Rockets-Cat Power

Keep Your Guns At Home
Help Keep Your Momma Safe --Cat Power


打開Cat Power的Rockets，音樂裡充滿的是一股無窮的生命力
粗糙的噪音感，像是在小團練室裡現場收音的錄音
沒有修飾的搖滾原音，每一下的鼓點力量穿透整個空間，
吉他，貝斯麻到破的音色，沒有像Grounge的吉他那樣發散開來
但被壓縮過的音符，在節奏上跟著鼓聲慢慢前進
被壓抑的節奏在等待爆發點的到來

曾有過類似的聽覺經驗
如U2 的With Or Without You前奏的反覆Riff讓你等待的主唱的到來
如陳珊妮的四季，會讓你想由座位上跳起來
在Rockets裡感覺則更加強烈真實

揮動你的雙手，吉他是你手上僅有的武器，彈出來的音符是射向人群的子彈
雙腳往前推擊大鼓，雙手交錯用力的打在通通上，
然後用力的由左而右將所有鼓面輪上一翻
心裡有再多的不舒坦，都可以傾洩而出
Cat的歌聲引領著所有所有音樂還有你的情緒攀到那不可及的高峰

1995的Dear Sir與1996年的Myra Lee兩張專輯是在同一天錄製完成
音樂調性與現場音色都可以聽出一樣的味道，儘管Cat Power後期
幾張如Moon Pix與You Are Free專輯都相當棒，
還是最愛這首最原始的Rockets

在YouTube找到這首歌的MV，沒有Cat Power現場演唱的影像
但卻與歌詞裡的意境相當貼切，感受一下Cat Power


專輯:Dear Sir
歌手:Cat Power
年份:1995

Rockets

Where do the dreams of babies go
'Cause you know they're all so good
And they're also gone so fast
Keep all the guns at home
Help keep your momma safe
'Cause you know she pretty good too

Where is the night so warm and so strange
That no one is afraid
Of themselves
Here, pick up, dig, dig out those weeds
Out of your happy go lucky fields
Of such predictive thinking

Where do the rockets find planets
Where do the rockets find planets
Where do the rockets find planets
Where are the dreams of the babies going

'Cause you know they're all gone fast
Take, take as much as you can
'Cause you know it's going so fast
And you know it's so good

Where are the man that mounted so brave
That they do not explode over everyone
Here, pick up, dig, dig out those weeds
Out of your happy go lucky fields
Of such predictive thinking

Where do the rockets find planets
Where do the rockets find planets
Keep your guns at home
Keep your guns at home
Help keep your momma safe

You know she's all good too
She's pretty good
Where are all the dreams of babies going
Did you know they're all good