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"Green Fields" is the third single by British alternative rock band The Good, the Bad & the Queen.〔Note that while frontman Damon Albarn has claimed that the band is officially unnamed, and that "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" was merely the name of band's first album, this single clearly credits the artist as "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" on the single's front cover, spine and on the disc itself.〕 "Green Fields" is also the eleventh track on the group's 2007 debut album ''The Good, the Bad & the Queen'' (see 2007 in British music). The song was released on 2 April 2007 as the band's third single in the United Kingdom. The single debuted—and peaked—at #51 in the UK Singles Chart on 8 April, substantially lower than "Kingdom of Doom" which had reached the Top 20 upon release in January.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=UK Singles Chart )〕 In the album's review for ''NME'', Hamish MacBain called the song "the best thing Damon's ever written." Seeing references to The Beatles, ''The Sun'' noted that the song has the ability to "cast () as a latter-day Lennon and offers wistful, woozy psychedelia as Strawberry Fields are replaced by green ones." ==Song background== Damon Albarn wrote the original version of the song following a night out with Blur bassist Alex James and Marianne Faithfull. That demo was recorded in a studio on Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith and Albarn gave the tape to Faithfull. It was later recorded by the singer/actress with different lyrics in the verses and released on her 2005 album ''Before the Poison'' as "Last Song." The demo of the song resurfaced "late in the proceedings of recording (Good, the Bad and the Queen'' )" when Albarn played it for the rest of the band. The band decided to record the track and Albarn decided to "finish it by explaining how I lost this song and now it's come back to me. So it’s a song about a song."〔 Alexis Petridis of The Guardian commented that as the album comes to a close "we find Damon Albarn reflecting on the passing of time." The reviewer explicitly described this song's lyrical beginning "years ago, somewhere on the Goldhawk Road" as more than a "reference to the west London thoroughfare whose traffic noise appears on the 1995 Blur album ''The Great Escape''" (this London thoroughfare is the noise at the start of the song "Ernold Same" from that album). Petridis remarks that Albarn "suggests that "years ago" means the height of Britpop," especially when Albarn sings "how the world has changed." The song makes reference to a "war" and a "tidal wave"; referencing the War on Iraq and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. 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「Green Fields」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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