Two Lights

專輯中文名: Two Lights

發行時間: 2006年08月01日

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大部分人都會認為Five For Fighting 是一個樂隊，可實際上整個樂隊只有一個人: John Ondrasik.然而他既是歌手，又是鋼琴家，還是吉他手，也是一個針砭時弊的人和一個評論家。因此，在現階段可以將Five for fight 這個名字看作他的一個筆名。可是這種理解是不夠的。 Five For Fighting 原是曲棍球罰則, 指的是被罰下場五分鐘等候再度上場的球員，Ondrasik借這一筆名, 融合自己身為鋼琴家/諷刺作家/時事評論家的多重身分，努力地讓別人聽見自己的歌曲，用自己的熱情去實踐歌曲與意念的真諦。

On his third disc, the one-man musical marvel known as Five for Fighting proves yet again that all that's standing between him and peace of mind--not the fleeting kind, but full-on, to-the-bone, heart-and soul-cleansing peace of mind--is a song. Two Lights picks up where America Town left off, diving smack-dab into the national consciousness and hitting, predictably, a sorrowful spot. First track "Freedom Never Cries" is a self-skewering lament that calls out to complacent countrymen by way of confession and an artful, piano-enhanced weighing of consequence. It's followed by "World," which reminds unpreachily, and not unpleasantly, that "history starts now." Where Two Lights better resembles 2004's hugely successful The Battle for Everything is in its more inward-looking tracks, the tender first single "The Riddle" among them. There, and on the near criminally pretty "I Just Love You," the mush-hearted may find themselves fighting the urge to hug the closest stranger. But despite his now-dependable dips into mopiness, John Ondrasik--Five for Fighting to you and the rest of the world--doesn't deny himself the opportunity to rock when he wants to. If anything makes this guy happy, it's the state of California: on "California Justice," he kicks off his shoes and works on his tan like a latter-day Beach Boy from the dark side, and "'65 Mustang" rambles down the coast with the kind of carefree vibe that, outside of a song, only a convertible can deliver. --Tammy La Gorce

Two Lights

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