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2016-8-12 23:38 编辑 <br /><br /> 序言：
由于音乐种类及风格的千差万别，好音乐并不能准确被定义出来，但是却可以用例举的形式对好音乐加以描述。
硬摇滚乐队的柔情之作绝对是音乐中的极品，因为由这些摇滚老将演绎出的柔情作品蕴含着令人动容的沧桑感，这是那些流行歌者们望尘莫及的。当重金属老将把狂躁、愤怒的激情沉淀下来，用最朴素最真实的声音唱出的柔情歌曲，那绝对是摇滚乐中的传世经典。
枪花乐队诞生于1985年的好莱坞，是美国摇滚乐史上继性手枪以来最受争议的乐队，乐队是由两支乐队L.A.GUNS和AXL.ROSE合并而成的，因此双主唱“枪”和“玫瑰”的完美和音一直是枪花乐队的招牌特色。他们的歌曲主要反映了青少年们的无由的愤怒与迷惘的情绪，表达出了一种不安和性觉醒的意味。他们的音乐主张和乐队成员的出轨行为自乐队成立起就成为评论家和摇滚迷们津津乐道的内容，因为对这些摇滚人士而言，他们的生活方式可以说就是他们的音乐内涵的最好阐述。1989年，Guns N' Roses 获得了首届 国际摇滚乐大奖的最佳艺人奖。92年就被权威的《滚石》杂志称为“全球最佳硬摇滚乐团”。此时，他们已经成了一支足以与任何老牌摇滚劲旅相抗衡的世界著名摇滚乐队。然而由于乐队两名灵魂人物的矛盾激化，不久之后枪花乐队宣布解散，乐队成员各自发展，但都是表现平平，失去了往日的锐气。虽然在90年代末乐队重组的大潮中，枪花乐队也重新复合，但创作力的消失让期待他们的歌迷大失所望。
枪花乐队最具影响力的曲目是“DON'T CRY”和“NOVEMBER RAIN”（后面一首歌因出色的歌词获得了美国最佳社会先驱奖），“DON'T CRY”在billboard排行榜上停留将近3年（147）周，创下了摇滚乐的神话.DON'T CRY这首歌中枪花乐队一改从前的愤怒激烈，两名主唱一沧桑一哀婉低吟出一段令荡气回肠的柔情曲，而歌泶锍龅奈弈魏褪б庹欠吲募涟ⅰ２恢乖诟枋瘴驳牡胤剑诟杵鹗本陀械腶i的呻吟声，而且在整首歌里拖长的ai音非常之多，以我的听觉来看，他们应该是通过加长的ai鸣来表达一种撕心裂肺的心痛，在MTV版本中，两位主唱的女友皆因他们的不够珍惜而伤心离去，甚至香消玉陨，mtv用很长的篇幅来追忆从前的美好时光，悔恨的心痛表达的淋漓尽致。值得注意的是，在结尾的ai鸣中，主唱AXL.ROSE迎着从窗顶透射进的光尘颤抖双手，倏的一支美丽的白鸽振翅而去，或许这ai鸣中还隐藏着再续前缘的一种奢望！
you held my hand and then you slipped away
And I may never see your face again
So tell me how do to fill the emptiness inside
Without love, what is life?
And anyone who knew us both can see
We always were the better part of me
I never wanted to be this free
All this pain, does it go away?
