永生不死：英伦摇滚的沉浮（2003）

穗岛演唱会之后
What happened after Spike Island,
石玫瑰就沉寂了
is that the Stone Roses completely fucked it up.
他们本来可以作出突破并取得成功
The Roses were the group who were going to break through and make it.
但他们没有
And they didn’t,
因为他们太犹豫了
because they lost their nerve.
那时 在通俗摇滚文化中有个空缺
And, so, there was a hole there, within that particular aspect of pop rock culture.
然而很快就由涅槃乐队填补起来
And that was very quickly filled by Nirvana,
于是”脏摇滚”出现了
and what became known as grunge.
涅槃乐队 《少年心气》
*Load up on drugs*
*Kill your friends*
*It’s fun to lose*
*And to defend*
*She’s overjoyed*
*Self-assured*
*Oh, no, I know a dirty…*
涅槃乐队以惊人的强劲势头
Nirvana were incredibly forceful and incredibly powerful,
跻身史上最伟大的摇滚乐队之列
and one of the greatest rock groups of all time.
摇滚乐的钟摆又摆回了美国
The… pendulum went back to America.
一直就是这样不停地摆来摆去
There’s always this tick-tock, tick-tock thing
时而英国 时而美国
between the US and the UK.
在英国的时候
Within the UK,
美国人对英国的音乐根本不屑一顾
the US often does not give a toss about the UK.
但在英国境内
So, within the UK,
你会突然发现脏摇滚强势入侵
you suddenly had this grunge invasion.
实际上
And, actually,
只有一个像样的乐队 就是涅槃乐队
the only decent group, really, were Nirvana.
*We can plant a house, we can build a tree*
*I don’t even care, we can have all three*
*She said*
*She said*
*Said*
*Said*
*Said*
*Said*
*Said*
*Said*
美国的乐队开始
American bands were starting
占领英国音乐市场
to dominate the music industry here,
和现在差不多
rather like they are now.
像涅槃乐队和珍珠果酱乐队那样的
You know, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, bands like that,
横扫全英
were cleaning up everywhere.
真是大举入侵
It was a groundswell of movement.
但是我喜欢英国音乐
Well, I mean, I wanted… I liked English music,
所以我开始介绍英国乐队
so I started representing English bands.
污迹乐队开始来这儿喝酒
Blur started drinking here,
史密斯乐队的莫里斯就住这附近 也常来
and Morrissey lived around here, and used to come in.
贾维斯和他的珍珠果浆乐队在这喝过酒
Pulp and Jarvis drank here,
山羊皮乐队曾在这接受采访
Suede did their interviews here,
男士服乐队在这儿组队
Menswear formed in here,
还有 橡皮筋乐队在这儿签了约
and, er, Elastica signed their deal in here,
就是那个著名的火柴盒合同
famously on a matchbox.
是的 很多大牌乐队都来过这里
Yeah, so a lot of significant bands were here.
山羊皮乐队 《动物硝酸盐》
*Well, like his dad*
*You know that he’s had*
*Animal nitrate in mind*
*Oh, in your council home*
*He jumped on your bones*
*Now you’re taking it time after time*
*Oh, it turns you on*
*Oh*
*Now he has…*
《选择杂♥志♥》打算做一♥期♥英伦乐队专题
Select magazine wanted to do a feature about British bands.
包括当时的山羊皮乐队 果浆乐队
Five of them, at the time, which was Suede, Pulp,
毛毡乐队解散之后组建的牛仔布乐队
Um, Denim, you know, who came out of Felt,
导演乐队和圣艾蒂安乐队
The Auteurs and St Etienne.
其中有三支我们公♥司♥的乐队
Three of those were representing my company,
所以他们显然得通过我来安排
so they obviously came through me to try and set it up.
他们把布莱特放在前面
They put Brett on the front
他身后有面英国国旗
with a Union Jack behind him,
这确实不是什么好主意
which was not a great idea, really.
我觉得意思就是”这就是我们的特色”
And I think it was “This is something that is uniquely ours.”
