5.《夜盗》——AC/DC乐队
This song, much like the offerings from Ozzy and Judas Priest, probably hasn't inspired any murders, but that didn't stop the entire world from thinking so in the 1980s. During the terrifying two-year reign of serial killer Richard Ramirez, Los Angeles residents were slaughtered in the most horrific ways imaginable after he slipped through their windows at night. At one grisly crime scene, authorities discovered an AC/DC hat Ramirez had left behind.
这首歌很像奥兹和犹大圣徒乐队的作品，也许它没有引发任何谋杀案，但这也无法阻止在20世纪80年代，所有人都往这方面联想。当时的两年里，连环杀手理查德·拉米雷斯的恐怖阴影笼罩着洛杉矶。他会在晚上从窗户溜进居民家中，以最可怕的方式进行杀戮。在其中一个恐怖的犯罪现场，警方发现拉米雷斯留下了一顶AC/DC的帽子。
As it happens, the album Highway to Hell includes a sinister-sounding song about creeping around in the dark and climbing through windows, "Night Prowler." That was all the media needed to know. Obviously, Ramirez had been driven to gruesome murder by the lyrics of this evil rock song. Ramirez was forevermore known as the "Night Stalker," unfairly linking the band's work with a psychopath's nightmarish violence.
在AC/DC的专辑《地狱通道》中碰巧有一首曲调阴森的歌，歌曲主题是在黑暗中潜行并翻窗而进的“夜盗”，媒体对此进行了大量报道。拉米雷斯明显受到这首邪恶摇滚乐的驱使，化身变态杀人狂。人们永远记住了他“暗夜魔王”的恐怖形象，并毫无道理地把AC/DC乐队的歌曲和一个精神病患的暴行联系在了一起。
4.阿曼纳特·阿里·汗
In the early 1970s, Pakistani poet Ibne Insha wrote what would become his most famous poem, "Insha ji Utho." It tells the sorrowful tale of a man lost in a cold, pointless existence. Despite the dark subject matter, singer Amanat Ali Khan fell in love with the piece and, with Insha's permission, adapted it into a song.
20世纪70年代初，巴基斯坦诗人伊本·因沙写下了他最著名的诗《Insha Ji Utho》。诗中讲述了一个人在冷漠、无望的生活中迷失的悲伤故事。尽管主题灰暗，歌手阿曼纳特·阿里·汗却对这首诗情有独钟，并在因沙的许可下将诗改编成了一首歌。
Khan performed it on television in January 1974, and it immediately became his biggest hit. He enjoyed more fame than he'd ever known, at least until his sudden, untimely death a few months later. Then, four years to the day after the original telecast, Insha himself passed away at 50 after a battle with cancer.
1974年1月，阿里·汗在电视上演唱了这首歌，并立即成为最热门的歌曲，他也因此名声大噪，直到几个月后突然离世。在电视节目首映后时隔四年的某一天，50岁的因沙在与癌症的抗争中离世。
Years later, Khan's son, Asad Amanat Ali, had also become a successful singer. At a concert in 2006, he ended the evening with his rendition of "Insha ji Utho." It was the last song he would ever perform. He passed away as suddenly as his father only months later. Khan's other singing son, Shafqat Amanat Ali, has since sworn never to perform the malicious melody.
多年后，阿里·汗的儿子阿萨德·阿曼纳特·阿里也成了一名成功的歌手。在2006年的一次演唱会上，他以一曲《Insha ji Utho》结束了当晚的演出，这也成了他人生最后的演唱。几个月后，他像他的父亲一样突然离世。而阿里·汗的另一个儿子沙夫卡特·阿曼纳特·阿里也是一名歌手，他发誓绝不会演唱这首邪恶之曲。
3.《我的路》——弗兰克·辛纳屈
People who commit murder are obviously a little unhinged. Trying to assign logic to their actions is doomed from the start. You just have to accept that you will never understand the mindset. And you had better start accepting fast because here come the Phillipines.
杀人犯显然都有点精神错乱，想要以逻辑来分析他们的行为从一开始就行不通。你只能承认自己永远理解不了他们的心态，而且你最好尽快开始承认这一点，因为接下来讲述的事件发生在菲律宾。
Karaoke bars in the island nation have only one taboo: Do not, under any circumstances, sing Frank Sinatra's "My Way." Murders caused by amateur renditions of the song are so bizarrely common that the news media has a special category just for them. At least six killings and countless fights have been reported in the past few years alone.
