Jethro Tull《Aqualung》
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感觉像只死鸭子,
要把霉气吐出来。
...
花开得像,
春天般疯狂。
——《Aqualung》
歌名: 《Aqualung》
歌者:Jethro Tull
词曲:Jennie Anderson & Ian Anderson
流派:摇滚
推荐理由
前奏就上头,估计很多玩吉他的都听过这个前奏,实在是很耐听的。
歌词
[Hook]
Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent
Snot running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes
Hey, Aqualung
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run
Hey, Aqualung
Feeling like a dead duck
Spitting out pieces of his broken luck
Whoa, Aqualung
[Chorus]
Sun streaking cold, an old man wandering lonely
Taking time the only way he knows
Leg hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog-end
He goes down to the bog and warms his feet
Feeling alone, the army's up the road
Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea
Aqualung my friend, don't you start away uneasy
You poor old sod, you see, it's only me
[Verse]
Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze?
When the ice that
Clings on to your beard was
Screaming agony (Hey!)
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
With deep-sea-diver sounds
And the flowers bloom like
Madness in the spring
[Chorus]
Sun streaking cold, an old man wandering lonely
Taking time the only way he knows
Leg hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog-end
He goes down to the bog and warms his feet
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Feeling alone, the army's up the road
Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea
Aqualung my friend, don't you start away uneasy
You poor old sod, you see, it's only me
Me-me-me-me-me
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Dee-dee-dee-dee
Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Dee-dee-dee-dee
Aqualung, my friend, don't you start away uneasy
You poor old sod, you see, it's only me
[Hook]
Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent
Snot running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes
Hey, Aqualung
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run
Hey, Aqualung
Feeling like a dead duck
Spitting out pieces of his broken luck
Hey, Aqualung
[Outro]
Whoa, Aqualung

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多添一点:
今天分享一首Jethro Tull的《Aqualung》。
今天来首很魔性的riff的歌曲,这首歌曲来自他们1971年的专辑《Aqualung》,是其中的第一首歌。是专辑的主打歌。这张专辑在全球范围内卖出了700多万张,是他们最畅销的专辑。这张专辑受到了评论界的普遍好评,并被列入几家音乐杂志的最佳榜单。在美国该专辑在1971年6月排名第七。
这首歌讲的是人们对流浪汉的反应。由乐队主唱Ian Anderson和他当时的妻子Jennie Franks共同创作(她和Anderson于1974年离婚)。在这首歌中,Aqualung这个虚构人物是一个肮脏的流浪汉,原型是主唱当时的妻子Jennie Franks给他看的一张她拍摄的照片,Jennie Franks还为这些照片写了一些歌词,这也为她赢得了创作荣誉,所以她从这首歌中获得了一半的版税。Ian Anderson看到照片后,感到自己很同情那些无家可归的人,但也会因为他们的外表而恐惧不安。之后,他将照片上看到的和心里想的结合成了一个画面,一个无家可归但有自由精神的人,他们要么不会,要么不能加入社会规定的形式。就这样,从那张照片和那些情绪中,他开始写《Aqualung》。
这首歌的标题《Aqualung》,指的是一种供潜水员使用的便携式呼吸机。Anderson设想这个无家可归的人,拼命的活着的感觉就像使用这个呼吸机,而这个灵感来自于他看了一个叫《海洋狩猎》的电视节目。专辑封面是艺术家Burton Silverman创作的一幅水彩画。
Martin Barre在这首歌中的独奏,在《吉他世界》100首最伟大的吉他独奏读者投票中排名第25位。在这首歌中听到一个不寻常的音频效果被称为“telephone burbles”,这是一种模拟电话声音的方式。Ian Anderson在采访中描述:“这就像你通过扩音器向人群讲话一样。甚至可能是小喇叭的声音,这是一个非活动扩音器。1941年,正是这种声音唤醒了年轻的飞行员,将他们送上了天空,与德国人作战。所以这个声音是一个英国人的血统中非常重要的一部分。”