I remember in 1987, in my first semester of high school, there was a girl's seat in a group of two rows away from mine, and she sat in front of me to the left. Every time she came to self-study class, she often hummed "A Fire in Winter" for a while, and then changed it to "Annoying Autumn Wind", and it sounded as if I had just approached a bunch of bonfires, and was dragged outside to blow the wind, a cold and a heat. In 1987, Fei Xiang participated in the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and became popular with "A Fire in Winter" and became a "national male god", not knowing how many men and women were fascinated. Not only that, in 1987, many singers became famous, and a large number of original music emerged in the mainland, which opened a situation of upward improvement in Chinese pop music. And the two interludes of the 87 version of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" TV series, "Frowning eyebrows" and "Funeral Flower Yin", are more like sad sounds from nature, and have become classics that can never be surpassed. Let's talk about our theme today , "1987 Pop Songs".
1. "A Fire in Winter" (Gao Lingfeng original singer Fei Xiang sang red)
As soon as we hear the song "A Fire in Winter", we immediately think of Fei Xiang at the Spring Festival Gala in 1987, and "A Fire in Winter" has also become the iconic program of that "Spring Festival Gala". In the Spring Festival Gala in 1987, Fei Xiang from Taiwan became a well-known singer and a male god who was popular for half a century. The original song of this song is not Fei Xiang, its predecessor is the 1980 song "sexy music". In 1982, it was covered by Taiwanese singer Gao Lingfeng as "A Fire in Winter", and finally became the hottest song in 1987 by Fei Xiang, and was included in Fei Xiang's album "Clouds of Hometown".
2. "Pingju" (Li Yijun)
"Pingju" is a song performed by Li Yijun and Li Fuxing, written by Lu lala and composed by Sun Zhengming, and included in his 1987 album Pingju. In the summer of 1967, when Sun Zhengming was studying in the Music Department of Normal University, at a music teacher study activity in Taichung, he happened to meet two girls from the Practitioner College and the Tainan Family College, because he knew that he was from a music class, and at one end of class, the other party took a small piece of lyrics on scratch paper and asked him to help compose music, planning to take it to participate in the song selection of the National Salvation League. At that time, Sun Zhengming looked at it at first glance, and the lyrics were very similar to what you wrote with a sentence of graffiti, so he added a prelude and a chorus ending to complete the whole song. This song shows the infinite reluctance of separation, and Li Yijun also began her musical career with this song and this album.
Whenever we hear or sing "Pingju", we often think of the students who graduated from college and are about to break up into their respective jobs, everyone is about to separate, but everyone is cherishing: "At least we have been together." People who do business, the store and the store is also the same reason, everyone stores are adjacent, as long as they have worked together like this, it is enough for everyone. Pingju, like duckweed, gets together for a while, and after a while they are separated from each other. As the song goes, "As long as we have had it, it is enough for you and me."
3. "The Ghost of a Lady" (Zhang Guorong)
"Qiannu Ghost" (also known as "The Road Follows people") is the theme song of the 1987 film of the same name starring Zhang Guorong and Wang Zuxian, composed by Huang Chen, arranged by Dai Lemin, and sung by Zhang Guorong. The Cantonese version of the song was included in Cheung Kwok Wing's 1987 Cantonese album Summer Romance '87, and the Mandarin version was included in his 1988 Mandarin album "Refuse to Play Again". In 1988, the song was nominated for Best Film Song at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2011, the song was selected as the ending song for Liu Yifei and Gu Tianle's version of the film of the same name, "Qiannu Ghost".
As the theme song of the movie "Ghost of Qiannu", the song created by Huang Chen gives full play to the characteristics of classical style, the babbling of the stream in the forest, the piano on the upper floor, and Zhang Guorong's singing is just right, which can be described as reaching the melodious melody and the distant artistic conception of the word. The reason why "Ghost of Qiannu" is popular in the Chinese music scene, in addition to Zhang Guorong's affectionate interpretation, there is also Huang Chen's lyrics, which is extremely popular because of Zhang Guorong and Huang Chen's "double sword combination". To this day, this song should be a classic example of the "Chinoiserie" model.