菲律宾岛上的KTV有一个禁忌：不管在什么情况下，绝对不要唱弗兰克·辛纳屈的歌曲《我的路》。由演唱这首歌引发的血案是如此怪异，以至于新闻媒体将这些案件都划分到了一个特殊的类别。据报道，在过去的几年里至少发生了六起谋杀案以及无数次斗殴。
No other similar songs incite such violence, and nobody really knows what causes this phenomenon. Some think it's the arrogant nature of the lyrics, while others believe it's just bad singing. Filipino culture takes singing—particularly karaoke—very seriously, so presumably any deviation from karaoke "etiquette" could be to blame.
其他类似的歌曲都没有引发这样的暴力事件，导致这种现象的原因究竟为何也无人知晓。有人认为是因为这首歌的歌词傲慢，也有人认为是拙劣的演唱所导致。菲律宾文化非常重视在KTV唱歌，因此，任何违反KTV“规则”的行为都很有可能受到谴责。
2.《狼狈》——披头士乐队
The Beatles' 1968 song "Helter Skelter" is a nice little tune about an amusement park ride of the same name. But on August 9, 1969, a man and his brainwashed followers would make the silly little phrase synonymous with abject terror. His name was Charles Manson.
1968年，披头士乐队发布的单曲《狼狈》是一首关于游乐场游戏项目的同名歌曲，歌曲不长但曲调不错。但在1969年的8月9日，一个名叫查尔斯·曼森的男子和他狂热的追随者们将这这首歌曲解读成了恐怖预言书。
Manson had become convinced that the British musicians were actually angels and that they were secretly communicating with him through their music. He and his cult were under the delusion that "Helter Skelter" was a prophecy of an apocalyptic race war which they were destined to start. Believing a high-profile mass murder would be a good signal for the Earth to get its war on, they loaded into their van and headed into the Hollywood Hills.
曼森确信，这只英国乐队的成员们都是天使，他们通过音乐与他进行秘密沟通。他和他的信徒们都妄称《狼狈》是末日种族之战的预言，而自己则是这场战争的发动者。他们认为一场备受瞩目的大屠杀对挑起世界之战来说是一个绝佳的信号，并开着面包车直奔好莱坞山。
In the course of two evenings, seven people were brutally slaughtered. Manson and his "family" ended up in jail, and a perfectly good song was ruined. Manson remains in prison to this day, waiting for his war.
他们连续两晚作案，残忍杀害了7人。最终，曼森和“曼森家族”成员被关进监狱，但一首美妙的歌曲也被毁了。时至今日，曼森仍在狱中等待着他的世界大战。
1.《黑色星期天》——鲁兰斯·查理
In the early 1930s, struggling Hungarian songwriter Rezso Seress found himself depressed one cloudy Sunday afternoon. His work was largely ignored by the music industry, his career was dying, and the woman he loved had walked out on him. And so he sat at his piano, alone. Then, lost in despair and idly plinking away at the keys, he stumbled upon the melody that would become his unwanted masterpiece.
20世纪30年代初，在一个阴沉沉的周日下午，心灰意冷的匈牙利作曲家鲁兰斯·查理感到内心无比煎熬。整个音乐界对他的作品几乎视若无睹，职业生涯走向末路，深爱的女友也离他而去。他孤独地坐在钢琴旁，在绝望中不能自拔，漫不经心地敲击着琴键，却偶然写下了这首曲子，一首天违人愿的杰作。
Szomoru Vasarnap, or "Gloomy Sunday," became an overnight success. It was played nonstop the world over, and Seress finally had the fame he'd been chasing for years. But then the suicides started. Corpses were found clutching the song's sheet music. Suicide notes containing lyrics were left. One body was found with the tune skipping endlessly on a record player. A man even shot himself after complaining that he couldn't get the song out of his head.
歌曲《Szomoru Vasarnap》，英文译名《黑色星期天》一夜成名。时过境迁，查理多年来的成名梦终于如愿。但接下来，自杀事件开始接连发生。人们发现那些自杀身亡的人，有的手中紧紧攥着歌曲的乐谱，还留下了包含了歌词的绝命书。有一个自杀身亡的人被发现时，一旁的电唱机还在循环播放着这首曲子。一名男子甚至感到无法摆脱这首曲子极度残酷的旋律，于是开枪自尽。
It's believed that the number of suicides linked to "Gloomy Sunday" measure in the hundreds. It became known as the "Hungarian Suicide Song," and it was even banned on English radio. And, as if the song was tying up loose ends, both Seress and his girlfriend, the song's muse, ended up dying by their own hands.
据说，数以百计的自杀事件都与《黑色星期天》有关。它被称为“匈牙利死亡之歌”，甚至在英语广播中被禁播。此外，作者鲁兰斯·查理和他的女朋友，也就是这首歌的灵感女神，都和这首曲子的结尾一样，最终以自杀了结了自己的生命。
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