mx's bloghttps://x-wei.github.io/2012-06-05T00:00:00+02:00寂静之声The Sound of Silence[Simon&Garfunkel]2012-06-05T00:00:00+02:002012-06-05T00:00:00+02:00mxtag:x-wei.github.io,2012-06-05:music/TheSoundofSilence.html<p>所有事都完成, 开始写歌评.</p>
<h2 id="introyin-zi">intro引子</h2>
<p>本来我是计划从老鹰的一首歌开始写的, 昨天甚至计划好了第一首就写Hotel California. </p>
<p>BUT SOMEHOW, 决定第一首写它, 寂静之声(SoS).</p>
<p><img alt="" class="img-responsive" src="../images/./TheSoundofSilence/SnG.jpg"/></p>
<p>如果把硬盘里的歌全部删了, 只能留十首歌的话, 我是肯定会留下这一首.</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>歌名: The Sound of Silence</li>
<li>专辑: The Graduate</li>
<li>歌手: Simon&Garfunkel</li>
<li>年代: 1967</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>不必多说, 这首歌应该知名度很高的吧, 西蒙与加芬科的成名作. Simon&Garfunkel组合凭借电影<<毕业生>>的两首配乐被许多人所熟知(另一首是Scarborough Fair). </p>
<p><img alt="" class="img-responsive" src="../images/./TheSoundofSilence/Graduate.jpg"/></p>
<p>以下摘自百度百科:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>《寂静之声》旋律飘缓低迷,歌词充满了一种幻觉般的意境。细细听来,仿佛在诉说着年轻无助的一种宣泄。眼前似乎看到一个懵懂无知的女孩,独自一人行走在铺着鹅卵石的狭窄、清冷的小巷里,喧嚣的人群在她身后渐渐远去,前面是没有尽头的黑夜……歌曲如果说是属于民谣的话似乎太深邃,如果说随着强劲的乐曲而震荡的节奏是摇滚的话,却太细腻,音乐上它造就了类的中和体,这应该是它成功的最大原因。</p>
</blockquote>
<h2 id="lyricsge-ci">lyrics歌词</h2>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="code-line"><span></span><span class="n">Hello</span> <span class="n">darkness</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">my</span> <span class="k">old</span> <span class="n">friend</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">I</span><span class="err">’</span><span class="n">ve</span> <span class="n">come</span> <span class="k">to</span> <span class="n">talk</span> <span class="k">with</span> <span class="n">you</span> <span class="n">again</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Because</span> <span class="n">a</span> <span class="n">vision</span> <span class="n">softly</span> <span class="n">creeping</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">Left</span> <span class="n">its</span> <span class="n">seeds</span> <span class="n">while</span> <span class="n">I</span> <span class="n">was</span> <span class="n">sleeping</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">vision</span> <span class="n">that</span> <span class="n">was</span> <span class="n">planted</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="n">my</span> <span class="n">brain</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Still</span> <span class="n">remains</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Within</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">sound</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">silence</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">In</span> <span class="n">restless</span> <span class="n">dreams</span> <span class="n">I</span> <span class="n">walked</span> <span class="n">alone</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Narrow</span> <span class="n">streets</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">cobblestone</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Neath</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">halo</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">a</span> <span class="n">street</span> <span class="n">lamp</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">I</span> <span class="n">turned</span> <span class="n">my</span> <span class="n">collar</span> <span class="k">to</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">cold</span> <span class="k">and</span> <span class="n">damp</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">When</span> <span class="n">my</span> <span class="n">eyes</span> <span class="n">were</span> <span class="n">stabbed</span> <span class="k">by</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">flash</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">a</span> <span class="n">neon</span> <span class="n">light</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">That</span> <span class="n">split</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">night</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="n">touched</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">sound</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">silence</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">naked</span> <span class="n">light</span> <span class="n">I</span> <span class="n">saw</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Ten</span> <span class="n">thousand</span> <span class="n">people</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">maybe</span> <span class="k">more</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">People</span> <span class="n">talking</span> <span class="k">without</span> <span class="n">speaking</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">People</span> <span class="n">hearing</span> <span class="k">without</span> <span class="n">listening</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">People</span> <span class="n">writing</span> <span class="n">songs</span> <span class="n">that</span> <span class="n">voices</span> <span class="n">never</span> <span