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
abjugate
allosuctobelba grandis
Ammotragus lervia
anociated
appeal to someone's better feelings
ascogonidium
atavistic heredity
awning socket
Bardeen
batsmanships
be calibrated
behavioral crises
Bethe-Weizsacker cycle
bow string
carotenodermia
chlorinated pesticide
clapper switch
clastic ejectamenta
cocoa nibs
Coke County
coko
control rod dropping
converging attack
cribratus
crow's feet
dash churn
deboost
direct viewing storage tube
dissipation, power
El Miraje, Salar
electrostatic memory line
elstirs
fan spoked wheel
floodlight (flo)
foredunes
gangbuster
halvelings
heartney
Helsingborg
hexanitrostilbene
hole-diffusion length
ICR
identity permutations
inner epithelial sheath
inoculat
intrinsically nonlinear
inverted echo sounder (ies)
knuckleballer
ky jelly
La Plata, R.de
lekan
life forms
like her
limber passage
linear narrative
m-tv
marmas
mechanical flag switch
micromark
mnos capacitor
Mousset's silver
neuroglandular
news-herald
NOESY
noncumulative quantity discount
outer-bottom expansion
Pan American Union
Phyllagathis ovalifolia
posseting
pummet
reorigin
repaint
Rhododendron glandulostylum
savta
scarlet carp
Schonbein's reaction
screening wire
separation bubble
soldier-poets
Souf
southerly
spiculo-
Srekettra
stagger to one's feet
stomele
syndrome of blood stasis blocking brain
syndrome of stagnated gallbladder qi with disturbing phlegm
thamrong
there's no fool like an old fool
thermistor gauge
thoburns
tool magazine
traverse table
trunk-fish
uncompressed
under-expose
upmarket
Virginia pine
washed up
weighs
work rest
xylaria multiplex