【煽峰点火】第7期:垃圾回收站
1995年,我知道有一支叫做“垃圾”(Garbage)的乐队,当时看到封面就喜欢上了。粉色的封面似乎总带点色情意味,也透露着一点性感,想像他们的音乐一定也很出色。后来一位日本朋友把这张专辑带给我,果然一听便爱不释手了。于是“垃圾”成了我期待听到下一张专辑的少数几支乐队之一。
我常常想像有这样的情景:几个人聚在一起,有人说:“我要听最前卫的唱片”;有人说:“我想听最时髦的”;有人说:“我想听好听的”;有人说:“我想听嗓音特酷的”;有人说:“我想在音乐中听到各种风格”;有人说:“我想听好听且另类的”……那好,你们都选择“垃圾”吧。不是有句广告这样说:××一到,众口不再难调吗?“垃圾”就是你这样的选择。
第一次听到“垃圾”时还根本不知道他们,看名字以为又是什么新新另类搞文字游戏,可当看到史蒂夫?马克(Steve Marker)、布奇?维格(Butch Vig)、杜克?埃里克森(Duke Erikson)这样的名字时,竟以为自己看花了眼,原来“垃圾堆”里藏着竟是这些金牌制作人。我在想,如果再加上那个史蒂夫?阿尔比尼(Steve Albini)的话,那真是无敌超级组合了。
“垃圾”是后摇滚的典型代表,也就是说,Grunge之后的摇滚特色,在“垃圾”的音乐中都能找到,他们兼收并蓄,既代表着过去,又代表着未来。对于这些掀动着90年代音乐潮流的幕后高手来说,“风格”一词对他们来说已没有什么意义了,他们所做的就是把他们的经验完美地表达出来。于是他们就做到了。
大概是鉴于头一张专辑成功的压力,或者是他们根本没有想过什么创新、突破,反正没有人能超过他们,所以这张专辑是在保证一定市场的前提下搞了一些小花活儿。最开始听,觉得它太悦耳、太时髦,但细细地听下来,才咀嚼出些许滋味来。
正如他们的名字:垃圾,这张Version 2.0就是一个垃圾回收站,《特别》(Special)的歌词借用了“冒牌货”(Pretenders)中的不少词句;《我想我是妄想狂》(I Think I'm Paranoid)参考了60年代美国的一首热门歌曲“Bend Me Shape Me”中的不少素材;专辑中最戏剧化的一首歌《窍门就是继续呼吸》(The Trick Is to Keep Breathing)旋律迷人、幽雅,出处来自凯特?布什(Kate Bush)1985年的歌曲《暴风雨》(Cloudbusting);首支单曲《推它》(Push It)不仅借用了“椒盐”(Salt-N-Pepa)的一些素材,同时还捎带着用了点“海滨男孩”(the Beach Boys)的《宝贝别烦》(Don't Worry Baby)中的内容……这张专辑一共才几首歌?《诱惑等待》(Temptation Waits)是为一些热门集锦唱片准备的曲目,让你百听不厌;《窍门就是继续呼吸》懒散而又优美;《脑袋里的敲打声》(Hammering in My Head)带着催眠效果,把大提琴、小提琴和各种各样的噪音混合在一起;还有,在很多唱片里你都听不到的实验技巧,等等。但我最感兴趣的是,曼森的嗓音,理性中透着感性。
I Think I'm Paranoid(歌词见下方,下同)
Bend Me Shape Me
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
Cloudbusting
Temptation Waits
Hammering in My Head

Bend Me Shape Me
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
Cloudbusting
Temptation Waits
Hammering in My Head
I Think I'm Paranoid
You can look, but you can't touch
I don't think I like you much
Heaven knows what a girl can do
Heaven knows what you've got to prove
I think I'm paranoid
And complicated
I think I'm paranoid
Manipulate it
[Chorus:]
Bend me, break me
Garbage
Anyway you need me
All I want is you
Bend me, break me
Breaking down is easy
All I want is you
I fall down just to give you a thrill
Prop me up with another pill
If I should fail, if I should fold
I nailed my faith to the sticking pole
I think I'm paranoid
Manipulate it
I think I'm paranoid
And complicated
Paranoid
I think I'm paranoid
[Chorus]
Steal me, deal me, anyway you heal me
Maim me, tame me, you can never change me
Love me, like me, come ahead and fight me
Please me, tease me, go ahead and leave me
Bend me
Break me
Anyway you need me
As long as I want you baby it's all right
Bend me
Break me
Any way you need me
As long as I want you baby it's all right.
——————————————————————————————
Bend Me Shape Me
You are all the woman I need, and baby you know it,
You can make this beggar a king, a clown or a poet.
I'll give you all that I own.
You got me standing in line
Out in the cold,
pay me some mind.
Bend me, shape me
Anyway you want me,
Long as you love me, it's all right
Bend me, shape me
Anyway you want me,
You got the power to turn on the light.
Everybody tells me I'm wrong to want you so badly,
But there's a force driving me on, I follow it gladly.
So let them laugh I don't care,
Cause I got nothing to hide,
All that I want is you by my side.
