BBC.英伦朋克（2012）（3）

we must think about the unthinkable.
英国警戒系统
英国一级警报 导弹袭击
UK alarm level one. Missile attack.
你知道听到警报声以后该怎么办吗
Would you know what to do if you heard sirens sound?
去哪都是浪费时间 不是吗 是不是开战了
Waste of time, innit, going anywhere. You’ve had it, in’t ya?
-都开战了对吧 -你会做什么准备措施吗
– You’ve had it, in’t ya? – Will you take any preparations at all?
准备什么 都开战了 是吧
What preparations? You’ve had it, in’t ya?
开战了吧 对吧
You’ve had it, in’t ya?
还搞什么 已经开战了 对吧
No messing about, is it? You’ve had it, in’t ya?
已经是覆水难收了 不是吗
No point crying over spilt milk, is there?
尽管我们英国人很聪明
Resourceful Brits that we were,
我们都知道被精心摆放的垫子
we knew that carefully-placed cushions
能保护我们和宠物免受伤害
would deliver us and our pets from mutually assured destruction.
核战争是一个巨大的威胁
Nuclear war was a huge threat, you know.
这是很多人心中悬着的石头
It was a great paranoia that I think a lot of people held,
艾米丽·斯坦顿
年轻的大理石巨人乐队
即使他们并不经常谈起
even if they weren’t talking about it all the time.
在这强大的力量下潜伏着恐惧
There was the underlying fear of this great force out there
可能是具有毁灭性的
that could be so destructive.
如果后朋克被定义为阴暗
If post-punk was characterised by gloom,
那它最黑暗的代表作就是
its darkest masterpiece was
年轻的大理石巨人乐队的《最后一天》
Young Marble Giants’ Final Day,
一段一分四十秒的末日来临极简主义画作
a 1 minute 40 minimalist painting of Armageddon,
由野蛮贸易发行
released on Rough Trade.
*When the rich die last*
*Like the rabbits running from a lucky past*
Young Marble Giants – Final Day
*Full of shadow cunning*
*And the world lights up for the final day*
*We will all be poor having had our say…*
这首歌♥是写人类的困境
I wrote the song for the plight of humanity.
当富人最后死去
When the rich die last,
就像兔子一样奸诈狡猾
like the rabbits running from a lucky past,
逃离幸运的过去 这里有很多讽刺
full of shallow cunning, I was getting my dig in there.
我特别喜欢讽刺富人 纯粹是嫉妒
I quite like digging at the rich. It’s just pure jealousy!
*Put a blanket up on the window pane*
*When the baby cries lullaby again*
*As the night goes out on the final day*
*For the people who never had a say*
甚至现在我听到这一段
Even now when I listen to that track,
都会获得很大的力量
it’s got a very strong energy to it,
那是阴郁的力量
in terms of its bleakness
里面还有恐惧的推动 真的
and the fear that’s in it, really, as well.
*here is so much noise There is too much heat*
*And the living floor throws you off your feet*
*As the final day falls into the night*
*There is peace outside in the narrow light*
就在事情看起来不可能变得更黑暗时
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any darker,
1980年 后朋克代表人物自杀了
in 1980, post-punk’s poster boy took his own life.
伊安·柯蒂斯的自杀让快乐分♥裂♥乐队
Ian Curtis’s suicide both canonised and
在结束中走上神坛
ended Joy Division.
放着标志性视频的《气氛》被重新发行
Atmosphere was re-released as a posthumous requiem,
来作为他的安魂曲
replete with iconic video,
从而成就了一个后朋克传奇
which helped create a post-punk legend.
伊安去世后 快乐分♥裂♥乐队解散
When Ian died, we just cut Joy Division off,
我们漂泊无依
cut it adrift.
乐队在九个月里一直很专业
The group literally was professional for about nine months.
它存在的时间实在太短了
It was such a small, short time, you know.
现在回头想想乐队当时造成的影响
To look back now and think of the effect you’ve had,
以及对时下音乐的作用
and the effect that you’re having on music now,
跨越了三十多年 难以置信
30-odd years later, is ridiculous.
这是对音乐创作者最好的夸赞
It’s a great compliment to the songwriters.
他是个天才诗人 别人比不上
He was an incredible poet, more than anything else.
很惊艳 是一次性的 就那么一个
Just amazing. A one-off, a one-off.
在下一个十年里 气氛出现了明显转变
In the new decade, there would be a noticeable change of mood.
许多乐队都为自己冠上后朋克的称号♥
The term “Post-punk” is generally applied to a lot of bands
他们音乐并不专业但都上过大学
who couldn’t really play but had been at university
在试着把艺术理论跟马♥克♥思♥理论混入音乐
and were applying either art theory or Marxist theory
这种做法有些外行
to music that was kind of amateurish
但似乎也带来了一些新东西
but maybe feeling towards something new.
那德克西午夜斗殴者乐队进展如何
What about Dexys Midnight Runners?
还有特别之队乐队 棒客乐团乐队
What about The Specials, The Pogues?
