美国国家公共电台 NPR Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

 

SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

We check in each month with music maestros in public radio. Here is a sample of what they're currently playing in heavy rotation¹.

BILL DEVILLE: I'm Bill DeVille, one of the deejays at The Current in St. Paul, Minn. And my pick is a song called "Time Don't Wait." It's from Marty Stuart and the Fabulous² Superlatives.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TIME DON'T WAIT")

MARTY STUART AND HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES: (Singing) Big bright moon is shining...

DEVILLE: Marty has this great new album called "Way Out West," and he likes to call it his love letter to the West where he pays tribute to a lot of the stuff he grew up with and heard as a kid. He was a big fan of surf guitars and Buck³ Owens and Merle Haggard. He calls it his psychedelic twang-filled journey through the Mojave Desert.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TIME DON'T WAIT")

MARTY STUART AND HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES: (Singing) Time don't wait on nobody, it just keeps moving on and on and on and on.

DEVILLE: One of the bands he loved when he was growing up as a kid was The Birds, and on this one it's kind of a nod to The Birds. This track is just awesome⁴. It just really takes you back to a different time and place. And Marty's so good at doing that.

AMY MILLER⁵: My name is Amy Miller. I'm the program director at KXT in Dallas, Texas.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FIRE")

BETH DITTO: (Singing) Fire.

MILLER: And the song I picked today is "Fire" by Beth Ditto.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FIRE")

DITTO: (Singing) Bless my soul, that's the way it is.

MILLER: The song "Fire" opens with a really catchy⁶ guitar line.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FIRE")

DITTO: (Singing) Bless my soul, I can't resist.

MILLER: And then all of a sudden...

(SOUNDBITE OF BETH DITTO SONG, "FIRE")

MILLER: Right there, that's where it kicks in. And that's when that moment hit when I heard that song. It just really had an effect on me. And those types of dynamics⁷, I mean, they're just so powerful in songs when you get to that buildup, you wait for it and then it pays off, of course.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FIRE")

DITTO: (Singing) Get up, up, up, up, up, up, up if you want my, want my, want my love. Get up, up, up, up, up, up, up if you want my, want my love.

MILLER: And her band, Gossip, they were together for 17 years. They formed in 1999. They just broke up last year. So I think when that happens for musicians and they go solo, a lot of their fans are really anxious to see where they go with their songwriting. I think this is one of the best things we've heard from Beth.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FIRE")

DITTO: (Singing) Bless my soul, I can't resist.

SEAN CANNON⁸: I'm Sean Cannon, host of "The Guest List" on Louisville Public Media. And my pick for heavy rotation is "Shine A Light" from Shabazz Palaces. I guess you could call it a fuzzy, psychedelic space soul ballad⁹.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SHINE A LIGHT")

SHABAZZ PALACES: (Singing) Shine a light on the fake. This way my peeps can have it all. Shine a light on the fake. This way...

CANNON: It's hard to talk about Shabazz Palaces without talking about Digable Planets first, the jazz hip-hop band from the '90s, because it's led by the same guy, Ishmael Butler. He's been sort of expanding the sound of rap and hip-hop for a long time. In Digable Planets he went, you know, into the past. With Shabazz Palaces it's into space, into the future.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SHINE A LIGHT")

SHABAZZ PALACES: (Rapping) Street profit, sweets geeked off it, seek profit, cook styles eat off it.

CANNON: Yeah, I love how it feels like they're always just a little bit behind the beat. It makes - it's that feeling. That's what makes you feel like you're floating in space a little bit, like time is way more expansive somehow.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SHINE A LIGHT")

SHABAZZ PALACES: (Rapping) Gorgeous dashing, waves crashing, mind elastics¹⁰, smooth action.

CANNON: I've seen them live a couple of times, and they put on an amazing show because they're doing a lot of these things live, a lot of the musical cues, the drum machines, the samples. And they don't build songs. They build pieces, a bunch of little scraps¹¹. You know, they're putting together a giant puzzle is basically what it amounts to, sometimes like putting together a puzzle face down.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SHINE A LIGHT")

SHABAZZ PALACES: (Singing) Shine a light on the fake. This way my peeps can have it all. Shine a light on the fake. This way my peeps can have it all.

SIMON: There's more music in heavy rotation on just the coolest website, nprmusic.org. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.

1 rotation   

n.旋转；循环，轮流

参考例句：

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
• The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。

2 fabulous   

adj.极好的；极为巨大的；寓言中的，传说中的

参考例句：

• We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
• This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。

3 buck   

n.雄鹿，雄兔；v.马离地跳跃

参考例句：

• The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
• The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。

4 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

5 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

6 catchy   

adj.易记住的，诡诈的，易使人上当的

参考例句：

• We need a new slogan.The old one's not catchy enough.我们需要新的口号，旧的不够吸引人。
• The chorus is very catchy to say the least.副歌部分很容易上口。

7 dynamics   

n.力学，动力学，动力，原动力；动态

参考例句：

• In order to succeed,you must master complicated knowledge of dynamics.要取得胜利，你必须掌握很复杂的动力学知识。
• Dynamics is a discipline that cannot be mastered without extensive practice.动力学是一门不做大量习题就不能掌握的学科。

8 cannon   

n.大炮，火炮；飞机上的机关炮

参考例句：

• The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
• The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。

9 ballad   

n.歌谣，民谣，流行爱情歌曲

参考例句：

• This poem has the distinctive flavour of a ballad.这首诗有民歌风味。
• This is a romantic ballad that is pure corn.这是一首极为伤感的浪漫小曲。

10 elastics   

n.松紧带，橡皮圈( elastic的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Suitable for cutting hook &Loop fastener, elastics, plastic zipper paper, plastics. 本机适于粘扣带，松紧带，塑胶拉练，纸带，塑胶带，排线，套管。 来自互联网
• Direct measurement of seismic ascertains that fluid motion is a primary mechanism in porous, permeable elastics. 地震波衰减机制和测量方法研究表明，在孔隙和渗透性碎屑岩中，流体运动是衰减的主要机制。 来自互联网

11 scraps   

油渣

参考例句：

• Don't litter up the floor with scraps of paper. 不要在地板上乱扔纸屑。
• A patchwork quilt is a good way of using up scraps of material. 做杂拼花布棉被是利用零碎布料的好办法。