Fans who are familiar with BEYOND know that the song "Earth" was a turning point, beyond starting with "Earth" to really find its own route, and thus quickly transformed from a semi-underground rock band into a truly popular mainstream band.
A song called "Earth" made BEYOND famous
At that time, some people said that BEYOND betrayed rock from then on, but I felt that whether it was hard rock, Heavy Metal Rock or pop ROCK that many people later despised, as long as the technology was there and the spiritual connotation was there, there was no difference, there was no betrayal or betrayal.
Huang Jiaju's habit of writing songs is inspired, humming the chords over and over again, and recording a demo. When he first wrote this song, Huang Jiaju was a Chinese style that positioned patriotic feelings, and the plan was to write about the Yangtze River or the Yellow River. Later, when Liu Zhuohui heard a sample of the family pony, he thought of his uncle and wrote this poem based on the story of his uncle.
Huang Jiaju once led a band to visit the capital of the motherland
Liu Zhuohui's uncle was a veteran of the Kuomintang, and in that era of military chaos, he left his hometown of Chaozhou, Guangdong, to become a soldier, and later heard nothing. Later, Liu Cheuk-fai's family moved to Hong Kong, and later, his grandfather and grandmother passed away with the regret of parting with their son. In the 1970s, Liu Zhuohui finally met his uncle in Taiwan. In the 80s, the uncle fell back to his roots and returned to his hometown of Chaozhou, where he had been away for 40 years, when he was more than 60 years old, and the uncle looked for his memories everywhere, but there were no other close relatives in his hometown, and his childhood playmates also became old people one by one. The "father" in the lyrics is Liu Zhuohui's fantasy, and that fatherly love is the projection of the picture of the family getting together after they leave.
At the end of the 1980s, both sides of the Taiwan Strait opened up to family visits
The lyrics of the lyrics, such as "trauma," "when I was young and adolescence," "when I had no choice but to say goodbye," "the land that appeased and divided, and drew a line," "looking back at the lamentations that I lamented in front of the door of a foreign land yesterday, year after year," and so on, are the bitter historical portrayals of the two sides of the strait and the three places and the feelings of home and country of all the sons and daughters of china, so that all Chinese are full of longing for family reunion and the reunification of the motherland.
Huang Guanzhong's voice is more suitable for interpreting "The Earth"
The prelude to this song is a magnificent Chinese style that highlights the sense of historical picture, the overall rhythm is fresh and bright, full of romantic feelings. And when the beautiful melody is combined with the soft voice of Huang Guan's youth, the picture presented in front of the listener's eyes is like the blue sea rolling up layers of waves, sometimes the heat wave gushing, sometimes the blue waves, beautiful.
The song's ending acoustic guitar SOLO is memorable, like a wanderer who has returned to his hometown and has a long conversation with his fellow villagers, displaced for decades, and instantly found a sense of belonging, everything is an inexhaustible feeling.