January 24,2009

【插播】Cop Shoot Cop和Firewater背後的Tod A.

  最近呢,理論上我每天晚上都在努力寫文章歌頌我對DM和Martin的愛,不過呢……其實這幾個白天大部分的時間我都在聽新歡Cop Shoot Cop跟Firewater的歌。這兩個團裡負責寫歌唱歌的傢伙都是同一個人,Tod A(本名是Tod Ashley)。我實在很喜歡他寫的歌詞,還有他那個「有點毛邊」的男中音。
  Cop Shoot Cop的「聲音」跟Firewater其實不太一樣。先前說Cop Shoot Cop被分類成工業搖滾團;Firewater卻是「東歐吉普賽音樂+龐克搖滾」。看到Tod A這樣自我定義的時候,我本來有點震驚。龐克搖滾?Punk?PUNK?……我個人一直覺得我跟龐克沒什麼緣分啊……龐克通常不是我第一次聽就會喜歡的東西,我很喜歡Tod A做的東西,唔,一定是因為他混了很多東西吧。Tod A做的Firewater專輯的確是越做混越多東西進去,而且到了2005年又有個更重大的轉折:那年他跟妻子分開,小布希又連任(爆),他沮喪得很,甚至不太確定自己還想不想做音樂,所以就帶著幾件衣服跟筆記型電腦,很帥氣地跑去大旅行了,三年間穿越中東、印度次大陸跟南亞,本來還想去阿富汗、伊朗跟土耳其,但是因為身體垮掉、路上又太危險(旅客會在半路上被綁架……),他只好在開伯爾山口接近阿富汗邊境的地方停下來。這時候他已經流浪三年了。這段路上寫的歌,就變成2008年的專輯The Golden Hour,當然也混入了中東跟印度的音樂。
Tod A.jpg

  這時候我應該講一個造成反高潮的事實嗎?The Golden Hour不是我最喜歡的Firewater專輯!XD但是,卯起來就出國流浪三年、回來以後還很驕傲地表示要繼續這樣居無定所下去,對於我這種人(我簡直就是XX街地縛靈啊)來說,實在太有趣了。美好的音樂背後是個有趣的人和有趣的故事,對我來說魅力無限。
  不過下面我貼的這些歌,都是上面提到的漫遊發生之前寫的了。下面這些歌都很可愛(但是他的歌並不都是可愛型的……只是不是可愛路線的歌就比較難找到mv),歌詞有種陰森的幽默感。

Firewater的Woke Up Down,雖然是這麼個歌名,但歌曲可愛到爆。這隻MV不知道為什麼跑的速度很慢,要等很久影片才會跑完。



可憐到有點好笑的歌詞(我真沒良心)

Wake me, break me, take me to your leader
Memorizing, regurgitating, isn't learning wonderful
I can take it
I think I can take it

Preach me, bleach me, teach me to be a robot
My life is a series of accidents and irritants
But I'm waiting
I'm still waiting

And the stars will never shine upon your ill-computed plans
You're just a shadow in the mirror
Just a shadow
I woke up down
I woke up down

Fail me, jail me, feed me into your system
You look alot like aliens but you're acting just like animals
In a movie
And this isn't a movie

Because the stars will never shine upon your ill-computed plans
You're just a shadow in the mirror
Just a shadow
I woke up down
I woke up down
I woke up...


這是Cop Shoot Cop的Any Day Now



這首歌的歌詞,看了會有一種不知道要狂笑還是悲傷的感覺。很奇怪的是,歌名應該是Any Day Now,某些歌詞網站上卻標成One of these Days……

One of these days Mr. Opportunity gonna be knocking on my door
One of these days I'll read the writing on the wall
One of these days I'll be a spectator in an audience of whores
One of these days I'm gonna run until I fall
One of these days I'll win the lottery and wake up a millionaire
One of these days I'm gonna get myself a job
One of these days They're gonna stop the world and I won't even care
One of these days I'm gonna finally believe in God
One of these days I'm gonna grow up to become the President
One of these days I'll find the woman of my dreams
One of these days I'm gonna find these truths to be self evident
One of these days I'll blow my brains out on T.V.

One of these days
One of these days

One of these days I'm gonna get in shape, become an astronaut
One of these days My fears are gonna fall down the stairs
One of these days I'll sell my soul and let them find out what they bought
One of these days I'm gonna shave off all my hair
One of these days I'm gonna learn to play and write myself a song
One of these days I'll take my conscience out to lunch
One of these days I'm gonna buy the plans and build the atom bomb
One of these days I'll have the guts to play my hunch

One of these days
One of these days
Any day now
Any day now


  現在我有點在意某件事。據說他的歌詞有受到Tom Waits的影響,我到現在都還沒聽過Tom Waits的歌耶。我是不是應該去聽一下咧?聽了以後會不會大驚然後覺得Tod A其實沒那麼有趣呢?或者又會替自己開一個更大的坑?(Tom Waits到現在有多少張唱片了啊……真可怕。)

Firewater官方myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=70933124

這張照片裡面Tod A看起來好像很正的樣子,不過這‧是‧幻‧覺……
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PS:現在突然想起來,過年期間好多人要出門玩耍。曲辰,回來請記得某某人要你帶的石獅子啊(爆)。另有友人某甲過年期間要去某塊大陸漫遊,雖然時間不多沒辦法遊太遠,卻還敢不規劃詳細的行程,決定「見機行事」,身為XX街地縛靈的我也是很欽佩,請您快快樂樂出門平平安安回來喔~(揮手)。如果真的碰到什麼神奇的遭遇,以至於從短期旅遊變成大旅行……(驚)總之,要回來跟我講到底看到什麼就對了!!

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