おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
Radioheadの“OK Computer,”25周年という記事。25年てまじかw
音楽にはあまりハマらないんだけど、Radioheadの淡々とした感じは好き。一番好きなのは“Paranoid Android”です。高校生くらいで↓のMV見て邦楽から離れた記憶。
penchant
意味 [C] (かたく)[通例 a [one’s] ～]＜…に対する＞ （強い） 嗜好, 趣味; 偏愛 (fondness) ＜for＞ （時に他の人が嫌うものに対する偏好を暗示）
The five-piece from Oxford, England (Yorke, lead vocals and guitar; Ed O’Brien, guitar; the brothers Jonny Greenwood, guitar, and Colin Greenwood, bass; and Phil Selway, drummer) had declared on their fourth single that “Pop Is Dead”; what, exactly, would replace it wasn’t yet clear. But Radiohead’s three-guitar attack, and their penchant for complex arrangements and soaring choruses, provided a framework for the band to build on.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/radioheads-ok-computer-turns-twenty-five
クラシックっぽさを感じるのはコーラスの印象からかな。
confident
意味 〈人· 態度などが〉自信にあふれた, 大胆な; 〈人が〉 自信を持っている
Their next album, “The Bends,” from 1995, is a much richer and more confident record, but without a big radio-friendly hit. Had the band called it quits, Radiohead would likely be remembered as a mid-list act from the nineties who enjoyed a devoted following but for whom commercial success remained elusive.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/radioheads-ok-computer-turns-twenty-five
punctuate
意味 [通例 be ～d]〈会話· 活動などが〉＜…によって＞ 何度も中断される ＜by, with＞
The distorted opening guitar chords of the first track, “Airbag,” are quickly punctuated by even more grotesquely overdriven percussion, knocking the VU needle into the red with an urgent burst of skittering noise.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/radioheads-ok-computer-turns-twenty-five
elliptical
意味 楕円(形) の.
I first heard “OK Computer” in the fall of 1997 on a Sony Discman, working out on an elliptical machine in Fike Recreation Center, at Clemson University, in South Carolina, where I was teaching as an associate professor.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/radioheads-ok-computer-turns-twenty-five
Discman持ってたー！懐かしいー！マイテープ作るの面倒くさかったからCD1枚を延々シャッフルリピートしてたなぁ。
