书评:欧文·丘赛德的歌曲在关键的Z:格雷厄姆·约翰斯顿好奇的宇宙局外人音乐】

这的确是一个奇怪的宇宙,但它的宇宙发条终于落入地方;或者至少对我来说。我一直在听这些东西多年,但从来没有真正知道该怎么称呼它,最后我现在知道:这是外人的音乐。

我记得当我还是一个少年,几个朋友打算在欧洲各地旅行。财政妨碍了我不至于那么,作为退而求其次,我记录在磁带为他们接替我的位置。磁带是如此不同寻常,它不可避免地会留下深刻的印象在不知情的听众和我的“标记”将作出一切在他们的探险。对于以自我为中心里面我来说,这甚至比实际上是有其他更好的。因此90分钟艾弗·卡特勒,怀尔德曼菲舍尔博士咳嗽和他们的同龄人无数被欧洲各地拖行的旅行了一个月左右。There was Robyn Hitchcock singing about a longed-for journey through the English monarch’s capillaries, a version of “Up Up And Away In My Beautiful Balloon” played on a haphazardly tuned sitar, some gentrified fop called Sir Lancelot advising prudent men to marry ugly women and, naturally, King Missile with their wonder-drenched paean to the ultimate hipness of the Holy Spirit, “Jesus Was Way Cool”. After they got back I learned that this tape had made such an impression that it had been played virtually non-stop. It had even been foisted upon everyone they met along the way, giving unknown quantities of continental folks a taste of something very strange indeed.

欧文·丘赛德给了我们难以置信的怪/局外人音乐的音乐在他的书和其真实的东西配套光盘(另购)味道往往更奇怪,这两者都是一个喜悦浸入,虽然是偶尔令人不安的一个。在他的介绍,他欢迎我们“扭曲的声音艺术的突变菌株是错的它是正确的。”事实上,它往往是。

歌曲中的关键ž涵盖的艺术家不同的范围内,在一个共同的特点:缺乏自我意识。这是从音乐家的更加自觉的不定期作业分离真外人的工作,如上述命名的王导弹和罗宾希区柯克或半日本的贾德·费尔的关键因素。因此,收集罩音乐家不同的有远见的Beefheart船长谁在实验摇滚音乐和精神不稳定的养老院居民杰克·马里安谁压根儿他做了什么,因为他想,为雷竞技ios下载什么在地狱不爆发新的边界呢?

我相信,开车瑞典猫王模仿,艾勒·皮拉尔姆,到录音室的冲动是类似的冲动,迫使我站在我的公寓的一楼阳台赤身裸体在布莱顿市中心一个繁忙的十字路口,与汤姆等待’ version of “Silent Night” booming out around me at foundation-shaking volume on a hot July evening such as this one. Sometimes there is just something inside of you which you have to get out, regardless of whether the audience are going to applaud enthusiastically, laugh in derision, or call the police to have you arrested as an indecently exposed public nuisance. The significant difference, however, is that my self-consciousness阻止我这样做,而Pilarm记录了猫王盖两张专辑,其中,无论在他的技能了自己的信念,作为一个模仿,没有最微弱的味儿Elvisness的他们。

Chusid’s confident prose makes the music come alive and gives us an insight into not only what made the music so distinctive (“Dogs liked Tiny Tim’s high notes; ships lost in the fog sought harbour in the low ones”), but also reveals something unique about the creators. Possibly the most engaging chapter is the one about Shooby Taylor, a scat-singing unknown who recorded just 14 tunes in the 1980s and promptly split for the obscurity from whence he came, now entirely unaware of his somewhat preternatural fame and also oblivious to his ability to count the likes of Tom Waits in his steadily growing number of fans. Seewww.shooby.com关于正在进行的尝试,终于找到了“人类非洲之角”的任何消息。

许多这些故事中含有相当量的悲剧:自我厌恶,心理失衡,市民调侃的故事,并在乔·米克,谋杀和自杀的情况。此前读这本书,我还没有收到有关的所面临的丹尼尔·约翰斯顿,其与章报价“我已经在次残酷的对待,因为人们认为我是个白痴”打开心理问题的严重程度想法。约翰斯顿已经实现了一定程度的地下成名,赢得库尔特科班,半日,优拉糖果和屁眼冲浪者的钦佩。

The centrepiece to Daniel Johnston’s anguished story is his trip to New York City to record with Sonic Youth, convinced he was standing on the brink of world-wide fame for his snappy and often eloquently moving lo-fi recordings documenting tales of fear, isolation, unrequited love and discomfort. However, Johnston had neglected to bring his proscribed medication along with him, and dosed himself up with LSD instead. His stay in New York saw him alienate everyone who had been so keen to help him get his music heard. Following an assault on Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, a period of homelessness, occasional spells in jail, and the germination of the belief that Yoko Ono was desperate to meet him, he ended up in Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital. Chusid writes: “Eventually, the album project was shelved, as Daniel later ruefully acknowledged, “because they met me”.” Fortunately for Daniel, he’s managed to keep his troubled cognition relatively focussed in recent years, and his latest album, Rejection Unknown, is nothing short of a triumph.