Then every time I turn around
And you're nowhere to be found
I know I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew
To you, to you
From memory, there is no hiding place
Turn on the TV and I see you there
In every crowd there's always someone with your face
Everywhere, trying not to care
Then every time I turn around
And you're nowhere to be found
I know I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew
To you, I wish you everythin'
And all the best that life can bring
I only hope you think of me sometimes, oh
And even though I feel the pain
I know that I will love again
The time will come, oh, and I'll move on
I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go, got a long way to go
Before I can say goodbye, before I say goodbye
To all I ever knew, to all I ever knew
I got a long, I got a long, long way to go, long way to go
Before I can say, before I say, goodbye to you
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew
Girl, I wish you the best I know, oh and all of the rest, to you
I got a long, long way to go
六十年代英国产生了不少经得起历史考验的乐队，而PINK FLOYD乐队无疑是其中最伟大的一支，从某种意义上讲，它对于摇滚发展的贡献要大于被尊称为摇滚鼻祖的BEATLES，Pink Floyd在摇滚领域许多方面的开拓和创新为它投下了耀目的不朽的光辉。1965年，天才青年、21岁的Syd Barrett与另外三名乐手组成了PINK FLOYD乐队〔乐队名字取自他尊崇的两名布鲁斯歌者的名字Pink Anderson和Floyd Council〕，他能文能武，写歌、演唱，吉他弹奏样样拿手。乐队在乐器演奏上的实验精神，以及Syd Barrett词作笔锋犀利、曲式轻松闲雅的创作力很快就让自己在英国摇滚圈里享有了较高的地位。1967年后半年，天才的Syd Barrett由于精神崩溃和吸毒问题永远的离开了乐队，不久死于糖尿病。丧失了灵魂人物的PINK FLOYD似乎只有奇迹才能拯救。然而就在此时，Royer Waters——贝司手兼主唱，Pink Floyd的具有雄才伟略的新舵手以及新上任不久的吉他手Dave Gilmour构成了Pink Floyd再生之后的创作阵线。PINK FLOYD凤凰涅磐获得新生，并且创造了前所未有的更大成就。乐队延续实验摇滚风格的新专辑《Dark Side of the Moon》为摇滚史带来的“概念专辑”的新思想。它在公告牌排行榜冠军的位置上不可思议的停留了741周。从诞生那天起到现在它一直都是全世界范围内流行最广的摇滚专辑之一。
然而我最喜爱的歌曲《wish you were here》却不是出自这张专辑，而是出自另外一张专为献给离队已久的乐队缔造者前吉他手Syd Barrett的专辑《wish you were here》。在我的听觉经验中，PINK FLOYD的这张专辑和LOU REED&JOHN CALE的那张《德雷拉之歌》〔献给波普艺术大师ANDY WARHOL〕是这世界上最悲哀的两张歌集。以一种兄弟的真挚来历数亡人留于脑中的记忆痕迹，没有歌颂，没有悲哀，却有一场真实的人性在里面，真实得让你眼眶湿润。旋律轻快的歌可能给人带来感官的享受，但能够渗入人的骨髓和灵魂的音乐往往是那些沧桑凄凉的心底之音。愿大家都能珍爱目前拥有的一切，莫等失去时追悔莫及！
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cold breeze?
Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange
a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We\'re just two lost soulsmming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
running over the same old ground. What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.
DEF LEPPARD是一支典型的流行重金属乐队〔乐评语〕，流畅的旋律和优美的和声是乐队的特征之一。DEF LEPPARD音乐中的优美旋律令乐迷们对重金属音乐有了新的认识，无数热血青年受DEF LEPPARD音乐的引领步入重金属的殿堂，而这一点也成了一些评论家和重金属狂热者攻击的目标。我是这样的观点：音乐发展到今天，已经渐渐偏离了本性，流派类别之争非常激烈，摇滚看不起流行，流行当朋克是垃圾，其实大可不必如此。音乐原本就只是一段供给人欣赏的旋律加节奏的合成体，因此只应该有好音乐和不好音乐之分，而不应该硬性的归结流派。任何一支乐队或歌者都是有其自身特点的，如何分的那么清楚，有些乐队甚至是无法化入任何流派的，如Cranberries〔卡百利〕非常的有个性。因此，我认为，一支乐队只要他的音乐动听入心，那他的音乐就绝对有理由得到尊重。让流派见鬼去吧，def leppard就是def leppard 风格。
DEF LEPPARD成立于1977年的冬天，前身ATOMIC MASS（核能圣餐）乐队，1978年7月18日乐队第一次登台演出是在谢菲尔德的中学韦斯特菲尔德，他们的报酬是一位老师自掏腰包的5英镑。1978年DEF LEPPARD在自己创建的公司推出首张同名专辑《DEF LEPPARD》，由于资金原因，这张EP唱片只制作了1000份拷贝，时至今日，这张唱片已成为摇滚迷们渴望已久的藏品。随后DEF LEPPARD开始走向成功，并成功杀入美国，成为当时唯一能与迈克尔·杰克逊争雄的乐队。
然而一系列的灾难降临到乐队身上，吉他手酒精中毒病故，鼓手酗酒被开除，鼓手里克·艾伦发生交通事故，左臂被齐肩切断，但艾伦以惊人的毅力和顽强的意志重返乐队，利用脚和手的合拍性苦练特地为他定做的电子鼓，并成了乐队的灵魂人物，艾伦用这种超强毅力和音乐执著大手笔的书写了真正的摇滚精神
you held my hand and then you slipped away
And I may never see your face again
So tell me how do to fill the emptiness inside
Without love, what is life?
