近来又迷上了The Kinks。与Beatles和Rolling Stone一样，Kinks也是出现在黄金般60‘s的乐队，但他们最有名的那首“You Really Got Me”可一点也不像那个远古时代的作品，第一次听时，我莫名其妙地感觉这歌应该是被放在99年的那次Woodstock上演唱的，直到看了Kinks的原版视频，竟然还是黑白的。
目前在mp3中保存时间最长的歌是Kinks的“Sunny Afternoon”，这倒是一首规规矩矩的典型60’s的民谣。我一向对在歌词中包含“Summer”、“Summertime”的歌有种特殊的好感，可能是源于Janis Joplin那首经典的“Summertime”，我感觉“Summertime”是个有着无限美好含义同时又没法翻译的一个词，好到单单这一个词就能使人迷幻的浮想连篇…
Summertime, and the living are easy…
Morning found us calmly unaware/Noon burn gold into our hair/At night, we swim the laughin’ sea…
同样，Kinks的这首歌也使人感到轻松惬意。
可这首歌唱夏日时光的小曲中的环境却是在冬季，这四个傻乎乎的青年…
Sunny Afternoon
The tax man’s taken all my dough,
And left me in my stately home,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
And I can’t sail my yacht,
He’s taken everything I’ve got,
All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon.Save me, save me, save me From this squeeze.
I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly,
Live this life of luxury,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertimeMy girlfriend’s run off with my car,
And gone back to her ma and pa,
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty.
Now I’m sitting here,
Sipping at my ice cold beer,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.Help me, help me, help me sail away,
Well give me two good reasons why I oughta stay.
‘Cause I love to live so pleasantly,
Live this life of luxury,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertimeAh, save me, save me, save me From this squeeze.
I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly,
Live this life of luxury,
Lazing on a sunny afternoon.
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertime