Name: Mac 費城傳奇樂團是如何創作出一首歌曲的！ (How Fleetwood Mac Makes A Song)
Uploaded: 2026-03-08T17:25:57.000Z
Duration: 6 min 43 s

It's hard to believe that 40 years ago Fleetwood Mac released its masterpiece Rumors, because the record still sounds as beautiful and pristine and new as it did in 1977.

很難相信 Fleetwood Mac 在 40 年前發行的經典專輯 Rumors，因為這張唱片聽起來依然跟 1977 年一樣美妙、純淨、新穎。

It's a timeless album as far as I'm concerned.

在我看來，這是一張永恆的專輯。

And that's really the goal, isn't it, for anyone in the creative arts to make something that feels alive months and years and decades after its creation.

這真的是所有創作者的目標，對吧？就是創作出在幾個月、幾年、幾十年後，依然感覺充滿生命力的作品。

那麼，是什麼讓 Rumors 如此出色呢？

Well, there are of course, a lot of reasons.

The skills of the individual band members, the songwriting craft, the producers and engineers, and

個別團員的技巧、詞曲創作的功力、製作人和工程師，還有

華納兄弟在他們同名專輯（當時紅遍電臺）發行後，給予 Fleetwood Mac 幾乎無限的預算。

And time that Fleetwood Mac got from Warner Brothers following the release of their self titled album, which was burning up the radio.

That money and time means a lot to a band like Fleetwood Mac, who, like the Beatles or Kanye west or Frank Ocean, shines brightest in the studio, where they can exercise minute control over every part of a song.

這些金錢和時間對 Fleetwood Mac 這樣的樂團來說意義重大，他們就像披頭四、Kanye West 或 Frank Ocean 一樣，在錄音室裡最能發光發熱，在那裡他們可以對歌曲的每一個部分進行細微的控制。

Each track is like a sonic painting, as co producer of Rumorist Ken Kalei once described it.

Rumors 的聯合製作人 Ken Kalei 曾形容，每一首曲子都像一幅聲音的畫作。

And if you're wondering what he means by that, just take a listen to the difference between the demo of Stevie Nick's classic song Dreams, which you're hearing right now, and

如果你想知道他這話是什麼意思，聽聽 Stevie Nicks 的經典歌曲 Dreams 的試聽版，你現在聽到的，和

the final product, Thunder only happens when it's raining players.

最終成品 Thunder only happens when it's raining 之間的差別。

This is how it worked with Fleetwood Mac.

In this case, Stevie Nicks wrote a beautiful piano melody and lyrics, and the band in particular.

在這個例子中，Stevie Nicks 寫了一段優美的鋼琴旋律和歌詞，而樂團，特別是

Lindsay Buckingham spent the better part of a year adding and experimenting to create a rich, full bodied sonic experience.

Lindsay Buckingham 花了將近一年的時間進行添加和實驗，創造出豐富、飽滿的聲音體驗。

At its core, Dreams is a pretty simple song that consists of only two chords, F and G, played over and over and over again.

Dreams 的核心是一首相當簡單的歌曲，只由 F 和 G 這兩個和絃組成，不斷重複彈奏。

Nick's presenters presented the song to the band on a Fender rhodes piano.

Nick 的表演者用 Fender rhodes 電鋼琴把這首歌呈現給樂團。

Buckingham added an acoustic guitar and Christine McVie played a Hammond B3 organ.

Buckingham 加入了木吉他，Christine McVie 彈奏了 Hammond B3 風琴。

Then Mick Fleetwood added drums and John McPhee added bass guitar.

然後 Mick Fleetwood 加入了鼓，John McPhee 加入了貝斯吉他。

The bass just alternates between F and G with some variations.

貝斯只是在 F 和 G 之間交替，帶有一些變化。

And the standout part of the drums are these tapping hi hats which run over everything throughout the whole song.

而鼓最突出的部分是這些敲擊的 hi-hat，貫穿整首歌的每個地方。

That's the track Fleetwood Mac laid down at the recording session in Sausalito.

這就是 Fleetwood Mac 在 Sausalito 錄音時錄下的曲目。

Buckingham and the producers weren't convinced that the drums were hypnotic enough, so they created a loop of 8 bar.

Buckingham 和製作人都不相信鼓的催眠效果足夠，所以他們製作了一個 8 小節的循環。

這在類比錄音帶上說起來容易做起來難。

Callet also added a phaser to the hi hat so that they would have a swishy feel.

Callet 還在 hi-hat 上加了 phaser，讓它聽起來有種「swishy」的感覺。

Stick out more Later, Buckingham recorded an electric guitar part, adding those soupy licks that float through the verse, then tighten up in the pre chorus and eventually give way to an equivalent acoustic guitar in the chorus itself.

後來，Buckingham 錄製了一段電吉他，加入了那些在主歌中飄忽、在副歌前奏收緊、最後讓位給同等木吉他的濃鬱音符。

Having build up and release and change across the sections of a pop song are what make it compelling to the listener.

流行歌曲各段落之間的鋪陳、釋放和變化，正是讓聽眾著迷的關鍵。

Buckingham is a genius at filling in these kinds of colors and ideas usually spur on more ideas.

