Remedy Lane 灵药魔域 Album Analysis 专辑解析 前言： 瑞典前卫金属救世主(2000年代的称呼) POS於2002年发行的第四张专辑 ，前卫金属当然要写概念式专辑，这张是我个人认为的乐团颠峰之作， 包含前卫和金属两种元素的完美呈现，前卫是乐曲技巧构造的造诣，金 属是力量美学的展现，这张以後，BE就偏向前卫美学，完全成为Daniel 一人的实验作品。而和DT相比，POS 不会在歌曲中塞入过长的演奏片段 ，POS 的歌曲创作是以情绪表达为主，而非乐手个人能力展现为主，即 便如此当你在听POS 的歌曲时，也不会产生他们的歌很简单的感觉，主 唱方面Daniel对於歌词情境的掌控听起来比较属於浑然天成的，毕竟词 曲几乎都是自己写的，低落、激昂、爱意、绝望面面俱到，而LaBrie则 是用心诠释型的，在情绪的感染力我认为是差Daneil很多。 这张专辑探讨了自我、自由、性爱、人性等等诸多面向，好在Daneil哲 思的时间没有重於练吉他写歌的时间，不然搞不好就变成哲学家了。其 实很久之前网路就找得到全盘解析，只是那时候我不清楚资料来源，现 在有一乐迷网站直接放上Daneil具名写下的分析内容，做为听者认识本 张专辑的艰涩概念及歌词，不失为一个很好的入口。 中文歌词请自行至翻阅由冷飞(Coolfly) 翻译的版本，看了介绍 或听了喜欢请马上买回家珍藏。 原文网址： http://painofsslvation.com/lyrics/?album=rlanalysis By Daniel Gildenlöw (as posted on the Remedy Lane forum) 01. Of Two Beginnings:两者之始 This is the opening track of the album and is a kind of introduction, the track is somewhere between an intro and a real song and contains several different styles and elements. The set is a hotel room in Hungary, present time. It is the beginning of this album, and contains the beginning of a chain of thought, the end of a mindless journey, the conclusion to a question that is yet not clear to the listener and the beginning of a child's relation to love and sex. 专辑的开场曲，同时是开场介绍，该曲处於前奏和真正的曲目之间，并包含几种不同的风 格和元素。场景是在匈牙利的酒店房间，时间是当下。这是此张专辑的起始，包含一连串 想法的源头，以及一段盲目旅程的结束，结论指向一个对听众没交代清楚的问题为和孩子 爱/性关系的开始。 G：开场有点做fade in的感觉，主唱轻声道起两个分别为10岁男孩和12岁女孩，害羞地聊 起禁忌之事，配乐转成长拍鼓扣齐下，唱完一句，再下，唱完，又下；时间立即转到当下 ，主角在旅馆床上，想着，自己是什麽样的人，充满困惑，痛苦激昂悟出，自由不过是一 种心理状态，余音缭绕，在诡异的电音中结束。 Chapter I 02. Ending Theme: 终幕曲 This is one of the simpler songs on the album, but of course with subtlety and finesse. We are entering the story a few days earlier, on the arrival in Budapest. Someone is coming to Budapest to find answers, to meet someone. There is a connection to a situation in Budapest earlier that we will find out about later in the concept. How much of a person's disposition and reality derives from himself or herself? How much is it in relation to the surroundings? There is a meeting, confusion, seeking... 专辑中比较简单的一个的歌曲，但仍伴随着隐晦和技巧性。该曲是早在(叙事当下，第一 曲之现在)几天前，到布达达佩斯时进入故事。某人到布达佩斯寻找答案，见一个人。早 先在布达佩斯的情况有某种关联，让我们将了解後面的概念。一个人的性格和真实有多少 来自他/她自己？有多少是关系到周遭的环境？这其中有会面，困惑，找寻... G：开场平淡的叙事，交代故事。主角在布达佩斯想找寻什麽，找到一个女孩做爱，顺边 发表一下做之间的内心戏。 歌词时间地点：2001八月，布达佩斯 03. Fandango: 凡丹戈 A picture of two unique persons forming a life together, fighting against norms and patterns that they have inherited from their pasts. At one point in my life I was devastated and asked for some God to give me some answers. I am not a religious man, but I am not non-religious either if you catch my drift. The only thing I know is that I don't know anything. Anyway, I was suddenly filled with a calm and started smiling because it was as if someone had just told me that if I get the answers there is no point in living - life is the tool to get the answers. It was like asking for answers in order to be able to find the exact same answers myself. I wanted to put some of that feeling into this song, since it runs through everybody's life in one way or another. 