4. "Platform" (Liu Hong)
In 1987, there was a song that was very popular, that is, "Platform", a song written by Huang Pusheng and sung by Liu Hongyuan. Liu Hong, male singer in the 1980s, born in 1960 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Nationality Australia, debuted in 1979, the song "Platform" sang all over the country, but also made Shenzhen singer Liu Hong a household name. It can be said that the disco musical style of "Platform" is too far away, but after its climactic part is sung, you will definitely hum along, do not believe you listen: "Long platform, long wait, long train, carrying my short love ..."
Under the influence of Western disco dance music culture, domestic musicians produced a "Disco" compilation series based on cover English original songs and filled in words with Chinese, of which "87 Fever" sung by Liu Ke, Huang Pusheng, Liu Hong and Deng Jieyi was the most famous, which created an amazing sales miracle at that time. "Platform" is the only original song.
5. "The Little Girl Under the Street Lamp" (Deng Jieyi)
"Little Girl under the Street Lamp" is a classic song performed by Deng Jieyi, which is a cover of "Brother Louie" sung by Modern Talking, and the Chinese version is re-written by Huang Pusheng and composed by Errol Brown.
Under the influence of "Hedong" and "The Warrior", domestic musicians produced a series of "Mania" based on cover English original songs and filled in words with Chinese, of which "87 Mania" was the most famous, which created an amazing sales miracle at that time. For three consecutive years, it ranked in the top three of the national audio-visual products sales list. Liu Ke orchestration, Huang Pusheng's lyrics, Liu Hong, Deng Jieyi's singing, and was rated as one of the top ten well-known tapes in the history of Chinese audio-visual publishing. It is a representative successful work in the growth period of domestic local pop music, and reflects the inner turmoil of the people of that era through the lyrics of the song. In the "Fanaticism" series, most of them are filler cover songs, of course, the famous lyricist and famous poet Huang Pusheng is indispensable. One of the original songs is not inferior to the cover song, the most famous song "Platform" is the original song, this song is still a classic in the classics to this day, and there is a movie of the same name, of which the theme song uses the song "Platform". Another song on this album that has been sung all over the country is "Little Girl under the Street Lamp".
6. "Deep in the Courtyard" (Jiang Shuna)
In 1987, there was a Qiong Yao drama that was very popular, that is, "Courtyard Deep" starring Qin Han and Liu Xuehua. The drama is adapted from Qiong Yao's novel of the same name, telling the twists and turns of the love experience between Zhang Hanyan and Bai Peiwen. In 1987, Taiwanese singer Jiang Shuna sang the theme song of the play for Qiong Yao Drama Courtyard, also known as "Courtyard Deep", and she has since increased her popularity in the music world. The theme song was composed by Qiong Yao, composed by Gang Zebin, and sung by Jiang Shuna. It is generally believed that the cover of this song is more famous among singers such as Gao Shengmei, Cai Qin, and Teresa Teng.
7. "About Winter" (Qi Qin)
"About Winter" is a song performed by Qi Qin, written and composed by Qi Qin, and included in the album Winter Rain, released in 1987. "About Winter" is one of Qi Qin's representative works. In 1988, Qi Qin won the Golden Melody Award for the Top Ten Chinese for this song. In 2010, "About Winter" was selected for the Chinese Golden Melody Awards for 30 years and 30 classic songs.
Qi Qin and Wang Zuxian met because of the co-starring movie "Fangcao Bi Lian Tian", and then the two began to fall in love, but Qi Qin and Wang Zuxian had to live separately in two places for their respective careers, and the opportunity for the two people to meet was very rare, in addition to using the telephone to contact feelings, Qi Qin expressed his affection for Wang Zuxian by writing songs. The lovers who separated the two places, the longing gave Qi Qin the inspiration to create, so Qi Qin only spent 15 minutes to write this tailor-made song "About Winter" for Wang Zuxian.
This song is not only euphemistic but also widely circulated, regardless of the melody, lyrics, or creative background, "About Winter" is a moving song. This song sings farewell to affection, sighs and meets indefinitely, and vividly expresses the complicated feelings of attachment that are imminently parted by lovers. The endless parting of the song and the inexhaustible meaning of true feelings make people moved. In the late 1980s, the song's MTV was repeatedly broadcast on television, and the rebellious image of Qi Qin's long hair and leggings has been deeply rooted in people's hearts ever since.
