Author: Wang Chongyang
In 1999, an album called "Boring Army" came out, a group of punk youth who were full of disdain for life and full of anger at society, and Hanger Lang walked into the vision of young people at that time.
Mirrors, 69, A Jerks, and Brain Turbidity just rampage into the underground music scene, and in the atmosphere of shouting ideals, celebrating freedom, and pervading romanticism, the music of the boring army had only one label: grumpiness!
In particular, the brain cloud at that time, in the entire "Boring Army" almost no more than 3 minutes of work, simple chords, dense drum beats, straightforward lyrics, every note is provocative to the society at that time where materialism is budding. Xiao Rong, as the lead singer, has also become a Beijing punk in the standard sense.
The predecessor of cerebral turbidity was a band called "Carbon Solution" formed by Xiao Rong and his classmates at Beijing Jingshan Middle School, and after two years of running-in and changing musicians, it was officially renamed Asura Band in 1997.
Released in 1999, "Boring Army" was not only the first punk album in the history of Chinese music, but also a tearing hole in that era, and those unbridled, direct anger gushed out. Xiao Rong, Gao Yang, and Li Peng, the punks, took Wudaokou as their base and created a punk utopia.
At that time, Xiao Rong was a young man who was full of energy all the time. A black cable-stayed leather coat wrapped around his lean but not thin body, and a pair of tall Martin boots was pedaled to his feet. Standing in the crowd is an outdated one, after all, they are the band that endorsed Levi's in 1999.
Xiao Rong's eyes always showed a fierce force, not fierce, not evil, it is difficult to accurately describe. His life seemed decadent, but he lived so firmly. It always gives people a feeling that even if tomorrow is the end of the world, the crown on the top of the head will still stand wildly, which is not only a sign of appearance, but a banner belonging to punk, and it is also the spirit that rock music should have.
In the midst of restless music, Beijing's punks sweat Yanjing beer, mixed with the smoke of the South China Sea at Point 8, and a sweet hangover in a variety of unknown liquids. They have built an idealized kingdom at the Howling Club, in which the punk spirit is the master.
But what is rare is that the brain turbidity does not indulge in this illusion full of alcohol and hormones, in addition to the idealism that spews out of the blood, they also put the music on the large-density rehearsal. Punk can be an attitude where everything is all about me, but music has to be a good death.
Three years after his debut in "Boring Army", Brain Cloud signed with the famous Japanese record label Bad News and released his debut album in Japan with his high-quality works and unparalleled incitement on the scene.
After the release of this "TURN ON THE DISTORTION", people realized that the brain turbidity of the boring army period had never had, and although their music always revealed a rough impact, the arrangement was full of clever ideas, not simple at all, and the melody was not their shortcoming. This early 21st-century album still sounds like it can beat a bunch of young bands.
Since then, since 2003, Brain Turbidity has undergone several rounds of huge U.S. tours, with a total of more than 300 performances. In such frequent foreign performances, they came into contact with the most professional venues and equipment, including various concepts of band management, and of course, their music absorbed more international inspiration, making them a Chinese band deeply influenced by foreign rock culture.
In 2007, the agency Bad News realized that every band should have its own home stadium, so it decided to open a Livehouse in Beijing for Brain Turbidity, which became the famous MAO Livehouse.
When Beijing Mao opened, the brains rushed back from overseas to perform two consecutive performances, and their wonderful scene shocked everyone in the circle at once!
At that time, the domestic band performance, the presentation of the stage effect is still in the embryonic stage, basically chaotic, not to mention the position, interaction, some even after singing a song to discuss what to sing next. Domestic rock people realized for the first time that in addition to the original impact, professionalism is a great thing.
After that, the brain turbidity was like a whirlwind, which quickly swept across the country, and the name of China's first punk was also unshakable in the hearts of every music fan. The lead singer with the leopard print head, with his uninhibited and wild attitude, extremely tense stage performance, and of course, musical talent, has become synonymous with punk in the hearts of Chinese music fans.
However, just when the brain turbid band was in full swing, suddenly one day in 2014, the weibo of the brain turbid band posted a message about the dissolution of the band. This caught many fans off guard, thinking that this was probably a punk fucking joke.
However, this joke eventually became a reality. Soon the band officially released an announcement, the brain turbidity is still there, but Xiao Rong left the brain turbidity. For a time, not only fans felt sad, this band that accompanied them through the restless youth, so lost the soul of the character; many rock and roll musicians also expressed regret, after all, the brain turbidity has brought a lot of fresh ideas to the Chinese rock circle, in the professional degree is the benchmark of many bands, and even the direct reason for the establishment of many young bands.
In the face of Xiao Rong's farewell in this way, The current lead singer of the brain cloud, Wang Yuan, also published a microblog, and the words were full of faint complaints and unwillingness, and more of a promise that the banner of brain cloudiness would not fall. But will eternal utopia really still exist?
In fact, before Xiao Rong released this disbanded Weibo, he had already had a certain disagreement with the band members on the concept of music, and did not participate in the band's rehearsal for a while. The Weibo posted by Lao Xu, the agent who was in the midst of turmoil, may be the most accurate explanation of this unhappy dispersion.
The difference between one musician and three musicians is actually correct, and neither party should be harshly criticized by the standards of either party. It's like a line from the Japanese movie "Teenage Finger Tiger": For the band, there are good times and bad times. Good times the band is like a monster, playing as they please. But it's basically a collection of human beings. Those who want to make money, those who want women, those who move forward, those who stand still, the monsters lose their mobility and begin to decay. In this case, it can only be dissolved.
Xiao Rong's brain turbidity was really difficult to mix at first, after all, Xiao Rong was recognized as a soul figure by everyone, and many fans even shouted out words such as "brain turbidity is dead". However, it may be the strength in the heart that does not accept defeat, Wang Yuan, Gao Yufeng and Xu Lin, the three, did not give up, and the reborn brain turbidity also proved its vitality with music.
Xiao Rong, who left his turbid brain, was like a fish swimming into the deep sea, and there was no movement for a long time. The once fierce leopard-print punk teenager has completely disappeared from people's vision. Xiao Rong thus changed from the king of punk on the stage to a myth that can only be recalled in memory.
And in June 2016, people suddenly heard a familiar and unfamiliar voice, and Xiao Rong returned.
Unlike the return we imagined, Xiao Rong's return seemed abrupt and calm, without any foreshadowing and without momentum. Once the king of punk, he suddenly became the man on the cover of the single who had washed off his leopard print head and smiled faintly. And this song "I Said I'm Not Coming" does not see the madness and enthusiasm of that year, but there is a kind of cynical laziness.
Later, Xiao Rong successively released several singles, simple box piano or light piano, and the lazy voice line was full of the calmness of the years. The lyrics are also extremely realistic, and the depiction of life makes people feel that this punk who once turned the stage upside down has become a man in a small restaurant watching the north wind drink beer and enema.
Disappointed? More or less, a little bit. But it's more of a relief, he's back, why do you want to tie yourself to a life you don't like? If you are tired of restlessness, you return to plainness.
Rejecting the boring life and throwing yourself into the bloody triad is punk; and playing with madness and anger, turning back to the idleness and laziness of life, this is also punk.
It's just that this punk no longer belongs to us, and he doesn't care how we think of him, he's just the king of punk in his own life.
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