Bend me, shape me
Anyway you want me,
Long as you love me, it's all right
Bend me, shape me
Anyway you want me,
You got the power to turn on the light.
Bend me shape me anyway you want me (fade)
——————————————————————————————
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
She's not the kind of girl
Who likes to tell the world
About the way she feels about herself
She takes a little time in making up her mind
She doesn't want to fight against the tide
And lately I'm not the only one
I say never trust anyone
Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around
Can't bear to face the truth
So sick he cannot move
And when it hurts he takes it out on you
And lately I'm not the only one
I say never trust anyone
Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around
The trick is to keep breathing (x2)
She knows the human heart
And how to read the stars
Now everything's about to fall apart
I won't be the one who's going to let you down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around
I won't be the one who's going to let you down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around
The trick is to keep breathing (x7)
——————————————————————————————
Cloudbusting
I still dream of Organon.
I wake up crying.
You're making rain
And you're just in reach
When you and sleep escape me
You're like my yo-yo
That glowed in the dark
What made it special
Made it dangerous
So I bury it and forget.
Everytime it rains,
you're here in my head
Like the sun coming out -
Ooh I just know that something good is going to happen
And I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen.
On top of the world
Looking over the edge
You could see them coming
You looked too small
In their big black car
To be a threat to the men in power.
I hid my yo-yo in the garden
I can't hide you from the government
Oh God, daddy - I won't forget
Your son's coming out
——————————————————————————————
Temptation Waits
I'll tell you something
I am a wolf but
I like to wear sheep's clothing
I am a bonfire
I am a vampire
I'm waiting for my moment
Chorus:
You come on like a drug
I just can't get enough
I'm like an addict coming at you for a little more
And there's so much at stake
I can't afford to waste
I never needed anybody like this before
I'll tell you something
I am a demon
Some say my biggest weakness
I have my reasons
Call it my defense
Be careful what you're wishing
Chorus
You are a secret
A new possession
I like to keep you guessing
Chorus
When I'm not sure what I'm living for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm looking for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm living for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm looking for
(When I'm not sure who I am)
When I'm not sure what I'm living for
When I'm not sure what I'm looking for
When I'm not sure what I'm living for
——————————————————————————————
Hammering in My Head
I'm stressed but you're freestyle
I'm overworked but I'm undersexed
I must be made of concrete
I sign my name across your chest
Give out the same old answers
I trot them out for the relatives
Company tried and tested
I use the ones that I love the best
Like an animal you're moving over me
Like an animal you're moving over me
When did I get perverted
I can't remember your name
I'm growing introverted
You touch my hand and it's not the same
This was so unexpected
I never thought I'd get caught
Play boomerang with your demons
Shoot to kill and you'll pop them off
BANG! BANG!
Like an animal you're moving over me
Like an animal you're moving over me
You should be sleeping my love
Tell me what you're dreaming of (all 4x)
I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
When I walked in the room
I knew you were mine for the taking
I knew you were mine for the taking
Your eyes light up
When I walk in the room
A hammering in my head don't stop
From the bullet train
From Tokyo to Los Angeles
I'm leaving you behind
A flash in the pan
A storm in a teacup
A needle in a haystack
A prize for the winning
A dead for the raising
A catch for the chasing
A jewel for the choosing
A man for the making in this blistering heat
Sweat it all out
Sweat it all out
With your bedroom eyes and your baby pouts
Sweat it all out
In our electric storms and our shifting sands
Our candy jars and our sticky hands
Sweat it all out (6x)
Don't forget what I wrote you then
And don't forget what I told you then
And don't forget I that meant to win
And don't forget your ventolin
So a hammering in my head don't stop
In the bullet train from Tokyo to Los Angeles

这就是后现代,后现代摇滚,后摇滚摇滚,人们更注重手法、技巧,像拼贴画一样进行一番荒诞、嫁接组合。也许你觉得这样的唱片听上去毫无意义,但是你错了,拼贴只是其中一部分,抑或说只是一种形式,他们真正要做出来的是这种躯壳下难以琢磨的怪诞音乐实验之魂。所以,我看到一些评论对这张新出炉的唱片挑肥拣瘦,其实,“垃圾”的初衷很简单,做一种几个人都感兴趣的音乐,至于别人怎么说,他们不在乎。有如此之经历的人,还会在乎什么呢?也许,只有涉世不多的雪莉?曼森(Shirley Manson)有些许压力。
所以,我们可以听听女主唱曼森那略带沙哑、神经质而又酷又性感的演唱,布奇?维格们眼睛真够“毒”的,只在MTV节目中听了曼森一次演唱,就把她从苏格兰挖到了美国,曼森的声音已成了“垃圾”的标志;你还可以听听这几个幕后制作人除了给那些另类制作晕头晕脑的噪音之外,他们真正感兴趣的是什么;你可以听听扭曲的、失真的吉他曲调,工业化的声响;你可以听听后摇滚时代的唱片制作中音响、音色处理,你可以听听“垃圾”是如何把传统流行音乐与电子乐、颤动的节奏、多种采样组合在一起,在曼森独一无二音色下形成的一种奇特效果。
这也许是1998年最好的专辑?整个专辑完美无暇,真正的垃圾回收。
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