Rock of Ages
原唱者:Def Leppard
發行年:1983
All right
(好吧)
I got something to say
(我有話要說…)
Yeah, it's better to burn out Yeah, than fade away
(讓我全身爆炸,換得一剎那的燦爛,也比黯然消魂而死好)
All right
(好吧!)
Ow Gonna start a fire
(點火吧)
C'mon!
(來吧!)
Rise up! gather round
(衝啊,來吧)
Rock this place to the ground
(吵翻這個地方吧)
Burn it up let's go for broke
(用力加油到高潮吧!)
Watch the night go up in smoke
(看著今晚怎麼爆發)
Rock on! Rock on!
(加油!加油)
Drive me crazier, no serenade
(快點再來啊,再鞭打我吧,這裡不是唱小夜曲的地方)
No fire brigade, just Pyromania
(救火隊不要來,我是縱火狂)
What do you want? What do you want?
(你要什麼?你要什麼啊?)
I want rock'n'roll, yes I do
(我要聽你唱搖滾啊!我要)
Long live rock'n'roll
(一直唱下去)
Oh let's go, let's strike a light
(走吧,點火去)
We're gonna blow like dynamite
(我們像炸藥)
I don't care if it takes all night
(唱通宵也沒關係)
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Gonna set this town a light
(把整座城的人都吵得不能睡)
What do you want? What do you want?
(你要的是什麼,是什麼啊?)
I want rock'n'roll, Allright!
(我要搖滾樂啊!好吧!)
Long live rock'n'roll
(一直唱下去吧)
Rock of ages, rock of ages
(這是搖滾樂的時代)
Still rollin', keep a-rollin'
(繼續搖啊,繼續搖…)
We got the power, got the glory
(我有力量,有光榮)
Just say you need it and if you need it
(跟我說你要,你需要搖滾樂…)
Say yeah!
(說吧!)
Heh heh heh heh
(嘿嘿嘿嘿)
Now listen to me
(現在,聽我說)
I'm Burnin', Burnin', I got the fever
(我快要爆了,我現在好熱啊!)
I know for sure, there ain't no cure
(我知道,我無藥可救了)
So feel it, don't fight it, go with the flow
(所以,感覺它的存在,不要再抵抗了,隨波逐流吧!)
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme one more for the road
(再給我一段音樂,讓我走下去吧)
We're gonna burn this damn place down
(把這個鬼地方給燒了)
Down to the ground
(燒得什麼也不剩……)
Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh
(嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿嘿)
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This begins with a voice that says something like "Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen." It doesn't mean anything. Producer Mutt Lange got tired of counting the band in with "1, 2, 3, 4...," so he started saying this. The band would sometimes make up stuff when asked what it means.
This song references Neil Young in the opening lines: "I've got something to say / It's better to burn out / Than fade away!" This is part of the refrain of Young's "My My, Hey Hey," released in 1979 on Rust Never Sleeps. (thanks, Ekristheh - Halath)
The band had the music written for this, but were having trouble coming up with lyrics. One night, there was a bible study group in the studio and the next day, lead singer Joe Elliott found a bible open to the hymn "Rock Of Ages." He started singing the phrase and Lange thought it would be perfect for the chorus. They used it as the title and wrote the rest of the lyrics from there.
There are no guitars on the verses, but they come in strong in the chorus.
In an interview with the magazine Kaos 2000, lead singer Joe Elliott talked about what influenced this song. Said Elliott: "We'd have never written 'Rock Of Ages' if we hadn't have heard 'I Love Rock And Roll' by Joan Jett. But we didn't steal her entire sound. We took that one song and thought, 'This is very anthemic. We could get away with writing songs of this standard and style.' And that's what we did. It doesn't particularly sound that much like her, the chorus a bit. The actual structure of the song is nothing alike."
In 1998, The Offspring used the open on their song "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)."
There is an "Ages Of Rock" computer program that details important dates in Def Leppard history.
In the book MTV Ruled the World - The Early Years of Music Video, Joe Elliott, lead singer for Def Leppard, reminisces with a grin about the making of the "Rock of Ages" video: "It was the ridiculousness of it, which is exactly what the video needed to be. [Director David Mallet] was like, 'I want you to walk down this drawbridge holding this sword.' It's like, 'Oh, f--k off. Don't make me do that!' Of course, like an idiot, I submitted to his blinked eyes, looking at me like some long-lost dog. David Mallet's got a great way of manipulating people like that. I was young and dumb and went 'OK.' I look at that now, and I think 'What the hell was I thinking?'"
Listen to the verses, and you'll notice that guitars are missing, which emphasizes the vocals but presents a problem: What should the guitarist do in the video? Joe Elliott explained in the aforementioned book: "There's a couple of shots where [guitarist] Phil [Collen] was clapping along on the verse - because there's no guitars - and he's standing directly behind me, so I look like I have these clapping antlers coming out of my head."In the same book, guitarist Phil Collen adds: "Pretty funny when you look back. The robe thing took about 30 seconds to film. You kind of forget about that."
"She Blinded Me With Science" singer Thomas Dolby worked on the Pyromania album with Mutt Lange, credited as "Booker T. Boffin." Dolby told us: "It was terrific. I was working only with Mutt. I barely saw the band. I think I saw Joe Elliott very briefly. But I was primarily working with Mutt and Mike Shipley, the engineer. And it was a very manicured sound for a rock record. A lot of what Mutt wanted me to do was sort of double the guitars and make them creamier and thicker."
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I especially liked the scenes of the band all dressed as monks, Joe Elliott swinging his sword, and when Phil Collen turned his sword into a guitar and then launched into the solo!
And "Gunter Glieben Glauben Globen" does not only mean nothing - "Glieben" and "Globen" are not even german words. "Glauben" however can be found in the german language and means either "to believe" (as a verb) or "belief/faith" (as a subject). And "Gunter" is a german name.
But I guess Mutt Lange didn?t say these words intentional.
Rock of Ages is a term for Jesus.
"We have the power, we have the glory" is a term used expressly by GOD as In "I am the power and the Glory"
The song was marketed as hinting at a Dark side, even though it was just clever marketing.