class="k">share</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="k">no</span> <span class="n">one</span> <span class="n">deared</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Disturb</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">sound</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">silence</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">“</span><span class="n">Fools</span><span class="err">”</span> <span class="n">said</span> <span class="n">I</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="err">”</span><span class="n">You</span> <span class="k">do</span> <span class="k">not</span> <span class="n">know</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Silence</span> <span class="k">like</span> <span class="n">a</span> <span class="n">cancer</span> <span class="n">grows</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Hear</span> <span class="n">my</span> <span class="n">words</span> <span class="n">that</span> <span class="n">I</span> <span class="n">might</span> <span class="n">teach</span> <span class="n">you</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">Take</span> <span class="n">my</span> <span class="n">arms</span> <span class="n">that</span> <span class="n">I</span> <span class="n">might</span> <span class="n">reach</span> <span class="n">you</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="err">”</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="n">But</span> <span class="n">my</span> <span class="n">words</span> <span class="k">like</span> <span class="n">silent</span> <span class="n">raindrops</span> <span class="n">fell</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="n">echoed</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">In</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">wells</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">silence</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">people</span> <span class="n">bowed</span> <span class="k">and</span> <span class="n">prayed</span> </span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">To</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">neon</span> <span class="n">god</span> <span class="n">they</span> <span class="n">made</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">sign</span> <span class="n">flashed</span> <span class="k">out</span> <span class="n">its</span> <span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">,</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">In</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">words</span> <span class="n">that</span> <span class="n">it</span> <span class="n">was</span> <span class="n">forming</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">signs</span> <span class="n">said</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">The</span> <span class="n">words</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">prophets</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">are</span> <span class="n">written</span> <span class="k">on</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">subway</span> <span class="n">walls</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="n">tenement</span> <span class="n">halls</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="k">And</span> <span class="n">whisper</span><span class="err">’</span><span class="n">d</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">sounds</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">silence</span><span class="p">.</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">黑暗,老朋友,我来了</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">又想同你谈谈</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">突然有一种幻觉悄悄来临</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">趁着我入睡时播下了种子</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">那些个在我脑海中不停滋生的幻觉啊</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">还仍然滞留在寂寞之声中</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">在永无休止的梦里</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">我孤独地行走在</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">狭窄的布满圆石的路上</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">行走在路灯的光晕下</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">感到有点寒冷潮湿</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">于是我翻竖起衣领</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">那盏刺痛我双眼的霓红灯</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">划破了夜晚</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">触到了寂寞的音符</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">在那无遮蔽的灯光下</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">我看见成千上万的人</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">也许更多</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">人们无声地诉说着</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">人们无语地倾听着</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">他们写出一首首歌曲</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">却没有一个人去唱</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">没有人敢</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">惊扰寂寞沉睡时的轻梦</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">我说:你们这群傻子啊</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">难道不知道寂寞的癌细胞正在扩散吗</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">好好记住我教你们的话</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">握紧我伸给你们的手臂</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">可惜我的话只如同雨滴无声地落下</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">回荡在寂静的深井里</span></span>
