When Andy Lau was interviewed by the media, he once said very modestly: I am not worthy to be a judge of music programs, I am ashamed, from more than thirty years of art, only sang three songs" "Forget Love Water", "Wishing you prosperity" and "Chinese".
Liu Tianwang is so humble, he has released more than 60 records, hundreds of songs, won the hong Kong awards of the year of the song, more than 50 songs, leaving many popular songs. He once broke the Guinness World Record for the number of music awards.
So if you want to select Liu Tianwang's 10 most sung representative golden songs, what works will be selected?
10. "Ice Rain": A popular golden song in K room
"Ice Rain" is a 1997 Chinese love song, included in the album "Love in the Heart", about the theme of love hurt, composed by Pan Xieqing, Andy Lau, Li Mi filled in the lyrics.
In 1992, he wrote a lyric called "Love is So Stupid", which was mercilessly criticized by Huang Xia, a great talent in Hong Kong: I have not seen a lyricist who writes songs so stupidly.
But the words of this "Ice Rain" are written in the slightest and painfully, and for the first time they have been recognized by Huang Dacaizi, who said: Hua Tsai has finally opened the door.
"Ice Rain" is a typical Liu-style love song, which is ordered in China's K room, with a very high singing rate, and is one of the top golden songs. It did not win in China, but won the Most Popular Chinese Golden Melody and Top Ten Golden Melody Awards in Malaysia.
"Providence": a masterpiece of emotional resonance
"Providence" is a 1994 Chinese song, included in the album of the same name released that year, "Providence", composed by Chen Yaochuan and lyrics by Lee Anxiu.
From the perspective of a man who has experienced hardships, this song tells the smallness of manpower and the helplessness of Providence. Its smooth melody and simple and straightforward lyrics were vividly interpreted by Liu Tianwang and touched people's hearts.
In Andy Lau's golden song, "Providence" is a very special work, it came out in the same year as "Forgetting Love Water", the sharp edge was covered by the latter, did not win any important music awards, but because of its wide resonance, it was also named a classic by fans.
"It is not a sin for a man to cry": After drinking, he must sing the Divine Comedy
Released in 2000, "Men Cry Is Not a Sin", included in the album "Man's Love", is the ending song of the TV series "Strange Man Strange Case", composed by Liu Tianjian, and lyrics and sung by Andy Lau.
Andy Lau, who is nearly confused, wrote the voice of a man with a vicissitudes of writing.
As soon as this golden song came out, it won the favor of a large number of male fans, believing that Andy Lau spoke his heart. In the world of feelings, men are not strong, "tough guys", and men also have the right to cry when they are weak.
Therefore, in KTV, "Men CryIng Is Not a Sin" has become one of the most favorite songs for men to sing, and is known as "the Divine Comedy must be sung after drinking".
At the same time, the song also won the 23rd Hong Kong Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody, and the 7th Chinese Chart Most Popular Song Award.
7. Stupid Children: Songs of Self-Portraiture
"Stupid Child" is a 1998 Chinese song composed by Gao Feng, lyrics by Andy Lau, and sung by Andy Lau, Wu Zongxian and Ke Shouliang.
This is a song of Andy Lau's self-portrayal, since his debut, he has always been considered to be less talented than Liang Chaowei, singing talent is not as good as Jacky Cheung, dancing talent is not as good as Aaron Kwok, but it is better than diligence and diligence.
"Stupid Child" is a story about a child who grew up in a difficult environment, is not afraid of hardships and strives to go upstream, and the lyrics hide Andy Lau's own struggle and sad memories in the past two decades.
Andy Lau, Wu Zongxian and Ke Shouliang, with a relaxed and witty and slightly self-deprecating singing method, sang this classic song of social significance, and won the Outstanding Chinese Song Award of the 21st Top Ten Chinese Golden Song.
6. "Thank You for Your Love": Red Dust Love Classic
The Chinese version of "Thank You for Your Love" is a 1992 song composed by Xiong Meiling and lyrics by Lin Qiuli.
This is a song written at a super speed, Xiong Meiling and Lin Qiuli cooperated tacitly, and it took only forty minutes to complete the creation. Andy Lau liked it very much and set it as the title song of the music album of the same name.
Many words in the song, such as "Don't ask me, how many people have I loved in my life, you don't understand how deeply I am hurt", "I don't like to be lonely, but I am afraid of getting along with two people, which is clearly a pain", wrote the complex love stories and feelings of modern urban red dust men and women, with strong empathy, popular with fans, and became one of Andy Lau's most popular songs.
Andy Lau has a special love for this song, he also personally filled in the lyrics, specially created a Cantonese version, expressing his feelings of love and gratitude to the majority of fans, which also became a classic, and won the 1992 Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Songs and Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards.
V. "The Days We Walked Together": Chief Cantonese Masterpiece
"The Days We Walked Together" is a Cantonese song, included in the 1991 album of the same name, composed by Hu Weili, lyrics by Xiaomei, and arranged by Du Zizhi, which is the theme song of the movie "Supreme Supreme II: Eternal Domination of the World".
