[情報] Uncut 雜誌評 "I'm With You"

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雜誌原圖 http://ppt.cc/e@Ws 評價：★★★ 大致上掃過一遍，算是好壞參半吧，主要還是認為Josh的表現不如John這20年所帶來的風格。關於這點，我還蠻想回"廢話"的 XD 畢竟，那可是John啊！雖然樂評對Josh不太滿意，但我覺得他對AK更有意見...XD 雖然看完有點抖，但是想想，當初SA剛出來時，評價也沒有多好，尤其一定會拿去跟BSSM跟Californication比... 全文 Minus their guitarist, the chili peppers are a little bit mild. By John Lewis – Uncut Magazine, September 2011. EVEN IN THE tardy world of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, for whom several years between albums is nothing remarkable, the five-and-a-half year gap that has preceded I’m With You is considerable. Especially when their last album, the global chart-topping Stadium Arcadium, was such a display of fecundity – two CDs, 28 tracks, nearly all of them pretty good – that went on to sell nearly eight million copies worldwide. 此段在說上一張專輯有多好。 In the interim, they have been busy. Front man Anthony Kiedis has, apparently, been working on an HBO series based on his Rabelaisian memoir Scar Tissue. Drummer Chad Smith has formed a metal supergroup, Chickenfoot, with Sammy Hagar and Joe Satriani and an instrumental jazz-rock band, Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats. Bassist Flea went to Nigeria with Damon Albarn’ s African Express, toured with Thorn Yorke’s Atoms For Peace, and went to a conservatoire to study music theory, composition and jazz trumpet. 此段在說AK、Chad與Flea在這五年多來做了什麼。 More pertinently, however, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante- a key member for over twenty years- has left the band for the second time. Listening to a playback of new RHCP album, I’m With You, one can definitely hear a John Frusciante-shaped hole in the proceedings, prompting us to consider exactly what qualities he brought to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their first three albums, all recorded without him tended to compromise riff-based, single-chord funk jams. It was John Frusciante’s arrival, on 1989 ’s Mother’s Milk, that changed all that. Instead of being a facsimile funk-rock band – a blend of Funkadelic, Defunkt and Gang Of Four – they slowly morphed into a rock band who held their funk chops in reserve and began to explore more properly structured songs. 這段提到John的二次離團。然後，樂評在新專輯"I’m With You"中感受到一個 "John Frusciante-shaped hole"，John形狀的缺口。 (不得不說很貼切，我想樂迷們心中也有這樣的洞吧...) 於是樂評開始思考，John究竟為這個樂團帶來了什麼？頭三張專輯沒有John，樂曲風格多是riff-based, single-chord funk jams的折衷。然後John在"Mother's Milk"中加入後改變了一切。將RHCP從"facsimile funk-rock band"，仿傚放克搖滾團，變成一個搖滾樂團，因為John的讓他們的曲風大為拓展。 The last time John Frusciante quit, before 1995′s One Hot Minute, they enlisted Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction, who turned them into a rather maudlin metal act. This time they’ve gone with journeyman guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. He’s more than a decade younger than the other Red Hot Chili Peppers and boasts a highly respectable CV – stints with PJ Harvey, Gnarls Barkley, Beck and the Butthole Surfers, and even a stint playing as John Frusciante’s sideman on a string of solo records. But Josh Klinghoffer seems to lack the spiky inventiveness of his old mentor. On several tracks he sounds bereft of ideas, just waiting for the breakdown of each song to play a ponderous-sounding chord tempered with some wobbly effect, in the style of Andy Summers from The Police. The lead single “The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie” has a solo so amateurish it sounds like it’s been pasted in as a joke by the studio’s tea boy. 