<span class="code-line"></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">看人们朝着象征神圣的氖灯低头祈祷</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">而霓红灯广告牌却在讽刺地一闪一闪</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">发出这样的警告:</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">“先哲的预言就在地道下的墙上</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">就写在贫民们的住房里”</span></span>
<span class="code-line"><span class="err">还依旧在一片祷告的寂静中喃喃地低语</span></span>
</pre></div>
<h2 id="remarkjian-ping">remark简评</h2>
<p>这首歌的主题好像是"人与人之间交流的障碍", 但是我听出来的却是年轻人关于未来的迷茫. 在电影<<毕业生>>的开头, 随着清脆的吉他前奏, 达斯汀霍夫曼一脸迷离的坐在回家的飞机上, 下飞机拿行李向我们走来...... 不过我是先听的歌后看的电影, 也许是歌太好听了, 电影没我预期的好看...</p>
<p>歌一开头, "我"去找darkness谈话, 这首歌的内容就是"我"向黑暗讲述"我"的一个"vision", 一个诡异的幻觉或一种感觉:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In restless dreams I walked alone<br/>
Narrow streets of cobblestone,<br/>
Neath the halo of a street lamp,<br/>
I turned my collar to the cold and damp </p>
</blockquote>
<p>这也是我比较喜欢的几句歌词, 几句话就描述了一个让人难忘的典型的restless dream, 一种压抑无助的的气氛. 狭小的鹅卵石街道, 路旁昏暗的路灯, 一个人不安的独行, 禁不住竖起领子, 试图抵御让人难受的cold and damp...</p>
<p>就在这时, 出现了一束刺眼的neon light, 划过长空. 这是"我"看到了人, 成千上万的人, 像一种仪式一样, 他们在做什么?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>People talking without speaking,<br/>
People hearing without listening,<br/>
People writing songs that voices never share<br/>
And no one deared<br/>
Disturb the sound of silence. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>"talking without speaking", "hearing without listening", 我觉得翻译成"说而不言, 听而不闻"比较好, 人们是怎么了? 这是一种什么状态? "我"有一种"众人皆醉我独醒"的感觉. 但当我要试图劝阻人们的时候, 却发现:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But my words like silent raindrops fell,<br/>
And echoed<br/>
In the wells of silence </p>
</blockquote>
<p>结果就是"我"的声音回荡在寂静的深井中...</p>
<p>接下来更是诡异的一幕: 人们像被催眠一般, 对neon god顶礼膜拜, 此时牌子上却闪现出了一行warning:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The words of the prophets<br/>
are written on the subway walls<br/>
And tenement halls.<br/>
And whisper’d in the sounds of silence. </p>
</blockquote>
<p>然后歌曲就以这样一句让人迷惑的句子戛然而止.</p>
<p>整个歌曲就是一个人的喃喃自语, 向darkness慢慢道来他的诡异见闻. 不过我觉得这种诡异和eagles歌曲里的诡异是两种完全不同的感觉, 这里的"诡异", 没有恐怖的气息, 有的只是<strong>迷茫和无助</strong>......</p>
<p>所以, 突然觉得这首歌是不是很合现在毕业的气氛呢? 人生的又一段重头戏就这样结束了, 下一段的路是什么样子, 会发生什么事会遇到什么人? 都是未知的, 已经年纪不小的我们, 还没有找到人生的目标和事业的轨迹...... </p>
<p><strong>于是, 有时在独行的时候, 想着一些事情, 没来由地, Sound of Silence就会从耳边响起......</strong></p>
<p>所以这首歌一直在我心目里占据一个特殊的位置.</p>
<h2 id="versionsban-ben">versions版本</h2>
<p>关于SoS, 版本实在太多了, 包括各种翻唱以及他们早年的表演, 我就只写几个让我印象深刻的吧...</p>
<ul>
<li>电影原声配音</li>
</ul>
<p>这个是把整个电影剪辑一下, 配上的电影原声. 剪辑的很好, 但是我不觉得西蒙与加芬科这一版唱的很好...</p>
<p><embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" class="embed-responsive-item" height="400" quality="high" src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTY0MTg3MDg0/v.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480"></embed></p>
<ul>
<li>"那个"版本的寂静之声</li>
</ul>
<p>这个版本我没有查到到底是谁唱的(原文件里没有这个信息?), 当时妈从单位上一个人那里拷来一些英语歌, 这首就在里面. 也许是先入为主吧, 总是觉得这首才最好听, 把那种迷茫的诡异的感觉演绎得淋漓尽致. <code>And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made.</code>简直就是一种宗教的仪式...</p>
<p>(优酷上这个视频的配乐刚好就是"那个"版本, 就拿来了)</p>
<p><embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" class="embed-responsive-item" height="400" quality="high" src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMjc0NDgxOTM2/v.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480"></embed></p>
<ul>
<li>Yao Shi Ting版</li>
</ul>
<p>一个中国人的翻唱版, 总觉得这个版本和其他的翻唱版有点区别, 姚斯婷的声音很空灵, 别有一番滋味.</p>
<p><embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" class="embed-responsive-item" height="400" quality="high" src="http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XODE1MTM4NTI=/v.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480"></embed></p>
<ul>
<li>concert in central park</li>
</ul>
<p><img alt="" class="img-responsive" src="../images/./TheSoundofSilence/CiCP.jpg"/></p>
<p><img alt="" class="img-responsive" src="../images/./TheSoundofSilence/CiCP2.gif"/></p>
<blockquote>
<p>1981年9月19日,在美国纽约中央公园上演了一场摇滚史上着名的音乐会,那就是Simon & Garfunkel举行的免费音乐会,这也是两人各自单飞11年后的首度合作,约50万歌迷前来捧场,场面蔚为壮观,虽然当时两人都已年过40,但是和声依旧美妙。 </p>
</blockquote>
<p>当年非常激动下载到了这个演唱会, 找了很久才找到...... 可以说这个演唱会的Sound of Silence以及Scarborough Fair是最最经典的版本. 那时的Simon&Garfunkel都四十几岁, 和声依旧美妙无比, 后来(2002?)格莱美颁奖时, 他们不仅苍老, 嗓子也已经变得沙哑...</p>
<p>SoS是演唱会快结束是才唱到的, 西蒙的吉他响起, 全场顿时一阵骚动, 但又很快安静下来. 只有西蒙的吉他伴奏, 寂静之声就这样慢慢蔓延开来...... 有几个镜头给了台下观众, 有的低头并把手插在口袋里默默的听, 有的情侣相互依偎着跟着哼唱. 大家都像被催眠了一样, 沉浸在这寂静之声中...</p>
<p>有一个细节, 其实在他们唱的时候, 观众是在拍手打节拍的, 而其实我看了很多次也没有注意到. 然后, 高三时某天晚上放学回家的路上, 脑海里回放这首歌的时候, 突然, 那些掌声变的异常清晰, 仿佛那些掌声也是伴奏的一部分... 觉得观众的掌声和喊声实在是和西蒙的吉他配合得天衣无缝, 恰到好处, 堪称完美(另一首我觉得现场观众的喊声与歌声配合完美的歌, 大概是94年老鹰的木吉他加州旅馆)......</p>
<p>这也许就是为什么这一个版本的SoS让我百看不厌的原因吧. </p>
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<p>第一篇... 终于写完了, 写得好累啊, 以后可能不能每首都写那么多了, 我觉得有可说的就说, 不想说的就不写那么多, 不能让写这些东西变成一种负担...</p>