8. "The Outer World" (Qi Qin)
"Outside world" is a song composed by Qi Qin in the Juvenile Correctional Institution, written, composed and sung by Qi Qin, and the song was included in Qi Qin's 1987 album Winter Rain. At that time, Qi Qin was young and crazy, wild and uninhibited, because of the drunken fight, he was sent to the juvenile penitentiary, at that time Qi Yu had to visit Qi Qin every week, brought him a guitar, and forced him to find self-confidence from music. It was then that Qi Qin really became obsessed with music. Longing for the "outside world" every day, this unique experience of three and a half years allowed Qi Qin to create the classic masterpiece "The Outer World", and the simple melody can make people cry. "The Outer World" was successfully covered by Karen Mok and Eason Chan, and is also the theme song of the movie "East becomes West 2011", which is also included in the album "The Outer World".
"The Outside World" almost sang out the heartache and helplessness of many people, but the simple melody can make people cry. Qi Qin, with the image of the prodigal son who is unruly, has entered our lives from hairstyles, costumes, and sunglasses, and has become an idol that countless enthusiastic young people are competing to emulate. "The outside world is wonderful, the outside world is helpless" A couplet is very clever, the two sentences are easy to say, but they form a sharp contrast, the generalization is extremely strong, and it also rhymes. So much so that it became a common quotation in the letters of later migrant workers. Thinking about its influence, it may not be inferior to Yan Shu's original union of "helpless flowers falling, déjà vu Swallow returning". The whole song closely revolves around the words "wonderful" and "helpless" and is repeatedly chanted, with clear thinking, deep meaning and touching heart.
9. "A Game and a Dream" (Wang Jie)
In 1987, Wang Jie released his first album "A Game and a Dream" with great success, establishing his status as a leading figure in the singing world. In 1988, "A Game, a Dream" won the Best Film Interlude Award at the 25th Golden Horse Awards. For this album, the 10 song capital is the main song, in addition to the album's eponymous song "A Game and a Dream", the song "RememberIng This" has also been adapted into a Cantonese version of "What to Ask for in Life" by Pan Weiyuan for more than a year, becoming chen Baiqiang's main song for South China singer Salty Fish Turnaround, and has spread all over the country. Another song, "Say Precious", was adapted more than two years later as "Precious" and was covered by The Queen of Heaven in Hong Kong at the time, Ye Qianwen, and also became the title song of her self-titled album. Her singing makes people feel the bitterness and hardship of life, and is full of courage to struggle.
"A Game and a Dream" was originally a discarded song, and after the prodigal son Wang Jie re-edited it, he sang his sadness and touching feelings and his deep feelings to the hearts of the listeners. Not only is Wang Jie's masterpiece, but also the representative work of creator Wang Wenqing (perhaps this is also the representative work of Maggie Cheung's MV), a very Classical and fatalistic song title in China, but it is full of very contemporary and very personal and very romantic grief, perhaps it is precisely by virtue of this sense of identity that almost everyone will have a personal emotional tragedy.
10. "Pink Memories" (Han Baoyi)
In the late 1980s, a song called "Pink Memories" resounded through the streets of China, and at that time, almost everywhere han Baoyi's song was played. The song was written by Yuan Liren, composed by Zhang Pingfu, and sung by Han Baoyi. The self-titled album Pink Memories is the first solo album released by Han Baoyi in Chinese mainland in 1987 (first released in 1986 on Singapore-style records, the album title is "Boring Game"), which was popular in the 1980s and was widely sung, and is a favorite of many fans.
