Night fell quietly, and the black color quickly melted into every corner of the world like ink. At this moment, I habitually turn on the music player and listen to some radio commander music.
I started listening to Radiostar in the early years, and it was the well-known song "Creep" that made me fall in love with them, and the Radiostarter at that time still sounded a little nirvana. But as I got to know the band, I found that some of their other, lesser-known pieces seemed to have a more flavorful one. So I started listening to more of their music, and I became obsessed with it: Nude.
In fact, this song has accompanied me through countless long nights, but I have not yet developed auditory fatigue about it. It seems to embody the band's unique qualities more than many of Radiomaster's famous songs: all the loneliness, all the despair, scattered throughout the song. It's not as direct as Creep or as wild as Just, but I love to recommend it to you.
This song is included in the album "In Rainbows" by Radio commander, and I think it is one of the most beautiful songs, both in terms of atmosphere and melody, it is not worthy of being called superior.
At the beginning of the song, the author creates a very distorted musical atmosphere for us, in which the string part that disappears and suddenly appears will make the listener travel back and forth between reality and ethereal, which feels like you are in outer space, free from the gravitational pull of the earth's core. The rhythm of the whole work is very concise, but the rhythm is very attractive, and you have to admire their orchestration skills to make such a wonderful rhythm in such a streamlined rhythm.
Not only that, but the lead vocals and guitar playing are even more fascinating. Tom York's voice is always tear-jerking, and the singing of this song continues his usual style, which sounds like the author's self-release after experiencing an extreme pain, he seems to be a self-talking frustrated person, and does not care whether anyone is listening, but just indulges in his music alone.
At the right point of the song, the clear guitar will refresh you, and the sound of the pluck gently sliding over the strings is as crisp as a pearl falling to the ground. Although it is not warm, it can give the listener a full sense of sound, as bright as a lighthouse in the harbor that flashes all night. When the guitar sounded for the second time, it pushed the whole music to a climax, and the emotion that suddenly surged into your chest made you want to shed tears.
Tom York has always had very high requirements for the arrangement of their works, so when you hear their studio work, you will always find that their instrumental arrangement is so streamlined and full, but this does not mean that they ignore the connotation of the song. The same is true of Nude, which is not only beautiful in music, but also interesting in lyrics that deserve the listener's rethinking.
For Radio commanders, many of their lyrics were something I'd always struggled to read. On the one hand, because english lyrics are translated into Chinese, many meanings are misinterpreted; on the other hand, after Radiostar began to make experimental music in 2000, their songs began to become unpredictable and incomprehensible.
But out of love for this work, I couldn't help but want to know its heart thoroughly, and finally, after I listened to its musical part thoroughly, I began to study his lyrics, and if you don't know the music well, it may be difficult for you to understand what he is saying.
And now that you've found it
You think you've found it
it's gone
In fact, it has long been lost
and now that you feel it
You think you feel it
you don't
Actually you don't
You've gone off the rails
You're getting off track
In fact, from the lyrics alone, Tom Yorke only used his value orientation to weigh the relationship between gain and loss, existence and non-existence. The lyrics are so short that we can't appreciate the specific meaning he wants to express, so we are constantly wandering in this feeling of seeming understanding and non-understanding. But I was not willing to do so, through my own experience and understanding of life, I finally had a feeling.
A big reason why people suffer is because we think all the time. When you have independent values about life, you will find that many secular ideas can become so repulsive. Imagine what kind of living environment we have always grown up in: gold, power, cars, houses, have you ever resented these words to the extreme? But you find that you still seem to be bleeding from their heads.
That's where Tom York's pain comes from. He is dissuading himself and warning others that he wants to find a spiritual gain, not material. But he found that he did not seem to be the same as the people around him, and the more he walked on this road, the lonelier he became, the farther he went, the more he found that the world was almost naked and dirty everywhere.
Now he is completely liberated in his mind, no longer has to care about other people's opinions, with a pair of sharp eyes to dissect this dirty world, swimming in the lonely ocean, as if in another world. He will never come back, he will only get farther and farther away from us, and even if you open your arms to him, he will no longer believe in this preconceived world that has tormented him, and he has not become the person he hates after all.
We don't know what kind of painful mental journey Tom York has gone through, he has changed from a young lad to a white-haired uncle. His eyes are still so clean that you will be heartbroken to see it. Their music became no longer manic, quiet as water, undisturbed. That loss and despair are still there, only now it's more delicate and softer.
Do you still like such a radio commander? After decades of ideological suffering, the radio commander who has gone farther and farther.
Every sleepless night, I still choose to fall asleep listening to Radiostar's music, even if their concerts give me some indescribable emotions. We can immerse ourselves in a ethereal musical space, feel everything around us as Tom York sings softly, think hard about something, and then grit our teeth and explore a better world.
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