自己动手做：英国Rough trade唱片公司的故事

The Rough Trade story begins more than thirty years ago on 20th February 1976. Britain was in the grip of an IRA bombing campaign; a future prime minister was beginning to make her mark on middle England, where punk was yet to run amok; and a young Cambridge graduate called Geoff Travis opened a new shop at 202 Kensington Park Road, just off Ladbroke Grove in West London. The Rough Trade shop sold obscure and challenging records by bands like American art-rockers Pere Ubu, offering an alternative to the middle-of-the-road rock music that dominated the music business.


　　In January 1977, when a record by Manchester punk band Buzzcocks appeared in the shop, Rough Trade found itself in the right place at the right time to make an impact far beyond that of a neighbourhood music store. When Spiral Scratch was released in 1977, the idea of putting out a single without the support of an established record company was incredible. But Rough Trade was to become the headquarters of a revolt against this corporate monopoly - it was stocking records by bands inspired by the idea that they could do it themselves.


　　But selling a few independent records over the counter was not going to change the world. Early independent labels had to hand over their distribution to the likes of EMI or CBS. But one man at Rough Trade challenged that monopoly. Richard Scott joined Rough Trade in 1977 and became the architect of a grand scheme that was nothing short of revolutionary: independent nationwide distribution.

两个乐队让我激动死了：The Smiths，和，The Strokes。（后者完全是惊喜啊有没有，没想到看Rough Trade纪录片却让我掉进The Strokes的坑...）另，据说Frankly Mr Shankly是嘲笑Geoff Travis的？！笑死。

所有抑或一闪而过，抑或得到镜头的驻足停留的年轻脸庞都那么得美丽，光滑细腻，饱胀着生机。和Rough Trade的真诚恳切——抗拒垄断，拥抱多元，传播自由; 践行并且完善引导行为的思想与意识形态，去解决思维突变又或者是僵化所导致的矫枉过正；去面对与现实碰撞下的挫败——充满激情的理想主义一般，仿佛幻梦。(后来放的那首Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me太杀了…呜呜)

以纪录片而言实属一般，大部分段落的剪辑毫无张力，好在提供的信息量足够摸一遍 Rough Trade 厂牌从发迹、覆灭、到第二春的历程。片子里给 Geoff 塑造的形象，就是一个发掘音乐人眼光独到、但欠缺商业经验的 enthusiast——这或许是弱点，但正如 Geoff 自己所说，这大概也是他的特别之处。看完留下最深刻的印象：英国人头秃的比例实在令人发指；The Smiths 实在过于做作。

励志故事总是热眼眶。great achievement always starts from tiny dreams. naive people change the world.

对于相关音乐爱好者来说非常有趣，而且故事讲得很完整——天地良心，这么基本的要求现在好些主流商业故事片都达不到了，宣发还伙同大V们一个个地闭着眼瞎吹。 如果极度自控地给分，我会打8.5，现在多出的一颗星是囧尼马和本尼滤镜。

挺好的题材，让沉闷的旁白和丝毫没有张力的剪辑给毁了。有点儿英国的摩登天空的感觉，当然影响力完全不一样。一帮共产小孩纯粹用爱发电的兴趣，开始什么都不懂，亏的都卖店了，结果成了影响英国乐坛半壁江山的产业。当然和所有摇滚故事一样，发际、发达、分崩离析。虽然沉闷但是最后十分钟是绝对的爆点，某riff一起来太太太牛x了！浑身阵阵发麻长达1分钟！然后就是一个接一个牛x轰轰的名字，RT又一春彻底来了。如果让那些拍摇滚纪录片的运作运作，都照最后十分钟的拍法儿，再夸张的说点儿牛x的话，完全可以成为又一部神作。

The Smiths were not making anodyne pretty pop records for 14-year-old girls, therefore they're not gonna sell as many records as Duran Duran

重添一下此条目。不停地抓咸爆米花和酒心糖=。=Morrissey一来观众就有诡异的窃笑，贾叔的出场也是，好喜欢rough trade呀，它的运营，它的宽容，它的影响力。

只想提一下paint a vulgar picture这首歌，在他们和rough trade的最后一张唱片里，而当时合约问题已经很难堪了，发行之后终于签了EMI却一张专辑都没有再发。然后就是timing is everything，时势造英雄。贾叔太好笑了。。。

山羊皮吉他手小哥的好几个rubbish哈哈哈，冲着the smiths看的。怎么说好呢，这就是音乐梦吧，那时候那些年轻家伙的音乐梦。看到大家工资都一样的时候真是...好酷啊

关于英国传奇厂牌rough trade的纪录片，如果你不知道rough trade，那么你肯定听过the Smiths,pulp,the strokes,Duffy，如果听过就请去看。

屡不清的行业规则。。“我们唯一真正拥有的，就是对音乐品质的感受。”Geoff说出这句话的时候还真是让人感动呢。。贾叔也太帅了爸！！W