Chusid,在讲述这些故事,并不能掩盖一个事实,即它是让他们的故事和音乐,所以他的书的目的,有趣的主题深异样。有时这几乎可以似乎破坏了音乐本身。例如,章看着西德·巴雷特在,音乐的品质往往被忽略注重心灵和一次性的心理稳定性“内幕的”后裔入成为摇滚史上最有名的局外人。这是一个小短即将在今年狂热地娱乐的书,但一个罕见的例子,以及作者的正确的假设,我们大多数人已经知道西德妮的音乐反正可能是提示。鲜为人知的音乐家的生活和音乐往往是在敏感这让读者好奇地发现更多的信息,并沉浸在局外人的世界的方式列出。

而且我们没有那么远看这样做,因为搭配CD版本,也叫歌在关键ž设有20个曲调中所涉及的书艺术家。和朗姆酒帮他们太,从笑中取大声滑稽,通过真正-相当-愉快,实际上,到-GET-这-OFF-NOW!而且我非常惊讶和失望,如果它是任何其他方式。该CD凸显的方跟雷竞技法的巨大范围和意图的局外人音乐家在某种程度上,这本书不能。我们突然意识到,杰克·马里安确实是一个制度化的病人谁碰巧都记下来了各种遗忘的曲调给他们背诵不幸的人足有耳朵。已经了解到这一点,我们可以祝他一切顺利,并郑重发誓再也不听他的音乐。在这里其他的音乐已经让我淘二手唱片店和网上拍卖更多的材料。特别是,下面的曲子真的应该听到:

  • 肖比·泰勒,他的光荣可笑SCAT已经产生了歇斯底里和一震惊呼“什么他妈的?”从大家对我已经是发挥到。尊重是稳妥所致。
  • Luie Luie,他的自我信念会使加拉格尔兄弟风华正茂的模样退休谦虚的典范。听起来像一个古老的原型为屁眼冲浪者。
  • 丹尼尔·约翰斯顿,唱了令人信服的幼稚简单漂亮的小调整。一大亮点。
  • Arcesia谁听起来像一个斯科特沃克模仿谁已经拥有心理上莱纳德·科恩和喂他的非常糟糕的药物的所有号码,让他滞留和迷茫,晚上在他自己制作的魔法花园独自徘徊,唱死蝴蝶。
  • 圣卢西亚帕梅拉的关于月球悠闲地散步摆动故事,聊天的各种月球生物她遇到诸如“Goonie呆子”谁说:“WOWOW owowowow wowowowow”。高耸东西。
  • 国会女Malinda杰克逊 - 我甚至不能一开始就告诉你这是怎么回事 - 致命的蚊子唱他们的堂兄弟,我想。根据该套纸币,她说的话“表哥”在这3次204分半钟的歌曲,我可能永远不会知道为什么。

在场合津津乐道与Chusid讲述了他的故事,与我舔它留给我的感觉多一点内疚。A&R的高级副总裁犀牛,加里·斯图尔特,约怀​​尔德曼菲舍尔评论:

[wp_quote]”坦白说,我觉得有点不好了整个事情,”他承认。“拉里的生活一直强硬。有极端的心理疾病存在。他是偏执。他会到处去说,“这张专辑可能成为下一个军士。辣椒的。”如果他看到你在公共场合,他会跟在身边。当时大家都认为这是歇斯底里。当你沉浸在替代,后期的光亮,地下朋克文化,有对某些事情,实际上不是搞笑幽默。His song ‘I’m The Meany’ (from Wildmania) has a line about ‘She told me she was pregnant so I hit her in the stomach.’ During a period of nihilism, smart-assedness, and less morality, I used to think that was hilarious. But when you realise that stuff like that really happens, it’s not funny anymore.”[/wp_quote]

当你还认识到,许多人都不得不面对被嘲笑(或更糟)在其整个非职业,似乎也有很多的地狱少有趣。Chusid认识到这一点,并敦促我们得到了我们的愧疚,只是享受音乐。有些是有意或毕竟无害有趣,每个人谁在某一时刻已到他/她自己或他人构成危险的局外人,也有更多的谁似乎有一个该死的好时机,而这本书从来没有得到两人手忙脚乱。

总之,歌曲中的键Z轴的书和CD都开裂娱乐的顶级片。有时暴动搞笑,常常打动人心,总是引人注目的,这是不容错过。这毕竟是说,做,永远唯一的书给了我晒伤,花了太长时间在阳光下阅读今天,无法撕破自己了。

- 格雷厄姆·约翰斯顿

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