两个独特的人共组生活，对抗他们从过去所继承的规范和模式的画面。我人生中有次，彻 底绝望了，请求上帝给我一些答案。我非教徒，但我也不是不信神的如果你明白我的意思 。我唯一知道的就是我什麽都不知道。总之，我突然充满了平静和开始有了笑容，因为彷 佛有人告诉我，如果我得到了答案那麽人生便没有意义──生命是获得答案的工具。就像 找寻答案是为了能够找到同样答案的自我。我打算把这种感觉放入这首歌，因为它以这种 或那种方式贯穿每个人的生活。 G：诡异的旋律开场，在某个不知名的场景，观察着他和她的过去、个人特质和一些想法 ，简单说两性都有爱的梦想，实则渴望着性慾，Daniel在此提到他们「总是比他们所希望 的还要人性」，这是她在此张专辑中一个最重要的概念。 歌词时间地点：1993-?，地球上 04. A Trace Of Blood: 一道血迹 During the recording of “Entropia” (our first album) me and my wife had a miscarriage and it was very hard on us. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. It was not the loss of a tiny organic something, to me it was the loss of several lives - the child and the life he/she would have had and the lives me and my wife would have had. History took a sharp turn for us that day and I cannot leave it behind altogether. That mix of joy, grief and anger is also found in the music and the lyric of the song I think. A struggle. 在录“Entropia”（POS第一张专辑）时我和我的妻子经历了流产，这对我们而言是很艰 难的，也是我生命中最不好的经验之一。这不是一个微小有机体的失去，对我而言这是好 几个人生的失去──这个孩子和他/她可以拥有的人生，以及我和我的妻子也能拥有的人 生。历史在那天把我们人生急转直下，而我不能完全将之抛诸脑後。我想，喜悦、悲伤和 愤怒也可在歌曲的音乐和歌词中找到。一种挣扎。 G：专辑开场以来第一个惊艳，漂亮的前奏，节奏也稍快，就像是待产的心情，听着 Daniel唱出自己的心路历程，如此血淋淋，这首有我最爱的片段”I never knew your name but I will miss you just the same…”多麽动人的呼喊，随後进入的clean tone 转折凄美绝伦，实在让人哭哭。 歌词时间地点：1997三月，法伦(瑞典中部城市)/马尔摩(瑞典南端第三大城) 05. This Heart of Mine (I Pledge): 我的此心(我发誓) This is simply a love song that I wrote to my wife, in this concept it represents the belief and the strength in words and rituals, in faith. Some of the themes reoccur later in the concept to remind us of this vow and how fragile human faith can be sometimes. 这是一首我写给我妻子的简单情歌，在此概念中它呈现文字和行为中的信心和力量，在信 念中。一些主题稍後将再次出现在概念中，提醒我们这个誓言，以及有时候人类的信念会 有多脆弱。 G：就是情歌，但是听起来还是有点Pain，Daniel的意思是说，情歌唱归唱，人想做爱的 时候还是做了再说，是吧。 歌词时间地点：1999六月，埃斯基尔斯蒂纳(瑞典城市) Chapter II 06. Undertow: 退浪 This is one of the darkest songs of the album. It is simple in structure but complex in emotion. We are trying to build a card house starting with apathy, going over a spectra of sadness, yearning, reconciliation and anger, to cross the line of hysteria back into apathy - constantly with the same main message; let me go. It is a blend of monologue and dialog in a shattered relationship. We are now starting to find out why we start off in Budapest. 这是专辑中最黑暗的歌曲之一。结构上很简单，但在情感上复杂。我们试图建立一个纸牌 屋，以冷漠开始，越过悲伤、渴望、和解以及愤怒的光谱，跨越歇斯底里的界线回到冷漠 ──不断伴随着相同的主要讯息，让我走。这是一种独白和对话在破碎关联下的混和。我 们现在开始了解为什麽我们从布达佩斯开始。 G：所谓Undertow是水利及海洋用语，一般用於海浪打上岸後，海水退回海中的那道流， 那是一股很强大的回流，尤其当底部坡度越缓，波浪溯上越远的时候，退回的力量就越大 ，很多人在岸边被卷入海里就是小看这种回流的力量，这里歌词就是想藉由这股力量，将 他从原来的地方给带走，所以说Daniel也懂波浪力学？ 第二章开始情绪急转直下，刚刚唱完情歌，现在马上逃跑、想死，情绪从低迷到激动，再 没力，算是第二章精彩的开场，在Die的回声中进入到下首。 