这篇文章由Radiohead制作人的Nigel Godrich所写 道尽了Nude这首歌发展的奇妙过程 我看过後觉得很精彩 翻出来和大家分享 欢迎大家指教与修正 原文发表在Word Magazine http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/music-producers 原文翻译如下: Thom's very prolific, he's always writing, and one time I made a list of songs that he had that they hadn't recorded. Radiohead have a little catalogue of songs that just never get done. It's almost because it's their best material and no version is ever quite good enough. It's too precious to them. Thom非常的多产，他老是在写歌，而有一次我列了张list， 是他们还没有录音的歌。Radiohead有一个未完成歌曲的目录， 这些歌有最好的素材，但仍差临门一脚。这些对他们来说是珍贵的。 I said, "You have to record them, because one day you're going to die and they'll go with you. It's criminal. And if you don't fucking record them, I'm going to fucking do it! I'll do a covers album!" And Nude was one of these songs. 我对他们说，一定到把这些歌录下来，不然等你们死後，乐曲也就随 你们而去了，这跟他妈的犯罪没两样。如果你们不想录下来， 那我就要把它们硬干下来，作成一张cover专辑。 而Nude就是其中的一首歌。 After The Bends was all done and dusted, I'd seen them at a show and they said they'd been thinking about us all working together. We'd done a bunch of B-sides on The Bends and it had gone really well, so we hatched a plan to have a couple of little try-outs to see how it would work. 当专辑The Bends尘埃落定之後，有一次我去看他们表演时， 团员说他们想要重新上工了。之前我们就有一堆不错的B-sides， 所以我们就想去尝试它们能不能work。 We booked a weekend in the studio to start recording what would become OK Computer, although it took a long time to really get into that. We recorded two songs; one was called Big Boots – actually, it was called Man O' War at the time, which is another great lost Radiohead classic. The other thing we tried to record was a song called Nude. Thom had just written it and it was almost a different song to the version on In Rainbows. It's recognisable, but it had different lyrics and it was a lot straighter. 我们订了一个星期的时间录了些东西，将来会成为OK computer的东西。 当然我们之後是花了许久时间才真正进入状况。当时我们录了两首歌， 一首叫Big Boots，事实上当时这首歌叫Man O' War，这是另一首未收录 的经典歌曲。另外一首就是Nude，Thom当初写出来的， 和如今在In Rainbows听到的版本，几乎是不一样的歌曲。 歌词不同，也较为直接，但你还是辨认的出来(它是Nude)。 The idea was for it to be like an Al Green track. It had a Hammond going through it on the version we recorded that weekend. They liked it, it was deemed a great success. But then for some reason everyone went off it. We tried to record it a couple more times for OK Computer, probably about three times for Kid A and another three times for Hail To The Thief. But somehow it had gone. 当时是希望做成像Al Green*的歌曲感觉，因此我们在那个星期录的版本， 贯穿着电风琴。大家都很喜欢，认为这样会大大的成功。 但随後因为某些因素，大家就先停止做这首歌了。 之後为了OK computer，我们又录了它两次； 为了Kid A和Hail To The Thief，也又各录了大约三次，但皆是无及而终。 Al Green*: 美国福音歌手 We had a little holiday from each other. The band tried to record on their own, which – surprise, surprise – didn't work. Then they tried working with someone else, which also didn't work. During that time I went to see Colin, the bass player, and he played me a rough live version of Nude that they'd done in rehearsals. He'd written his new bassline, which transformed it from something very straight into something that had much more of a rhythmic flow. The chorus had been taken out – very Radiohead!–and there was this new vocal break and this new end section. It sounded like they were somehow terrified playing it, but it sounded OK. We recorded it three times and the final one – which we did in their house and then overdubbed* in Covent Garden – is what you hear today. 之後我们给彼此放了假，而乐团尝试自己来录。蛮惊讶的是， 最後还是没成功。就算找了别人来合作，也还是失败。 当时我去找Colin，他弹了段现场表演用的初步版本给我听， 是他们在排练时做出来的。他编了新的bassline，改变了先前直率的旋律， 创造出流动的节奏。同时也非常Radiohead风格地去掉副歌， 造成了人声的突破表现，也奠定了歌曲样式。 当时听起来的感觉，就像他们颤栗害怕地弹奏这首歌， 却也呈现不错的效果。我们前後共录了三次，而最後在他们房子录的， 再到Covent Garden混音*之後，就是你们现在所听到的Nude了。 混音*: overdub, 指将新轨重叠并 入旧轨中 Finally, for some inexplicable reason, it made it out! With Radiohead we always say, "It doesn't matter how we get there, as long as we end up at the right place," but actually I think the real skill is being able to recognise something that lands on your lap and is fully formed and wonderful. A big part of my job is trying to persuade Thom that just because this thing happened very quickly, it doesn't mean it's not great. He doesn't understand what it is about what he does that's great. He doesn't know or understand where it comes from. 最後，我们末名其妙的成功了。虽然我们常说无论路程如何， 终究我们到了正确的位置。过程看似随意被动， 但我认为其中的真功夫，就是当幸运之神终於眷顾你时， 你要能辨别并完整地呈现出来。 而我大部份的工作就是在说服Thom(延续那起初的灵感创作)， 因为这种事总是很短暂地出现，并且可能成就一番作为。 他不太能了解其中奥妙和他所为有多棒，他也不知这(灵感)从何而来。 Songs have a kind of window where they are really most alive -and you have to capture it. Nude missed its window, and it took a lot of reinvention to bring it back to the place where we could capture it again in a way that resonated for the people playing it. It was essentially the same song; nothing had really changed. What has changed are the people playing it. 很多歌曲都有真实的生命力，会开启与人沟通的窗子， 而你必须掌握住那时机。 Nude错过了窗子开启的正确时机，所以必须藉由重覆探索， 才能让演奏者掌握出与之共鸣的位置。 实质上，Nude并没有改变，而真正被改变的是演奏它的人。 --

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