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}} "Blood for Poppies" is the 2012 lead single from alternative rock band Garbage's fifth studio album ''Not Your Kind of People'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://mushroomgroup.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/garbage-unveil-tracklisting-first-single-album-artwork/ )〕 released to radio worldwide and as the band's Record Store Day single in the United States. Garbage picked "Blood for Poppies" as the introduction to their return to releasing music: "We wanted it to be the first single because it encapsulates so much about Garbage. It’s got the fuzzy guitars, and Shirley’s vocals are so great. We felt that if this was the first thing that people heard from us in seven years, then this was the perfect track. It’s uneasy, like you’re in a constant state of paranoia."〔 ==Background== The nucleus of "Blood for Poppies" came from sessions Shirley Manson held to write her abandoned solo album project. The track began as a dub-style jam. The song kept being refined to its component groove and bassline as Manson refined her own vocal approach to the track.〔 It was her idea to incorporate "strobing vocals" and "weird, glitchy vocal production elements" on the song. Duke Erikson added clean, vibrato melodic lead guitar parts to the verses. Steve Marker wrote the "monster riff" and added it late in the songs development. Synth effects were created by running keyboards through wah wahs and mixing the results with similarly recorded electric guitar parts, while the recurring distorted guitar lick was recorded through an amp mod into his laptop. Drum tracks were largely created by layering live drum takes over a drum machine; "Blood for Poppies" opens with heavily distorted fill followed up with a funky drum groove, the verse then featuring open hi-hat notes leading into each backbeat. During the chorus, the pattern changes to a sixteenth-note hi-hat pattern. Inspired by a suggestion by Manson, the band worked the beat of the middle eight section around a sample of the sound of a helicopter's blades.〔 Manson wanted the vocal in that section to sound like it was a garbled radio transmission, so the band treated her vocal with various plug-ins. Bass guitar parts were recorded by Justin Meldal-Johnsen. "Blood for Poppies" was one of the first songs finished during the ''Not Your Kind of People'' sessions. "The song is meant to feel sort of like an abstract dream," Garbage singer Shirley Manson recalled. "The inspiration came from a story I had read in ''Los Angeles Times'' about the opium trade and also from watching the documentary ''Restrepo''. It’s not literal in any sense whatsoever but it’s a song about disorientation and delusion and the human struggle to stay sane in the face of insanity." Manson later explained: "Actually it’s from a few stories... I use that as a backdrop for a story about maintaining sanity in an out-of-control place." The band added that the song was also a metaphor for being in a band: "...feeling isolated and lonely. There’s the line ‘I miss my dog, I miss my freedom,’ and that’s () dog she’s singing about".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blood for Poppies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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