NYC Ghosts & Flowers
- 艺人
- Sonic Youth
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- DGC
- 发行时间
- 2000年05月16日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
一边听着这张新唱片《NYC Ghosts ＆Flowers》，一边看着各大媒体的评论。《滚石》依然称赞有加；《导向》给了8分的高分；CMJ给了一个B。还有评论称他们为“摇滚恐龙”，还有评论称他们为“艺术摇滚的老人政治家”……，不过最特别的是一个普通听众写的一句话：“抱歉，这张专辑太糟糕了，没一首好歌，我永远不会再买他们的唱片了。我买这张唱片是想给他们一个机会，但太让我失望了。Nirvana现在在哪里？”或褒或贬，不一而足。的确，评论界对Sonic Youth的态度一直泾渭分明，赞扬者将之视为神灵，批评者将之看成粪土。
且不管人们去怎么争论他们，单说这张唱片，专辑的名字在告诉人们，这支毕业于Lou Reed噪音学校的乐队也开始像他的师傅一样出一张New York概念的专辑，毕竟他们已经在这个城市居住了20年，纽约，他们展示给我们的还是阴暗、邪恶。同时，为了延续他们实验的火种，请来了大名鼎鼎的Jim O Rourke，这个具有另类Brian Eno之称的制作人的确给我们带来了十分恐怖的噪音。
专辑倒不是没一首好歌，“Free City Rhymes”就是一首佳作，几乎所有美国的媒体都象事先约定好的一样将之称为“史诗”，我倒没有听出怎么史诗来，不过这首7分多钟的歌曲听起来确实很过瘾，由轻到重，由静到噪，当刺耳的噪音把人折磨到极限时，嘎然而止。实验嘛，就是这样，后来发现专辑中所有的歌曲差不多都是这个套路。另一首长度差不多的是“NYC Ghosts＆Flowers”，Thurston Moore催眠般的演唱让人很不适应。其实仔细听下去，发现专辑里的吉他、鼓的演奏很特别——两种乐器纯粹是为了噪音而出现的，别想从里面找到什么和声或是节奏。
歌词中的纽约情结和稀奇古怪的噪音纠缠在一起，有点让人昏昏欲睡。这的确是一张不折不扣的音速专辑，不过里面没有发现青年。
(By：王晓峰)
Hot on the heels of Goodbye 20th Century, Sonic Youth's tribute to avant-garde masters like Pauline Oliveros and John Cage, came NYC Ghosts & Flowers, an attempt to commemorate the dangerous, bohemian New York of old in a similar way. Though it sports an Allen Ginsberg-inspired title and artwork by William Burroughs, the album lacks the visceral, immediate impact of the best beat poetry and seems driven by self-consciousness instead of stream-of-consciousness. Its most uncomfortable moments spring from its beat generation inspirations, such as Thurston Moore's awkward monologue &Small Flowers Crack Concrete.& Even worse, &Lightnin&'s dissonant, stabbing guitars and Kim Gordon's woozy vocals almost ruin the impact of Lee Ranaldo's epic title track, which is the closest NYC Ghosts & Flowers comes to blending the album's deadpan vocals and sonic maelstroms successfully. Sonic Youth still seems to be atoning for their more accessible, early '90s sound, particularly on &StreamXSonik Subway,& a rant about NYC's increasing authoritarianism. However, NYC Ghosts & Flowers isn't dismissible. &Free City Rhymes& is another of their dreamy yet prickly guitarscapes; &Renegade Princess& recalls the group's early art-punk; and Kim Gordon's &Side2Side& and &Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)& are sullenly sensual (though the latter song features the lyrical nadir &Boys go to Jupiter/Get more stupider&). Considering that this was recorded shortly after all of Sonic Youth's irreplaceable, custom-tweaked guitars were stolen, it's frustrating that they tried to recreate their old sound with new gear instead of exploring new ideas. NYC Ghosts & Flowers will chase away any remaining fair-weather fans hoping for another &Sugar Kane& or &Kool Thing,& but it doesn't offer much for diehards, who may prefer the undiluted experiments of the group's SYR EPs. Ultimately, the album is equally uncompromising and frustrating.
热门评论
- @MU：王晓峰这局干尸的乐评怎么还能放在专辑介绍那里了？ 哪只狗干的？
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