This song is One of Andy Lau's best Cantonese masterpieces in the early 1990s, an absolute classic in the hearts of countless Chinese fans, and won the 1991 Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Award, the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award, the Most Popular Karaoke Song and other awards.
Its Chinese version of "The Afterlife", written by Andy Lau himself, is also extremely highly sung.
"Love You for Ten Thousand Years": Confession divine comedy
"Love You for Ten Thousand Years" is a 1999 Chinese song by the Italian Giorgio Giorgio. Giorgio Moroder, Andy Lau and Chen Dejian co-composed the music, Andy Lau wrote the lyrics, and the famous Chinese pianist Kong Xiangdong arranged the music.
This is a collection of classical and pop styles, focusing on lyrical style, it with a catchy melody and soulful lyrics, it is popular all over the country, almost to the extent of street knowledge, and won the ChannelV Chinese Chart Golden Melody Award and the Top Ten Golden Songs Most Popular Chinese Song Gold Award.
3. "Water forgetting Love": a masterpiece of healing and healing
"Forgetting Love Water" is a 1994 Chinese song, produced by Andy Lau's "Iron Triangle" golden team: composed by Chen Yaochuan, lyrics by Lee Anxiu, and arranged by Du Zizhi, which is the ending song of the movie "Heaven and Earth" released in the same year.
The inspiration for the creation of "Forgetting Love Water" is said to be related to flying. During a flight, the flight attendant asked Li Anxiu whether he wanted to drink wine or water, Li Anxiu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, thinking of putting the forgetting love and water together to interpret the concept of wine, forgetting love water, is forgetting love wine, and the legend that drinking will forget all the troubles of Meng Po soup, the function is the same.
After the launch of "Forgetting Love Water", the fire spread throughout the Entire Chinese-speaking area, and it can be said that everyone who has been hurt by love has a cup of "Forgetting Love Water" hidden in their hearts.
This song won the Gold Award for The Most Popular Chinese Song of the Top Ten Golden Songs, the Gold Award for Outstanding Chinese Chinese Song of the Top Ten golden melodies in Hong Kong, the Golden Melody Award for the Chinese Songs of The New Town Radio in Hong Kong, and also sang on the stage of the Chinese Spring Festival Gala, becoming a supreme pop song that has been popular in the mainland for a long time and for a long time.
2. "Wishing you prosperity": the first divine comedy of the Spring Festival
"Wishing you prosperity" was released in 2005 as a New Year theme Chinese song, composed by Chen Dejian and lyrics by Andy Lau and Anxiu Lee.
At that time, Anxiu Lee and Andy Lau were preparing a new album "Continue to Talk", and suddenly there was a big earthquake in South Asia, and many people lost their lives, relatives or homes overnight. Andy Lau and Andrew Lee felt sad and wanted to create an uplifting work that would bring blessings to the people who were injured in the disaster, so they wrote this song.
It just so happened that year's Spring Festival Gala, an invitation was also sent to Andy Lau, and he was also arranged to be the first to appear and sing "Wishing you prosperity".
With its theme of the scene, brainwashed melody and grounded lyrics, the song received unprecedented popularity and won the third prize in the song and dance category of the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala Program.
Since 2005, every year around the Spring Festival, the land of China, almost every street and alley, will play "Wishing you prosperity", so that it can catch up later, surpassing the traditional New Year songs such as "Good Luck Coming" and "The God of Wealth Comes to My Door", becoming the first Divine Comedy of the Spring Festival that Chinese must hear.
I. "Chinese": Folk "Second National Anthem"
"Chinese" is a 1997 Chinese song written to celebrate the return of Hong Kong, still composed by Chan Yiu-cheon and lyrics by Lee An-suk.
In 1997, Hong Kong ended its century of drifting and returned to China. In order to express the blessings for the future of Hong Kong and the expectation of the great unification of the Chinese nation, at this moment of great attention, Andy Lau's royal composer Chen Yaochuan and the royal lyricist Lee Anxiu once again joined hands to create and write the patriotic theme of "Chinese".
This song can be said to be the best product of the time and place and the convergence, it was born at the right time, with the magnificent style and melody, exciting lyrics, close to the hearts of hundreds of millions of Chinese, condensed the national blood of five thousand years, its home and country feelings, far beyond the scope of popular songs, the influence is great, comparable to Zhang Mingmin's "My Chinese Heart".
After the launch of "Chinese", it quickly became popular and became Andy Lau's iconic golden song, winning the Golden Award for The Top Ten Chinese In Hong Kong and the Most Popular Chinese Song of TVB. There is even a voice that says that "Chinese" is the popular "second national anthem".
So I personally feel that Andy Lau's top 10 golden songs are first with "Chinese".
The above ten songs are the top ten musical masterpieces with the highest degree of singing in Andy Lau in my mind. Of course, each flower into each eye, this is just a family statement.
Andy Lau has been popular for forty years, almost every album has good works handed down, such as "World First Class", "Practice", "Today", "I Don't Love You Enough", "Seventeen Years Old", "I Hate My Obsession", "Infernal Affairs", etc., are all popular songs, but also the golden songs he loves to sing on various occasions, which are enough to challenge the throne of the Top Ten.
If you were to rank the list, which pieces would you choose? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.