Chapter Fifty-Eight: Silence
"Maybe it's because I don't know too much, maybe it's my fault,
Maybe everything has been slowly missed, maybe there is no need to say it anymore,
I never thought that you and I would end up like this, I was not sure in my heart,
Just remember the promises you and I made to each other, impulsively again and again,
Dont–Break-My-Heart, Gentle Again,
I don't want to see your silence,
Waiting alone, bearing in silence,
Joy always comes to me in my dreams.
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As always, beautiful lyrics, beautiful tunes, and as accurate and free singing.
It seems that every word, every word, is pinching your breath.
In another time and space, when it comes to Dou Wei, people will be called Dou Daxian. It is said that in the later period, his series of experimental and exploratory music albums have only a few thousand or even a few hundred copies left. In fact, his music is becoming more and more self-oriented, more and more inclined to the exploration of the soul, and many of his works, even without lyrics, are completely supported by music - but this extreme approach, the level of artistic achievement, regardless of it, will inevitably make him gradually away from the aesthetics and tastes of the general public.
But even so, he is still a banner figure that cannot be ignored and indispensable for Chinese rock music! Even if the new music he makes has become more and more incomprehensible and unappreciative, whether it is ridiculed or ridiculed, everyone still respects his contribution to Chinese rock music incomparably and still respects him very much.
Therefore, there is the title of "Dou Daxian".
So at the end of the day. What is the reason?
It's because of "No Place for Shame". It's also because of "Dont-Break-My-Heart".
During his time in the Black Panthers. Even during his "Black Dream" period, he was once the big brother of rock music in China, and he once created a series of amazing rock classics.
His delicate face and his slightly metal-style rock music shook those years and remained in the hearts of countless people for a long time, becoming an irreplaceable spiritual imprint to some extent.
In December 1992, the Black Panthers band released the album of the same name "Black Panther". The launch in Hong Kong not only quickly attracted a piracy frenzy in the mainland, but also as a mainland rock band, in a place like Hong Kong, which has been considered "no rock and roll soil" for many years, so that even a good local rock band like BEYOND had to struggle for many years to gradually emerge, their "Black Panther" became an instant hit.
Not only did "Dont-Break-My-Heart" top the charts of Hong Kong Commercial Radio, but works such as "No Place to Be Ashamed" and "Don't Go to Waste" on the same album were also widely sung.
At the time. The entire population of Hong Kong is only about 6 million, and the sales of 50,000 copies of Hong Kong singers have been defined as platinum sales and platinum albums. The album "Black Panther" sold an astonishing 150,000 copies, excluding piracy!
In the mainland, "No Place to Shame" is an absolute classic, but in Hong Kong, which has a stronger business atmosphere and a higher degree of urbanization, it is "Dont-Break-My-Heart" that is the most popular.
There is no need to distinguish between the two and the inferior, because they are both excellent rock works, but the former has stronger humanistic feelings and is full of some speculation, while the latter is closer to the category of rock and roll love songs, and the popularity is obviously better.
And now, the song "Dont-Break-My-Heart" appeared in another time and space in 1998, appearing on a rock album called "Fake Monk".
It's supposed to be a classic, it's still a classic.
Li Qian's voice, in the position of the middle frequency, is exceptionally good, low frequency and high frequency, although slightly inferior to the middle frequency, but also the same hand, a simple comparison, his voice is slightly thicker than Dou Wei, and the singing style is not as flamboyant and arbitrary as his. But his frankness and calmness, but he can sing his own taste and understanding, I dare not say that it will definitely surpass the original song, but it will not be much worse. Especially for those who hear this song for the first time in this time and space, from the lyrics, to the music, to the arrangement, to the singing...... It's all in one, almost perfect!
After the end of "Dont-Break-My-Heart", it was followed by an "old song" that everyone had heard countless times before - "No Place to Be Proud".
It's just that, like "Nothing", everyone heard the live version before, but this time, it is the studio version with fuller arrangement, more stable performance, and more amazing singing.
I have been shocked countless times, but I am still shocked when I hear it again.
By the time "No Place for Shame" ended, many professional musicians in many audition rooms had to shake their heads silently and admire, but this album was not over.
"No Place to Shame" is only the eighth work.
Next, there are two more.
There is no doubt that it is the same as the Spring Festival Gala at around eleven o'clock, when the biggest celebrity of the whole party must be arranged, and a movie will definitely stage the final climax of the story in the last half hour. Everyone understands that in this album, "Fake Monk" and "Flower Girl" have been arranged to fire the first shot, and "Ronin Love Song" and "Dont-Break-My-Heart" are responsible for provoking the middle, so the two songs left as the finale in the end must be in the four major beauty bands, or the heavier works in Li Qian's heart.
As a result, everyone was even more energetic than just now.
Somewhat different from the previous works, the ninth song starts directly with the sound of drums.
And this time, in Li Qian's voice, there seemed to be a sudden touch of unprecedented pathos and desolation-
"Ideals are always flying around,
Disembodied;
Reality or reality,
There is no way to hide.
The heart is full of **.
The body has no strength.
Don't want to feel sad.
I had to pretend to be.
Fly
I'm flying around,
Full of hope,
I'm like a bird. ”
That's right, it was on the rooftop of the teaching building that year, Li Qian once used this song to sing Qi Jie, who was hiding in the corridor and eavesdropping, crying bitterly. It's almost impossible to suppress yourself.
And now, for the same song, the arrangement is more perfect, the vocal parts are complete, and it is not the only guitar at the beginning, even Li Qian's voice and his ability to control his voice are no longer comparable to him back then.
The audience has expanded from Qi Jie alone to countless people.
