My OperaQueen & Bohemian Rhapsody
Friday, November 3, 2006 7:52:23 AM
QUEEN就象一个综艺大厅一样，完美将华丽摇滚，前卫摇滚，古典音乐及重金属熔为一炉。这个来自英国由迷幻硬摇滚乐队SMILE演变而来的四人乐队致力于发掘华丽和夸张（并带有同性恋倾向）的艺术风格，创造出一种带有浓厚歌剧色彩的摇滚乐形式，主唱Freddie Mercury性感而如同唱诗班的嗓音，四人完美的假声合音，层层铺垫的键盘和绚烂花哨的吉他solo是他们的标志。
A Night At The Opera（歌剧院之夜）是QUEEN乐队最为经典的专辑，乐队为这张专辑的制作耗费了巨大的精力，有报道称这是摇滚乐史上制作费用最高的一张专辑。其中著名的单曲也就是我今天推荐的这首Bohemian Rhapsody （波西米亚狂想曲）成了QUEEN的招牌曲目，在酷似歌剧唱诗般的华丽配乐中不断加入大段的重金属吉他riff和solo，这正是QUEEN的典型风格。这首单曲在英国排行榜上迅速升到冠军的位置，并且在这个位置上停留了足有9个星期，并最终打破了英国单曲排行榜上冠军停留时间最长的记录。在美国，这首歌和整张专辑也获得了巨大的成功，进入了排行榜前10位并同时成为白金单曲和白金专辑。甚至在十多年后的1992年，这首Bohemian Rhapsody还在美国单曲排行榜上获得过数周的亚军成绩。
值得一提的是，由于主唱Freddie Mercury是一个彻底的同性恋者，1991年，关于Freddie Mercury身体状况的谣言也是漫天乱飞，在11月22日，他终于向外界证实，他染上了爱滋病。两天后，Freddie去世了。Freddie死后，乐队成员保持了一段时间的沉寂，三名成员在1994年还是重新聚到一起共同录制合成Freddie的遗作，这些歌的主唱部分都是Freddie在病床上录制完成的。1995年，这张名为Made In Heaven（天堂制造）的专辑得以发行，由于它特殊的纪念意义，这张专辑在全球范围尤其是欧洲引起了抢购狂潮，毋庸质疑，这已经是QUEEN的最后一张录音室作品了。Freddie Mercury虽然是个同性恋者，但这并不妨碍由于对华丽摇滚做出的伟大创新和贡献而受到世界无数摇滚迷的尊敬。
is this the real life -
is this just fantasy -
caught in a landslide -
no escape from reality -
open your eyes
look up to the skies and see -
i'm just a poor boy, i need no sympathy -
because i'm easy come, easy go,
a little high, little low,
anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
- to me -,
mama, just killed a man,
put a gun against his head,
pulled my trigger, now he's dead,
mama, life had just begun,
but now i've gone and thrown it all away -
mama, ooo,
didn't mean to make you cry -
if i'm not back again this time tomorrow -
carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters -
too late, my time has come,
sends shivers down my spine,
body's aching all the time,
goodbye everybody - i've got to go -
gotta leave you all behind and face the truth -
mama, ooo -
i don't want to die,
i sometimes wish i'd never been born at all -
i see a little silhouetto of a man,
scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango -
thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me -
galileo, galileo,
galileo, galileo
galileo figaro - magnifico -
but i'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me -
he's just a poor boy from a poor family -
spare him his life from this monstrosity -
easy come easy go -, will you let me go -
bismillah! no -, we will not let you go - let him go -
bismillah! we will not let you go - let him go
bismillah! we will not let you go - let me go
will not let you go - let me go
will not let you go - let me go
no, no, no, no, no, no, no -
mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go -
beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me -
for me -
so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye -
so you think you can love me and leave me to die -
oh baby - can't do this to me baby -
just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here -
nothing really matters,
anyone can see,
nothing really matters -, nothing really matters to me
any way the wind blows...
renjiachinayuri # Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:58:57 PM