Han Baoyi is a taiwanese singer of tenderness, who is on a par with Gao Shengmei and Cai Qin in Taiwan. Han Baoyi's biggest feature is cheerful, sweet, tender, slightly sad, many old love songs, sung by Han Baoyi is a completely different taste, that kind of brisk enthusiasm, soothing Qingqing language, and the faint emotional outpouring, never bending the corner, but also do not want to say rest. Sweet and clear voice, sometimes brisk and lively, full of youth, showing the girlish feelings truly, and sometimes so mournful, poignant and lingering, making people inevitably sigh and make people cry. Listening to her songs, there is always a feeling of going back in time. Many people will even say, "We grew up singing this song!" I'm a grandma now, but I'm still dreaming, still living in the summer! ”
11. "You Dashing Me Pretty" (Han Baoyi)
"You Dashing Me Pretty" is also a classic song performed by Han Baoyi, the queen of the Xingma Sweet Song, written by Cheng Feng and composed by Huang Renqing, released in 1987 and included in the album Pink Memories. The original song was Malaysian song Hou Cheng Feng (fill in the words and first singing), which became a classic love song reflecting the problem of love values between men and women. The lyrics of this song are well written and are not outdated. I miss the days when I wore flared pants and carried a tape recorder on my shoulder. I remember that at that time, Chun was busy going to my aunt's house with adults to help plant seedlings, and the three-use machine that my cousin put on the field was playing this "Pink Memories" album all day.
12. "Missing" (Fan Linlin originally sung, Mao Amin sang red)
The song "Missing" was composed in 1987, with lyrics by Qiao Yu and music by Gu Jianfen. After Being First Sung by Fan Linlin in the "Concert of Gu Jianfen's Works" held in Beijing in 1987, the song quickly spread. The song uses a butterfly that flies to the window in a hurry, a metaphor for a long-lost reunion, a friend who has come from afar, lamenting the special emotion of "it is difficult to meet, it is difficult to separate", and the soothing music leaves the audience with hazy suspense, leaving a wisp of love, but also leaving a bitter and sweet thought. "Miss" is also a song from singer Mao Amin's album "Big Sister in the Song World".
13. "Sister You Boldly Go Forward" (Jiang Wen)
"Sister You Boldly Move Forward" is an episode in Zhang Yimou's 1987 film masterpiece "Red Sorghum", composed by Zhao Jiping, lyricist Zhang Yimou, and original singer Jiang Wen. This song has a rough style of strong northwest wind, and once it was broadcast, it was loved by everyone and imitated cover songs.
"Sister You Boldly Go Forward" has a simple melody and straightforward lyrics, and directly shouts out the inner desire of the bloody man in the most simple language. "Sister You Boldly Go Forward" has a strong flavor of folk music in northern Shaanxi, and it has many connections with the folk song "Yellow River Boatman's Song" in northern Shaanxi. But it has undergone new changes and developments, thus forming its own unique charm. This song is full of straightforward, persistent, simple, and sincere love. In particular, Jiang Wen, the actor of the male protagonist, starts from the personality of the character, adopts the form of "shouting and singing", and even uses white in the middle, revealing a wild and heroic atmosphere in life. There are many repetitive parts in the song, such as "Red Sorghum Wine". Zhao Jiping said that constant repetition and repetition is to strengthen the impression and express the love song sung by a bandit to his sweetheart, which cannot be too cultured, but must be sincere. It has to fit the characters, fit the plot, and have vitality.
14. "The Moving Heart" (Jiang Yuhuan)
"The Heart of The Moving Heart" is a song written and composed by Liang Hongzhi and sung by Jiang Yuheng, included in the album of the same name, "The Heart of the Moving Heart". In 1987, Jiang Yuhuan released his own album "Moving Heart". Jiang Yuheng joined the first work of UFO Records. They try to continue Jiang Yuheng's affirmed personal style, but also to keenly grasp the pulsating musical characteristics of the moment, and in popular love, open up the thinking and pace of modern life and modern men. So we have the uneasiness and thirst of the "moving heart". Everyone has a period of sadness, wanting to hide but wanting to cover it. Don't let the heart get too tired, don't pursue too many people and things that don't belong to you. Every place you and I have traveled, everyone, may become a station, a passer-by. I have always liked to reminisce, like to look back, like not to forget, but now I find that those things that are deep in my heart have long been forgotten in their time.
