大家好 旧闻一篇(大概1个多月前) http://jarviscocker.net/ 贾伯推出个人第一本限量书籍作品, [母亲, 兄弟, 爱人] 内容为个人音乐作品歌词精选 2011/11/07 开卖(另有平装版10/24开卖), 只限量100本, 编号1~100. 每本接有贾伯签名及手稿留言. 每本书还会附上一张仿护照式的贾伯照片书签 (照网页上看, 共有56款) limited edition run of Jarvis' first book, Mother, Brother, Lover Only 100 copies will be made, numbered from 1 – 100. Each will be signed, slipcased and contain a hand-written message from Jarvis. You will also receive a unique bookmark made from individual passport-style photos of Jarvis. The limited edition book will be released Monday, 7th November 2011. 下面为一书评 http://ppt.cc/A2-1 Jarvis Cocker is one of the sharpest songwriters this country has ever produced. That doesn't stop Mother, Brother, Lover, a selection of his lyrics, from being an inherently flawed project. He admits as much in the introduction: "Seeing a lyric in print is like watching the TV with the sound turned down.” 贾伯可算是英国最鲜明的作词人. 对於歌词, 贾伯自有一番见解: 阅读印刷品的歌词就彷佛看电视时关掉声音一般, 撇除听觉感受, 只剩下最纯粹的文字魅力 Mother, Brother, Lover by Jarvis Cocker Any Pulp fan knows that Cocker's words can't be divorced from the theatrical, sometimes hysterical, cascade of gasps, squeals, yelps, groans and sighs that accompany them. Nor do they have as much purchase without the keyboard synth squiggles of Candida Doyle or Russell Senior's dramatic violin strokes. 所有的PULP迷都感受过, 贾伯的词涵盖了极度夸张的, 歇斯底里的, 喘息的, 尖叫的, 痛吟的, 叹息的等各种情绪. (sorry, 後面关於键盘大婶与超迷人小提琴手的, 实在不知道该怎麽翻,请高手协助) Still, it’s not as if the Top 40 is overflowing with wit or wisdom these days. Dappy, Ed Sheeran, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: it's enough to make one weep. It certainly makes one feel more kindly disposed towards this Faber volume, which reproduces the lyrics to a wide range of songs – from Pulp's debut single My Lighthouse (1983) to You're in My Eyes (2009) from Cocker's solo album Further Complications – and comes complete with endpapers that evoke the decor of a chintzy Tandoori restaurant circa 1973. 贾伯的歌词创作历程 从第一张单曲 My Lighthouse(1983) 到 贾伯第二张个人专辑的You're in my eyes(2009) What this collection does – necessarily and triumphantly – is to rescue Cocker from the condescension of popularity. It offers a corrective to the image of him as a man-made-fibre-wearing, finger-wiggling, Michael Jackson -mooning clown. It wrests him from the insidious embrace of prime-time jovialists such as Chris Evans who sold him to the nation as a cuddly eccentric, a half-Alan Bennett, half-Robin “Confessions” Askwith jester charged with keeping the Britpop party swinging. In place of this neutered caricature emerges a far more serrated, interesting figure. The Cocker of Mother, Brother, Lover is a refugee from the northern England that Margaret Thatcher's brand of neoliberal Conservatism had almost decimated during the Eighties. He's as angry as Bernard Hill's Yosser Hughes in Alan Bleasdale's Boys From the Blackstuff, as proud as Christopher Eccleston's Nicky in Our Friends in the North, and as alert to the darkness – but also the warmth and resourcefulness – of working?class communities as Ken Loach. This is the person who wrote a song called Last Day of the Miners'Strike (2002) whose narrator recalls the collective feeling that "The future’s ours for the taking now, if we just stick together.” (老实说, 这段我也看不太懂, sorry, 再请高手版友相助了) --

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