时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:音乐咖啡厅


英语课

瑞典歌曲有时让你温暖如风,有时又让你寒冷彻骨,但少不了的总是触动你心底最柔软的那寸地方的感动


Artist:Kent
Song:The King is Dead


Thin december air is like the dry ice smoke
You'll come to your senses or inhale 1 and
choke
My IQ allows me to brush you aside
You're zeros and ones, you're wrong where
I'm right


Now, the tyrant 2 is dead and his lady is free
I am going ahead with the reinvention of me
Now the king lies here dead, now the king
lies here dead


It's not as wet as the rain or
as cold as the snow
It drives him in hard to the sane 3 and the
simple soul


I take a charge at my chance
you know how it is
Let go of my hand
you know how it is


Now, the tyrant is dead and his lady is free
I am going ahead with the reinvention of me


And my IQ allows me to brush you aside


Now, the tyrant is dead and his lady is free
I am going ahead with the reinvention of me
Now the king lies here dead, now the king
lies here dead
专辑介绍:


某一种乐队在你身边始终只有少数人知道,类似秘密会社,成员加入的速度极为缓慢,社团始终打不响知名度。但你不特别担心社团停止成长或脚步停滞,每当与人谈起,你总是暗自窃喜,默默骄傲,甚至希望社团一直维持这种规模就好。


知道的人多了会降低它的神秘感。好东西要与更多人分享,这句话在秘密会社是不适用的。Kent就是这样一组乐队。


Kent始终是迷雾里的乐队,我们拨开好几层纱还是看不透他。来自瑞典,先天的语言屏障使Kent与英语系国家(或依赖英语资讯的其他地区)总是处著隔阂。他们曾将两张专辑: Isola、Hagnesta Hill翻唱成英文版本,至于其他作品,包括最新专辑Du & Jag D?den 4都只有瑞典文版。官方网页也一概是瑞典文,我们很难深入了解什么。Swiss rock?如果有这么一个名字,Kent应该是其中之一吧,简单的吉他,厚重的鼓点儿,缓慢的节奏配上主唱慵懒又带着灵性的声音。


 


但东拼西凑还是能理出一些简单脉络。Kent成立于1990年,主唱Joakim Berg与吉他手Sami Sirvio是学校旧识,乐队成立后陆续招兵买马,首张同名专辑只能算表现普通。但96年的第二张专辑Verkligen让事情产生了转机,这些带著浓浓Radiohead式The Bends氛围的音乐瞬间征服了瑞典,Kent终于踏入畅销乐队之林。02年发行的Vapen & Ammunition,光在北欧一地就售出了五十万张,相当惊人的数字。2000年的这张《Hagnesta hill》里,好像故意要摆脱radiohead的影子,不过,真正喜欢这张专辑的,还是那些慢歌,音乐,好听就行了,要意境还不如去读唐诗。找个没事的下午,或者睡不着的夜里,关上门和窗,把自己浸入这首quiet heart,也许,你会找到一丝的平静。


除了受到Radiohead影响,David Bowie与Depeche Mode也是Kent的重要精神食粮。Kent的音乐总是带著浓浓的英国味,许多人将他们归入Brit-Pop。但他们的气质是其他英国乐队学不来的,Kent一向有自己的味道。


Kent的音乐总能让人联想起黄昏、秋天的海滩、逝去的青春、久不见的朋友这些记忆里的往事。(转自Emule)



v.吸入(气体等),吸(烟)
  • Don't inhale dust into your lung.别把灰尘吸进肺里。
  • They are pleased to not inhale second hand smoke.他们很高兴他们再也不会吸到二手烟了。
n.暴君,专制的君主,残暴的人
  • The country was ruled by a despotic tyrant.该国处在一个专制暴君的统治之下。
  • The tyrant was deaf to the entreaties of the slaves.暴君听不到奴隶们的哀鸣。
adj.心智健全的,神志清醒的,明智的,稳健的
  • He was sane at the time of the murder.在凶杀案发生时他的神志是清醒的。
  • He is a very sane person.他是一个很有头脑的人。
n.兽穴;秘密地方;安静的小房间,私室
  • There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
  • The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。
学英语单词
Academia Sinica
Alatoz
amaroid
amount of income
Arabellidae
audiovox
available thermal power
balance order
bastard FORTRAN
beat-age
beyond word
biclofibate
bitch about
breakdown service
BSLB
caking index
campus card
caprices
cellular fabric
civilisers
clatter down
closed loop control
co insurance clause
Commiphora abyssinica
compliment someone on
corruption perception index
cost reduction program
cup-like
cyan halide
dc voltmeter
developmental pattern
direct variable cost
DRTP
Durukhsi
echo-poor
electric ramming impact machine
Ethylmalonic-Adipicaciduria
executive diagnostics
fabrication of evidence
fan site
fatty compounds
Fennicism
fire-resisting beam
fossy
genus Ammobium
Gilt Edged Bond
grow into
head rod
high level slewing tower crane
idiotype(siemens 1921)
indicator air speed
jen
joyousnesses
junejoes
leather bed
lunch-counter
main alloying component
market study
Melburin
mid-ir laser
military observer
Mitabe-zaki
Morgan, John Pierpont
national courts
nationality mark
nonosseous
nuclear log
Nyoiseau
obligatory notification
once-magnificent
one - dimensional array
orthosteric
oxidation stability
panspermists
paratrechina otome
periodic quantity
pigtailed laser diode
pochards
pocket trumpets
porphyritic-like texture
pre-advice
psss a law
quality planning
radio communication for railway public security
recent quotation
round angles
salt-fog
sense-datum
Silene nana
siphon tube
sulfoxylic acid
testudovolva orientis
tilth top soil
transparency velvet
Ulfametopyrazine
unelicited
Vamsadhāra R.
vintress
voiding knife
wide-aperture gun
windrow type mechanical cement spreader