求加州旅馆歌曲介绍(英文版)

求Hotel California这首歌的英文介绍~

加州旅馆到底是指什么？它在哪里？
有的人认为歌曲中的加州旅馆是确实存在的，而这之中还有旅馆、戒毒所、
精神病院三种说法。
认为确实存在这个旅馆的人，在南加州的托多斯桑托斯（Todos Santos ）
这个小镇算是找到他们需要的一切。小镇在南加州高速公路的沙漠旁边，在小镇 内有一座类似唱片封面的旅馆，在旅馆的不远处是会半夜传来钟声的教堂，而这 旅馆在以前正是有暗地的色情交易。

旅馆的主人号称这正是歌曲中的“加州旅馆”，不过小镇历史上，旅馆的改
名是在歌曲已经流行后的八十年代才发生的。在九十年代后期，数篇报章开始登 载这个正宗“加州旅馆”的故事，最后终于引来了歌曲创作者Don Henley在二 ○○○年的正式否认：老鹰乐队的成员从未到过此地。

歌曲本身的数次对毒品的暗示，是加州旅馆原是戒毒所说法的来源。按此说
法：加州旅馆是在南加州公路旁的一个自愿戒毒院，老鹰队员曾经吸毒与入院的经历是歌词的创作来源。
歌词在一开始colitas的暗示，头感到发重是吸大麻烟的特征。“lit up a
candle”是一个吸毒的常用语，在后院跳舞更是吸毒后失控发作的一个现象。
这种自愿戒毒院是主要为中产阶层开的，介于疗养院与戒毒所之间，而淫乱
现象更是七十年代中产阶层放荡后的一种常态。毒品的瘾性使得你可以在某段时 间痊愈而离开戒毒院，不过却永远无法摆脱那重蹈旧轨的阴影，这正是“你可以一时结账，却永远无法离开”的写照。

歌词的诡异可能是精神病院说法的来源。歌词中与之相关联的暗示有：不断
有远处声音的幻听想象；天堂和地狱指精神病人中某些如恶魔的邪恶人性和如天 使纯洁无知觉；在后院里病人如着魔般的跳舞；头脑思想扭曲正是精神病的直语；自己思想的囚犯也是暗语；想杀死恶魔却总杀不死的精神病幻觉。当然精神病也和毒品一样，你可以觉得你暂时是正常了，却无法保证将来是正常的，永远无法离开那阴影。

七十年代曾经是电影界恐怖片流行的时候，而这歌词正勾出这样的故事框架。
边远沙漠大路上的孤独一人，大门前掌烛的丽人，酒吧的神秘领班，后院的召魔 舞蹈，意图杀死却总杀不死的恶魔，即使结束却总有人来在背后提醒还有续集的结尾。这些种种，使得歌词有一种鬼影森森的感觉，而在恐怖片中，精神病院更常是主要的背景场所了。
在两三年前有一部斯坦利·库别克（Stanley Kubrick）拍摄的电影“大开
眼界”（Eye wide open），看过这部电影的观众就可以在这部电影内容中发现
与这首歌词许多神似的情节内容。也是同样的吸毒堕落，也是同样的荒淫性乱，也是同样的拜魔情结，也有同样的无法摆脱的阴影。这部电影就如同是这首歌的一个解说，讲述那种已经不堪的美国社会状态。
洛杉矶之说是老鹰乐队自己在人们无数次追问后的一个回答，虽然说歌曲就
如同小说一样，离开了作者后要由听者来解释，堂·亨莱（Don Henley）是这
样解说的：“我们是一群来自中西部州中产阶层背景的年轻人，加州旅馆是我们对洛杉矶的上流社会的理解。它可看做是对总是追求奢淫生活的美国的一个象征，而不仅仅是关于加州和毕利华山区。”（毕利华山区是洛杉矶的一个最富人区，好莱坞的影星歌星的居处）

（“We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest,”
Henley said of the Eagles. “’Hotel California’ was
our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles. It was meant
to be a phor for the United States, for the excesses
this country has always been known for. It wasn’t meant to be
just about California or Beverly Hills.”）

