Coil – Tattooed Man

Coil – Tattooed Man

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整整一个多月的时间,每晚睡觉时,我都要打开随身听,听着Coil的专辑入睡。在这些无法早睡却不得不早睡的夜晚,是Peter Christorpherson和 John Balance这两个阴郁又诡异的家伙,在我耳边讲述着一个个黑色的寓言和童话,听得我一阵阵心悸,一遍遍眩晕,然后在这样一次次的自虐中沉沉睡去……

如何去界定Coil的美学风格?这是一个十分困难、也没多大必要的问题。他们的音乐,吸取了工业、氛围、电子、实验、民谣、民族等多种元素,令人耳花缭乱。但是如果从文学和电影的角度去看,也许更能触碰到其作品的本质。他们是萨德侯爵的信徒,是帕索里尼和贾曼的革命伴侣,可以用“极端压抑的疯狂”作为他们共同的前置定语。后工业时代扭曲而痛苦的灵魂,附着在这对英国基佬的身上,结出了令人着迷的奇异果实。

《The Ape of Naples》也许是我听过的三十多张Coil专辑中,最具旋律流行性的的一张了。它的悲伤过于直白,直白得跨越了文化的隔阂,那种人类最为细腻的伤感之情,带着极大的穿透力走来,在黑夜中闪闪烁烁,鬼火一般吸引着你堕入无边的黑暗中。在这张专辑创作过程中,John Balance意外身亡,失去基友的Peter完成了最后的制作。因此故,这首《Tattooed Man》听起来,才会有一种极强的感染力。手风琴单调而优美地循环着,打击乐失魂落魄地敲击着,一个男人的尸体,躺在等待埋葬的坟墓里,身上的纹身也因为死亡了逐渐暗淡和萎缩。这时,刚刚哭泣过的男声一遍遍地唱起:我爱他我爱他我爱他,我恨他我恨他我恨他……生者与死者的对话,其实也不过如此简单。

网上有一段《Tattooed Man》的Live视频,俨然是一场神秘宗教的降神仪式。难怪很多人一听到此歌,就会联想到寺山修司的《上海异人娼馆》,里面千奇百怪的虐恋场景,把性的暴力与美表达得淋漓尽致。在异色导演的镜头下,倒也像极了异教徒的狂欢。“在时间的长桌上/上帝的饮者狂欢/他干了视觉健全者的眼睛和盲人的眼睛/他干了阴影统治者的心肝/他干了黄昏和空洞的面颊/他们是最豪迈的酒徒/他们饮尽了满饮尽了空/而从不会像你我一样泡沫四溅。”保罗•策兰的这几句诗,是否能作为这种大欢喜和大悲伤的注脚呢?

但我现在,越来越难以把死亡与狂欢联系到一起。我更倾向于静静地消逝,像一滴水融入海洋,成为再也无法寻觅的东西。

There’s a man lying down in a grave somewhere
With the same tattoos as me
And I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him

There’s a man lying down in a bed somewhere
With a different set of sex aspects
And I hate him, I hate him, I hate him, I hate him, my eyes

This is me here now
Pining like a dog, whining like a dog in a thick harbour fog
Waiting for a ship that will make him sick
And when the ship comes, big trouble (not we’re in trouble as the inlay suggests)
His trouble will begin

And the church bells chime the colour of wine
And the angels devil fight to snatch back the lost time

And there’s a man lying down with a blade somewhere
With the same tattoos as me
And I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him

There’s a man lying down in a bed somewhere
With a different set of sex aspects
And I hate him, I hate him, I hate him, I hate him, my eyes

This is the dark age of love
This is the dark age of love
This is the dark age of love
This is the dark ???

And I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him, I love him

There’s a man laying down
There’s a man laying down
There’s a man laying down
There’s a man laying down somewhere

Somewhere

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2019.11.16
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