And anyone who knew us both can see
We always were the better part of me
I never wanted to be this free
All this pain, does it go away?
Then every time I turn around
And you're nowhere to be found
I know I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew
To you, to you
From memory, there is no hiding place
Turn on the TV and I see you there
In every crowd there's always someone with your face
Everywhere, trying not to care
Then every time I turn around
And you're nowhere to be found
I know I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew
To you, I wish you everythin'
And all the best that life can bring
I only hope you think of me sometimes, oh
And even though I feel the pain
I know that I will love again
The time will come, oh, and I'll move on
I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go, got a long way to go
Before I can say goodbye, before I say goodbye
To all I ever knew, to all I ever knew
I got a long, I got a long, long way to go, long way to go
Before I can say, before I say, goodbye to you
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew
Girl, I wish you the best I know, oh and all of the rest, to you
I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
4.NIRVANA/《Smell like teen spirit》
世界上没有几个歌者能象KURT COBAIN那样在死后得到众多乐迷们“摇滚之神”般的供奉。
90年代，美国的失业危机重新抬头,朋克乐在音乐界再度爆炸，西雅图的Grunge音乐风暴引起了强烈的反响与轰动，KURT COBAIN组建的NIRVANA〔涅磐〕堪称GRUNGE的领军人物。1991九月，专辑"Nevermind"发行，刚推出5周销量就已达到50万张， 92年1月11日成为美国销量第一的唱片，全球的销量超过一千万大关。在商业上取得了巨大的成功。(Nevermind)使Nirvana步向成功，创造了一个非主流乐队成为主流的神话，同时也开始了一场心灵的悲剧。这里推荐的这首《smell like teen spirit》是NIRVANA 专辑"Nevermind"中的代表作品，音乐中扭曲的吉他，沙哑的歌喉，猛然的爆发把Kurt Cobain 内心的狂燥、愤怒、压抑、扭曲、病态、激烈的矛盾冲突完全显示了出来，同时也也反映了KURT温柔、感性、脆弱和恐惧的一面。在MTV的unpluged演唱会上，Kurt Cobain 更似一个沉静、害羞的小女孩，与外部世界的格格不入已经为悲剧的爆发奠定了伏笔。
1994年4月5日，在中国祭拜亡灵的传统节日，KURT COBAIN在自己的住所用猎枪结束了自己的生命。自杀的原因就如同他在《where did you sleep last night》中那最后一声无奈的叹息一般，没有人能够真正理解，也许神就不应该留在人世之中的吧！KURT COBAIN用行动实践了他的音乐理想，如凤凰一样涅磐重生，然而留给无数乐迷的却是无尽的怀念和心痛！！！
Load up on guns and
Bring your friends
It's fun to lose
And to pretend
She's over bored
And self assured
Oh no, I know
A dirty word
hello, how low? x bunch of times
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yeah
I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end
hello, how low? x bunch of times
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yeah
And I forget
Just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard
It was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
hello, how low? x bunch of times
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yeah, a denial
A denial
A denial...