另外，还有个神奇的说法，hotel california与宗教。
the Church of Satan（拜撒旦教），April 30，1966由Anton Szandor LaVey创立，总部地点就在旧金山加州大街的一间旅馆内。而由这个旅馆发出的最后一封信件就是在1969年，当时eagles的经纪人正和拜撒旦教中的一个女祭祀同居。
dancing in the court yard指的是教内祭祀的仪式。其他的一些都可以在歌中得到理解。说当你将这首歌反过来播放，你能听到这个：“Yes Satan he made his own religion“。（听说的，我没有试过）
其实，在国外，这种解释最为普遍。
有人说，不如问问Eagles自己，他们写这首歌究竟是什么意思。其实早就有人问过了，听听Fery是怎么回答的吧。
“...We were into Steely Dan at the time and liked how their lyrics really
didn’t mean anything, so we decided to do something like that too. So we
took a few mysterious elements, put it all together and let the listener’s
draw their own conclusions. ...“
对于这首歌的解释，最合理的就是仁者见仁，智者见智，也正是这首歌的魅力所在，它无限的生命力的源泉。
最后，不知道大家有没有注意到hotel california中从头至尾贯穿全曲的节奏。
对，就是背景中那特殊的、神秘的鼓点，这个鼓点的节奏，营造出这样一个怪诞的氛围。
仿佛是一种警告，又是一种诱惑...

已发送
个人还是感觉难度有点大，
需要准备的很充分才可以讲好的。。。
需要怎么改动 楼主可以给我邮件
如果是加音频什么的 就算了
因为超链接的地址会随着电脑的改变 而改变 最好的就是自己弄个单独的
参考资料来自维基百科

"Hotel California" is the title song from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in early 1977. It is one of the best-known songs of the album-oriented rock era. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. The Eagles' original recording of the song features Henley singing the lead vocals and concludes with an extended section of electric guitar interplay between Felder and Joe Walsh.
[edit] History and recognition
"Hotel California" topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week in May 1977. Three months after its release, the single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America representing 1,000,000 records shipped. The Eagles also won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Hotel California" at the 20th Annual Grammy Awards in 1978.[1]

In 2009, the song "Hotel California" was certified Platinum (Digital Sales Award) by the RIAA for sales of 1,000,000 digital downloads.[2]

The song is rated highly in many rock music lists and polls. Rolling Stone magazine, for example, placed it as the 49th greatest song of all time.[3] It is also one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song's guitar solo is ranked 8th on Guitar Magazine's Top 100 Guitar Solos.

As one of the group's most popular and well-known songs, "Hotel California" has been a concert staple for the band since its release; performances of the song appear on the Eagles' 1980 live album and, in an acoustic version, on the 1994 Hell Freezes Over reunion concert CD and video release. The "Hell Freezes Over" version is performed using eight guitars in total, and has a decidedly Spanish feel to it - with Don Felder playing a flamenco-inspired intro. During the band's Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne the song was performed in a manner closer to the original album version, but with a trumpet interlude in the beginning.

The song is a playable track on the video game Guitar Hero World Tour.[4]

[edit] Interpretation
The song's lyrics describe the title establishment as a luxury resort where "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave." On the surface, the song tells the tale of a weary traveler who becomes trapped in a nightmarish luxury hotel that at first appeared inviting and tempting. The song is an allegory about hedonism and self-destruction in the Southern California music industry of the late 1970s; Don Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles"[5] and later reiterated "[i]t's basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about."[6] In 2008, Don Felder described the origins of the lyrics:

"Don Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into LA at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into LA at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about. Coming into LA... and from that Life In The Fast Lane came out of it, and Wasted Time and a bunch of other songs.":[7]

The abstract nature of the lyrics has led listeners to their own fanciful and unrealistic interpretations over the years, including some claims, spread by word of mouth and internet, of Satanic aspects. Other bizarre rumors suggested that the "Hotel California" was referring to a hotel run by cannibals, the Camarillo State Mental Hospital, or a metaphor for cancer. These claims have been consistently refuted by the band.[8]

The term "colitas" in the first stanza of the song is a desert flower, also known as Antelope sage or Colita de Rata [9]. Both Don Henley and Don Felder have repeatedly and publicly stated that Colitas are "heady desert flowers."[citation needed] Others assert that "colitas" is a Spanish term for "little tails" or "little bottoms", and a reference to the buds of the Cannabis plant.[10]

In a 2009 interview, Plain Dealer music critic John Soeder asked Don Henley this about the lyrics:

On "Hotel California," you sing: "So I called up the captain / 'Please bring me my wine' / He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.'" I realize I'm probably not the first to bring this to your attention, but wine isn't a spirit. Wine is fermented; spirits are distilled. Do you regret that lyric?

Henley responded,

"Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention—and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It's a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes."[11]

According to Glenn Frey's liner notes for The Very Best of Eagles, the use of the word "steely" in the lyric (referring to knives) was a playful nod to band Steely Dan, who had included the lyric "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" in their song "Everything You Did."

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