污迹乐队 《公园人生》
污迹乐队于1994年4月发行专辑《公园人生》
*Confidence is a preference*
*For the habitual voyeur of what is known as*
*Parklife*
*A morning soup can be avoided*
*If you take a route straight through what is known as*
*Parklife*
*John’s got brewer’s droop,*
*He gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons*
*They love a bit of it*
*Parklife*
*Who’s that gut lord marchin*
*You should cut down on your pork life, mate, get some exercise*
那是我们第二次美国巡演时创作的
It started when we… our second tour of America,
我对自己做的事不再抱有幻想
and I just became very disillusioned with what I was doing.
我觉得可能 因为我们乘公车旅行
I s’pose, because we travelled
去了许多不知名的地方
on a bus and went to obscure places,
我受到了… 这很好地启发了我
I got quite a… it was quite insightful.
接着我开始不断地将
Er, and I started to make a
本土的东西与美国特色结合
lot of connections between home and America.
所有我们能接受的美国的东西
All these American things we embrace.
*Parklife*
*And it’s not about you*
整形和肥胖
Plastic mouldings and obesity,
还有 挥霍金钱
and, er, money for nothing,
取乐的酒吧着实让我心烦
and fun pubs really annoyed me.
他们把所有东西撕开 往里填充塑料
They rip everything out and replace it with plastic.
我看到了这些
I saw it coming over
就以此为主题开始写歌♥
and I started to write songs about it.
*All go hand in hand*
*Hand in hand through their*
*Parklife*
后来一发不可收拾
It became terrifying.
我们迎来了第四座全英音乐奖
We went up to collect our fourth Brit,
然后我才开始逐渐明白
and I think it was kinda dawning on us that, um,
大家看重的只是这个奖
everybody had taken it all very seriously,
而忽略了我们创作这张专辑的初衷
and missed the point of what the record was about.
*Parklife*
*All the people*
*So many people*
*And they all go hand in hand*
*Hand in hand through their*
你确实是在伦敦东区长大的
You did grow up in the East End.
许多人
I mean a lot of people…
他们不相信我是东区的
Don’t believe I grew up in the East End.
许多人批评你
A lot of people slagged you off
模仿东区口音
for being a fake mockney cockney.
我就是我
I was what I was.
我在怀特查佩尔医院出生
I was born in Whitechapel hospital,
在雷顿斯通一直住到九岁
and I lived in Leytonstone until I was nine.
我和名嘴乔纳森·罗斯是校友
I went to the same school as Jonathan Ross.
后来我们搬家到科尔切斯特
Then I moved to Colchester,
我完全无法适应
and I felt completely like a fish out of water.
那里就是…
It was a…
几乎是个排外的白人社会
an almost exclusively white community.
种族歧视非常严重
It was pretty racist still.
他们…
They’d, um,…
他们拥护撒切尔的理念
they’d taken to Thatcher’s dream,
真的非常拥护
and they’d really gone for it.
但是代价貌似
But the price of it was just sort of, er,
我觉得太大了 真的
I felt was too much, really.
而且我觉得 我无法融入他们
And I, and I felt very out of place.
那时
The way the sort of,
环境乱得一塌糊涂
the environment was just fucked up.
乡间的多彩和活力
And the colour and, sort of, vibrancy of the countryside
被抹煞了
was destroyed.
在几年内 撒切尔
And within a couple of years, and Thatcher,…
实现了城市化
There were just, was just this kind of urbanisation.
其实也就是说
You know, it was literally…
我曾经玩耍的地方
fields I was playing in one year
第二年就变成了住房♥
were housing estates the next.
*The police*
*Following the herd*
*Down to Greece*
*On holiday*
*Love in the ’90s*
我们和污迹乐队一起巡演
We went on tour with Blur.
《公园人生》专辑的巡演 我记忆最深的就是
The Parklife tour, and what I remember most about it,
半路上
was one gig about halfway
在帝国剧场开的那场演唱会
through at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
我记得 我们串演唱完之后
I remember, we’d done our support slot,
就看污迹乐队在台上表演
I remember watching Blur on stage.
看台分三层
There’s three tiers of balconies.
就看着他们在上蹿下跳 非常兴奋
And watching them literally moving up and down.
整个场地都是