歌词时间地点：2001七月，埃斯基尔斯蒂纳(瑞典城市) 07. Rope Ends: 绳末 One night my wife dreamed that someone she knew tried to kill herself. The dream was so vivid she couldn't shake it off and finally she called her friend. It turned out that she had tried to hang herself three times that same night. A few years later I experienced someone trying to hang him/herself and I got there just in time. For a minute I couldn't get him/her down and I started to panic completely before I finally got the sudden insight that I should add my weight to the rope, and it broke. At one point earlier I thought of rushing to the kitchen for a knife to cut it with, but I found that it is impossible to leave the room when someone is hanging from the ceiling. 有一晚，我妻子梦见她认识的某人企图自杀。这个梦过於逼真以至於她无法摆脱它，最後 她打了通电话给她朋友。事後证实，当晚她朋友曾试图上吊三次。几年後，我经历了有人 试图上吊自杀，而我及时赶到现场。短时间内我无法把他/她弄下来，在我开始彻底恐慌 之前，我突然内心闪过一念，我应该将我的体重加到绳子上，於是它断了。早些时候我认 为要抢进厨房拿刀来割断它，但我发现当有人从天花板上垂吊而下时，我便无法离开这房 间了。 G：超屌前奏，屌拍加屌Riff唤醒沉寂的听者，心情就像是看到有人吊在那，Daniel的旁 白She is still young就是对着那吊着的人哀悼，前奏riff贯穿全曲，充满自杀的诡异气 氛。 歌词时间地点：1998二月，法伦 08. Chain Sling: 锁链 The dance of love and breaking up, the different turns and pleads. 相爱和分手之舞，不一样的转动和乞求。 G：比较无感的一首，还是内心戏，爱的消逝，人被锁链铐住，跳着舞，走向灵药魔域。 歌词时间地点：2001八月，埃斯基尔斯蒂纳 09. Dryad of the Woods: 林间仙子 This is an instrumental piece for my wife that I actually wrote several years ago. Once again, the contrast between the love and the strange situation we find in this concept. 这是一首献给我妻子的演奏曲，完成於好几年前。再次，我们在此概念中发现爱情和怪异 现象间的对比。 G：很美很抒情的演奏曲，但是概念文字述说林间仙子和主角一段耐人寻味的对话(请参考 冷飞翻译中的推文)，果然很怪。 歌词时间地点：2001八月，埃斯基尔斯蒂纳 Chapter III 10. Remedy Lane: 灵药魔域 Another instrumental piece, between an intro and a song going back to several themes from the album in different moods. We are back on Remedy Lane again, with a little more understanding. There is an uneasy pulse running through this track, which captures the restless feeling of the quest of this concept, to find truth, to be free... 另一首演奏曲，介於前奏和歌曲，在不同心境下引领回到专辑中的几个主题。我们再次回 到灵药魔域，有了多一点的理解。一种不安的脉动贯通本曲，捕捉到概念中所探索的躁动 感觉，找到真理，成为自由… G：接着第二首演奏曲，气势不一样了，来到第三章，专辑同名曲，像是进入时空隧道， 把我们从前面几首不同时空的情境下，带回到故事的起点，也是终点，布达佩斯。 歌词时间地点：2001七月，布达佩斯 11. Waking Every God: 唤醒诸神 ...but what is freedom? We are back at the first visit in Hungary, the one slightly described in the beginning of the concept. This is the beginning of the end, or the beginning of another beginning? …但什麽是自由？我们回到匈牙利的初访，该曲概略描述概念的起始。这是结尾的开始， 或者另一个开始的开始？ G：歌词回到女孩的身上，继续分析在做爱中会有什麽感受和想法，歌曲普普我不爱。 歌词时间地点：2001仲夏，布达佩斯 12. Second Love: 第二爱 This is actually an old song that I wrote when I was 15 or 16 years old. Since the concept was to have a track about being heartbroken at a young age, I simply thought that this song could be a good idea to bring in, since it was written in that exact position - it is the real thing. 这其实是一首老歌，我写於15岁或16岁时。由於这概念是关於在年轻时心碎的曲目，我只 是觉得这首歌放在这里可能是一个好主意，因为它写得很到位──它是真实的事。 G：深情伤痛，听得出Daniel很心痛，他说放在这里位置很好，因为上一首做完爱，就要 想到自己是来疗伤的，或许因为受伤，才找人做爱，做完又想起伤痛，其实没疗到伤，只 是有爽到而已。 