner
By the ironing board
Spray on dust is the greatest thing
Sure is the greatest thing
Since the last since the last
Walked in the corner of the room
A junk yard fool with eyes of gloom
I asked him time again
Take me in and dry the rain
Take me in and dry the rain the rain
The rain the rain the rain now
I asked him time again
Take me in and dry the rain
The rain the rain the rain now
If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be your light
If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be your light
I Need Love, yeah
I Need Love
If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be your light
If there's something inside that you wanna say
Say it out loud it'll be okay
I will be your light
I Need Love
这首翻唱曲目是他们最好听的歌曲之一；80年代“新流行主义” new wave的代表；喜欢冒险，所以有很多不太成功的尝试；他们的音乐录影带值得一看，一组帅哥总是有看头的。
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Duran Duran – The Chauffeur
Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving
All looking for a new place to drive
You sit beside me so newly charming
Sweating dewdrops glisten freshing your side
And the sun drips down bedding heavy behind
The front of your dress - all shadowy lined
And the droning engine throbs in time
With your beating heart
Way down the lane away, living for another day
The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze
Swim seagull in the sky towards that hollow western isle
My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze
(chorus) (chorus)
Sing blue silver
And watching lovers part, I feel you smiling
What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind
To tear out from your eyes, with a thought to stiffen brooding lies
And Ill only watch you leave me further behind
(chorus) (chorus)
Sing blue silver
Sing, sing.. blue silver
Brit-pop, Brit-pop and Brit-pop ... 没人会抗拒温情动人的声音……和有才华又有点颓废的男人。
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James Blunt – Wisemen
She said to me, "Go steady on me.
Won't you tell me what the Wise Men said?
When they came down from Heaven,
Smoked nine 'til seven,
All the shit that they could find,
But they couldn't escape from you,
Couldn't be free of you,
And now they know there's no way out,
And they're really sorry now for what they've done,
They were three Wise Men just trying to have some fun."
Look who's alone now,
It's not me. It's not me.
Those three Wise Men,
They've got a semi by the sea.
Got to ask yourself the question,
Where are you now?
Really sorry now,
They weren't to know.
They got caught up in your talent show,
With you pernickety little bastards in your fancy dress,
Who just judge each other and try to impress,
But they couldn't escape from you,
Couldn't be free of you,
And now they know there's no way out,
And they're really sorry now for what they've done,
They were three Wise Men just trying to have some fun.
Look who's alone now,
It's not me. It's not me.
Those three Wise Men,
They've got a semi by the sea.
Got to ask yourself the question,
Where are you now?
虽然我依然觉得Roberta Flack的版本比较好听，但我很喜欢Fugees女生主唱Lauryn Hill的声音；这张专辑里他们还翻唱了另一首经典曲目Bob Marley的No Woman, No Cry；Killing Me ...因为它歌词里蕴藏的故事而显得更加迷人，听说歌里所唱的那个男主角是Don McLean？
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Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song ...
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style.
And so I came to see him to listen for a while.
And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes.
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song ...
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd,
I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.
I prayed that he would finish but he just kept right on ...
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song ...
He sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair.
And then he looked right through me as if I wasn't there.
But he just came to singing, singing clear and strong.
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song ...
He was strumming, oh, he was singing my song.
Killing me softly with his song,
Killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song ...
With his song ...
Coldplay无需多说，Parachutes这张专辑在中国也很有名；但似乎很多人觉得Chris的声音奇怪？Bizarre ...
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Coldplay – Trouble
O no, I see,
I spun a web, it's tangled up with me,
And I lost my head,
The thought of all the stupid things I said,
O no what's this?
A spider web, and I'm caught in the middle,
I turned to run,
The thought of all the stupid things I've done,
I never meant to cause you trouble,
And I never meant to do you wrong,
And I, well if I ever caused you trouble,
O no, I never meant to do you harm.
O no I see,
A spider web and it's me in the middle,
So I twist and turn,
Here I am in love in a bubble,
Singing, I never meant to cause you trouble,
I never meant to do you wrong,
And I, well if I ever caused you trouble,
Although I never meant to do you harm.
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me.
