"Poly Gold", a shining golden baby name, witnesses the countless splendor of the music scene.
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This year, PolyGram has entered its 50th anniversary.
Recently, the online press conference of "Polygram's 50th Anniversary and Half Century New Century" was held. Alan Tan , Zhong Zhentao, Lei Anna, Luyunna and Tom Baoru reviewed the classic deeds of Polygram in the past 50 years and also told them The story that happened in Polygon. A series of PolyGram 50th Anniversary commemorative activities and new products were subsequently launched. On May 12, PolyGram’s 50th Anniversary Skewer Dance Music "Stars on PolyGram 50" MV segment was first launched on all major platforms; another one will be released next. A collection of many classic love songs: "Polygram 50: Song of a Half Century"; Polygram's 50 years of classic records, including limited editions, will be reprinted; Polygram 50 concert will also be held in November...
50 years, half a century, so many disturbances, only the golden song will be passed on forever. In this issue, we deliberately selected the top ten albums of Hong Kong PolyGram in 50 years, using this most difficult "disc-in-disc" method to review and show the golden years of music.
's selection of the top ten albums in the history of Hong Kong's "Poly Gold" is destined to be thankless. In addition to facing the doubts of others, you have to face your own doubts-why not choose this one? Why not choose that one? But on the big day of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of "PolyGram" in Hong Kong, commemorating it in the form of "ten albums" can be said to be the most concise way to show the history of "PolyGram" in Hong Kong. For the top ten historical albums of Hong Kong "Polygram" selected below
, each singer can only have one album shortlisted. For singers like Alan Tam and Jacky Cheung, even from their albums released in Hong Kong "Polygram" Choosing the top ten will cause selection difficulties. Even so, the albums of many outstanding singers such as Andy Lau , Guan Zhengjie, Zhong Zhentao, Huang Kaiqin, "Grasshopper", Liming, Hacken Lee, Teddy Robin, Cai Guoquan , Kuang Meiyun, Chen Qiuxia and other albums still failed to enter the top ten list. , Can only "strange" the Hong Kong "Poly Gold" that year is so talented...
1
Leslie Cheung
"Summer Romance'87" (1987)
as Leslie Cheung's first album, "Summer" Romance'87" is also the first album of this "Polygram" label. The
album not only invited Japanese photographer Nouharu Kondo to shoot the cover in Tokyo, but also invited Japanese musicians to participate in the arrangement of some works. Compared with the albums of the "China Star Records" era, the album "Summer Romance’87" reveals an international temperament from inside to outside, and the recording quality has reached a certain level. There are ten works on the
album, five of which are fast and slow respectively, none of them make up the number. In addition to many later classic hits such as "Refuse to Play Anymore", "Together", "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Innocent Sleep", "Invisible Lock", "Enough", "Dantasy", "Love Is Hard to Control" etc. The main works are also both quality and good-sounding.
2
Alan Tam
" The Root of Love " (1984)
"The Root of Love" is the second part of Alan Tam's "Trilogy of Love" and an album that really established Alan Tam's status in the Hong Kong music scene. The
album has the intention to move closer to Japanese pop music whether it is selected or produced. This also makes "The Root of Love" bid farewell to the localized musical temperament of Hong Kong. Whether it is the performance of the work or the presentation of timbre, it is more international The trend of change. In the lyrics of the album works,
also began to remove the slang style of the past, and the more elegant and popular writing, to a certain extent, also affected the lyrics standards of Hong Kong pop music for nearly two decades.
Alan Tam has begun to establish an atmospheric and gentleman singing style in slow songs such as "Love in the Late Autumn", "The Root of Love" and "Burgundy Heart". Fast songs such as "Cold Summer Wind" and "The Man Who Catches the Wind" again reflect the full and enthusiastic emotional tension of the principal.
3
Xu Guanjie
"Half Catty Eight Two" (1976)
Xu Guanjie's "Half Catty Eight Two" is not only his personal classic work, but also a representative work of early Hong Kong pop music. This album had set a sales record of 500,000 copies at that time, and One of the highest-selling records in Cantonese album history. On the one hand,
is a brisk tune like "Banjin Baliang" and "Heroes of Fighting Birds", and on the other side is "The Voice of the Prodigal Son" and "Liwo Light Smile", which inherited the rhythm of Cantonese opera and also has the lyrical songs of Eastern classical sentiment. Inspirational song. To say that Xu Guanjie is the pioneer of Cantonese pop music is not necessarily in the sense of time, but is representative of the work model. "Half Catty Eight Two" is the most representative one among Xu Guanjie's outstanding Cantonese albums.
