Keane ‘Under The Iron Sea’ Podcast 2 – Tim谈关于Atlantic 和 Is It Any Wonder?
2008-07-27 影音资料 enchinya
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Atlantic
Tim: “Well Atlantic was the first thing that we recorded for the record, and it was actually gonna be a b-side. It was weird – it was just a very very scrappy demo. To be honest, I don’t think any of us had really thought that it could be a really great song, or a great piece of music or anything; but Richard started playing this weird thing on the drums – we had some drums from the demo and he started playing out-of-time with them, sort of half a beat behind them. And it created this weird, incredible drum pattern which was funky and industrial, and it just brought the whole song to life and it immediately started to sound amazing. It’s a piece of music that I’m really really proud, and I think we’re all really really proud of as a band. It’s a great example of a piece of music that we’ve all contributed to, and it wouldn’t be the song that it is unless we all put something special into it. The reason it’s the first song on the record, is because it’s got such an incredible atmosphere to it, and I guess it’s about having a terror of being alone – it sets the mood of the record really well, both musically and lyrically.”
Is It Any Wonder?
Tim: “Is It Any Wonder? is probably the most ‘rock’ song that we’ve done so far, I think. I remember doing a demo of it in Cologne on the European tour, and desperately trying to finish it off in the studio and write all the words, so I could do a demo of it. And Cologne cathedral is a great structure that stands in the middle of the city: when the British bombed Cologne during the war, the cathedral was pretty much the only thing left unscathed in the centre of town, and I just thought it was an amazingly powerful image. I love the idea of the cathedral standing there, looking mournfully over the city.
The song generally is… I guess you could say it’s a very political song. It’s just trying to make sense of the fact that Britain could be attacking other countries on very devious grounds, when we’ve always grown up thinking that you’re always a part of society that’s essentially a power for good in the world. and I think a lot of people of our generation have suddenly found it very unsettling to start to feel that we’ve taken that for granted that we’ve always been contributing to a society is a power for a good, and suddenly you realise you realise that half the world really hates us(!) and on a personal level that makes you start to doubt yourself a bit I think.
The song is not an attempt at some sort of wide-sweeping political statement, it’s just about just seeing things from a personal level – what are you supposed to believe, what is actually right? How can you work out what is the truth, and what is the right thing to do? And there’s so many different opinions, and you’re supposed to have an opinion on what your country is doing, and yet it is so hard to even begin to gather all the facts. It’s really distressing thing for people of our generation I think, the feeling of not being able to do anything about that. I guess that was something we were all feeling very acutely in the song. And I think the sounds of the song sum that up in a very tangible way.
I suppose once we’d hit upon the idea of using the piano through loads of vintage effects, and trying to make it sound as far from a piano as possible, we started to think in terms of what we wanted it to sound like on a particular song. If I was trying to find a particular sound, I’d want it to sound like something like from a Beatles song, or a Smiths song, or anything really! On Is It Any Wonder? we were thinking that a kinda Jimi Hendrix riff would be a great way to start a song that had so much bustling confusion and anger in it…so that was basically my attempt to rip off Jimi Hendrix!”