5.GOO GOO DULLS/《Iris》
1985年主唱兼吉他手John Rzeznik与玩重金属乐的表哥Robby Takac找来前鼓手George Tutuska，于美国纽约州水牛城组成了三人摇滚团体Goo Goo Dolls。乐队在发行前五张专辑的过程中，虽然赢得了一些好评和人气，但是乐队并未树立自己的音乐个性，因此也未能从众多的另类摇滚乐队中脱颖而出，大红大紫。
但是老天似乎特别偏爱他们，幸逢电影《City Of Angels》邀请他们为其原声带写作歌曲，John Rzeznik所谱写演唱的《Iris》（希腊文，虹彩）一曲，不仅为他们赢得1999年第41届葛莱美音乐奖"年度唱片""最佳流行演唱团体""年度歌曲"等三项大奖提名，将Goo Goo Dolls的乐坛声望与作品销售数字提携至顶端外，《Iris》一曲的制作人Rob Cavallo更以此获得"年度最佳制作"大奖。Goo Goo Dolls这才开始在乐坛树立了自己的地位，也找到了适合自己的POP ROCK〔流行摇滚〕风格。
《Iris》堪称流行摇滚音乐作品中十年一遇的好音乐，音乐起始清脆急促的吉他SOLO，John Rzeznik饱含沧桑的低沉嗓音对世事对爱情满腹的疑问，而曲至中段突然的高昂爆发似乎疑问已经转为了真挚的誓言，“即便万物毁灭，我也只要你知道我是谁！”旋律的优美和主唱声线的粗犷形成了鲜明对比，而正因如此，此首音乐脱离了甜腻情歌的范畴，成了百听不厌的超级经典。由于这首音乐的动听，各大城市音像店〔city of angels〕原声CD俱已脱销，连它的打口CD都已卖到了破记录的30元。
这首歌的广泛受欢迎度，更加应了我的那个观点，玩过多年重金属，重摇滚的老将一旦演绎起配乐纯净旋律完美的柔情作品来，那才是欧美音乐中的极品，堪称天籁之音！！！
And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cuz I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cuz sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight
And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you'd bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And I don't want the world to see me
Cuz I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
HEY YOU,WE ALL LOVE THIS,RIGHT?
警察乐队是将雷鬼乐与流行摇滚结合得最成功的一支英国摇滚乐队。由前“Curved Air"乐队的鼓手Stewart Copeland和纽卡斯尔爵士乐队“No Exit”的贝司手／歌手STING于1977年成立的，他们与吉他手Andy Summers和Henry Padovani成为一个短期4人乐队，不久，Henry Padovani离开了该乐队，使之成为3人组合。
1978年初，“警察”与A＆M公司签约，并于4月份报出了单曲《Roxanne》，这首歌首次展现了他们创新性的雷吉节奏的奇特摇滚。直到1年后，该曲进入美国排行榜前40名，才使“警察”在英国榜上起飞。
主唱兼词曲作者的STING斯汀是police乐队的灵魂（因为他在演出时喜欢穿黄色横条衫，形象颇似蜜蜂，所以有了sting〔刺〕这个名字），斯汀才华横溢，外型英俊，非常的有女歌迷人缘，他曾经有一段在大学兼职授课的经历，在课堂上女学生的大胆挑逗经常让他难以下台，他为此专门创作了一首歌《don't stand so close to me》歌词幽默，曲调非常的随意、流畅，完美的合音，强烈的节奏，高鼻音的大量运用把起源于牙买加海岸的雷鬼乐自由、极富个性化的音乐特点天衣无缝地融入摇滚乐中，开创了一个独特的摇滚音乐风格。
在他们1980－1981年旋风般地获得成功之后，他们获得不列颠音乐大奖中的“最佳英国组合”和3项格莱美奖。之后乐队的成员都开始了各自的计划，此后，乐队令人惋惜的正式解体，sting 虽然获得了更大的个人成功，包括多次格莱美奖，成为欧美乐坛的顶尖天王级歌者，但是音乐中却丧失了POLICE乐队的音乐个性魂魄，总是让我惋惜不已。
Young teacher the subject
Of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly
Knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page
Book marking she's so close now
This girls is half his age
Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Her friends are so jealous
You know how bad girls get
Sometimes it's not so easy
To be the teacher's pet
Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she's waiting
His car is warm and dry
Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Loose talk in the classroom
To hurt they try and try
Strong words in the staffroom
The accusations fly
It's no use he sees her
He starts to shake he starts to cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov
Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand
Don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me...