這段提到John初次離開時，Navarro的救火讓樂團轉變成maudlin metal act，情感脆弱的金屬演出(?) 這次則是加入了遊牧吉他手(?)Josh，他比其他團員年輕十多歲，有體面的經歷，跟相當多大咖合作過，包括John。但Josh比起John似乎缺少了敏銳的創造能力。在不少曲目中聽起來都缺少靈感，似乎只是在一旁等待加入然後做出效果。而首支單曲中的吉他solo，跟業餘吉他手沒什麼兩樣。 In places, I’m With You sounds like a parody of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “ Ethiopia”, a plodding by-numbers funk-rock jam, is topped by some rambling Anthony Kiedis doggerel (“Tell my boy I love him so/Tell him so he knows/Lost in Ethiopia/ washed out on that road”), “Look Around” is another schematic funk workout that starts with some ill-advised Anthony Kiedis rapping (“Hustle me bitch and you’d best beware/Don’t try and tap your round peg into my square”) and doesn’t get much better. “Factory Of Faith” sounds like an end-of-the-pier Franz Ferdinand tribute act. "I’m With You"聽起來像是摹仿RHCP風格的作品。 "Ethiopia"有著緩慢沉重的funk-rock jam，綴以AK毫無規則的打油詩。 "Look Around"則是另一首schematic funk(嚴謹有章法的放克?)作品，開頭便是AK沒頭沒腦的rap，之後也沒有進步。 "Factory Of Faith"聽起來像是Franz Ferdinand的致敬之作。 And yet, and yet, amid this poor material, the Red Hot Chili Peppers still manage to deliver a handful of very, very good songs. The more interesting of these largely jettison Josh Klinghoffer’s guitar and foreground the piano, apparently written by Flea and played by long time Red Hot Chili Peppers collaborator Greg Kurstin. “Even You Brutus?” starts with a “Mr Blue Sky” four-to-the-bar piano stomp that quickly mutates into a compelling hip hop-tinged groove. “Happiness Loves Company” is a jangly, piano-led, 70s-style number in a similar lyrical vein to “Under The Bridge”. And “ Police Station” is a lovelorn piano ballad which appears to be about a fallen Hollywood idol who now appears to spend her entire life in and out of police custody. It will doubtless be used to soundtrack some low-budget TV cut-and-clip documentary about Lindsay Lohan in the near future. 雖然這幾首表現不怎麼樣，但RHCP還是創作出幾首相當傑出的好歌。有趣的是，Josh的吉他表現平平，然而Flea所創作的鋼琴部，再由RHCP長期合作的Greg Kurstin做出演奏則相當突出。 "Even You Brutus?"以"Mr Blue Sky"式的鋼琴重拍開頭，接著快速轉變成令人贊嘆的嘻哈色彩濃厚的節奏。 "Happiness Loves Company"有著以鋼琴為主的70年代味道，歌詞上有頗具"Under The Bridge"式的脈絡。 "Police Station"是一首單相思式的鋼琴民謠，在述說一位墮落的好萊塢偶像，將自己的生命耗費在進出警局。不久的將來，應該會很適合用來做為琳賽羅涵低成本紀錄片的主題曲。(有夠酸) The other standout tracks are similarly atypical of the band. “Did I Let You Know” is a furious Afrobeat collage, with off-kilter drumming, hi-life guitar, some timbales and a cracking trumpet solo. It also – be warned -has Anthony Kiedis rhyming “freaky” with “Mozambiquey” 其他的傑出作品，則多是類似的樂團非典型風格(??) "Did I Let You Know"有著狂暴的Afrobeat，off-kilter drumming， hi-life guitar，一點蒂姆巴爾鼓，以及極佳的小喇叭solo。警告。這首歌當然還是有AK把freaky跟Mozambiquey做押韻的慣例。 (這樂評好像很不喜歡AK...) Brendan s Death Song is an acoustic ballad which pays tribute to Brendan Mullen, the LA nightclub owner who gave the band their first break: “Like I said, you know! I’m almost dead/I’m almost gone/When the boatman comes to ferry me away/to where we all belong” Both suggests that, post-John Frusciante, the Red Hot Chili Peppers could be due another radical change in direction. In all probability, though, we’ll be waiting another five years to find out where it all leads. "Brendan s Death Song"是一首acoustic ballad，向Brendan Mullen致敬。 John的時代過去了，現在的RHCP正經歷另一段劇烈的轉變。其中充滿各種可能性，儘管我們可能需要再等另一個五年，好看看這個轉變的方向就竟走往哪去。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 27.147.0.144 ※ 編輯: nosweating 來自: 27.147.0.144 (07/28 21:00)

[情報] Uncut 雜誌 評 "I'm With You"

[情報] Uncut 雜誌評 "I'm With You"