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
absolus
addenda
administration of trade regulations
amanpour
American Party
asynchronous multiplexer
balladine (france)
be good friends
beet-drill
Boolean condition
bovine pest
Braine
branchier
bruzio
bulb planter
Business Process Execution Language
calipees
calyculatus
carbonbearing
catch at shadows
chain-drive motorcycle
chloro-acetyl chloride
class fragmentation
cold creep
cometary dynamics
croume
cyanofenphos
data-flows
dipicryl sulfide
divemaster
enervoxe
equal time point (etp)
equally likely events
equivalent expansive grammar
evaporative crystallizer
fibre-spinning process
goes at
guard method
huzzie
intermedius meso
jupiter pluviuss
key way
La Bruffière
lift shaft
long player
macintosh clone
magneto strictive drill
methanobactins
micropenetrometer
mixed medium-sized coal
nasal irrigation
Neolitsea aurata var. undulatula
niederland
nonrepayable
nonrunner
nordihydrocodeinone
nqb
one's money's-worth
Orhaneli
over-trusty
parasitic chain
Pater, Walter Horatio
pernick'etiness
phonemes-voice synthesizer
pneumonic plagues
procurement card
propeller-jet engine
pseudovector
put into practice freezing method
railroad through
Randia racemosa
reader code
refining steel
registering (wind) vane
remasticated
rheophiles
ring throstle
root pain
saddle-trees
satellite technical and operational committee
say uncle
scaph-
self working
shell expansion plan
specification pointer
spray line nozzle
steppin' out
subordinationism
sweetishly
system elements
systems software
three dimensional fundamental form
timed separation
trautenau
true sparrows
tuffaceous shale
universal starching and drying machine
up-and-down indicator
wade through sth
warm runner mould
xyluketose-1-phosphate
yearly weather