很少有乐队能象QUEEN那样彻底地体现70年代世界摇滚舞台的丰富多采。QUEEN就象一个综艺大厅一样，完美将华丽摇滚，前卫摇滚，古典音乐及重金属熔为一炉。这个来自英国由迷幻硬摇滚乐队SMILE演变而来的四人乐队致力于发掘华丽和夸张（并带有同性恋倾向）的艺术风格，创造出一种带有浓厚歌剧色彩的摇滚乐形式，主唱Freddie Mercury性感而如同唱诗班的嗓音，四人完美的假声合音，层层铺垫的键盘和绚烂花哨的吉他solo是他们的标志。
A Night At The Opera（歌剧院之夜）是QUEEN乐队最为经典的专辑，乐队为这张专辑的制作耗费了巨大的精力，有报道称这是摇滚乐史上制作费用最高的一张专辑。其中著名的单曲也就是我今天推荐的这首Bohemian Rhapsody（波西米亚狂想曲）成了QUEEN的招牌曲目，在酷似歌剧唱诗般的华丽配乐中不断加入大段的重金属吉他riff和solo，这正是QUEEN的典型风格。这首单曲在英国排行榜上迅速升到冠军的位置，并且在这个位置上停留了足有9个星期，并最终打破了英国单曲排行榜上冠军停留时间最长的记录。在美国，这首歌和整张专辑也获得了巨大的成功，进入了排行榜前10位并同时成为白金单曲和白金专辑。甚至在十多年后的1992年，这首Bohemian Rhapsody还在美国单曲排行榜上获得过数周的亚军成绩。
值得一提的是，由于主唱Freddie Mercury是一个彻底的同性恋者，1991年，关于Freddie Mercury身体状况的谣言也是漫天乱飞，在11月22日，他终于向外界证实，他染上了爱滋病。两天后，Freddie去世了。Freddie死后，乐队成员保持了一段时间的沉寂，三名成员在1994年还是重新聚到一起共同录制合成Freddie的遗作，这些歌的主唱部分都是Freddie在病床上录制完成的。1995年，这张名为Made In Heaven（天堂制造）的专辑得以发行，由于它特殊的纪念意义，这张专辑在全球范围尤其是欧洲引起了抢购狂潮，毋庸质疑，这已经是QUEEN的最后一张录音室作品了。Freddie Mercury虽然是个同性恋者，但这并不妨碍由于对华丽摇滚做出的伟大创新和贡献而受到世界无数摇滚迷的尊敬。
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo - (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo Figaro - magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go - will you let me go
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go (never)
Never let you go - let me go
Never let me go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no -
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
for me
for me
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby - can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters - nothing really matters to me
Anyway the wind blows...