Everyone, every listener. They all have different feelings and life experiences, but no matter how completely different they are. Human feelings, however, are common. Perhaps, the person has changed, the time has changed, the place has changed, and the mood has changed...... Even if the audience is still Qi Jie, she will no longer hear crying and crying, but it does not mean a good music or a good work, and its power is diminished because of this.
The audience will change, and the mood of the audience will also change, but the emotion, emotion, power, or anger contained in a good work is ...... but it is eternal.
So, when Li Qian's roar sounded in one after another listening room, sounded in one after another audio speakers, and sounded in everyone's ears, countless hearts were really shocked at this moment!
"Let's sing together,
Sing the song of freedom,
Let's fly together,
Like a bird
Like a bird,
Because we,
Born free!"
When this last song was sung by Li Qian roaring, everyone was shocked.
In another time and space, if you divide it superficially, the rock music in the domestic music scene can be roughly divided into three stages, the first stage, Cui Jian carries the Ding, the second stage, the three heroes of Magic Rock led by Dou Wei, are almost invincible in the world, and in the third stage, when rock has gradually declined, Wang Toutiao almost supported half of the sky of rock and roll with his own strength.
There may be many people who are not ashamed of him, and there may be many people who ridicule the so-called rock he does, which is actually "pop songs", but it is undeniable that after entering the new century, especially after 05 years, when the voice of rock and roll is getting weaker and weaker, it is he who has taken over the banner of rock music in the domestic music scene with his unique, rock works full of humanistic care and humanistic thinking, at least so that fans in the 21st century can still listen to rock. Let them not be sad and can only indulge in the former heyday and prosperity of rock music.
Speaking of this alone, he is already a generation of masters of domestic rock music in that time and space!
Well, it's a master, not a master.
And if you break it down again, in fact, Cui Jian, Dou Wei and Wang Feng have very different rock styles.
If Wang Feng's style is what I am thinking, angry, and longing for, I will directly issue my cry, Dou Wei's style is "I don't say it, I just sneer and look down on you", and Cui Jian ......
His style is, I don't even look at you, I don't bother to care about you at all, I just play my own, you like to listen or not, like it or not.
From the point of view of forced style, Cui Jian is undoubtedly the highest, and then Dou Wei and Wang Feng are declining, but from another point of view, in fact, the development trajectory of domestic rock music in the past 30 years is extremely clear in the three of them, that is, rock music is becoming more and more down-to-earth step by step!
And rock music, or simply speaking, is what the entire music world pays attention to, from the grand topics of family and country, nation, era, society, system, freedom, etc., to the small self, survival, dreams, freedom, love, life...... Wait a minute.
There is no difference between superior and inferior, but it is necessary to adapt to the development of the times.
However, when it comes to individual people and individual musical works, it has to be said that Wang Feng is much less chic than Cui Jian, and a lot less proud than Dou Wei, but he has more humanistic care and thinking than them.
Like the song "Little Bird", Wang Feng's early works, at that time, he had not yet been as completely as thoroughly as later towards "pop rock", at that time, he was stumbling between rock and folk songs, but at that time, he had begun to show his unique humanistic thinking.
"Little Bird" was even once considered one of Wang Feng's best rock works.
Speculation, shouting, protesting, roaring.
is not as high as Cui Jian, nor is he like Dou Wei who sneers and looks down on the world, his thinking, his shouting, his struggle, and his roar are more direct and powerful.
In one fell swoop, it can directly hit everyone's soul!
So, when you hear this song, you don't even have to have any musical literacy, you can be ignited by him all at once!
What's more, almost everyone who is sitting in the listening room listening to such a work at the moment is the top master of the current domestic music scene? Not to mention that they can even hear a deeper charm from places that ordinary people can't perceive?
After a song, the room was full of uproar.
People talk to each other, people whisper.
However, at this time, the last song of the album has already begun.
It's called "Good Night, Jinan".
Once again, it's the piano keys that start with the heavy keys!
In the sound of the piano, the drums gradually rise, and then, an incomparably simple key cycle, the key is higher and higher, subconsciously making the listener's face tense and hold his breath.
Then, the piano stops, and the drums envelop everything.
Li Qian started singing——
"I will sleep in the rain tonight,
With the sound of domestic rollers,
With the loud sound of the wound bursting,
Sleep in the rain tonight,
Good night, Jinan,
Good night, all sleepless people.
The wind will go north with the bells of midnight,
With the boy begging in the street,
With broken tires on the side of the road,
Go north with the bells of midnight,
Good night, Jinan,
Good night, all sleepless people,
Good night, Jinan,
Good night, all lonely people.
…………”
From the first line of this song, it is so heavy that you can't breathe!
Li Qian chose it as the last song of the debut album of the four major beauty bands!
Finale.
Li Qian is a native of Jinan Prefecture, which is known to almost everyone in the entire music circle.
Of course, if you have to say it, Cao Zhan, Yu Bojun, Wang Huaiyu...... The "Four Beauties" in the Four Beauties Band are all from Jinan. Perhaps, to some extent, this song can also be understood as a work of their collective dedication to Jinan Mansion and their hometown?
It's just that...... It's too heavy.
It is so heavy that it is almost impossible to believe that such a work full of heavy life could be written by Li Qian, a young man who is just twenty years old!
But the problem is that before, such a thing had happened to him more than once!
Therefore, if you don't believe, you have to believe.
At the end of the day, there's nothing you can do but pretty much boil it down to absolute talent!
A song of depression and frustration.
When the last song is gone, in the shallow, slow piano sound, the album is over.
In countless listening rooms, the music stopped, and it was almost silent except for the slightly heavy breathing of the people.
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