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[流言资讯] 【新闻】Green Day神秘专辑揭密

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1^# 大中小发表于 2008-4-20 02:46 只看该作者

【新闻】Green Day神秘专辑揭密

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Green Day Cut Secret New Album

Fans waiting for a new Green Day record are about to get one. Sort of: The Bay Area punks have just revealed that the rowdy garage-rock band called Foxboro Hot Tubs — who posted six tunes online in December — is in fact the rock superstars working under a pseudonym. And just as two of the new tracks are gaining traction on rock radio, Green Day have announced that the Foxboro Hot Tubs’ full-length album, Stop Drop and Roll, will be out “any day.”

Billie Joe Armstrong and Co. say they consider the FHT album, recorded with perennial Green Day sidemen Jason White and Jason Freese, to be “the next Green Day record.” “We record live to an eight-track reel-to-reel machine,” they say in an e-mail to Rolling Stone. “We write songs as we go, on the fly, fast and spontaneous.”

From the design of the Foxboro Hot Tubs’ Website — which includes Sixties clips of girls dancing the Swim and the Jerk — to the style of music, Green Day are riffing on the aesthetic of classic garage bands like the Animals and the Kinks on this project. Specifically, their inspirations were “red wine and the Troggs,” they say.

The upbeat FHT tunes are presumably very different from the material the trio have been working on for the follow-up to their ambitious megahit, American Idiot, which sources expect out this year. “I want to dig into who I am and what I’m feeling at this moment — which is middle-aged,” Armstrong told Rolling Stone late last year. “We’ve been doing this for almost twenty years.”

The project gives Green Day a chance to blow off steam before forging ahead with their next official album. “This is them having fun,” says a source close to the band. And it’s not the first time they’ve used a pseudonym: In 2003, while working on American Idiot, Green Day released a spiky New Wave LP as the Network.

Of course, fans didn’t need confirmation that FHT were Green Day. Besides the obvious vocal comparison, there are lyrical references to American Idiot: On FHT’s “The Pedestrian,” Armstrong sings, “It don’t take a genius to be an idiot.” And sleuths noticed that the goat logo on Foxboro Hot Tubs’ MySpace page is identical to the one that appeared on the Network’s Website.

But unlike the Network, Foxboro have two songs catching on at rock radio. The rollicking rave-up “Mother Mary” reached Number Sixteen on the Modern Rock chart in February, and “The Pedestrian” is starting to get spins too. “The songs stand alone regardless of any Green Day association,” says Aaron Axelsen, music director at San Francisco’s Live 105. “I’d probably play these songs if they were a new band.”

But the disc poses a dilemma for retailers: How do you sell a CD by rock superstars when their name isn’t on it? “We’re not gonna put it under ‘Green Day,’ we’re gonna put it under ‘Foxboro Hot Tubs,’” says Andrew Gyger of Virgin Megastores. “But it’s enough of a high-profile project that people know about it.” As for the possibility of an FHT tour, the band remains coy: “Maybe, for sure!”

　　翘首期待Green Day新专辑的歌迷们总算要有所收获了。这支来自旧金山湾的乐队日前透露说，那个十二月份在网上贴了六首试听的Garage Rock风格乐队Foxboro Hot Tubs（下面简称FHT）其实就是这个摇滚天团的假名。而正当其中两首新歌得到摇滚电台青睐之时，Green Day宣布了FHT的完整专辑《Stop Drop and Roll》会在未来某个时候发行的消息。
　　Billie Joe Armstrong和Co.说他们把这张FHT专辑看作是“Green Day的下一张专辑”，专辑是乐队和其长期伴奏Jason White、Jason Freese共同录制完成的。“我们把现场的表演直接录在盘式录音设备里，”他们在发给Rolling Stone的杂志的电子邮件中说道。“我们随性写歌，不停歇，快速而自然。”
　　从Foxboro Hot Tubs网站上可以看到六十年代女孩们大跳Swim/Jerk舞的画面，再结合新专辑音乐风格，可以看出Green Day是在实践诸如The Animals与The Kinks乐队的经典Garage音乐。具体来说，他们的灵感如同“红葡萄酒加The Troggs乐队”。
　　Foxboro Hot Tubs歌曲的曲调欢快向上，而乐队成员也正在为《American Idiot》之后的专辑（消息称预期今年发行）谱写音乐素材，二者貌似完全不同。“我想深度挖掘自我以及我正值中年的感受，”Armstrong去年年底的时候是这样告诉Rolling Stone杂志的。“我们花了几乎二十年的时间去做这件事。”
　　这张专辑使得Green Day有机会在制作乐队官方专辑之前先缓解一下压力。“这是他们的娱乐，”知情人士如是说。不过，这并不是乐队首次使用假名，2003年，正当乐队制作《American Idiot》之时，他们就以The Network的名义发行了一张尖刻的New Wave风格专辑。
　　当然，歌迷们毋需乐队确认FHT就是Green Day。因为除了明显的歌声雷同之外，其歌词也影射过《American Idiot》，比如在“The Pedestrian”一曲中，Armstrong唱道：“It don't take a genius to be an idiot.”还有细心人注意到，FHT的MySpace页面上的山羊图案曾经出现在The Network的网站上。
　　不过与The Network不同的是，FHT有两首歌获得了电台的青睐。嬉闹欢快的“Mother Mary”曾在二月份荣登现代摇滚榜第十六位，而“The Pedestrian”一曲也开始热播。“这些歌曲与Green Day完全没有联系，”旧金山Live 105的音乐总监Aaron Axelsen说。“我会把它们当作是新乐队的作品。”
　　不过这张专辑倒是给零售商提出了难题：你如何卖出一张摇滚巨星的专辑，但是上面却没有他们的名字？“我们不会借Green Day之名的，我们会用Foxboro Hot Tubs的名字发行这张专辑。”Virgin Megastore音乐商店的Andrew Gyger说。“其实专辑的姿态已然足够鲜明了，人们其实早已心知肚明。”当提到会不会举办FHT相关演唱会时，乐队很腼腆地说：“确实，有可能吧。”

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另：其实已经可以下载到这张专辑了......

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