包括NIRVANA在内的许多另类乐队都声称他们的音乐启蒙于R.E.M。R.E.M成立于1980年，他们是在美国的Georgia州的Athens城组建的，乐队名字是“RAPID EYE MOVEMENT”快速转动眼球的缩写，指做梦时的一种生理现象。这支乐队在英式朋克音乐的嘲讽态度于新浪潮的音乐层面上出发，重新定义了美国摇滚乐中“另类”的定义，从某种意义上讲，他们是美国另类摇滚之父。
作为一支真正起家于地下的乐队，他们在建团初期就开着大篷车周游于美国大陆，将自己的音乐理想和精神传播于乡村，学校和酒馆。许多热血青年就是受了他们的音乐的感染下才疯狂的爱上了摇滚乐，而其中的佼佼者甚至^_^起吉他成为了大名鼎鼎的乐队、歌者。将R.E.M的作品说成地下音乐也许会招徕许多喜欢地下音乐黑、重风格的兄弟的反驳，因为R.E.M的销量一直非常好，而且音乐初听起来实在更象民谣摇滚似的软绵绵的音乐，而与那些普遍暴噪音乐风格的地下乐队格格不入。但无论如何，R.E.M代表着地下音乐的最高水平，从他们听似舒缓的旋律中能够读到很深的摇滚内涵，只不过他们达到了一种极至，噪重的吉他噪音已至慵懒，暴躁的鼓鸣已至优雅，而主唱本应嘶喉的嗓音却已经登峰造极至哀婉深沉如细腻的丝绸。物极必反，地下音乐的极至水平必然如这般舒缓轻柔。而且他们的音乐态度一直是非常阴暗低调的，总是从非常人性的角度来结识一些深刻的人生哲学，而不似流行音乐简单甚至愚蠢的享乐主义。 R.E.M的大受欢迎更多的来源于更多的吉它SOLO伴奏，舒缓动人的旋律，尤其是嗓子如钻石一般的主唱思蒂普更富有激情，迷幻的嗓音。
无论如何，R.E.M是摇滚史上不朽的音乐功臣，他们的许多音乐也成了岁月不可磨灭的经典。
(chorus)
I've found a way to make you
I've found a way
A way to make you smile
I read bad poetry
Into your machine
I save your messages
Just to hear your voice
You always listen carefully
To awkward rhymes
You always say your name,
Like I wouldn't know it's you,
At your most beautiful
(repeat chorus)
At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes, secretly
With every one, whisper I love you
I let you sleep
I know you're closed eye watching me,
Listening
I thought I saw a smile
(repeat chorus)
无可争议，80年代英国和爱尔兰最受瞩目的伟大乐队是U2，在80年代被滚石杂志称为U2的十年，由此可见U2的巨大影响。The Edge的招牌吉他音响与Bono情感炽热的演唱已使U2成为最流行的摇滚乐队之一。这支真正出自地下的乐队创造了地下音乐的商业神话。
U2已经创作并录制了一些真正伟大而动人的歌曲。从80年代起U2就致力于反战，自由等事业，也许这种精神才是U2的伟大之处。专辑《War》是U2对在祖国爱尔兰发生的宗教与政治风暴的真挚而富于情感的回应。包括了像“Sunday Bloody Sunday”和“New Year\'s Day”这样的发自内心的赞歌。《War》树立了U2在表现政治良知的音乐领域中的先锋领袖地位，也为被世人误为暴躁，发泄，肮脏的摇滚乐正了名。 U2为尼古拉斯.凯奇和梅格.瑞恩主演的电影〔天使之城〕制作了一首主题歌《If god will send his angels》，没有炫耀的吉他，没有急促的鼓鸣，一切归于沉静，主唱BONO用用最低沉的嗓音吟唱，一种痛至极度的哀伤淡淡流淌出来，却轻易就敲碎了听者的心。此曲可以说是U2演绎的最动情的情歌，也是20世纪最百听不厌的经典情歌之一。
Nobody else here baby no one else here to blame
No one to point the finger...
It's just you and me and the rain
Nobody made you do it, no one put words in your mouth
Nobody here taking orders when love took a train heading south
It's the blind leading the blond
It's the stuff the stuff of country songs
HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
AND IF GOD WILL SEND A SIGN
AND IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
Would everything be alright?
