”The Saints are Coming” is a song by the Scottish punk rock band The Skids, off their debut album Scared to Dance from 1978. The song featured Richard Jobson singing of a man facing inclement weather and personal fears. It reached number 48 in the UK Singles Chart. Lyrics were written by Richard Jobson/music by Stuart Adamson who later went on to form Big Country. As with Into the Valley, it is sung by fans of Dunfermline Athletic F.C. in the Scottish premiership.
The song’s lyrics about storms and drowning came back to light after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. In September 2006 it was announced that Green Day and U2 were to record a cover version of the song for charitable purposes. [1]
To coincide with the joint U2/Green Day recording of ”The Saints are Coming”, both bands performed a live version of the song during the Monday Night Football Pregame show of the New Orleans Saints - Atlanta Falcons game on Monday night September 25, 2006. This day also happened to be the thirtieth anniversary of the formation of U2. This was to be the first game in the Louisiana Superdome since it was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and the song was being played to benefit Music Rising, a charity created by U2’s The Edge in order to bring instruments and music programs back to New Orleans.
In the four song set, U2 and Green Day performed ”Wake Me Up When September Ends” followed by a medley of The Animals’ ”House Of The Rising Sun”, The Skids’ ”The Saints are Coming” and U2’s ”Beautiful Day” as a seven-piece band, augmented by the Rebirth Brass Band, the New Birth Brass Band and Troy Andrews and Orleans Avenue. The lyrics of all four songs were customized by singers Billie Joe Armstrong and Bono to commemorate the trials, tribulations and successes that faced the city over the past year. Punctuating the 68,000 fans’ first season-ticket sellout of the Louisiana Superdome in its 31-year history, the New Orleans Saints beat the Atlanta Falcons 23-3. The live version of ”The Saints are Coming” was immediately made available for download purchase at Real Rhapsody [2].
The studio version of the song will be released for digital download on October 30, 2006 and as a CD single on November 6, 2006. The song will also appear on U2s new Best of album, U218, which will be released November 20 2006.
A music video for ”The Saints are Coming,” directed by Chris Milk, was released on video site YouTube on October 27, 2006. The music video has the two bands playing at the Abbey Road Studio and at the Louisiana Superdome, intermixed with news footage of the displacement of residents after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The second half of the video is a satire showing a fictional redeployment of U.S troops and vehicles from Iraq to New Orleans to help victims of the hurricane, with the military personnel fulfilling the titular role of the saints.
資料來源
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saints_Are_Coming#2006_cover_version
這張圖是GREEN DAY主唱
頭髮留長了
我個人對於U2 的主唱BONO
感覺就好像是美國的劉德華
音樂界的老大哥
對於慈善事業不遺餘力
跟許多優秀的樂團合作
讓音樂人彼此連結 創造更大的力量
這次輪到GREEN DAY了
兩個樂團將英國The Skids的老歌
THE SAINTS ARE COMING改編
請先看THE SKIDS的版本
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTR8qZFQjM
為了紐澳良去年巨大的傷痛 KATRINA 颶風而發聲
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-QIiZXW1RE(請看簡介)
U2力邀了GREEN DAY一起在紐澳良舉辦的演唱會上演唱
以這首內容講述暴風雨之中如何堅強的勵志歌曲來表達他們的誠意
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3iKKS8LtUI
影片裡的大家很熱烈
我想紐澳良的人民是需要靠他們血液裡的音樂基因來凝聚力量
尤其紐澳良黑人很多 又是爵士樂的重鎮
所以也安排了小喇叭加入了爵士樂的演奏
很棒
影片之中首先是GREENDAY演唱他們去年當紅的*讓我在九月醒來*
WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER END
(英文歌名翻成中文都有點蠢)
在主唱比利阿姆斯壯大喊NEW ORLEANS的時候我起了雞皮疙瘩
如果有一天他再舞台上大喊TAIWAN的時候
也許我就哭了吧
因為這是不可能的事情
再來是和U2一同高歌這首THE SAINTS ARE COMING
吼叫式的副歌
聽起來好像 U2是上帝給紐澳良人民的強心劑
被政府的忽視和家園的破碎
人民都需要接受關心和被鼓勵
想像我們遭逢九二一的難民
一定也需要大家的重視和長期關注
我覺得他們在現場有作到這個作用
不只是熱熱鬧鬧而已
最後是U2 的 THE BEAUTIFUL DAY收場
主唱好激動阿
都已經三十年的老團
整個還是很有活力的跑來跑去
非常有趣的地方在於他們的MV
在YOUTUBE上面首映
首播是在10/27/2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGhTWE98DU
熱騰騰的喔!!!!
MV裡頭我最喜歡的鏡頭是一開始黑白鏡頭
兩個團在緊鄰播音間演唱
他們捨掉了電視台率先播放
而是以網路這樣節省又快速的媒體
做好事的精神就是越快讓越多人感同身受
我感受到了
U2的官網
http://www.u2.com/
可以免費下載這首歌!
歌詞簡單明瞭
There is a house in New Orleans
they call the Rising Sun
Andit’s been a house to many a poor boy
and God, I know I’m one
I cried to my daddy on the telephone
how long now?
Until the clouds unroll and you come down on the light wind
will the shadows still remain since your descent
your descent
I cried to my daddy on the telephone
How long now
Until the clouds unroll and you come home
The line went
But the shadows still remain since your descent
Your descent
Ho, Cha, Hey
The saints are coming
The saints are coming
I say no matter how I try
I realize there’s no reply
The saints are coming
The saints are coming
A drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief
How long now
Until a weather change condemns belief
How long now
When the night watchman is in the fleet
What’s wrong now?
Ho, Cha, Hey
The saints are coming
The saints are coming
I say no matter how I try
I realize there’s no reply
The saints are coming
The saints are coming
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