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

 

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

Time to take the temperature of music on public radio stations across the country this month. Well, it's hot. Here's what the music mavens have put into Heavy Rotation¹.

JESSE MENENDEZ, BYLINE²: My name is Jesse Menendez. I'm a host with Vocalo 91.1 FM in Chicago.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "NO CLUE")

RICH JONES: (Singing) I was thinking about next year or even next minute - moving by my...

MENENDEZ: A song that we're really digging here at Vocalo is a new song from North Side hip-hop artist Rich Jones. It's called "No Clue."

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "NO CLUE")

JONES: (Singing) Trying to get my time, treat you right, a life more complete (ph).

MENENDEZ: He's really developed himself more as an artist and not just a rapper. In this song, you can hear him testing out his register as a singer, which means he's really comfortable now with his delivery.

JONES: (Singing) No clue how happy we'd be.

MYKELE DEVILLE: (Rapping) Precious, you left me feeling breathless. Began to worry, but my heart was on the guest list. The freshness...

MENENDEZ: The song features a guest verse from another MC from Chicago called Mykele Deville. Just dropped this week, and I think it's a perfect summer song from how it makes you feel to the airy vibe to it.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "NO CLUE")

JONES: (Singing) About next year, or even next minute.

DEVILLE: (Rapping) Yes, I love, love, love.

JONES: (Singing) Moving by myself - no clue how happy we'd be.

JERAD WALKER, BYLINE: My name is Jerad Walker, and I'm the music director for OPBmusic in Portland, Ore.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IN UNDERTOW")

ALVVAYS: (Singing) You find a wave and try to hold on for as long as you can. You made a mistake. But I...

WALKER: The song I picked is called "In Undertow" by Canadian rock band Alvvays.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IN UNDERTOW")

ALVVAYS: (Singing) What's left for you and me...

WALKER: First off, we should probably clear up any confusion about the band's name. It's spelled Always, A-L-V-V-A-Y-S.

Lead singer Molly Rankin - she was born into Canadian music royalty³. Her dad was a member of this group called the Rankin Family band. They're still active. They're from the Canadian maritime⁴ province of Nova Scotia. They play, like, Celtic-influenced folk and country music, so folks were kind of shocked when she popped up fronting this band.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IN UNDERTOW")

ALVVAYS: (Singing) You respond to my question metaphorically⁵. Don't read into psychology⁶.

WALKER: And I think the lyrics⁷ will grab pretty much anyone who's ever had an argument with a friend or a loved one that just went a step too far (laughter). Perfectly⁸ captures the the mood that you have five days after an argument, where you've had a little bit of time to stew⁹ and you kind of have that attitude - forget you; you were lucky to have me.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IN UNDERTOW")

ALVVAYS: (Singing) There's no turning - there's no turning back, no turning back.

JESSI WHITTEN, BYLINE: I'm Jessi Whitten, the music director at Colorado Public Radio's new music service Open Air. For Heavy Rotation this month, I chose a song called "Ondulation" by a French duo called Burning Peacocks.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ONDULATION")

BURNING PEACOCKS: (Singing in French).

WHITTEN: This is a really young duo that actually features a kind of it girl of sorts, Alma Jodorowsky and her bandmate David Baudart. And they are a really exciting, young, kind of fresh band. They have one full-length album. This is just a little single they came out with just in the perfect time because this song is summer to me. I feel like it's walking out of the air conditioning into the hot, balmy air and realizing it's time to go to the pool.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ONDULATION")

BURNING PEACOCKS: (Singing in French).

WHITTEN: In fact, we only debuted¹⁰ this song on-air last week. It's already really become one of our main summer songs. We had a listener write in and say that this was a sweet summer jam, and that says it all.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ONDULATION")

BURNING PEACOCKS: (Singing in French).

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 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 royalty   

n.皇家，皇族

参考例句：

• She claims to be descended from royalty.她声称她是皇室后裔。
• I waited on tables，and even catered to royalty at the Royal Albert Hall.我做过服务生， 甚至在皇家阿伯特大厅侍奉过皇室的人。

4 maritime   

adj.海的，海事的，航海的，近海的，沿海的

参考例句：

• Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
• The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。

5 metaphorically   

adv. 用比喻地

参考例句：

• It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically. 对一个词的理解是按字面意思还是隐喻的意思要视乎上下文和习惯。
• Metaphorically it implied a sort of admirable energy. 从比喻来讲，它含有一种令人赞许的能量的意思。

6 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

7 lyrics   

n.歌词

参考例句：

• music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
• The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。

8 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

9 stew   

n.炖汤，焖，烦恼；v.炖汤，焖，忧虑

参考例句：

• The stew must be boiled up before serving.炖肉必须煮熟才能上桌。
• There's no need to get in a stew.没有必要烦恼。

10 debuted   

初次表演，初次登台（debut的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• In late 2003 a full-size SUV, the Pathfinder Armada, debuted. 2003年末，全尺寸SUV的探路者无敌舰队，推出。
• The album debuted at number two and quickly went platinum. 专辑一亮相就荣登排行榜第二名，很快就取得了白金销量。