歌词时间地点：1984-1990，埃斯基尔斯蒂纳 13. Beyond the Pale: 难以接受 And so we are back in that bed, in that hotel room where and when we started off. We have been given clues and glimpses of why we are here, and this song is bringing it all together, revealing the flaws of the human heart and mind, questioning the search for a freedom that does not ask you back how it works for you and the ones around you. Once I thought it would be a terrible thing if we were not enough on our own, if we are only good enough in relation with others, but then again, maybe that's why we are here in the first place? To make each other better, to heal each other's wounds... 於是我们又回到床上，在酒店房间里，我们开始的时空。我们已经找到线索并瞥见我们为 何在此，而该曲是将一切结合在一起，揭示了人的内心和心灵的缺陷，质疑寻求的自由并 非要求你回到「它如何作用於你和你身边的人」的点上。 一度，我认为这会是件可怕的事，如果我们对待我们自己不够，如果我们只在与他人的关 系上足够好，但话又说回来，也许这就是为什麽我们在这里，最初的地方？为了让彼此更 好，癒合彼此的伤口… G：前卫金属专辑中，最完美结尾曲，也是POS最经典的曲目之一，一个故事如果没有完美 的结尾，其实就算是失败的，POS当然不会让这种事发生，其实上一张专辑的结尾就已经 很棒了，但是这张能奠定POS在前卫金属界的地位，自然有它的道理。 开场急脆的三连音，配上步调沉重的riff，要把故事说完，性自他很小的时候就跟着他， 爱存在，却是徒劳，”he was always much more human than he wished to be”，但这 终究不是他想成为的人，此时此刻他还在那女孩的身上，毕竟是爱情伤他太深，再度出现 内在的呐喊”Come and drown with me…”这段展现出Daniel，对世界的控诉与怒吼，你 ，难道没想过也要这般地呐喊，”And I don’t know if I am true to my soul”你真 的对得起你的灵魂？”And we were always much more human than we wished to be... ”再来继续痛苦哀戚地说，情绪也将随之到达最高潮，因为自己的爱人也曾经背叛，和别 人上床，无法抹灭的伤痛，自己也有性欲，但是却努力克制，换来的是这种下场，原本以 为只是一根小刺，没想到某天却造成血迹斑斑，这就是为何必须来到灵药魔域的原因。 最後为了找寻自由，自己做的太超过，以至於结局难以接受，遂写下这张专辑，告诉听者 ，我们永远会比我们自己所希望的，还要「人性」。 The meaning of the album title “Remedy Lane”:《灵药魔域》专辑名称意义 There is an expression in the English language, to ‘take a walk down memory lane’ - which means to visit your past or going through a nostalgic trip. In a way, that is what happened in the concept, but with more stress on reconcile with that past and to find remedy for the crisis that the album is about. This is another step in the development of Pain Of Salvation. One of our trademarks would probably be the seamless blend of deep emotional structures and skillful technical architecture, and that is more present than ever on this album. If you are looking for a band that sounds just like your favorite band, just forget about us. If you are looking for a band that will make you forget about your favorite band, we are here, just walk down Remedy Lane a few times and you will never be the same again... 有一种英语的表达，为「随步在记忆途径」意味着探访你的过去或者走过怀旧之旅。在某 种程度上，这便是此概念中所发生的，但伴随更大的压力在与过去和解，找到危机的补救 ，是这张专辑的大概。 救赎代价的发展又迈进了一步。我们的特点之一很可能是深厚情感结构和熟练技术架构的 无缝融合，在这张专辑上比过去更为现代。如果你正在寻找听起来就像是你最喜欢的乐团 ，就忘了我们吧。如果你正在寻找一个乐团，会让你忘记你最喜欢的乐团，我们在这里， 只要走向《灵药魔域》几次，你将会变得有所不同… 2016/2/10 vul3G编译+心得 -- ┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬ ┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬ ┬┴┬┴┬┴ The Wall ┬┴┬┴┬┴ ┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬ ┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴ --

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