Tag Archive: The Kinks


40年前的1969年是摇滚乐历史上里程碑式的一年,这一年举行了摇滚史上最重要的音乐节 —- Woodstock(15-17, Aug)。而这一年诞生的许多重要的摇滚专辑。

1. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin

2. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

3. The Beatles – Abbey Road

4. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed

5. The Who – Tommy

6. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground

7. Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

8. The Stooges – The Stooges

9. The Band – The Band

10. Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline

11. Blind Faith – Blind Faith

12. The Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

13. MC5 – Kick Out the Jams

14. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica

15. Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!

另外也是在1969年,Brian Jones在离开The Rolling Stones几个月后,被发现死在游泳池中,年仅27岁(又一个完美的27)。验尸官最初判断Jones是在药物和酒精的作用下淹死在泳池中,而一直以来却流传着Jones可能是被谋杀的传闻。

the kinks

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 summertime

My 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 summertime

Ah, 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