God has got his phone off the hook
Babe would he even pick up if he could?
It's been a while since we saw that child
Hangin' round this neighbourhood
See his mother dealing in a doorway
See Father Christmas with a begging bowl
Jesus sister's eyes are blister ...
THE HIGH STREET never looked so low
It's the blind leading the blond
It's the cops collecting for the cons
So where is the hope and where is the faith ... and the love?
What's that you say to me
Does love... light up your Christmas tree?
The next minute you're blowing a fuse
And the cartoon network turns into the news
HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
AND IF GOD WILL SEND A SIGN
WELL IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
WHERE DO WE GO
Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business
Now it's hard to get in the door
It's the stuff it's the stuff of country songs
But I guess it was something to go on
HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
I SURE COULD USE THEM HERE RIGHT NOW
WELL IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
WHERE DO WE GO...
你可能钟爱很多音乐，为许多支乐队和歌者所打动，但只能有一支乐队是与你的灵魂融为一体的，我的那支就是Soul Asylum〔灵魂庇难所〕，第一次听到他们音乐时就忽然产生一种似曾熟识的奇妙感觉，不由自主的就随之哼唱起来，我完全随心哼吟，却与Soul Asylum的音乐鬼使神差般的丝丝契合，路上的行人多以异样目光视我，我视若不见，完全沉浸在一种寻到音乐知己和归宿的巨大喜悦中。
这支成立于1983年的另类摇滚乐队，成立时乐队奠定的风格是暴躁的朋克和硬摇滚风格，在当时美国众多的此类型地下乐队中并没有脱颖而出，乐队的几张专辑也并没有引起怎样的轰动，由于长期排练和演出中巨大声响的侵害，主音吉他兼主唱David Pirner〔大卫.皮尔纳〕的耳朵失聪了，然而即使如此，他也并没有放弃对音乐的执著追求，而且因祸得福，他们开始排练一些原声的作品，却取得了无以伦比的成功。1992年，他们推出的一张专辑《Grave Dancers Union》〔凄惨舞者联盟〕，一张深沉而不失柔情的原声专辑刚一登榜就引起了从乐评者到普通乐迷的巨大惊喜，专辑中的很多作品都是经典之作，而《runaway train》〔迷失列车〕更成为世界级的摇滚经典。在乐队随后的专辑中仍坚持了此张专辑奠定的音乐风格，乐队的歌迷和专辑销量与日俱增，外型英俊的乐队的灵魂人物皮尔纳甚至成为了美国九十年代的另类偶像。2000年，乐队推出了精选集《Black Gold: The Best Of Soul Asylum》，迎来了事业的又一高峰。在众多专辑中，我最钟爱的当属《Let Your Dim Light Shine》，或许是先入为主的缘故，因为这就是我首度接触即产生难以置信共鸣的那张专辑。
推荐的这首《runaway train》堪称Soul Asylum的扛鼎之作，这是首描写失踪儿童问题的作品，在清脆干净的吉他、不动声色的鼓点伴奏下，主唱皮尔纳沧桑沙哑的嗓音从喉底或者说从心底吟出最深沉的悲愤与控诉，悲伤和愤怒的极至通常不是血泪泣诉或狂吼一气，而是近乎平和的，淡淡的陈述，而这却更容易渗入听者的心底。心随着略含悲意的音乐起伏，似乎看到了失去亲生儿女的母亲那无助、失神的目光。
Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
So tired that I couldn ’t even sleep
So many secrets I couldn ’t keep
Promised myself I wouldn ’t weep
One more promise I couldn ’t keep
It seems no one can help me now
I ’m in too deep
There ’s no way out
This time I have really led myself astray
CHORUS:
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I ’m neither here no there
Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life ’s mystery seems so faded
I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin ’ in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train
Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don ’t believe it
CHORUS.
Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin ’ at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain
Runaway train never comin ’ back
Runaway train tearin ’ up the track
Runaway train burnin ’ in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same
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