15. "Young Ambitions Don't Worry" (Liu Huan)
"Young Ambition Is Not Worried", written by Lin Ruwei, composed by Lei Lei, and sung by Liu Huan. It is the theme song of the TV series "Plainclothes Policeman", and it is a classic old song that is widely sung by people. It is a song of the people's police who are passionate and generous, full of revolutionary heroism and revolutionary optimism. This song highly summarizes and profoundly reveals the purpose, tasks and high winds and bright festivals of the people's police. Its style is bold and rough, but at the same time elegant and simple, giving people a deep and thick feeling. The lyrics have the charm of classical Chinese literature, but at the same time they are easy to understand and catchy. Lei Lei's composition is euphemistic and deep, swinging back to the intestines, and Liu Huan's singing is even more complete, which is unforgettable. The composer Lei Lei is the daughter of Lei Zhenbang, the most famous film music composer in New China. Father and daughter once composed the theme song "Reorganizing the Rivers and Mountains for Future Life" for the TV series "Four Worlds Together" directed by Lin Ru, which was a great success. In 2008, "Young Ambitions Don't Say Anything" won the 30 Pop Golden Melody Award in the 30 years of reform and opening up, and in 2019, it won the Top Ten National TV Drama Golden Songs of the New Era International Television Festival.
16. "Fifteen Moons and Sixteen Circles" (Fan Linlin)
"Fifteen Moons and Sixteen Circles" is a 1987 song performed by Fan Linlin, written by Zhang Quan and composed and arranged by Xu Peidong, and included in the album "Wish". "Fifteen Moons and Sixteen Circles" accompanied by Fan Linlin's singing, popular all over the country, far-reaching, and Fan Linlin because of singing this song, creatively opened up the northwest wind singing method, high-pitched and loud enthusiastic singing, a change in the popular Hong Kong and Taiwan lyrical singing at that time, injecting stimulants into Chinese pop music, since 1988, many female singers have followed suit, triggering the Northwest Wind Pop in the Chinese music scene, which is called China's new music by later generations.
With quite philosophical and rational lyrics, vivid and exciting melodies, fiery and dynamic accompaniment, and accompanied by Fan Linlin's passionate and bold singing, the song quickly became popular after its launch, and the streets and alleys were known, not only won the love of young people, but also won the recommendation of mainstream media such as the Central People's Radio and CCTV, which opened an important page for the 1988 Northwest Wind Pop in the Chinese music scene, triggering the Northwest Wind Pop in the Chinese Song World, which was called China's New Music by later generations. Composer Xu Peidong and singer Fan Linlin became famous overnight and became iconic figures in the Chinese music scene.
Nowadays, in the folk every fifteen, people will always say "fifteen moon sixteen circles", some people will think that this is a saying, in fact, this sentence is from 1987 Fan Linlin sang the song "Fifteen Moon Sixteen Circles" after the song was widely popular, before there was no such saying, people use the song sung in the song "The road of life is bitter and sweet, oh beautiful future can not be finished", I wish the fifteen moon sixteen round, a day is stronger than a day.
17. "Heart Rain" (Li Bihua)
"Heart Rain" is written by Liu Zhenmei, composed by Ma Zhaojun, arranged by Chen Zhiyuan, and sung by Li Bihua. It is included on the self-titled album Rain of the Heart, released in 1987. In 1993, Yang Yuying and Mao Ning sang the song, which was included in the duet album "Can There Be Such Love" released in May 1993. In 1987, Ma Zhaojun composed a soothing song based on Li Bihua's lyrical music style, and Liu Zhenmei composed lyrics based on the song, describing a woman who was about to marry to say goodbye to the man she loved, and described the inner world of a married woman very delicately, and named the song "Heart Rain". In 1993, Guangzhou New Era Audio-Visual Company changed the lyrics of the original solo version to a male and female duet version. "Heart Rain" has a beautiful melody, sounds a faint sadness, can not marry the man of their choice, but can only commit to marrying others for the woman of the kind of painful and determined state of mind in Yang Yuying's interpretation slowly spread out, coupled with Mao Ning's low and thick male voice, making the song sound catchy and intriguing. Later, it was widely known through Yang Yuying and Mao Ning's cover songs and became a classic.