那些乐队通过写英国当代的生活
All bands who took traditional musical forms
将传统的音乐形式转变为
and then brought it screaming and kicking right up-to-date,
一种紧跟时代的音乐风尚
by writing about life in contemporary Britain.
2Tone在后朋克鼎盛时期大放异彩
2Tone marked the moment when post-punk went positive.
融合了黑斯卡和朋克的能量
Fusing black ska with the energy of punk,
斯卡音乐的速度较快 节奏强调反拍的重音
乐队除了采用传统的曼图音乐的乐器外
还加入了铜管乐等乐器
2Tone当年炙手可热
2Tone was wildly popular.
由独特乐团的杰瑞·达摩斯带头
It was spearheaded by The Specials’ Jerry Dammers,
他的志向是把朋克从黑暗中解救出来
whose ambition was to rescue punk from the darkness.
2Tone革新了流行乐坛
2Tone revolutionised the pop scene.
革新了乐坛的一切 因为他们带着哲学
It revolutionised everything in it, cos it had a philosophy,
乐队中的那个观察者就在引领方向
it had a person whose vision it was who was driving it,
所以杰瑞·达摩斯功不可没
and it would never have happened without Jerry Dammers.
是他开创了这一切
He made that happen.
2Tone其实比朋克更受欢迎
2Tone was actually more popular than punk ever was.
2Tone是七十年代后期英国斯卡音乐的复兴
它融合了传统斯卡音乐和朋克摇滚的态度 能量 音乐细节等
朋克是很极端的
Punk was quite an extreme thing.
杰瑞·达摩斯
独特乐团
它的受众很小 真的
It was quite a minority interest, really.
朋克有很多消极的东西
There was a lot of negative sides to it,
它游走在堕入彻头彻尾法♥西♥斯♥的边缘
and it was in danger of degenerating into out-and-out fascism.
那是我们的真实想法
That’s what we felt,
就舍姆69乐队的追随者以及其他一切来说
with the Sham Army and everything.
这时我们介入 尝试着
That’s where we came in, to try
来改变人们思考方式
and get in there and change the way people thought.
1981年发行的《幽灵镇》
Released in 1981, Ghost Town
The Specials – Ghost Town
是后朋克的《天佑女王》时刻
was post-punk’s God Save The Queen moment.
Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
自性手♥枪♥在四年前大放异彩后
Not since the Pistols’ searing release of four years prior,
还没有这样能激起人们想象力的社会评论
had such social comment caught the imagination of a nation.
有一次我们去格拉斯哥演出
We went and did a gig in Glasgow,
那有很多人在街上
and there were a lot of people on the streets
卖♥♥他们的家居用品 就在大街上
selling their household items, just in the street.
太奇怪了
It was just really strange.
上了年纪的女士在卖♥♥她们的茶杯
Little old ladies selling their tea cups.
这是我之前从没见过的景象
I’d never seen that in this country before.
这就是我写那首歌♥的灵感
That’s where I really got the idea for that song.
这首歌♥不单单写格拉斯哥 它包括全国
It wasn’t just about Glasgow. It was about the whole country.
也包括考文垂
It was about Coventry as well.
工厂在接连倒闭
Factories were closing down.
所有的大工业企业
All the big industries
都被迫关闭 撒切尔主导的
were being closed down, you know, by Thatcher.
*This town is coming like a ghost town*
*No jobs to be found in this country*
*Can’t go on no more*
*People getting angry…*
《幽灵镇》在1981年七月夺得榜首
Ghost Town reached number one in July 1981.
它是后朋克风潮中的重要一笔
It marked a parting of the waves for post-punk.
独特乐团
经过几年刻意的非商业化
After years of being wilfully uncommercial,
留给人们最强烈的印象就是
the most radical thing left for some
重振排行榜上排名
was to reinvigorate the charts.
The Human League – The sound of the crowd
*Don’t put your hand in a party wave*
*Make a shroud pulling combs through a backwash frame…*
早期的人类联盟合唱团在先锋音乐性上
You couldn’t get any more avant-garde than
可以说是登峰造极了
the early Human League.
吉姆·克尔
简约思想乐队
1982年 他们是当时最大的流行乐团
But by 1982, they were the biggest pop band in the world.
*Stroke a pocket with a print of a laughing sound…*
1982年发生了一些事
Something came along in 1982,
能上《新音乐快递》杂♥志♥封面
where suddenly it was cool to be on the cover of the NME,
一如既往是风光的事
as it always was,
但是更酷的是同样能上
but even more cool if you could somehow
《粉碎打击》杂♥志♥封面
also be on the cover of Smash Hits.
马丁·弗赖 比伊·麦肯齐
People like Martin Fry, ABC coming along, Billy Mackenzie…
小牛乐队都上过
Mavericks.
*I’m standing still*
The Associates – Party Fears Two
*And you say I dress too well…*
后朋克对流行乐的重振
Post Punk’s reinvigoration of pop
是这一代故事的巅峰