4
Teresa Teng
"Light Emotions" (1983)
"Light Emotions" was conceived by Xie Hongzhong and planned by Xie Hongzhong, Zheng Donghan, Deng Xiquan and Teresa Teng. The
album selected twelve classic poems from the Tang and Song dynasties in history as the lyrics, and invited Liang Hongzhi, Gu Yue, Lu Dongni, Gu Jiahui, Chen Yang, Tan Jianchang, Liu Jiachang, etc. Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as Singapore Musicians who compose or arrange music for works.
uses ancient poems to enter the music. "Tianyou Qing" is not the first, but it is the first time for Chinese pop music to produce a unified and complete record with this concept. When the strong ancient music is combined with modern musical styles, and when Teresa Teng’s fragrant singing voice travels through the past and the present, "A Touch of Love" has not only become a popular masterpiece, but also a cross-border and conceptual masterpiece full of ancient atmosphere. The enduring classics such as "Lonely on the West Tower" and "Wish People Long Last" were born.
5
Priscilla Chan
"Always be your friend" (1989)
1989, is the "eventful autumn" of Hong Kong pop music. This year, Leslie Cheung announced her withdrawal from the music scene, and Priscilla Chan said that she would leave the music scene for now, and "Always Your Friend" is her last album before leaving the music scene. The whole album of
is closely linked to the two points of "friends" and "farewell". Unified planning, sophisticated production, careful selection of songs, and Priscilla Chan's increasingly mature singing skills have made the album a history of Hong Kong music The timeless classic.
, in particular, "The Thousand Thousand Thousand Thousand Poem" has become the most classic "Farewell" theme song of Cantonese pop music. Not only Leslie Cheung sang a cover at the farewell concert in the same year, but also by many mainland Chinese fans who did not understand Cantonese at that time. accept.
6
Jacky Cheung
"True Love" (1992)
If "Kiss" is Jacky Cheung's most influential Mandarin album, then "True Love" is his peak Cantonese album. The
album includes a total of ten songs, as well as the beginning and the end of "stealing gas station" I and II, as a conceptual setting. Among the ten songs, not only nine songs made the chart, but five capitals became the number one singles. Among them, "Love Is Deeper Than You", "Breaking Up Always in Rain", "Lovesickness in the Rain", "True Feelings", "Tomorrow's World Ends", etc., have become eternal classics in the history of Cantonese pop music.
7
Beyond
"The Secret Police" (1988)
"The Secret Police" is the album that made Beyond a real foothold in the mainstream music scene in Hong Kong. Compared with the earlier works, this album also strikes the best balance between musicality and popularity. . As a love song, "Like You" is a lyrical masterpiece even at the mainstream level of the same period.
Of course, because of the appearance of works like "The Earth", Beyond has a unique recognition in the Hong Kong music scene. The creative theme of family and country sentiments, to a certain extent, also opened upCantonese pop music has a narrow perspective.
8
Guan Shuyi
"A Rare Lover" (1989)
This is Guan Shuyi's first platinum record. It has both lyrical pop, dance, new wave and rock music and other diverse styles, even if it is a duet with Hacken Lee's "Stars" ", are full of the rhythm of "New Jack" music, which is both nice and has a personality different from mainstream music.
As a newcomer, Guan Shuyi also showed her ability to balance fast and slow songs in this album. You can also switch freely between delicate sensibility and alternative personality. Because of the appearance of Guan Shuyi, the "Poly Gold" at the time also had the label capital to compete with individual female singers such as Lin Yilian and Liu Meijun.
9
Xu Xiaofeng
"Every Step" (1986)
"Every Step" is Xu Xiaofeng's first album to join the Hong Kong "Poly Gold". The album of the same name is an inspirational song tailored by Zheng Guojiang for Xu Xiaofeng, and it is also the representative work of Xu Xiaofeng's later music career. In the end, the most widely spread of this album was "City Footprints" and "Behind the Wedding Dress". Because these two songs were selected as the theme song and episode of the TVB drama "Rogue Tycoon", the music spread all over the streets of Hong Kong at that time. Alley.
was also introduced to mainland China because of the TV series, which made these two songs the earliest Cantonese works by Xu Xiaofeng familiar to mainland Chinese fans.
10
Faye Wong
"Hundred thousand why? "(1993)
"Hundred Thousand Why?" "It is not Faye Wong's highest-selling album, but it is a record that has a turning point in Faye Wong's music career. Later, it also indirectly affected the mainstream aesthetic of Chinese pop music. This is an album that can be called an alternative popular. In the album, Faye Wong covers and adapted works from Tori Amos, The Police and other European and American alternative and rock musicians. Coupled with works created by local individual musicians such as C.Y.Kong and Liu Yida, this has resulted in an album that transcends the aesthetics of the times. In particular, Faye Wong's alternative vocalization will not only become her icon in the future, but will also change the vocalization mode of female singers in an era of Chinese music.