18. "Friend" (Zang Tianshuo)
"Friend" is a song composed and sung by Zang Tianshuo, written by Huang Jiwei, included in the album "Rushing into the Forbidden Zone", Zang Tianshuo became famous. It is a very ironic song that expresses the idea that friends should not give up in difficult times. The lyrics of Zang Tianshuo's "Friends" are straightforward, there are no pretentious and profound words, coupled with his rough and thick voice, the image of a friend who "has difficulties and is blessed to enjoy" is vividly depicted. If the song is sung by someone else, it may be just a song; but for Zang Tianshuo, it is life, because Zang Tianshuo is the living "me" sung in the song.
"If you have a new shore, please leave me." People are selfish, but some people are often emotionally confused.
19. "Frowning Eyebrows" (Chen Li)
In 1987, the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber", the first of China's four famous works, was broadcast on the CCTV channel, and since then it has become an insurmountable classic in people's minds. "Frowning Eyebrows" is the classic theme song in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", written by Cao Xueqin, composed by Wang Liping, and sung by Chen Li. "Frowning Eyebrows" is a song composed by the Qing Dynasty novelist Cao Xueqin, from the fifth time of "Dream of the Red Chamber". This song mainly describes the story of the "love ideal" of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, the male and female protagonists of the Dream of the Red Chamber, who were finally shattered for various reasons, and Lin Daiyu died in tears. The song adopts the technique of contrasting between first raising and then suppressing, showing the inner pain of those who are persecuted by feudal society and have lovers who cannot become dependents, and constantly convey the emotions of sadness and resentment, which has a strong artistic appeal. As soon as the music sounded, I felt that my whole life was tragic. "One is the Langyuan Immortal, and the other is the Jade Flawless. If it is said that there is no strange fate, this life will meet him again; if there is a strange fate, how can the heart finally be blurred? One is self-defeating, one is empty. One is the moon in the water, and the other is the flower in the mirror. I wonder how many tears can be in my eyes, how can I prevent autumn from flowing to the end of winter, and spring from flowing to summer! ”
Comments: Such songs can only be made by people of that era. Wang Liping is really working hard to compose music, just like the 87 version of the Dream of the Red Chamber TV series was only made by people in that era, and now the mainstream atmosphere of society has led to the inability to produce such fine products.
20. "Funeral Flower Yin" (Chen Li)
"Funeral Flower Yin" is a classic interlude in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", written by Cao Xueqin, composed by Wang Liping, and sung by Chen Li. "Funeral Flower Yin" is a poem recited by Lin Daiyu, the heroine of Cao Xueqin's novel Dream of the Red Chamber, when she buried the flowers. The lyricism of the whole poem is vivid, and the words are blood and tears, and Lin Daiyu's encounters and exclamations on her life are expressed in three points. Write about the arrogant character that Lin Daiyu showed when she fantasized about freedom and happiness but could not be obtained, and did not want to be humiliated and defiled, and was not willing to bow her head and submit. It expresses an anxious experience and feeling of confusion that she has produced in the complex struggle between life and death, love and hate. It is the representative of all the lamentations that Lin Daiyu lamented in her life.
The faint wind once commented: Who says that tenderness is like water belongs to women? The most infatuated person in the world is clearly a boy! Cao Xueqin, the author of "Funeral Flower Yin", who killed ancient and modern novelists, is a boy; Wang Liping, who "fell asleep once and never woke up", and spent four and a half years "pouring everything out" to complete all the soundtracks of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" TV series, is a boy; and I am also a Zhengzheng boy who always has to be emotional every time I sing this poem and listen to this song! It can be said that "I have seen "The Red Chamber" without books to read, and I have listened to "Funeral Flowers" without music".
There will be a lot of good songs in each era, and there will be a lot of songs in each era that have been passed down to the present and have become classics in the music world. Works that can stand up to time are the most valuable, and it is undoubtedly very rare for a song to be liked by generations of people, but these songs have done it. In fact, there are any good songs in this world, and what circulates in the ears is just a matter of heart. But time will tell, and decades later, the songs that people can remember cannot be said to be handed down, but they can represent the memories left by one generation for future generations.