| 词条 | Mother (Pink Floyd song) |
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| name = Mother | cover = | alt = | type = | artist = Pink Floyd | album = The Wall | EP = | written = | published = Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd | released = 30 November 1979 (UK) 8 December 1979 (US) | format = | recorded = April–November 1979 | studio = | venue = | genre = Progressive folk, progressive rock | length = 5:32 | label = Harvest (UK) Columbia (US) | writer = Roger Waters | composer = | lyricist = | producer = Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie and Roger Waters | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = | next_title = | next_year = }} "Mother" is a song by Pink Floyd.[1] It appears on The Wall album, released in 1979.[2] Composition"Mother" is 5:32 in length. The majority of the song is in G Major, though the chorus is predominantly a plagal cadence in C Major. The song is notable for its varied use of time signatures, such as 5/8 and 9/8.[3] Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason found these time-signature changes difficult to learn (despite several well known Pink Floyd songs containing lots of changing time signatures) and, with the band recording on a very tight schedule, ceded the drumming duties to session drummer Jeff Porcaro.[4] The song begins quietly with solo voice and a single acoustic guitar, and gradually expands its instrumentation to include, by song's end, reed organ, piano, drums, electric bass, and electric guitar. The song has a minimal introduction, consisting only of a sharp inhalation and rapid exhalation before the first verses are sung by Roger Waters. The verse starts with one measure of 5/8, while most of it 4/4, or "common time".{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} It also features one measure of 6/8. The chorus, sung by David Gilmour, starts out on two measures of 4/4 before going into 6/8 (or "compound duple meter") for most of the chorus, in a narrative response to the first set of lyrics. There is also one measure of 9/8. Then a guitar solo follows over a chord progression in 4/4 time. Waters sings another verse, which is once more followed by Gilmour's chorus (with different lyrics). Finally, the song concludes with an arrangement stripped back down to one acoustic guitar and Waters's voice, and a ritardando in which Waters sings, "Mother, did it need to be so high?", a reference to the metaphorical wall constructed by the character Pink. The song ends on the subdominant, C Major, which may create an "unfinished" or "dissatisfying" feeling.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} Waters explained to Mojo magazine that the song is about "the idea that we can be controlled by our parents' views on things like sex. The single mother of boys, particularly, can make sex harder than it needs to be."[5] PlotThe Wall tells the story of Pink, an embittered and alienated rock star. As told through the song "Mother", part of Pink's sense of alienation comes from being raised by an overprotective single mother, who lost her husband, Pink's father, in World War II. The song narrates a conversation by Pink (voiced by Waters) and his mother (voiced by Gilmour). The listener learns of the overprotectiveness of Pink's mother, who is helping Pink build his wall to try to protect him from the outside world, evidenced by the line "Of course Momma's gonna help build the wall," spoken by Pink's mother. She insists that Pink stay by her side even after he grows up, and cannot stand it when Pink eventually grows older and falls in love. Film versionFor the film, the song was re-recorded completely with the exception of David Gilmour's guitar solo. One line of the lyrics, "Is it just a waste of time", became "Mother, am I really dying", as the original LP lyrics read. This change ties in with a brief subplot in the film where Pink contracts a fever after caring for a sick rat that died from it. Personnel
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Personnel per Fitch and Mahon.[6] Cover versionsFor the 1990 The Wall – Live in Berlin concert, vocals by Sinéad O'Connor backed by Rick Danko & Levon Helm, accordion by Garth Hudson, acoustic instruments by The Hooters + Roger Waters and many others. In 2003, A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd, a tribute album of Pink Floyd covers was released; it included a version of "Mother" by Quetzal called by AllMusic a "heart-ripping country rendition", and featuring a cajón, an accordion, and a violin solo.[7] Natalie Maines covered "Mother" for her 2013 album, also titled Mother. According to critic Ann Powers, Maines' "interpretation of Roger Waters's lyrics helps the original becomes something new — something bigger".[8]Amanda Palmer released her cover of the song, orchestrated by Jherek Bischoff, on November 15, 2017. The accompanying video was funded by her Patreon subscribers. She dedicated the song and music video to "the current administration". The single features a cello solo by Zoë Keating. The video was directed by Jordan Rathus.[9]Further reading
References1. ^{{Cite book| last = Mabbett| first = Andy| title = The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd| publisher = Omnibus Press| location = London| isbn = 0-7119-4301-X| year = 1995}} 2. ^{{cite book| last = Strong| first = Martin C.| title = The Great Rock Discography| publisher = Canongate Books| location = Edinburgh| isbn = 1-84195-551-5| page = 1177| year = 2004| edition = 7th}} 3. ^Pink Floyd: The Wall (1980 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, {{ISBN|0-7119-1031-6}} [USA {{ISBN|0-8256-1076-1}}]) 4. ^Vintage Pink Floyd Interview {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413165017/http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/vintage-pink-floyd-interview-part-1/ |date=2009-04-13 }}, Classic Rock magazine. 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3400|title=Mother by Pink Floyd|publisher=Songfacts,com|accessdate=3 February 2010}} 6. ^Fitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, Comfortably Numb — A History of The Wall 1978–1981, 2006, p.78. 7. ^{{cite web| url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-fair-forgery-of-pink-floyd-mw0001286201 | title= A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd |publisher= AllMusic | accessdate= 8 May 2014}} 8. ^{{cite web|last=Powers|first=Ann|title=Hearing A Mother's Song After Tragedy|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/01/01/168222267/hearing-a-mothers-song-after-tragedy|work=NPR: The Record|accessdate=15 January 2013}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff – Mother|url=http://amandapalmer.net/mother/|website=The official website of Amanda Fucking Palmer. Yes it is - Amanda Palmer|accessdate=18 November 2017}} External links{{Wikiquote|The Wall}}
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