Jack Johnson 《Better Together》

独孤飘零

从小在夏威夷长大，Jack Johnson会走路的时候也会冲浪，17岁的时候他已经是冲浪界的天才，以最年轻的年纪扬名于世界级冲浪大赛(Pipeline Masters)，正当体坛将他锁定成海滩明日之星，比赛后一个月，Jack Johnson在冲浪时发生严重意外，脸上缝了150针，让他整整三个月无法出门，却也给了他三个月抱着吉他、创作音乐的时光；但是Jack Johnson并没有一股作气成为创作歌手，18岁的他选择到加州大学念电影，99年导演并且担任电影配乐完成了冲浪电影《Thicker Than Water》，初执导演筒的他，赢得各影展最佳导演等大奖，眼见着Jack Johnson就要加入电影界，新的一波浪潮却迎面来袭；杰克自弹自唱的歌曲，早期就被冲浪巨星们作成卡带复制流传。2001年Jack Johnson的处女专辑《Brushfire Fairytales》取得全美热门潜力榜No.3 &流行专辑榜No.34，销量过百万。

“Jack Johnson擅长创作气氛好、感觉对的音乐，简单的空心吉他搭配他温煦柔和的嗓音，让人感觉轻松而舒适…”权威音乐网站AMG这样推崇他的音乐风格。往返夏威夷与洛杉矶两地，Jack Johnson于2005年录制完成的专辑《In Between Dreams》，有着大海般的歌声加上纯熟的吉他弹奏，创作出一首接一首轻松惬意、混融民谣、蓝调、雷鬼和Bossa Nova的清新作品。简单却完美的专辑创作，在没有商业广告的加持下，《In Between Dreams》却在美国发行首周，以23万张的惊人销售空降全美告示牌专辑榜第2名，在乐评、乐迷、以及电台DJ的热情支持下，《In Between Dreams》在不到2个月的发行后在全球默默卖出200万张。后来全球销量超越700万张，更让Jack Johnson获得2005Grammy最佳流行男歌手提名。

Radiohead的主唱曾对Jack Johnson说：“你真是天生的人型节奏组(human drum set)，嘴巴就像钹，打开了就有切分音”；美国权威杂志评论杰克的歌词创作：是“21世纪的Bob Dylan”。Jack Johnson特殊的魅力，让世界上任何浪高于4英尺的地方，就有冲浪客聚集着聆听他的专辑；他的音乐会出现在伦敦顶级的时尚bar里，也会出现在曼谷的盗版摊上。但对杰克来说，他只是个冲浪家、喜欢电影、跟会唱歌的人，他不叫魔术Johnson、他是Jack Johnson。


There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
like a, shoebox of photographs
with sepiatone loving
Love is the answer,
at least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? and where do we go?
And how come we're so hard?
It's not always easy and
sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing its always better when we're together

MMM its always better when we're together
look at the stars when we're together
its always better when we're together
Yeah, its always better when we're together

And all of these moments
just might find there way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone
when the morning light sings
and brings new things
but tomorrow night you see
that they'll be gone too
too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find there way
into my day to day scene
I'll be under the impression
i was somewhere in between
With only two
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do
or places we got to be
We'll Sit beneath the mango tree

its always better when we're together
Somewhere in between together
its always better when we're together
Yeah, its always better when we're together

MMmmmm MMMmmmm Mmmmmm
I believe in memories
they look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up,
you look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is no time,
and there is no song I could sing
and there is no, combination of words I could say
but I will still tell you one thing
We're Better together


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