Twenty-four years ago, on October 7, 1997, Power Train released the album "Ruthless Love Letters" and officially embarked on the road of their legendary band.
This is the debut album of Power Train. Before that, You Qiuxing and Yan Zhilin were just singers in the bar, until 1996 through the "PUB Heroes Club" joint publication, they slowly came out of the niche market such as bars, was listed as the new person of the year by Shanghua Records, and officially entered the Chinese music scene under the team name of "Power Train".
Years of bar singer career, the extraordinary singing ability of the power train, but also made their works different from the mainstream band works in the Chinese music scene at that time.
"Ruthless Love Letter" contains a total of twelve songs, Power Train completed the creation of more than half of the works, the main songs "Ruthless Love Letter", "Unwilling not to let go" and "Who can you love but love you" became the KTV hit songs at that time, and Power Train also won the Ninth Golden Melody Awards Best Singing Group Award and Best Newcomer Award nominations.
Not afraid of everyone's jokes, the author initially heard the album's title song "Ruthless Love Letter", and once mistakenly thought that the Tang Dynasty Band had a new song. It is also from this song that the author became a fan of the power train, and until now, the works of You Qiuxing and Yan Zhilin will become the background music for seeking spiritual relaxation every three to five minutes.
As for Xu Changde's lyrics and Zhang Yusheng's composition of "Who can you love but love you", this classic work no longer needs to be exaggerated. But it is also strange to say that if some post-80s friends have watched the "Tsinghua University Dormitory Night Talk" video circulating on the Internet at the beginning of the century, they will definitely have a more thorough understanding of the sudden ghost crying wolf howl in the video, "Who can you love in addition to love you / The world you left behind has been fragmented / I can not care / As long as you feel that you have no regrets / Love is more right".
After the "Ruthless Love Letter" album, the power train successively launched classic albums such as "Tomorrow's Tomorrow", "Betrayal Love Song", "Goodbye My Lover" and other classic albums, and the band finally won the Best Heavy Singing Group Award at the 16th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards with the album "Is the Red Radiance Full Record" after being nominated for the Golden Melody Awards for many times.
It is difficult for young fans to imagine the popularity of the power train that year, in the most popular year of You Qiuxing and Yan Zhilin, the Beijing Universal Audio-visual Publishing House of the Central Conservatory of Music opened its brain, and even launched a new book "How to Sing the Power Train Song", nakedly rubbing hot spots.
It's just a pity that there are talented people in Jiangshan Generation, and even though the power train has been the first pop orchestra in Hong Kong and Taiwan for many years, they have eventually been replaced by younger orchestras. Few media today will actively pay attention to the power train, and even the "I Am a Singer", which has made countless singers warm up, cannot make the power train rekindle.
This is also no way to do things, the power train is like our youth, even if we can still feel the heat of song and youth, but we have to face the reality brought by the ruthless years.
In this regard, we can only comfort ourselves: no matter what the world becomes, the classic songs that touched us at the beginning will never change. We and the singers who are gradually forgotten live in these old songs.
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