Tom Petty是个很有斗志的家伙；这首歌也是为了反对唱片公司对歌手的过分束缚；虽然是old-school的摇滚风格，但Petty把它演绎的很有活力。
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Tom Petty – The Last DJ
Well you can’t turn him into a company man
You can’t turn him into a whore
And the boys upstairs just don’t understand anymore
Well the top brass don’t like him talking so much
And he won’t play what they say to play
And he don’t want to change what don’t need to change
And there goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
There goes the last DJ
Well some folks say they’re gonna hang him so high
Because you just can’t do what he did
There’s some things you just can’t put in the minds of those kids
As we celebrate mediocrity all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free
And there goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
And there goes the last DJ
(Instrumental break)
Well he got him a station down in Mexico
And sometimes it will kinda come in
And I’ll bust a move and remember how it was back then
There goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
And there goes the last DJ
他们真的就像辣椒一样火了很多年，也会继续火下去，因为我们都爱他们的表演！
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – West Sand
My shadow side so amplified
Keeps coming back dissatisfied
Elementary son but it’s so…
My love affair with everywhere
Was innocent why do you care
Someone start the car
Time to go...
You’re the best I know
My sunny side has up and died
I’m betting that when we collide
The universe will shift into a low
The travesties that we have seen
Are treating me like Benzedrine
Automatic laughter from a pro
My what a good day
For a walk outside
I’d like to get to
Know you a little better baby
God knows that I really tried
My what a good day
For a take out bride
I’d like to say we
Did it for the better of
I saw you there so unaware
Those hummingbirds all in your hair
Elementary son but it’s so
The disrepair of Norma Jean
Could not compare to your routine
Balarama Beauty
Going toe to toe
My what a good day
Just to let it slide
I’d like to say we did it for the better of
I thought about it
And I brought it out
I’m motivated by the lack of doubt
I’m consecrated but I’m not devout
The mother the father the daughter
Right on the verge just one more dose
I’m traveling from coast to coast
My theory isn’t perfect but it’s close
I’m almost there why should I care
My heart is hurting when I share
Someone open up and let it show
My what a good day
For a walk outside
I’d like to think we did it for the better of
I thought about it
And I brought it out
I’m motivated by the lack of doubt
I’m consecrated but I’m not devout
The mother the father the daughter
You don’t form in the wet sand
You don’t form at all
You don’t form in the wet sand
I do yeah
Beam很有趣，给自己取了个组合般的名字；他的大胡子也很有趣；他的歌却很安静，令人放松。
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Iron & Wine – Passing Afternoon
There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon
Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon
And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her
Wooden spoons, her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms
There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
And she's chosen to believe in the hymns her mother sings
Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves
There are sailing ships that pass all our bodies in the grass
Springtime calls her children 'till she let's them go at last
And she's chosen where to be, though she's lost her wedding ring
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of Bougainvillea seeds
There are things we can't recall, blind as night that finds us all
Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
But my hands remember hers, rolling 'round the shaded ferns
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned
There are names across the sea, only now I do believe
Sometimes, with the windows closed, she'll sit and think of me
But she'll mend his tattered clothes and they'll kiss as if they know
A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone
记住他们是因为他们那好听的名字Flaming Lips，很奇怪三个长相可以算上古怪的男人起了这么个有诗意的称呼；而这张专辑“良美大战粉红机器人”的名称更是有趣，整张专辑的感情渲染也跌宕起伏，很适合全张来听。
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The Flaming Lips – In the Morning of the Magicians
In the morning I'd awake and couldn't remember
What is love and what is hate? - the calculations error
Oh-oh-oh-what is love and what is hate?
And why does it matter? - is to love just a waste
How can it matter?
As the dawn began to break - I had to surrender
The universe will have its way - too powerful to master
Oh-oh-oh-what is love and what is hate?
And why does it matter? - is to love just a waste??
And how can it matter?
作为老牌的progressive rock和硬摇滚的乐队代表，DP的名字大家都耳熟能详；这首歌把凄凉、悲伤的感情渲染的很强烈，不过主唱Ian的声音太硬了一些，所以要唱起柔情摇滚来不怎么占优势。
Deep Purple – When a Blind Man Cries
If you’re leaving close the door.
I’m not expecting people anymore.
Hear me grieving, I’m lying on the floor.
Whether I’m drunk or dead I really ain’t too sure.
I’m a blind man, I’m a blind man and my world is pale.
When a blind man cries, lord, you know there aint no sadder tale.
Had a friend once in a room,
Had a good time but it ended much too soon.
In a cold month in that room
We found a reason for the things we had to do.
I’m a blind man, I’m a blind man, now my room is cold.
When a blind man cries, lord, you know he feels it from his soul.