Red Hot Chili Peppers《Californication》 / 四六文摘

497

美添音乐

Everyday music

第497添

原力将我解放。

——《星球大战》

歌名:《Californication》

歌者：Red Hot Chili Peppers

词曲：Red Hot Chili Peppers

流派：摇滚

歌曲评分：满分五星，歌词意境、旋律动听程度（包括歌手的演唱是否优美）、情感的丰富性、配乐水平、流行程度等五个方面判断。

学习难度：最容易的为1星，最难为5星。

歌词

[Verse 1]

Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation

And little girls from Sweden dream of silver-screen quotation

And if you want these kind of dreams, it's Californication

[Verse 2]

It's the edge of the world and all of Western civilization

The sun may rise in the East, at least it settled in a final location

It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication

[Bridge]

Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging

Celebrity skin: is this your chin or is that war you're waging?

[Pre-Chorus]

First born unicorn

Hardcore soft porn

[Chorus]

Dream of Californication

[Verse 3]

Marry me, girl, be my fairy to the world, be my very own constellation

A teenage bride with a baby inside getting high on information

And buy me a star on the boulevard, it's Californication

[Verse 4]

Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement

And Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station to Station?

And Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication

[Bridge]

Born and raised by those who praise control of population

Well, everybody's been there, and I don't mean no vacation

[Pre-Chorus]

First born unicorn

Hardcore soft porn

[Chorus]

Dream of Californication

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 5]

Destruction leads to a very rough road but it also breeds creation

And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar, they're just another good vibration

And tidal waves couldn't save the world from Californication

[Bridge]

Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging

Sicker than the rest, there is no test, but this is what you're craving

[Pre-Chorus]

First born unicorn

Hardcore soft porn

[Chorus]

Dream of Californication

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多添一点：

今天分享一首Red Hot Chili Peppers（红辣椒乐队）的《Californication》。

今天带来首揭露阴暗面的歌曲，也是小E长期循环的歌曲之一。又一次选择了红辣椒的歌曲，因为它占据了小E的耳朵。这首歌收录在1999年的同名专辑《Californication》中，是他们最热门的歌曲之一，在公告牌100首热门歌曲排行榜上排名第69位，在现代和主流摇滚排行榜上排名第一，而且，据乐队贝斯手Flea说，“ 这张专辑是红辣椒乐队有史以来制作的最好的唱片。”

这首歌反映了世界是如何变得非常肤浅和虚假，就像加利福尼亚一样。红辣椒乐队成立于好莱坞，对洛杉矶古怪的生活习性非常熟悉。这里边隐晦了一些话语，没有直接的表达。所以如果不了解背景的人可能会有些迷惑。比如歌词"Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off station to station and Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication,”其实柯本开创了加州化的潮流。所以作者是在说，你看看现在变成了什么样子。另外阿尔德兰——星球大战中莉亚公主所在的星球——被帝国摧毁了，这意味着世界正在被摧毁。歌词“Celebrity skin is this your chin, or is that war your waging”是出自Hole乐队的第三张也是最后一张专辑《名人的皮肤》。这首歌还受到了The Cure乐队的一首30分钟的器乐歌曲《屠杀护面》(Carnage Visors)的影响。

这首歌的歌词是由主唱Anthony Kiedis完成的。最初乐队本来打算放弃这首歌的。因为他们没办法找到配合这首歌的曲子。在Anthony Kiedis的自传《Scar Tissue》中，他提到这首歌曲。“这首歌词是我在泰国的净化之旅中写的，当时吉他手John Frusciante回到乐队的想法对我来说还是不可思议的……我把《Californication》给John看，他很喜欢歌词，并开始写歌。但出于某种原因，尽管这是一首完美的歌，我们却找不到与之相配的曲子。我们试了十种不同的安排和十种不同的副歌，都没有成功，虽然其他的歌都从我们身上倾泻而出。尝试了几个星期之后，有人开始演奏一段非常不常见的riff，听起来就像我们以前从未做过的一样。我一听到，就知道这就是我们想要的！”

不得不说这首歌的吉他编配和低音的编配都非常棒，值得循环播放。

Red Hot Chili Peppers《Californication》

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