Buckingham 擅長填補這些色彩和點子，通常能激發更多靈感。

Kallet describes in his book on Rumors that when Nicks heard the new parts of the song, she had her own idea for background vocals.

Kallet 在他關於 Rumors 的書中描述，當 Nicks 聽到這首歌的新段落時，她對背景和聲有了自己的想法。

In the pre chorus, she worked out the parts with Christine McVie.

在副歌前奏，她和 Christine McVie 一起編排了這些部分。

They give the sad and dreamlike song an even more ghostly feel.

它們為這首悲傷夢幻的歌曲增添了更為鬼魅的感覺。

The song, of course, is about Lindsey Buckingham, and it literally feels like it's haunting him.

這首歌當然是關於 Lindsey Buckingham 的，聽起來就像在糾纏著他一樣。

Stevie Nicks wrote it shortly after their breakup, and

Stevie Nicks 在他們分手後不久寫了這首歌，

as she says in the lyrics, she couldn't go on because Lindsay wanted his freedom well.

正如她在歌詞中所說的，她無法繼續，因為 Lindsay 想要自由。

Now in loneliness, he has to dwell on what he had and what he lost.

現在，孤獨的他必須回想他擁有過什麼、又失去了什麼。

It's a cruel twist of fate that the song became such a hit that Buckingham had to spend the next 40 years singing it in concert.

這真是命運的殘酷轉折，這首歌竟然如此成功，讓 Buckingham 在接下來的 40 年裡都必須在演唱會上唱這首歌。

Anyway, at this point, the song was almost done.

不管怎樣，到這個階段，這首歌差不多就完成了。

Nicks, Buckingham and McVie created a tight three part vocal harmony for the chorus.

Nicks、Buckingham 和 McVie 為副歌創作出緊密的三部和聲。

When the rain washes you clean your love.

And then they brightened up the prechoruses with a vibraphone and the second chorus with a conga drum.

然後他們用顫音琴點亮了前奏，並在第二段副歌加入了康加鼓。

Those are both touches that you can barely hear and certainly don't think about much when you listen, but

這些都是你幾乎聽不到、聽的時候也絕對不會多想的細節，但

When Callet mixed the song, he was careful to put every instrument in its right place and have a wide range of sounds from bass to mid range to treble.

當 Callet 混音時，他很小心地將每種樂器放在對的位置，並創造出從低音到中音再到高音的寬廣音域。

In the case of Dreams, Kallei pushed many of the instruments down to give them a little more bass so that the hi hat I talked about earlier would stand out as well as Nick's incredible lead vocal.

在 Dreams 這首歌裡，Kallei 將許多樂器音量調低，讓它們多一點低音，這樣我之前提到的 hi hat 就能突顯出來，Nicks 令人驚豔的主唱也是一樣。

Also in the high end is Buckingham's whining guitar, a muddled, longing response to the sharp poetry of the lyrics.

在高音部分，還有 Buckingham 哀怨的吉他聲，一種模糊、渴望的回應，對應著歌詞尖銳的詩意。

On Rumors, Fleetwood Mac made perfect pop music.

在 Rumors 這張專輯裡，Fleetwood Mac 創造了完美的流行音樂。

It didn't reinvent the wheel, it dipped the wheel in liquid gold.

它沒有重新發明輪子，而是將輪子浸入了液態黃金。

These are concise, gorgeous songs dressed up with multicolored sounds, but

這些都是簡潔、華麗的歌曲，用五彩繽紛的聲音裝飾，但

built on foundations of real emotion and real heartbreak.

卻建立在真實情感和真實心碎的基礎上。

I think it's pretty safe to say that 40 years from now, we'll still be listening to Fleetwood Mac.

我認為可以很肯定地說，40 年後，我們仍然會聽 Fleetwood Mac。

As John Keats once wrote, a thing of beauty is a joy forever.

正如約翰·濟慈曾寫道，美麗的事物是永恆的喜悅。

Hey everybody, thank you so much for watching.

大家好，非常感謝大家的收看。

I hope you guys are with people that you love this holiday season.

希望大家在這個佳節期間，都能和你們愛的人在一起。

I am, and I'm excited to celebrate this episode was brought to you by Squarespace.

我是，我很高興能慶祝，這一集由 Squarespace 贊助播出。

If you want to make a website and you want it to be a really easy process, Squarespace has some beautiful award winning designer templates to choose from that makes the process so simple.

如果你想架設網站，而且希望過程非常簡單，Squarespace 有許多美麗、獲獎的設計師範本可供選擇，讓整個過程變得超簡單。

It's got 24 hour customer service, no upgrades, nothing to install, no patches ever, and

它有 24 小時的客服，不用升級，不用安裝，不用更新，

挑選你的網域名稱也非常容易。

You can start your free trial@squarespace.com and if you use the offer code Nerdwriter, you can get 10% off your first purchase.

你可以在 squarespace.com 開始免費試用，如果你使用優惠代碼 Nerdwriter，首次購買可享 10% 折扣。

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